Another cog in the murder machine

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

As some of you will know I work for a market research company. Here's an email I sent round to the staff yesterday:

"So an easy pair of questions to divert you for half a minute:

Name a currently active band or recording artist a British teenager might know about.

Name a currently active sportsperson a British teenager might know about.

Simple as that! Name more than one if you like."

I have snipped the 'why' since you, The Kids, are not to be trusted with the secrets of The Man.

But I have now compiled the answers I got. What do you think people said (and what SHOULD they have said?)

ANSWERS! (Gaps to be filled in by commenters)

1. Winehouse
2. Arctics
3. Lily A
4. My Chemical Romance
5. Rihanna
6. --
7. Gurls Aloud
8. --
9. The Hoosiers
10. Leona L.

SPORTS ANSWERS!

1. Lewis H.
2. BeckXoR
3. Wayne R.
4. Cristiano Ronaldo
5. Wilco
6. Love Rat Ashley Cole
7. Brave Paula
8. Andy Murray
9. --
10. Steven Gerrard

Comments

second one first

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

lots and lots of footballers

also:
Paula Radcliffe
Tony Hawk
Jonny Wilkinson?
Lewis Hamilton

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Recording artist: Britney, Amy Winehouse, possibly Lily Allen at a push.
Sportsperson: Beckham, Andy Murray, Lewis Hamilton, maybe Ricky Hatton.

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

1) the narctic monkeys, dizzee rarscel, gurlz aloud, WINEHOUSE, lily allen

2) oh god err, ashley cole? BECKHAM, all the footballers, I am crap at sport. Who gets into the papers? L Hamilton?

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i'm guessing the pop list was the usual nonsense?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

this is quite easy? Leona Lewis and David Beckham but there are plenty of other choices, all of the above certainly (except Tony Hawk, who he?). Teenagers tend to know lots of recording artists and sportspeople!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i will eat TRACER MY HAND if dizzee rascal got a significant* number of votes!

*yes yes i am on phase 1 see

sportpeople: tessa sanderson, ian botham, david beckham
pop: oasis, madonna, nirvana

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

ashley cole is certainly CURRENTLY ACTIVE fnar sigh

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

First two who fell into my head (as someone young person would have heard about yes): Amy Winehouse & Wayne Rooney

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

Calzaghe?

Gerrard, Lampard, C Ronaldo

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

What the adults will put: Kaiser Chiefs, Amy Winehouse, Kylie, that Ricky Boxer dude, errrr Ronnie O Sullivan?

What I would put: Kanye West, Britney, Arctic Monkeys, Ashley Cole, Lewis Hamilton & loads of football dudes.

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

I note no-one has mentioned any EMO bands... I wd think Ver Kids would be well into these but personally can only think of My Chemical Romance, and er Bullet for My Valentine. I nearly typed My Bloody Valentine then oH DEAR!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

FALL OUT BOY
the killers
basshunter
oasis
the wombats
the hoosiers

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Britney

[daniel-hill.livejournal.com]

le girls de spice? Walcott? God knows what teenagers get up to nowadays, haven't they all got asbos and under house arrest? if not, why not?

[datura800.livejournal.com]

Rihanna, Timbaland, Kanye West, Justin T.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Is the missing sportsman Fabregas? Thierry Henry? Sharapova? Federer? Fat Frankie Lampard?

As for the missing pop stars, I dread to think. Scouting For Girls? The Killers? Newton bloody Faulkner? James "whinging" Blunt?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Crikey has anyone said Beyonce yet?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

surely SNOW PATROL

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Missing sportsperson is Peter Crouch innit?

Musically, dunno. I would guess some people threw in stuff like Led Zeppellin, despite its not being "modern" but then again it could also be The Libertines.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

I don't remember seeing Kate Gnash. Or Sugababes. Or...um...I dunno, Fall Out Boy?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Also, 50 Cent!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

enquiring minds need to know what the gaps were!