Another summary of my scores from a week’s worth of questions from Pop Master, along the lines of this piece from earlier in May. Just like 8 million other people in the UK I continue to follow Pop Master, the mid-morning quiz on BBC Radio 2. It has been the subject of many pieces on… Continue reading Pop Master Summary w/e Fri 27 May 2022
You might be familiar with the quote that begins “Try everything once except …” It is attributed to the conductor Sir Thomas Beecham. You could always come up with suggestions of your own to complete the sentence. The original advice was “Try everything once … except Morris dancing and incest”, and I am happy to… Continue reading “I tried it once and I didn’t like it”
It is nearly a year since I posted a screenshot of a football league table on this Blog. I have done so at various times in recent years, usually with information from the BBC website. In May 2021 I posted this piece, showing the top half of the English Premier League, with Leeds United (the… Continue reading This could be the last time
Another summary of my scores from a week’s worth of questions from Pop Master, along the lines of this piece from April. Just like 8 million other people in the UK I continue to follow Pop Master, the mid-morning quiz on BBC Radio 2. It has been the subject of many pieces on this Blog,… Continue reading Pop Master Summary w/e Fri 13 May 2022
As I noted in this piece in April, regular readers will know that I post from time to time about music trivia, including songs that were “Stuck at 2”. These are the songs that almost made it to #1 in the UK chart but were kept off by another release. Some months ago there was… Continue reading Stuck at 3, the 1970s
For most of us, the start of lockdown in March 2020 began a run of 500 nights when we were unable to see live performances of any kind here in the UK. Comedy nights, gigs of all kinds, musical theatre, legit theatre, opera: all closed down. Since July 2021 most live venues have reopened. I… Continue reading “On the road again”
Here are 10 quiz questions based on the lyrics of UK #1 hits, in order of when they reached #1. If you know which afternoon was never ending in “Lady Madonna”, how old Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West) was when he died, or what Craig David and his lady did on Sunday, you’ll… Continue reading 10 questions about UK #1s: the answers are in the lyrics
The Compartments 