In recent weeks, repeats of the quiz show “Tenable” have been shown on ITV on weekday afternoons. Episodes from Series 3 were being shown until earlier this week: S3Ep50 (Series 3 Episode 50) was shown on Monday 8 July 2019. Since then episodes from the start of Series 2 have been broadcast, beginning with S2Ep1… Continue reading “Tenable” Series 2, repeated July 2019
At various times in the last three years I have posted pieces about songs that were “Stuck at 2”. They made it to #2 in the UK charts but no further. The original piece, from June 2016, is here. Over the last year I have been posting lists of the songs that were “Stuck at… Continue reading Stuck at 2: the lists are complete, and a BBC Top 40 revisited
It’s been a while since I posted any music trivia, so here are 21 questions, mostly gathered from Pop Master, the weekday quiz hosted by Ken Bruce on BBC Radio 2. The theme here is “Same title, different song”. In each case there’s a shared song title which has provided different hits for multiple artists… Continue reading “Same title, different song”
Here, as mentioned in this recent piece about Pop Master, is a round-up of the “3-in-10” questions for 2019. As you probably know, Pop Master is the mid-morning quiz on the Ken Bruce Show on BBC Radio 2, and the final challenge for the winning contestant is this: in 10 seconds name 3 Top 75… Continue reading Pop Master: the “3-in-10” questions, 2019
Here, for the third year in a row, is a summary of my time spent listening to Pop Master, the mid-morning quiz on the Ken Bruce Show on BBC Radio 2. This piece from 2017 (“100 Rounds of Pop Master”) explains the format of the quiz, and notes that this is the most listened-to slot… Continue reading One Thousand Rounds of Pop Master
Spoiler Alert: This piece reveals the result of the second semi-final in the current series of “University Challenge”, played on Monday 15 April 2019 between St Edmund Hall Oxford and Darwin College Cambridge. If you do not want to know what happened, look away now, and come back later, maybe when you have watched the… Continue reading Word of the week: meniscus
At various times in the last six months I have posted weekly updates about the ITV quiz show “Tenable”. For the most recent of these pieces (shows broadcast in the week ending 8 March 2019), please click here. That piece contains links to previous weeks, going back to week ending 1 February 2019. There are… Continue reading Raw “Tenable” data, February-March 2018
