[October 2018 update: the following piece, recording my first impressions of ITV quiz show “Tenable”, was published over a year ago. The show has had plenty of mentions on this Blog since then. You can find links to other posts, including summaries of episodes from the latest series (September/October 2018), at the end of this… Continue reading “Tenable” and a challenge: lists containing 10 items
Here are the answers to this earlier challenge, #1 song titles that run into each other. 1 You to me are (Everything I do) I do it for you [or, You to me are (Everything I do) I do it for You to me are Everything] 2 All around the World in Motion 3 Everlasting… Continue reading More #1 Trivia: the titles run on (and on), the answers
Pop music trivia is never far from my mind, especially when it deals with artists and songs that reached #1 in the UK. Here’s a bit of fun regarding chart-topping song titles that run on into other chart-topping song titles. The clues take the form of at least two artists and the years that the… Continue reading More #1 Trivia: the titles run on (and on)
Yesterday I set the following challenge. Can you name five songs that reached #1 in the UK that do not contain the title anywhere in the lyrics of the song? (Instrumentals don’t count.) I linked to this page on the Trivia Menu in case you got stuck. It mentions two of the songs in a… Continue reading UK #1 hit singles: the title is not in the song (the answers)
It’s nearly 20 years since someone set me the following challenge. Can you name five songs that reached #1 in the UK that do not contain the title anywhere in the lyrics of the song? (Instrumentals don’t count.) It has been one of my favourite trivia questions ever since. I managed to get to five… Continue reading UK #1 hit singles: the title is not in the song
The derivation of the word “quiz” is uncertain. The Oxford Dictionaries definition notes that it is “sometimes said to have been invented by a Dublin theatre proprietor who, having made a bet that a nonsense word could be made known within 48 hours throughout the city, and that the public would give it a meaning,… Continue reading Word of the week: quiz
The new football season is nearly upon us. This weekend my wife and daughter will be off to Wembley for the Community Shield between Arsenal and Chelsea and I’ll be deciding whether to watch the Leeds United game (away at Bolton) in a pub or on NOW TV, as I did on the opening weekend… Continue reading The New Trivia Season
Last week I wrote about compartmentalization, with its 20 letters and 7 syllables. I noted, in this menu piece, that the only other word with 7 syllables that came to mind was homosexuality (13 letters). I’ve discovered another one. It currently features in trailers for various TV and radio programmes being advertised on the BBC:… Continue reading Letters and syllables
It feels like Trivia has been on my mind for much of the last six months so I am surprised to find that there was no Trivia Round-up in May to accompany those for February, March and April. As those earlier pieces noted, quiz shows and game shows form a significant amount of the TV… Continue reading A trivia round-up for June 2017
Pop Master, the pop quiz that takes place every weekday on Ken Bruce’s BBC Radio 2 show at 10.30am, is the most listened-to slot on UK radio, apart from breakfast shows. Every Monday to Friday around 7.5 million people tune in, as I noted here, in my original Menu Item about Trivia. I catch up… Continue reading 100 Rounds of Pop Master
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