Sumer is icumen in, loude sing cuckou ...

[Stoneboat]

...Time for a quiz.

Please read the RULES:

1...The quiz will be posted on Saturday or Sunday evening, my time.

2...Answers are worth a point apiece, except some questions may ask for additional info, worth extra points. This is a pub-type quiz, so Google ain't your friend.

2a...There are musical clues scattered throughout the quiz (in groups of 5 or 10). Identify the song and artist from the clue supplied.

3...The first answers will be posted within 24 hours. Until the first set of answers have been posted players are restricted to one post apiece, containing as many answers as they like. Additional posts will be ignored and edited posts will be disqualified. After the first answers have been compiled, all restrictions are cancelled (free for all).

4...The judge's decision is final.


1...In da Vinci's original painting of the Last Supper there was an overturned salt cellar in front of what subject in the painting?

2...What does the G in G-string stand for?

3...In 1967 what tanker accident released nearly a million barrels of oil into the English Channel?

4...Robert Jenkins was the Captain of an English privateer. In 1731 an irate Spanish Captain tied him up and removed a part of his anatomy, thus setting off what war between England and Spain?

5...On April 15, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln established the Secret Service. What was its original task?

6...The US Constitution as originally written had no Bill of Rights. What amendments, added by James Madison in 1791, became the Bill of Rights?
Bonus point, there were more amendments than these, but two were dropped. Which original amendment is now the 1st?

7...Which New England state has been nicknamed Rogues Island, aka The Home of the Otherwise Minded?

8...The first practical one of these writing instruments was patented in New York in 1884 by Lewis Edson Waterman.

9...The southernmost point of this nation is Cape Agulhas, 29 minutes of latitude further south than its more famous cousin.

10..Who is/was Cecilia Sophia Anna Maria Kalogeropoulos better known as?

11..Laughing like children living like lovers rolling like thunder under the covers...

12..She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rain...

13..Turn around bright eyes...

14..We got to move these refrigerators we got to move these colour TV's...

15..When all hope is gone why don't you tune in and turn them on...

16..Who played harmonica in the song in question 11?

17..Which member of The Police sang backup vocals on the song in question 14?

18..The onstage female backup singers of this metal group would dress as slutty nuns and were called The Nasty Habits.

19..This female artist - not The Beatles - was the first British performer to have a Billboard # 1 hit in the US. In 1952.

20..What song, by this godfather of shock rock, is known as the National Anthem of the last day of school?

21..What American sports team was the victim of the Curse of the Bambino?
Bonus point, which one was the victim of the Curse of the Goat?

22..If you are cock-throppled, what does this say about your Adam's apple?

23..The old Hong Kong General Post Office was built in 1911 using plans that were allegedly for this East African city, but had been sent to Hong Kong by mistake.

24..On Christmas Day 1492, Christopher Columbus founded Puerto Navidad, the first European settlement in the Western hemisphere. (Hello Vikings and Basques!) In what modern day country was it located?

25..What country did Francois-Marie Arouet describe as 'quelques arpents de neige?'
Bonus point, who was Francois-Marie Arouet better known as?

26..On his 2005 album Prince Of Darkness, Ozzie Osborne performs a duet on Born To Be Wild. With what member of Sesame Street did he sing?

27..What city has the lowest birth rate in the world?

28..What do the letters BASE in BASE jumping stand for?
(It is not Bones And Sh!t Everywhere.)

29..Translate the following:
Vos profundus pinguis cocta potatoes cum illa?

30..What Canadian company was known by its initials as Here Before Christ?

31..On Groote Eylandt, this instrument is known as a ngarrriralkpwina. By what name is it known on the rest of the continent?

32..Scottish novelist Allan Massie has said of the Cold War "MAD prevented madness." What was MAD and what madness did it prevent?

33..Who is/was Alosa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum better known as?

34..In ancient Rome, this TV mystery/drama/sci-fi show would have been known as Zona Crepusculi. What do we know it as?

35..Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip...
Point each, that is the opening line from the theme song of what TV sitcom, and who sang it?

36..I've a fine felt hat and a strong pair of brogues...

37..And when he does his little rounds round the boutiques of London Town...

38..Cause he gets up in the morning and he goes to work at nine...

39..With urgent hands we excited a fire so hot two lives were ignited...

40..In all them beer parlours all down along Main Street the dreams of the seasons are all spilled down on the floor...

Bonus question:
This insurance company provided the first auto insurance, describing cars as 'ships navigation on land'.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

1. Judas Iscariot
3. Torrey Canyon
4. War of Jenkins' Ear
5. Stopping counterfeiting of the currency (?)
7. Rhode Island
8. Fountain pen
9. Sith Efrika
10 Maria Callas
11 Guess that's why they call it the Blues - Elton Hercules John
12. Sweet Child O' Mine Guns 'n' Roses
13. Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
14. Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
17. Sting
20. School's Out - Alice Cooper (who didn't play this on their last day of school????)
25. Canada - French gave it up to keep Guadeloupe
27. Vatican City
28. Building, Antenna, Span, Earth
30. Hudson's Bay Company
32. Mutually Assured Destruction - Global Thermonuclear War

Bonus: Lloyd's

[Romeo Delta]

15. Sad Songs - Elton John
21. Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs
35. Gilligan's Island
38. Morning Train, Sheena Easton

[A Lutra Continua]

16. Toots Thieleman

25. Voltaire

31. Didgeridoo

34. Twilight Zone.

[Karearea]

37. Dedicated Follower of Fashion - The Kinks

[Tall Bird]

19. Vera Lynn
24. Haiti
26. Miss Piggy
33. Ayn Rand
36. Rambles of Spring - Clancy Brothers?
39. All The Lovers In The World - Gowan

[Stoneboat]

...Time for a quiz.


1...In da Vinci's original painting of the Last Supper there was an overturned salt cellar in front of what subject in the painting?
Judas Iscariot - Fox3

2...What does the G in G-string stand for?
Open

3...In 1967 what tanker accident released nearly a million barrels of oil into the English Channel?
Torrey Canyon - Fox3

4...Robert Jenkins was the Captain of an English privateer. In 1731 an irate Spanish Captain tied him up and removed a part of his anatomy, thus setting off what war between England and Spain?
The war of Jenkins ear - Fox3

5...On April 15, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln established the Secret Service. What was its original task?
To prevent counterfeiting of money - Fox3

6...The US Constitution as originally written had no Bill of Rights. What amendments, added by James Madison in 1791, became the Bill of Rights?
Bonus point, there were more amendments than these, but two were dropped. Which original amendment is now the 1st?
Open

7...Which New England state has been nicknamed Rogues Island, aka The Home of the Otherwise Minded?
Rhode Island - Fox3

8...The first practical one of these writing instruments was patented in New York in 1884 by Lewis Edson Waterman.
Fountain pen - Fox3

9...The southernmost point of this nation is Cape Agulhas, 29 minutes of latitude further south than its more famous cousin.
South Africa - Fox3

10..Who is/was Cecilia Sophia Anna Maria Kalogeropoulos better known as?
Maria Callas - Fox3

11..Laughing like children living like lovers rolling like thunder under the covers...
Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues/Elton John - Fox3

12..She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rain...
Sweet Child O' Mine/Guns n' Roses - Fox3

13..Turn around bright eyes...
Total Eclipse Of The Heart/Bonnie Tyler - Fox3

14..We got to move these refrigerators we got to move these colour TV's...
Money For Nothing/Dire Straits - Fox3

15..When all hope is gone why don't you tune in and turn them on...
Open

16..Who played harmonica in the song in question 11?
Open

17..Which member of The Police sang backup vocals on the song in question 14?
Sting - Fox3

18..The onstage female backup singers of this metal group would dress as slutty nuns and were called The Nasty Habits.
Open

19..This female artist - not The Beatles - was the first British performer to have a Billboard # 1 hit in the US. In 1952.
Dame Vera Lynn - TB

20..What song, by this godfather of shock rock, is known as the National Anthem of the last day of school?
School's Out/Alice Cooper - Fox3

21..What American sports team was the victim of the Curse of the Bambino?
Boston Red Sox - RD
Bonus point, which one was the victim of the Curse of the Goat?
Chicago Cubs - RD

22..If you are cock-throppled, what does this say about your Adam's apple?
Open

23..The old Hong Kong General Post Office was built in 1911 using plans that were allegedly for this East African city, but had been sent to Hong Kong by mistake.
Open

24..On Christmas Day 1492, Christopher Columbus founded Puerto Navidad, the first European settlement in the Western hemisphere. (Hello Vikings and Basques!) In what modern day country was it located?
Haiti - TB
25..What country did Francois-Marie Arouet describe as 'quelques arpents de neige?'
Canada Fox3
Bonus point, who was Francois-Marie Arouet better known as?
Voltaire - ALC

26..On his 2005 album Prince Of Darkness, Ozzie Osborne performs a duet on Born To Be Wild. With what member of Sesame Street did he sing?
Miss Piggy - TB

27..What city has the lowest birth rate in the world?
Vatican City - Fox3

28..What do the letters BASE in BASE jumping stand for?
(It is not Bones And Sh!t Everywhere.)
Building, Antenna, Span, Earth - Fox3

29..Translate the following:
Vos profundus pinguis cocta potatoes cum illa?
Open

30..What Canadian company was known by its initials as Here Before Christ?
Hudson's Bay Company - Fox3

31..On Groote Eylandt, this instrument is known as a ngarrriralkpwina. By what name is it known on the rest of the continent?
Didgeridoo - ALC

32..Scottish novelist Allan Massie has said of the Cold War "MAD prevented madness." What was MAD and what madness did it prevent?
Mutually assured destruction/Nuclear war - Fox3

33..Who is/was Alosa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum better known as?
Ann Rand - TB

34..In ancient Rome, this TV mystery/drama/sci-fi show would have been known as Zona Crepusculi. What do we know it as?
The Twilight Zone - ALC

35..Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip...
Point each, that is the opening line from the theme song of what TV sitcom, and who sang it?
Gilligan's Island - RD
Artist open

36..I've a fine felt hat and a strong pair of brogues...
Rambles of Spring/Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem - TB

37..And when he does his little rounds round the boutiques of London Town...
Dedicated Follower Of Fashion/Kinks - Karearea

38..Cause he gets up in the morning and he goes to work at nine...
Open

39..With urgent hands we excited a fire so hot two lives were ignited...
All The Lovers In The World/Gowan - TB

40..In all them beer parlours all down along Main Street the dreams of the seasons are all spilled down on the floor...
Open

Bonus question:
This insurance company provided the first auto insurance, describing cars as 'ships navigation on land'.
Lloyds - Fox3

[Stoneboat]

I had to cut something from the answers post because there were too goddam many characters once again - 6228, or 228 over the max allowable - so the rules went by the board.
I'm trying to figure out a way around this, one way is to reduce the number of questions and increase the frequency of the quiz. I have no idea if I would be allowed an exemption to the 6000 character rule, or indeed if it's even feasible. Please comment.

1...The quiz will be posted on Saturday or Sunday evening, my time.

2...Answers are worth a point apiece, except some questions may ask for additional info, worth extra points. This is a pub-type quiz, so Google ain't your friend.

2a...There are musical clues scattered throughout the quiz (in groups of 5 or 10). Identify the song and artist from the clue supplied.

3...The first answers will be posted within 24 hours. Until the first set of answers have been posted players are restricted to one post apiece, containing as many answers as they like. Additional posts will be ignored and edited posts will be disqualified. After the first answers have been compiled, all restrictions are cancelled (free for all).

4...The judge's decision is final.

Initial scores:

Fox3 26
Tall Bird 8
Romeo Delta 3
A Lutra Continua 3
Karearea 2

The second part of this quiz with the remaining 40 questions will be posted on Tuesday evening.

[A Lutra Continua]

I think Romeo Delta got #15.

23. Mombasa

Tanzania (or Tanganyika, the German bit) wouldn't have had much contact with British design unless it was the post office on Zanzibar.

[Tall Bird]

38. A Well Respected Man - Kinks

#40 is bugging me!

[Capetonian]

Thanks Stoneboat, but by the time I'd read your PM and seen the quiz some smart-arse had already answered all the questions I could have answered, plus a lot more!
Cheers! Good effort by all there.

[Stoneboat]

Ok, since there's no more room to post answers I'll do it here.

15..Sad Songs/Elton John - RD
38..A Well Respected Man/Kinks - TB

Sorry Rusty, not Mombasa.

Intermediate scores:

Fox3 26
Tall Bird 10
Romeo Delta 6
A Lutra Continua 3
Karearea 2
Have an extra point on me RD.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

22. It's very prominent
23. Nairobi
Both guesses!

[Stoneboat]

...Time for a quiz.

THIS PART OF THE QUIZ IS NOW CLOSED. NO MORE ANSWERS ACCEPTED. PART TWO WILL BE POSTED BY 23:00 TODAY.


1...In da Vinci's original painting of the Last Supper there was an overturned salt cellar in front of what subject in the painting?
Judas Iscariot - Fox3

2...What does the G in G-string stand for?
Open

3...In 1967 what tanker accident released nearly a million barrels of oil into the English Channel?
Torrey Canyon - Fox3

4...Robert Jenkins was the Captain of an English privateer. In 1731 an irate Spanish Captain tied him up and removed a part of his anatomy, thus setting off what war between England and Spain?
The war of Jenkins ear - Fox3

5...On April 15, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln established the Secret Service. What was its original task?
To prevent counterfeiting of money - Fox3

6...The US Constitution as originally written had no Bill of Rights. What amendments, added by James Madison in 1791, became the Bill of Rights?
Bonus point, there were more amendments than these, but two were dropped. Which original amendment is now the 1st?
Open

7...Which New England state has been nicknamed Rogues Island, aka The Home of the Otherwise Minded?
Rhode Island - Fox3

8...The first practical one of these writing instruments was patented in New York in 1884 by Lewis Edson Waterman.
Fountain pen - Fox3

9...The southernmost point of this nation is Cape Agulhas, 29 minutes of latitude further south than its more famous cousin.
South Africa - Fox3

10..Who is/was Cecilia Sophia Anna Maria Kalogeropoulos better known as?
Maria Callas - Fox3

11..Laughing like children living like lovers rolling like thunder under the covers...
Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues/Elton John - Fox3

12..She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rain...
Sweet Child O' Mine/Guns n' Roses - Fox3

13..Turn around bright eyes...
Total Eclipse Of The Heart/Bonnie Tyler - Fox3

14..We got to move these refrigerators we got to move these colour TV's...
Money For Nothing/Dire Straits - Fox3

15..When all hope is gone why don't you tune in and turn them on...
Open

16..Who played harmonica in the song in question 11?
Open

17..Which member of The Police sang backup vocals on the song in question 14?
Sting - Fox3

18..The onstage female backup singers of this metal group would dress as slutty nuns and were called The Nasty Habits.
Open

19..This female artist - not The Beatles - was the first British performer to have a Billboard # 1 hit in the US. In 1952.
Dame Vera Lynn - TB

20..What song, by this godfather of shock rock, is known as the National Anthem of the last day of school?
School's Out/Alice Cooper - Fox3

21..What American sports team was the victim of the Curse of the Bambino?
Boston Red Sox - RD
Bonus point, which one was the victim of the Curse of the Goat?
Chicago Cubs - RD

22..If you are cock-throppled, what does this say about your Adam's apple?
Open

23..The old Hong Kong General Post Office was built in 1911 using plans that were allegedly for this East African city, but had been sent to Hong Kong by mistake.
Open

24..On Christmas Day 1492, Christopher Columbus founded Puerto Navidad, the first European settlement in the Western hemisphere. (Hello Vikings and Basques!) In what modern day country was it located?
Haiti - TB
25..What country did Francois-Marie Arouet describe as 'quelques arpents de neige?'
Canada Fox3
Bonus point, who was Francois-Marie Arouet better known as?
Voltaire - ALC

26..On his 2005 album Prince Of Darkness, Ozzie Osborne performs a duet on Born To Be Wild. With what member of Sesame Street did he sing?
Miss Piggy - TB

27..What city has the lowest birth rate in the world?
Vatican City - Fox3

28..What do the letters BASE in BASE jumping stand for?
(It is not Bones And Sh!t Everywhere.)
Building, Antenna, Span, Earth - Fox3

29..Translate the following:
Vos profundus pinguis cocta potatoes cum illa?
Open

30..What Canadian company was known by its initials as Here Before Christ?
Hudson's Bay Company - Fox3

31..On Groote Eylandt, this instrument is known as a ngarrriralkpwina. By what name is it known on the rest of the continent?
Didgeridoo - ALC

32..Scottish novelist Allan Massie has said of the Cold War "MAD prevented madness." What was MAD and what madness did it prevent?
Mutually assured destruction/Nuclear war - Fox3

33..Who is/was Alosa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum better known as?
Ann Rand - TB

34..In ancient Rome, this TV mystery/drama/sci-fi show would have been known as Zona Crepusculi. What do we know it as?
The Twilight Zone - ALC

35..Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip...
Point each, that is the opening line from the theme song of what TV sitcom, and who sang it?
Gilligan's Island - RD
Artist open

36..I've a fine felt hat and a strong pair of brogues...
Rambles of Spring/Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem - TB

37..And when he does his little rounds round the boutiques of London Town...
Dedicated Follower Of Fashion/Kinks - Karearea

38..Cause he gets up in the morning and he goes to work at nine...
Open

39..With urgent hands we excited a fire so hot two lives were ignited...
All The Lovers In The World/Gowan - TB

40..In all them beer parlours all down along Main Street the dreams of the seasons are all spilled down on the floor...
Open

Bonus question:
This insurance company provided the first auto insurance, describing cars as 'ships navigation on land'.
Lloyds - Fox3

[Stoneboat]

22..It is larger than normal/Fox3
23..Nairobi - Fox3

Answers to the remaining questions:

2...What does the G in G-string stand for - Groin

6...The US Constitution as originally written had no Bill of Rights. What amendments, added by James Madison in 1791, became the Bill of Rights?
The first 10 Amendments
Bonus point, there were more amendments than these, but two were dropped. Which original amendment is now the 1st?
The 3rd.

16..Who played harmonica in the song in question 11?
Stevie Wonder

18..The onstage female backup singers of this metal group would dress as slutty nuns and were called The Nasty Habits.
Motley Crue

29..Translate the following:
Vos profundus pinguis cocta potatoes cum illa?
Do you want fries with that?


40..In all them beer parlours all down along Main Street the dreams of the seasons are all spilled down on the floor...
Summer Wages/Ian Tyson
Just for you TB.
[bbvideo=560,315]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8suOYr_GVsE[/bbvideo]

Final scores:

Fox3 28
Tall Bird 10
A Lutra Continua 3
Romeo Delta 6
Karearea 2

[Tall Bird]

Jeez Stoneboat. Thank you for the vid. Not seen before. *Smacks head* I'll be kicked out of the Ian & Sylvia fanclub and another notch against renewal of passport. Seem to recall singing Summer Wages in ?The Wagon Wheel in Kingston or some similar dive where we were later chucked out as under age drinkers. OPP quote: you're not in Kweebec now! Happy Daze.

[Stoneboat]

OPP quote: you're not in Kweebec now! Happy Daze.

Hee hee, happy daze indeed. The blind pig here was called l'Hotel Briand. We use to go there while still in high school, probably 16 or 17 years old. I never ever got carded or thrown out, but some did. One month they had a band called Big John Little and his House Rockin' Hot Toddies. Big John was from Trinidad and so black you could hardly see him in the gloom. His music was great, sixties rock, Harry Belafonte, Chuck Berry etc. One Friday night a friend and I went to a high school dance, and when it ended at 11:00 PM we asked one of the chaperones, a Mr. Downes who also happened to be from Trinidad, to give us a ride to the hotel. We told him who was playing and it turned out he knew him from when he taught in Val-Dor, so he came in to say hello. We took a table up near the bandstand and John was just finishing a set so he came over and sat down. He already knew us and he was quite happy to see Mr. Downes. John was sitting next to me and turned around, and said "You should have seen the chick Ozzie was boffing in Val-Dor. She told me had a dick about this long!" and he held up his hands about a foot apart. Mr. Downes shook his head and said, "John, fer Chrissake tone it down! I have to teach those kids on Monday morning."

[Lon]

Thanks Mate,

Just seen it. Bit too late this time. Thanks though

[Magnus]

Apropos of little, Sumer is Icumen In was performed regularly by Richard Thompson. His record company asked him to record songs from "the last millennium", presumably expecting versions of recorded material. Typical RT, he took them at their word. Started with "Sumer", cast his net wide, and ended with Britney's "Oops" which is a bloody dark song when you read the lyrics. Goodonya, RT.