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Subject: Folkie wins Quiz! From: Mrrzy Date: 03 Apr 09 - 12:18 PM I just KNEW there was a real-life advantage to knowing the words to all those folk songs. Yesterday's Geo Quiz on NPR wanted a town on the Humber where the Icelandic fishing boats are now going to sell their fish, since nobody in Iceland can afford any... and I remembered the words to Three Score and Ten, and guessed Grimsby, and was right! Any real-life advantages of knowing lurics, I mean lyrics, for y'all? |
Subject: RE: Folkie wins Quiz! From: Ernest Date: 03 Apr 09 - 12:40 PM Congratulations! What was your price? Best wishes Ernest |
Subject: RE: Folkie wins Quiz! From: mayomick Date: 03 Apr 09 - 12:41 PM Recently some friends were talking about a couple who barricaded themselves into their rented flat in Kings Cross ,London around the early sixties to protest against high rents. The standoff was pretty famous at the time - baillifs were met with flour bombs ,and it was all on the tv . But my friends were amazed that I was able to actually name the couple as Cooke and Rowe . I didn't win any prizes unfortunately . Ewan MacColl had a song about it - Hey ho Cooke and Rowe. |
Subject: RE: Folkie wins Quiz! From: Bill D Date: 03 Apr 09 - 01:11 PM There is a song by Si Kahn.... "Wild Rose of the Mountain" it has this verse: "When I think of home sweet home, it makes my eyes grow misty. Poppa singing gospel songs and Momma sippin' whiskey. Whiskey from a white oak barrel sure does make good liquor. Makes the nights seem twice as bright and the days go by much quicker." So, I do woodturning...and one day a few years ago I made a small drinking vessel out of Oak. When I tried to use it, it leaked like crazy. Hmmmmm.. Then someone sang that song, and it hit me! I had made the item from **RED** Oak. White Oak has a completely different internal structure which stops liquid from leaking. I use the item as a pencil holder. |
Subject: RE: Folkie wins Quiz! From: Dan Schatz Date: 03 Apr 09 - 01:20 PM In 12th grade I passed a pop quiz, even without finishing the reading for that day, because I knew "Oor Hamlet." Obviously I have since "read the bloody play" many times. Dan |
Subject: RE: Folkie wins Quiz! From: Cool Beans Date: 03 Apr 09 - 02:56 PM Not strictly folk, but I can always remember which is which, Medicare (for the elderly) and Medicaid (for the poor), because of Allan Sherman's parody of "Saint James Infirmary." I went down to Mount Sinai Hospital To see my old zeyde there (zeyde is Yiddish for grandpa) And I said, thank God for the Blue Cross And I wish we had the Medicare. It just came up today as I was grading papers and I instantly recognized that one of my students had gotten Medicare and Medicaid wrong. |
Subject: RE: Folkie wins Quiz! From: Cllr Date: 03 Apr 09 - 06:25 PM in a lecture at university a proffesser asked us students had anyone heard of the diggers. i answered In 1649 st georges hill... and stopped before I nearly started singing all of the 2world turned upside down2 at the lecture hall. didnt win a prize but i didnt half to answer anymore questions for the next few weeks in the lecture! Cllr |
Subject: RE: Folkie wins Quiz! From: JennieG Date: 03 Apr 09 - 06:27 PM Me to, me too (waving hand frantically in the air). A few months ago I won a radio quiz, the first question of which was "who wrote this song" - Fields of Gold - it was Sting, and the last question was "name this singer who died recently", then "Santa Baby" was played - of course it was Eartha Kitt. There was I singing along over the radio...... The questions in the middle were local general knowledge. It was a good prize too, a DVD about the Galapagos Islands. Cheers JennieG |
Subject: RE: Folkie wins Quiz! From: Rog Peek Date: 03 Apr 09 - 06:52 PM I once phoned in the answered a question on the radio. "Who's singing voice was dubbed over Lauren Bacall in the film 'To Have and Have Not'. It was of course Andy Williams. I won a Beach Boys CD. I actually thought it ought to have been worth more than that, still there you are. Rog |
Subject: RE: Folkie wins Quiz! From: Snuffy Date: 03 Apr 09 - 07:02 PM I play in a Sunday night quiz league, and a couple of months ago won a tie-breaker thanks (in a roundabout way) to John Kanakanaka. I'd been aware for some time that some people sing too-rye-eh while others insist that the proper pronunciation is too-lie-eh. But a chance remark by another singer, that it was just the way different collectors interpreted the same sound in the Hawaiian language, eventually led me to a Wikipedia page on the Hawaiian alphabet. So when a few weeks later the tie-breaker question was "How many letters in the Hawaiian alphabet?", when the others were guessing at random numbers I was able to say confidently "Twelve - 6 vowels and 6 consonants". |
Subject: RE: Folkie wins Quiz! From: Mysha Date: 04 Apr 09 - 11:15 AM Wow, Very impressive. Especially for being so confident that they didn't realise it's actually five and seven. Mysha |
Subject: RE: Folkie wins Quiz! From: MC Fat Date: 04 Apr 09 - 06:53 PM Please remember Folkies that I am a professional question setter !!!! I can help for a price. |
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