General Knowledge Quiz

[Greenheart]

James "Sniffer" Stewart?

 

[millemille]

Rex Harrison?

 

[millemille]

Or how about the less well known, Fidostoplickingyourballs?

 

[D6130]

Lassie?

 

[DaleCooper]

Clint (Airedale Terrier) Eastwood

 

[SteveM70]

John “Duke” Wayne?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Orson Welles ?

Not Orson Welles I'm afraid.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Clint (Airedale Terrier) Eastwood

Not him either!

 

[Peterthegreat]

John “Duke” Wayne?

The Hell it is. John Wayne was known as "Little Duke" as a kid to differentiate from his Airdale, 'Duke'. Good job the dog wasn't called Mitzi!
Your turn in the saddle.

 

[DaleCooper]

Good job the dog wasn't called Mitzi!

...or Marion!

 

[SteveM70]

Part 1 - As of August 2023, 15 songs have been streamed more than 2.5 billion times on Spotify. Name any one of them

Part 2 - Only one of the 41 songs streamed over 2.0 billion times on Spotify was first released prior to 2010. Name it

 

[444045]

Dancing Queen by ABBA

 

[krus_aragon]

Part 1 - As of August 2023, 15 songs have been streamed more than 2.5 billion times on Spotify. Name any one of them

Part 2 - Only one of the 41 songs streamed over 2.0 billion times on Spotify was first released prior to 2010. Name it

If it were Youtube I'd suggest Never Gonna Give you Up, but I don't think that Spotify can be used for rickrolling.

 

[SteveM70]

Dancing Queen by ABBA

No

If it were Youtube I'd suggest Never Gonna Give you Up, but I don't think that Spotify can be used for rickrolling.

You’d be correct to think it isn’t that

 

[Peterthegreat]

I'll go for Bohemian Rhapsody for part 2. Absolutely no idea for the first part.

 

[MotCO]

Sweet Caroline?

 

[SteveM70]

I'll go for Bohemian Rhapsody for part 2. Absolutely no idea for the first part.

Is the correct answer.

Now, does anyone know any modern music?

 

[444045]

Lego House by Ed Sheeran ?

 

[DaleCooper]

Probably something by Auto-Tune.

 

[xotGD]

Ian van Dahl - Castles in the Sky

 

[yoyothehobo]

Blinding lights, the Weekend

 

[DaleCooper]

Ian van Dahl - Castles in the Sky

That's awful although lyrically very economical. It must have taken 30 seconds to write.

 

[SteveM70]

Lego House by Ed Sheeran ?

There are two Sheeran songs but not that

Probably something by Auto-Tune.

Ian van Dahl - Castles in the Sky

No

Blinding lights, the Weekend

Correct. Top of the pops, in fact. 3.754 billion streams and counting

So, @yoyothehobo and @Peterthegreat have one right each.

We need a tiebreaker.

Name someone who presented Top Of The Pops using a name other than their real name. (Excluding contractions of first names, so Mike Read doesn't count, for example). There have been quite a few.....

 

[Peterthegreat]

Pete Murray.

 

[yoyothehobo]

Mr BLobby, i have no idea!

 

[SteveM70]

Pete Murray.

Correct. His real name is Peter James, Murray is his middle name.

Other well-known examples are John Peel (born John Ravenscroft), Dave Lee Travis (David Griffin, as Yewtree followers will know), and of course Kid Jensen whose real first name is David

Researching possible answers to this question did mean I discovered the real name of heavy metal fan and occasional TOTP presenter Tommy Vance is Richard Anthony Crispian Francis Prew Hope-Weston

Anyway, your turn to introduce some acts of dubious quality

 

[Gloster]

Was Emperor Rosko so christened? Or did he not present TOTP? (Even at a young age I found him profoundly irritating.)

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Was Emperor Rosko so christened? Or did he not present TOTP?

Real name was the perhaps less than snappy Michael Joseph Pasternak. And, yes, he did present a few episodes of "Top of the Pops" back in the mid 1970s.

 

[Peterthegreat]

What do Manchester Oxfird Road and Orlando International Airport have in common?

 

[yoyothehobo]

I guess it will be the same 3 letter ID code of MCO