The 2015 Music Quiz

Posted by Michael Knight 
on Jan 13, 2015
 
Our program on 13th January was a music quiz, where 30 short excerpts from Musical items were played, and one or two questions were asked about each track. The music ranged from light classical, through Stage and Screen to comedy, Pop and Rock classics.There were only two questions that stumped everybody - Ravel's Bolero and Kimbra's Birthplace, and several that we all knew - Freddie Mercury, Joe Cocker and Dave Brubeck. Gough Whitlam as a narrator was also universally recognised.
 
 
At the head table, a small team, Andy Irvine, Paul Milde, Bruce Spinks and Peter Crozier answered 18 questions correctly. Two of the dance tempo questions were right, but  the 1979 Movie featuring Ravel’s Bolero, Dudley Moore and Bo Derek was not Peter Pan. 
These guys were having a good time. There were only four at the money table, Jim Gibson, David Benn, John Hawkins and Doug Conkey, but they must have been quality, because they came second with 27 points, and  had all the dance tempo questions wrong. The mind boggles imagine  a group of British Sailors in the 18th century dancing a cha cha to a hornpipe jig.
At the outset of the Quiz, this table would have been the top seeds, in tennis parlance. A PDG, Police super, a bellringer and a Greek – all the bases were covered. The team consisted of Frank Fuller, Laurie Blowes, Colin Mercer, John Egan, James Hamilton, Michael Georgiou, Peter Green and Tim Macgillycuddy. They achieved 23 points, but Mick Jagger did not record “GLORIA”
This photo shows two accountants, and a Bank Manager, so we can conduct serious research into Musical knowledge across industry groups. The score from this team was 17, reduced to 16.5 on countback, so a solid performance on cricket knowledge was a consolation. The others on this team were Wal Paton,  Mal Robertson, Ken Taylor, Kevin Moffat and David Byfield.
Our winners, with a breathtaking score of 33, were the team who identified as "team Smith." Helping John were Geoff Breust, Bob Willis, Peter Mackinnon, James Ross and Hugh Campbell. These guys have been watching the TV dance shows, all the tempo questions right, no Pasa Doble when they should be doing the Tango, and hornpipes only on the deck. John Smith spent the duration of the quiz on his phone, and the stewards enquiry will be ongoing.
The last group had a score of 17, getting them off the bottom rung, but only just. Travis Downie, Greg Goldspink, Geoff Hamilton, David Foster, Rick Priest and Neil Pinto were good on Dance tempos, but missed out on Musical theatre.