Quiz Night and Song Meme

[my_daroga]

I've been meaning to tell this story for awhile now, since it happened a few weeks ago. tkp convinced me to go to a pub quiz night. Actually, we danced around the invitation, neither of us knowing if the other one was serious about going/taking, but eventually we worked it out and there we were. The lure was Harry Potter trivia (which turned out to be lame). But in the random round, there was a question dear to my heart.

"What was the real name of the Elephant Man?"

I scribbled down Joseph Merrick, then put "(John)" after it just in case. "Just wait," I said. "They're going to say John."

When they read out the correct answer, of course it was John. I raised my hand like an overeager preschooler and said, "Excuse me! But that's wrong! Treves used 'John' in his account, but it was written after the fact and he was wrong; his real name was Joseph, even though the film used John."

Both answers got the point, and I got weird looks from the other people at our table. It was a proud moment. I was so earnest it was funny. See? There is a point to knowing stuff like that.

We still didn't win, though.

Tagged by stefanie_bean. Five favourite bands/artists, five songs for each, tag five people to do the same.

Oh, tagging... Um... Anyone want?

1. Belle and Sebastian
Stay Loose
Piazza, New York Catcher
Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying
The State I Am In
I Fought in a War

2. Radiohead
Talk Show Host
Bulletproof... I Wish I Was
Paranoid Android
2 + 2 = 5 (The Lukewarm)
Exit Music (for a Film)

3. Kate Bush
Sat in Your Lap
Night of the Swallow
Jig of Life
Cloudbusting
Rocket's Tail

4. Ben Folds Five
The Last Polka
Selfless, Cold and Composed
Mess
Missing the War
Battle of Who Could Care Less

5. Elliott Smith
Pitseleh
Waltz #2 (XO)
Between the Bars
Alameda
No Name No. 5

Comments

[glamtron.livejournal.com]

joseph would be proud.

[glamtron.livejournal.com]

note the "john" in the icon because i was too sick/lazy to have to rebut whenever i was "corrected" :P

gosh. now im going to wallow in the thought of i really wish i was magically from that time and well.....across the atlantic and somehow knew that amazing man.

[my_daroga]

Have a good night!

Just kidding. Yeah... He deserved better.

[tinyholidays.livejournal.com]

OMG song meme. I might have to do that. To further my procrastination. And because I love listing songs.

"Piazza, New York Catcher" is totally my favorite B&S song. Although "The Chalet Lines" has been creeping up on it lately. That song is just devastating.

Great Radiohead picks too. I love "Talk Show Host".

[my_daroga]

I respect "The Chalet Lines" but I don't like it as much. As a song.

The picks are a little weird because I had to choose ones I knew the titles of, so although there are tons more Elliott Smith songs I could choose I've had Either/Or and XO longest so those are the titles I know.

"Paranoid Android" was a little obvious but that song still kills me.

I was going to tag you, if I tagged anyone, by the way.

[tinyholidays.livejournal.com]

Lolz. Well, if I had tagged people, and you hadn't already done the meme, then I would have tagged you too!

Yeah, if I had done a #6 slot, it would have been Elliott Smith. But all of my songs would have been from the self-titled and From a Basement on the Hill.

And #7 would have been Radiohead. Actually, I'm really into Amnesiac right now. Something about the chord structures on that album is so sedated and sinister and AWESOME.

[my_daroga]

Never got into From a Basement on the Hill, which is weird, because I like the new discs a lot. And the self-titled would have been there except that's one of the ones I don't know the titles of.

I like some stuff on Amnesiac, but it's never been among my favorites. Kid A I loved right off, which I hear wasn't the normal way of things; the follow-up didn't grab me.

Actually, this meme was done in a haphazard fashion by me, in the sense that I didn't strictly pick my five top artists--I picked five artists for whom I could easily pick out five songs. So anyone that would have required me going back to my shelf and reading off the titles, or anyone it was too difficult (Leonard Cohen, Neil Young) I didn't do.

[tinyholidays.livejournal.com]

UR OBVY NOT TAKING THESE MEMES SRSLY ENOUGH.

[my_daroga]

IT R RECORD OF MY PERSONHOOD, SO DAMN STRAIGHT IS SRS BZNS

[phantoms-siren.livejournal.com]

After our team corrected 5 out of 20 of the local rock bar's quiz night questions we got barred. then there was that other quiz where we scored 21 out of 20.....

[my_daroga]

Aww, that's sad. But you don't want to be taking a quiz where all the answers are wrong, I guess.

The John/Joseph thing isn't "wrong," I guess, since so much of the material uses John.

[kryss-labryn.livejournal.com]

That reminded me of a time my film class hosted Red's Classic Theatre's Hallowe'en episode. They always have a trivia question in the first commercial break, and the camera guy mentioned that they'd changed it, because their original one was too hard. "Oh? What was it?" ask I.
"'What was the name of the creature in Mary Shelly's 'Frankenstein'?'" he says.
"Oh, that's easy!" I scoff, expecting a roomful of special effects make-up students to know it. Everyone looks at me. "It's Adam," say I.

Everyone looks at me.

"Well, really, what else would it have been?" say I.

Everyone looks at me. The tech admits I'm right. And I am startled that that was considered a hard question, and that no one else seemed to know it.

Different circles, I guess. ;-) But then, I own the book. *grin*

[my_daroga]

You know what's embarrassing about that? I've read the book twice, and didn't know/remember that.