Sinister: warning: some attempted answers to the pop quiz! help me cos i wanna show off :0)

[A.M. Horne]

On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Sarah wrote:

> aaaaaah! you have to help me people!
> i know *some* of these questions which overall just has to be the worst
> thing, but the nimbers and such like i have NO idea! so i am relying on
> Sinisterian pop experience and love to please HELP ME !!! with this pop
> quiz. yes i know it was on the SFA list but its starting to bug me!!
> 
> 1.  Complete the sequence...
>  8, 3, 7, ?  (4)
> 2.  Complete the sequence...
>  43, N/A, ?, 22, 38   (5)  
> 3.  Si tu etais un ange...  Comes from which current single?  And what
> does
> it mean?  (2)

isn't it the rialto single?

> 4.  What was the UK's best-selling single of 97, and what was Europe's?
> (2) 

elton bloody john for the uk, surely

> 5.  Lauren Laverne is currently seeing which journalist?  (1)

tell me it isn't true!

> 6.  Who released an album last year named 'Ice Cream'?  (1)

salad

> 7.  Name the band/track from this lyric "Idiot - Slow Down"  (1)
> 8.  Name the band/track from this lyric "Too much Montechristo No 4 -
> Pass  The Ventolin, I need some more"  (1)
> 9.  Name 5 Welsh bands who have had top 40 hits in the last year.  (5)

stereophonics, catatonia, super furrys .. 

> 10.  A Brimful Of Asha on the WHAT?  (1)

45
 
> 11.  Name Embrace's debut single and record label it appeared on.  (2)

why bother? they're dreadful

> 12.  Name any three singles which have been re-released under different
> mixes.   (3)

loads of them

> 13.  Who, if we take everything he says literally, does Thom Yorke want
> to
> be?  (1)
> 14.  Complete the sequence...
>  I?CP?WSHIWMB?MSRSCPNP?CCO?NINCAMGIFC   (10)
> 15.  Name the only duo to have two top 40 mid-price LPs in 1997.   (2)
> 16.  "That worm-pie you made me, you made me eat from the butchers" : By
> whom, and what is it?   (2)
> 17.  "I stole his shoes and ran away trying jolly hard to see if we
> could
> catch him round the bend" : Again - artist and track please.   (2)
> 18.  Gene's debut single only half appears on the debut album.  How and
> what
> is it?   (2)
> 19.  What year was Babies by Pulp released?   (2)

1992/3? (originally)

> 20.  So Make Sure That she's old enough, before.... What?   (1)
> 
> It's out of 50 - so just try your best.
> 
> thank you for your time pop pickers :)
> I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!!!
> Sarah 

not a stunning performance, but anyway...

i'll give it some more thought later

alastair
> 
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