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Fiddy or Gogarty?
A few people on one of the threads below (and on Twitter) were asking about table quiz questions from last night. Here (if this works) are the two visual rounds. Have a go at guessing if you like, the questions are at the end. The blurb missing from the Fiddy or Gogarty round reads:
This round is called FIDDY or GOGARTY. The following are ten tweets. Contestants have to guess whether they were written by rapper 50 Cent or Green party TD Paul Gogarty.
P.S. I should acknowledge I got the idea for the ‘Celebrity’ round at the Flat Lake Festival table quiz.
P.P.S. Thanks a billion to everyone who turned up last night and raised a whole load of money for ReachOut.com
P.P.P.S. And, of course, to my friend Scally who did all the complicated technical stuff for me!
November 4th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
Genius 🙂
November 4th, 2010 at 4:52 pm
savage, nice one
November 4th, 2010 at 8:23 pm
Absolutely love the Fiddy or Gogarty round.
November 4th, 2010 at 8:44 pm
Great job. That celebrity round is seriously disturbing, going to give me nightmares for weeks to come.
Out of interest Eoin, what were complicated technical issues?
November 4th, 2010 at 10:14 pm
@ gueuleton – I’m sure there was a scart lead involved.They’re a fiendishly difficult concept to grasp.
November 4th, 2010 at 10:21 pm
I got alot of the Fiddy/Gogarty one right, only because I pulled a switcharoo on what seemed like the right answer.
I have seen that wax museum artist’s work before…http://bashinginminds.com/2009/06/29/mummified-teenager-from-buffy-the-vampire-slayer/
November 4th, 2010 at 11:01 pm
@ Gueuleton – Power point presentation. (Well, complicated to me.)
@ YM – occurred to me people might do that. Figured, if they did, they might seriously consider possibility Gogarty then tweeted “Keep grindin’ baby, it’s yo boy!” If that happened, my work was done.
November 4th, 2010 at 11:05 pm
P.S. You can fuck right off EK. I thought you were going to enter and win singlehandedly or was that just more drunken horseshit?
November 4th, 2010 at 11:31 pm
Bob Hope looks like a black acid scarred version of Kelsey Grammar
November 4th, 2010 at 11:35 pm
@ Ponyo – lot of people guessed Jack Nicholson for that one
November 5th, 2010 at 12:08 am
Well done Eoin and everyone involved! It was really good fun. And we got 10/10 in the Fiddy or Gogarty? round… winning didn’t matter after that.
November 5th, 2010 at 12:49 am
@ Lauren – Fuck, didn’t even know you were there. But extremely impressed you did so well on that round.
@ Lisa – as per your request on other thread, I’ll pitch you a question from book round:
November 5th, 2010 at 1:21 am
Being and Nothingness?
November 5th, 2010 at 1:47 am
Eoin – hmm, sounds exactly like how I felt last Sunday after a particularly raucous Halloween party. The Hangover? (One of the few Sartre novels to have later received a Hollywood adaptation.)
November 5th, 2010 at 8:29 am
Nausea
November 5th, 2010 at 12:10 pm
Correct-ah @ Gueuleton. Read that book at the same time as I was writing this feature. Sufficed to say, it was a bad time for the empire.
Another one. Last month the American Book Review published its list of the 100 Best First Lines from Novels. Identify the book this first line appeared in:
November 5th, 2010 at 12:45 pm
Alice in Wonderland?
November 5th, 2010 at 1:14 pm
Nope.
November 5th, 2010 at 4:04 pm
Wow, fair play. So did you use Google or Bing?
November 6th, 2010 at 10:15 pm
“Fiddy or Gogarty? Both parties would be insane but I could only attend one”
That’s my novels first line, I’ll credit you
November 7th, 2010 at 7:56 am
More! More!
November 7th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
Another opening line:
“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. “
November 7th, 2010 at 7:29 pm
100 Years of Solitude. One of the quarest books I never finished, despite repeated attempts.
November 7th, 2010 at 7:44 pm
Correct, well worth the effort btw!
This probably the most accessible round in the quiz:
The answer to each of these clues contains the name of one of the months of the year.
1. The 1993 debut album by American rockers Counting Crows, which included the hit single Mr Jones.
2. She plays glamorous housewife Betty Draper in the acclaimed television series Mad Men.
3. Intrepid girl reporter and confidant of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
4. A novel by the nineteenth century English writer George Eliot, it presents the stories of a number of denizens of a fictitious English village, on the eve of the Reform Bill of 1832.
5. At 8min 57 seconds, this Guns N’ Roses single was the longest song ever to hit the Billboard Hot 100 when it went to #3 in June 1992.
6. A 1991 Yorkshire television drama, based on a novel by H.E. Bates, starring Catherine Zeta Jones and David Jason.
7. This controversial Morrissey single, released in April 1990, featured backing vocals by Mary Margaret O’Hara. It tackled the subject of Downs Syndrome.
8. The famous opening line of T.S. Elliot’s The Waste Land
9. A 1990 Cold War thriller, based on a novel by Tom Clancy, stared Alec Baldwin as eccentric CIA analyst Jack Ryan, and Sean Connery as renegade Soviet submarine commander Marko Ramius.
10. This 1974 Big Star single, written by the late great Alex Chilton, was ranked #174 on Rolling Stone magazine’s top 500 songs of all time.
November 7th, 2010 at 7:58 pm
Off the top of my head before I cycle into college:
2. April O’Neill
5. November Rain
6. Darling Buds of May
8. April is a cruel month
9. Hunt for Red October
November 7th, 2010 at 7:59 pm
As in, the answers are off the top of my head. I’m not off my head cycling into college.
November 7th, 2010 at 8:04 pm
5/5 or 5/10… whichever.
P.S. You’re high on drugs. I get that.
November 7th, 2010 at 8:10 pm
Actually, that should be 4/5. They’re all cruel months. April is the cruellest.
November 7th, 2010 at 8:28 pm
You bastard.
November 7th, 2010 at 8:31 pm
Aaargh also something that just occurred to me.
4. MiddleMARCH, obviously.
November 7th, 2010 at 8:31 pm
That’s the drugs talking, Lisa. You wanna pick another category?
November 7th, 2010 at 8:31 pm
Hit me.
November 7th, 2010 at 8:31 pm
Correct!
November 7th, 2010 at 8:33 pm
COMEDY
1. In which classic comedy film does Jamie Lee Curtis explain to Kevin Kline that “the London Underground is not a political movement’?
2. To date five Irish comedians have won the Edinburgh Comedy Award (formerly Perrier Award). Name any three of them.
3. When asked how long he had been in the British army, this former member of the Goons replied “five foot eleven.” But when he died in 2002, his coffin was draped in an Irish flag. Who was he?
4. Name the Canadian media theorist who made a cameo appearance in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall, telling a pretentious cinema-goer “You know nothing of my work”?
5. I.T. Crowd creator Graham Linehan tweets as Glinner. What pseudonym does his former writing partner Arthur Mathews use to tweet? (a) Bunchious. (b) Munchious. (c) Lunchios
6. The longrunning Broadway musical Spamalot is “lovingly ripped off” from which Monty Python movie?
7. Which fez-wearing British comedian is name-checked in the lyrics to John Lennon’s Give Peace a Chance?
8. The classic 1974 satiric Western directed by Mel Brooks, starring Gene Wilder and co-written by Richard Pryor was called what?
9. In the longrunning sitcom Friends, who played Chandler’s father?
10. Who is the current host of RTE’s The Panel?
November 7th, 2010 at 8:40 pm
Hmmm. Not exactly my forte. I don’t have a sense of humour, you see.
3. Spike Milligan?
4. Marshall McLuhan?
6. Monty Python and the Holy Grail?
7. Tommy Cooper?
8. Blazing Saddles?
All guesses, educated or otherwise…
November 7th, 2010 at 8:43 pm
All correct so far.
November 7th, 2010 at 8:43 pm
Do you really not have a sense of humour/
November 7th, 2010 at 8:51 pm
No. Haven’t laughed since 1998.
November 8th, 2010 at 4:41 am
Kathleen Turner #9
November 8th, 2010 at 12:22 pm
September Gurls.
Love Big Star
November 8th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
1. A fish called Wanda
2. Dylan Moran, Tommy Tiernan, David O Doherty? Maybe not him
3. Spike Milligan
4. I know it! I know it! Damnit
5.Munchious
6. The Holy Grail
7.Tommy Cooper
8. Blazing Saddles
9. No Idea
10. No Idea
November 8th, 2010 at 12:33 pm
Accessible round 6. Darling Buds Of May
November 8th, 2010 at 10:31 pm
Any more categories up your sleeve?
November 8th, 2010 at 10:39 pm
Full list (although you’ve had some of these already): film, music, books, celebrity, politics & current affairs, sport, comedy, months, ‘Fiddy or Gogarty’ or orphans.
November 8th, 2010 at 10:42 pm
@ MM – correct
@ Ponyo – correct
@ Ponyo – all correct except can’t actually remember correct answer to Arthur Matthews question and the one you think you know is Marshall McLuhan.
@ Ponyo – correct
November 8th, 2010 at 11:58 pm
Orphans? Or music.
November 9th, 2010 at 12:02 am
ORPHANS
1. Put these names in the order in which they had tabloid relationships with glamour model Katie Price: Alex Reid, Peter Andre, Dane Bowers, Dwight Yorke.
2. The Ticket’s iPhone app has three main sections: Music, film and… what?
3. What’s the only US state with only one syllable in its name?
4. What Christian name is shared by the New Testament’s most prolific letter writer, and Germany’s recently deceased psychic octopus?
5. The Battle of Midway in 1942 is notable for which military first? (a)Neither army came within sight of each other, (b) neither army suffered any casualties, or (c) neither side remembered to turn up?
6. Which Irish singer did state pathologist Dr Marie Cassidy once claim to listen to while performing autopsies?
7. Where is the oldest roofed structure in Ireland?
8. The father of which famous outlaw was transported from Tipperary to Van Diemens Land in 1841 for stealing two pigs?
9. In which Irish town, according to Christy Moore, would you find amhrans, bodhrans, amadans, Arab sheiks, Hindu Sikhs and Jesus freaks?
10. What Dublin theatre is located at 39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar?
November 9th, 2010 at 12:18 am
Hmmm. Again not my forte. Maybe I don’t have a forte after all.
3. Maine
4. Paul
5. (a)
6. Mary Black?
8. Ned Kelly
9 . Lisdoonvarna?
Music round please!
November 9th, 2010 at 2:09 am
All correct except Mary Black. Clue: my first name +
McLove.
Roofed structure also v. guessable.
Admittedly, qs are v. difficult overall. I knew there’d be some very knowledgeable people taking part. Not least the eventual winners (only spotted this conversation now!)…
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/ontherecord/2010/10/28/the-ticket-gets-quizzical/
November 9th, 2010 at 2:52 am
Daniel O’Donnell!