Song Lyrics Quiz 3

1) Gerry says If you walk on with hope in your heart, what will happen?

a) you'll get lost

b) you'll support Liverpool

c) you'll never walk alone

2) What did Neil Sedaka find hard to do?

a) breaking up

b) tying his shoelaces

c) getting out of bed

3) For the Animals the only life they'd ever known was in

a) Old Kent Road

b) Tobacco Road

c) Whitechapel

4) Why did Del Shannon rather cruelly take his hat off to Larry?

a) it was the polite thing to do

b) Larry was a better singer

c) he broke his ex's heart

5) What did Tom Jones do to Delilah

a) cut her hair in her sleep

b) left her for another girl

c) stabbed her

6) How did Gerry cross the Mersey

a) bridge

b) ferry

c) tunnel

7) How did Marvin Gaye know about her plans to make him blue?

a) the grapevine

b) radio

c) telephone

8) According to Freddy and the Dreamers, When I hold you in my arms I know what?

a) you can't get away

b) that you were made for me

c) you're shorter than I thought.

9) According to Sam Cooke his girlfriend was "too young to fall in love". How old was she?

a) only fifteen

b) only sixteen

c) only seventeen

10) According to the Shangri Las My folks were always putting him down, but who was he?

a) the dog

b) the milkman

c) the leader of the pack

11) Who wanted to know a secret?

a) MI5

b) CIA

c) The Beatles

12) According to the Fourmost what goes a long long way?

a) a little loving

b) Mo Farah

c) my car

13) What did The Drifters want to have saved for them?

a) the world

b) the last dance

c) money

14) What did Susan Maughan want to be?

a) famous

b) Queen of the World

c) Bobby's girl

15) What did Billy J Cramer want the little children to do?

a) sing to him

b) play hide and seek

c) go away

16) Nothing you can say can tear Mary Wells away from

a) the television

b) my guy (her guy)

c) her phone

17) One day soon Dave Berry's gonna tell the moon

a) about the crying game

b) about the sun

c) about the eclipse

18) Baby, now that they've found you the Foundations will build what around you?

a) a wall

b) my world

c) a garden

19) According to the Tremoloes, Silence is what?

a) scary

b) boring

c) golden

20) Who or what made everything groovy for the Troggs?

a) music

b) a wild thing

c) dancing

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Song Lyrics Quiz 2

Song Lyrics 2

1) If mares eat oats and does eat oats, what do little lambs eat

a) grass

b) hay

c) ivy

2) Blackbird singing

a) in the dead of night

b) too loud

c) like a lark

3) Hey! Mr Tambourine Man

a) can you stop that noise

b) play a song for me

c) have you got any change?

4) Watching the ships roll in, what do I do next?

a) I wonder where they're from

b) I doze off

c) I watch them roll away again

5) Excuse me

a) have you got the time

b) while I kiss the sky

c) while I kiss this guy

6) Where hast thou been since I saw thee

a) to the pictures

b) On Ilkla Mooar baht 'at

c) down the road

7) In the blue ridge mountains of Virginia, which trail are you on?

a) the lonesome pine

b) the fugitive

c) the lonely willow

8) When the saints go marching in, where do you want to be?

a) elsewhere

b) in that number

c) in Southampton

9) What did Napoleon do at Waterloo?

a) caught a train

b) surrendered

c) won

10) The hills are alive with

a) midges

b) butterflies

c) the sound of music

11) You must remember this

a) the time

b) your name

c) a kiss is just a kiss

12) Put down the knitting,The book and the broom. and go where

a) the cabaret

b) downtown

c) outside

13) When you're alone and life is making you lonely, where can you go?

a) the cabaret

b) downtown

c) outside

14) Where did Mike Sarne want his girlfriend to go

a) the cabaret

b) downtown

c) outside

15) What did Celine Dionne think would go on

a) her singing career

b) the titanic

c) her heart

16) What did Snow White hope would come?

a) the dwarfs

b) her prince

c) her mother

17) Which river is wider than a mile

a) Moon River

b) The Thames

c) The Nile

18) What was Bing Crosby dreaming of

a) fame and fortune

b) a white Christmas

c) a music career

19) What makes Sinatra's heart beat so that he can hardly speak?

a) singing

b) a lot of money

c) dancing cheek to cheek

20) Do not forsake me, oh my darlin' on which day

a) the twelfth of never

b) our wedding day

c) tomorrow

 

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Ken Follett - Never

The story about the Americans shooting down a Chinese balloon was in the news while I was reading this terrifying book about an escalating conflict between America and China.

Ken Follett had the advice of people involved in the political world while writing this book and every part of it is credible.

What makes it more readable is the back story of the characters which means that they are more human and three-dimensional.

Nevertheless this book ought to give you nightmares as you listen to the current news and the unfolding conflict between the old and new superpowers.

Ken Follett seems to think the CIA is quite benevolent and that is not a view shared by anybody in Chile or anywhere else for that matter!

However this is an eminently well-written and readable book and I enjoyed reading it, despite the nightmares!

National Shop Stewards Network

I attended the NSSN meeting on 6th February as an observer.

There were reports from all the strikes which are taking place. NSSN is able to offer support from one union to another.

The overwhelming message of the meeting was for a general strike on 15th March, budget day. Why?

A general strike will ramp up the pressure on the government. They have gone from saying "no negotiations" to telling the media dishonestly that they are negotiating. The next step would be to actually negotiate. This government is wracked with scandal and aware of its weakness.

Secondly it reminds trade union activists that "we are many they are few." To quote Bob Crow, "It's a battle of the 99 percent against the 1 percent. I like those odds."

Today BP announced record profits of £23 billion, double last year's. The government pretends that there is no money to pay the public sector workers or pensioners. It is a false argument. There is plenty of money to line the pockets of shareholders.

Delilah

According to Murdoch's Sky News, "Tom Jones' iconic Delilah song has been banned from Wales national stadium by rugby chiefs"

Tom Jones is famous for a number of other songs so "iconic" is hyperbole.

It is a powerful song but the lyrics never did make any sense.

In the context of knife crime and violence against women, the lyrics are appalling.

In the first verse, the protagonist sees that someone he thought of as his property has moved on. 

"I felt the knife in my hand" - he was looking at ten years in prison for that alone. 

"If I can't have her, nobody will". is the sole justification. It won't stand up in court.

Delilah had had enough of him and you can see why. Alternately she was only "his" in his mind.

And in the last verse, he is about to be arrested and carted off to prison and the gallows. 

Tom Jones did not advocate knife crime or violence against women.

The lyrics are as follows, what do you think?

I saw the light on the night that I passed by her window
I saw the flickering shadows of love on her blind
She was my woman
As she deceived me, I watched and went out of my mind

My, my, my, Delilah
Why, why, why, Delilah
I could see, that girl was no good for me
But I was lost like a slave that no man could free

At break of day when that man drove away, I was waiting
I crossed the street to her house and she opened the door
She stood there laughing
I felt the knife in my hand and she laughed no more

My, my, my, Delilah
Why, why, why, Delilah
So before they come to break down the door
Forgive me, Delilah, I just couldn't take anymore

Song Lyrics Answers

Ans 1) c 2) a 3) b 4) c 5) b

6) b 7) a 8) b 9) b 10) c

11) c 12) a 13) c 14) b 15) c

16) b 17) a 18) b 19) c 20) b

Song Lyrics Quiz 1

1) You think you've lost your love, well I saw her yesterday

a) she's still mad at you

b) she said 'hi'

c) It's you she's thinking of.

2) Gloria

a) in Excelsis

b) give me your answer do

c) pride of our alley

3) Daisy

a) in Excelsis

b) give me your answer do

c) pride of our alley

4) Sally

a) in Excelsis

b) give me your answer do

c) pride of our alley

5) Hello darkness my old friend

a) How are you?

b) I've come to talk with you again

c) long time no see

6) You are my sunshine, my only sunshine You make me happy

a) when the gas bill comes

b) when skies are grey

c) when skies are blue

7) Who were "Tryin' to catch the Devil's herd, across these endless skies"

a) ghostriders in the sky

b) the police

c) clouds

8) Who was asked to come into the garden

a) Alan

b) Maud

c) Reginald

9) Ain't no mountain high enough ain't no valley

a) wide enough

b) low enough

c) long enough

10) Pack up your troubles in what?

a) a suitcase

b) a cupboard

c) your old kit bag

11) What are we going to build in England's green and pleasant land?

a) a skyscraper

b) a castle

c) Jerusalem

12) And you told her you'd never kissed a girl before so what must you do?

a) hold your hand out naughty boy

b) behave yourself

c) stop it at once

13) What is the password for "Hernando's Hideaway"?

a) open sesame

b) Casablanca

c) you and I were sent by Joe

14) Why was the little white bull unhappy?

a) his mother was cross with him

b) only black bulls go to the bullring

c) he had a tummy ache

15) What happens to mother brown if they catch her bending?

a) they get annoyed

b) the say she's cheating

c) they'll saw her legs right off

16) By yon bonnie banks & by yon bonnie braes, refers to

a) Loch Ness

b) Loch Lomond

c) Ullswater

17) Where do the deer and the antelope play?

a) home on the range

b) home in the Gorbals

c) home with the old folks

18) Bonnie and Clyde were pretty lookin' people but whose children?

a) different parents

b) the devil

c) unknown parents

19) The grand old duke of York

a) had ten thousand acres

b) had ten thousand pounds

c) had ten thousand men

20) How many men on a dead man's chest

a) one

b) fifteen

c) two

 

Answers will be available after Friday

 

Meanwhile "The Evil Quizmaster" is available here

 

 

Burns Night

Heinz profiteers

I have noticed the massive increase in prices of Heinz soup. Now the Metro has also noticed.

The link is here

This story is about Tesco but the price increases are a problem for every family. The increase in the cost of living is a disgrace. The increase in the cost of Heinz products is profiteering pure and simple.

Picket line picture

Picket line in Worthing (Meadowfield)

Please send pictures of local picket lines to strikemapuk@gmail.com

Pickets will welcome any support.

A Proverb Quiz

The good news is that all my quizzes are going to be published this year in "The Evil Quizmaster"

Amazon are funny (in fact they are hilarious) about anything in a book being published on a blog so I have removed any quizzes which will be in the upcoming book from this blog. The one which remains will not be in the book.

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Off with their heads!

Newspapers in Sussex have suggested it would be a good idea if the people of Sussex could choose who is the Duke of Sussex but why stop there?

The people of Great Britain most certainly did not choose the King. I did not vote for Charles. Who would?

Abolition of the monarchy would save a fortune and the money could go to the NHS.

Buckingham Palace could become council housing.

George III was an insane monarch. He talked to his plants and on one occasion he "spoke complete and utter nonsense for 58 hours straight". Ring any bells?

More details here
 

Answers to the visual proverbs

a) A change is as good as a rest.

b) A fate worse than death.

c) You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

d) I'll have your guts for garters.

e) A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.

f) Two wrongs do not make a (w)right.

g) You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Visual Proverbs

Anti-semitism

The UAE will teach children about the holocaust. That's nice. And now Israel can reciprocate by teaching about the killing of Palestinian children by the Israeli Defence Force.

Details are available here

 A spike in the number of child fatalities led to condemnation by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights 

 

 

A right royal carry-on

OMG. I can't pick up a paper or watch a news progamme without getting far too much information about the right royal farce. 

The only thing missing is for Harry to imitate Kenneth Williams, "Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me!"

The Royal family carry-on is being used as a diversion from the cost of living. Lets face it the cost of living does not bother any of them. They keep their royal snouts in the trough all right.

 

Spoiler Alert Answers to Proverbs 9

The good news is that all my quizzes are going to be published this year in "The Evil Quizmaster"

Amazon are funny (in fact they are hilarious) about anything in a book being published on a blog so I have removed any quizzes which will be in the upcoming book from this blog. The one which remains will not be in the book.

The Evil Quizmaster

 

Proverbs 9

 

 

The good news is that all my quizzes are going to be published this year in "The Evil Quizmaster"

Amazon are funny (in fact they are hilarious) about anything in a book being published on a blog so I have removed any quizzes which will be in the upcoming book from this blog. The one which remains will not be in the book.

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Spoiler Alert answers to Proverb Quiz 8

Proverbs 8

1) In the poem who was "put in a pot and boiled 'til he was done"?

a) Prince Andrew b) Boris Johnson c) Don't Care

2) What is the mother of invention?

a) Money b) necessity c) genius

3) If something is rare it is once in a

a) blue moon b) while c) week

4) Where might a bolt come from?

a) the shed door b) a rifle c) the blue

5) Cockneys are said to be born within the sound of

a) Eastenders b) Coronation Street c) bow bells

6) What might you bring home?

a) the TV licence b) the bacon c) the whole hog

7) If it ain't broke

a) get another one b) don't fix it c) look after it

8) President Harry S. Truman had a sign over his desk saying who or what stops here?

a) my secretary b) the president c) the buck

9) What might you find in the ointment?

a) vanilla b) lavender c) a fly

10) What cannot stand?

a) my aunt fanny b) a drunken man c) a house divided against itself

11) What might you find in sheep's clothing?

a) ticks b) a lamb c) a wolf

12) What should you do unto others?

a) as little as possible b) as you would have them do unto you c) before they do unto you?

13) There is no WHAT for the wicked?

a) rest b) money c) forgiveness

14) What should you not put before the horse?

a) the cart b) the nosebag c) the manger

15) What should you beware?

a) the first of March b) the ides of March c) the thirty first of March.

(15th of March - traditional day for settling debts or assassinating Caesar)

16) What is the food of love?

a) peanut butter b) music c) chocolate

17) You are innocent until

a) proven guilty b) arrested c) you can afford a lawyer

18) When is a hare proverbially mad?

a) February b) March c) April

19) What should you do while the sun shines?

a) make hay b) sunbathe c) go on holiday.

20 Where will you find big ears?

a) little pitchers b) Noddy c) big heads