Pickled Egg Quiz

[Dormouse]

number 4 could be a ghost

[NewcastleFalcon]

number 4 could be a ghost

Well done!

Heres the highwaymen performing number 4, head to Sheffield in the 80's for number 3.



Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

What popular song do these lyrics come from...
Number 3
Yippie-i-yippie-i-ay-ay

Clue 1
head to Sheffield in the 80's for number 3.

Clue 2
When you get it , you will realise that it was as simple as ...

Regards Neil

[Dormouse]

I am going ABC but I haven't found the song yet

[Dormouse]

"Look of love" has not dissimilar lyrics and it is time for the wooden hill

[NewcastleFalcon]

"Look of love" has not dissimilar lyrics and it is time for the wooden hill

It is indeed "Look of Love".

Comes after the talky bit

Hip Hip Hooray
Yippee-i-yippee-I-ay-ay

Starts at the relevant bit


Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

What I learned from Only Connect tonight

The connection between Penguin and Wales

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Some dictionaries suggest a derivation from Welsh pen, "head" and gwyn, "white",[10] including the Oxford English Dictionary, the American Heritage Dictionary,[11] the Century Dictionary[11] and Merriam-Webster,[12] on the basis that the name was originally applied to the great auk, either because it was found on White Head Island (Welsh: Pen Gwyn) in Newfoundland, or because it had white circles around its eyes (though the head was black).

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

50 points for the pair.

Whoarethesethen

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

First punt:

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Tony Bastable and Susan Stranks of Magpie fame?

[NewcastleFalcon]

First punt:

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Tony Bastable and Susan Stranks of Magpie fame?

50 Points Mick. The lad from Hexham (as it turns out) was a presenter on "Drive in", on Thames Television and there he was showing of the Rover SD1 in his flared trousers following on from your 76 Princess post on the classics thread.

REgards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

Unless my memory is playing tricks was Drive In Shaw Taylor's motoring show?

[NewcastleFalcon]

Unless my memory is playing tricks was Drive In Shaw Taylor's motoring show?

Yes, if you run through to the end of the video I posted on the PE Video Show, Shaw himself comes on and gives the lowdown on VW Passat and Austin Allegro pricing following Tony's report.

viewtopic.php?p=701797#p701797

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

What I learned from only Connect tonight...a brief flirtation with Wiki will reveal the connection between the two pictures.

Eclair 1120005560
Charles Haynes from Bangalore, India, upload by Herrick, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons


Lightning strike jan 2007
Fir0002, GFDL 1.2 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html>, via Wikimedia Commons

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Changes all the time of course but at June 2020 as revealed on Pointless tonight, the most streamed/downloaded Beatles song in the UK was......

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Here comes the Sun written by George Harrison

Top 10
1. Here Comes The Sun
2. Let It Be
3. Hey Jude
4. Come Together
5. Twist and Shout
6. Help!
7. Blackbird
8. In My Life
9. Yesterday
10. All You Need Is Love

The song, as of June 2020 had been streamed 50.3 million times (350 million worldwide), with 164,000 downloads in the UK.

Did you get anywhere close? The second most streamed song had been streamed 26 million times, trailing a country mile behind.

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

Watched Pointless!!