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Music Quiz 2

Update: I hope that the low number of participants in this music quiz so far was only caused by it being buried under an above-average amount of other posts – which is why I’m fetching it to the top again… :)

The next edition of my little music quiz series – without further ado:

Why did Queen (or their record company) have to buy 65 bicycle seats in the year 1978?

This question was also given two years ago at Genial daneben, a TV show where comedians try to answer funny/strange/curious questions – and in that sense, I’m asking those of you who already know the answer (*) to wait a little and let the others post their (hopefully numerous and funny) guesses. :)

Let the quiz begin – without search engines and encyclopedias, they don’t have them at Genial daneben either…


The answer: Congratulations to JuliaL49 (cf. comments)! :clap:

The “Bicycle Race” video (from the “Jazz” album) featured 65 naked women riding around a race track on bikes hired from British cycle shop chain Halfords. When returned, Queen was ordered to pay for all the seats as Halfords wouldn’t accept them knowing what they had been used for. The album also included a poster of these women.

See also the Wikipedia article, including a small scan of the poster.


(*) You can send the correct answer to me by mail if you want, so that it’s clear who knew it first – if that’s important to you.

Music Quiz 1

I thought I’ll publish a few quiz questions from the world of music – at irregular intervals, and if there are any participants… (There’s nothing to win except my praise, though. ;) )

So let’s get right to the first question:

What are the next lines after

“Hush, little baby, don’t say a word…”

and what’s the name of the song and the singer or band?

Of course the solution should be found without using any search engines… so go ahead, what’s your guess/solution?

:aufgehts:

Update 2 Nov: :clap: Congratulations to Sam who got the first solution, this English nursery rhyme:

“Hush, little baby, don’t say a word
Mama/Papa’s gonna buy you a mocking bird
If that mocking bird don’t sing
Mama/Papa’s gonna buy you a diamond ring”

(more – incl. variants – in the Wikipedia), and to Julia who (after a little hint) found solution #2 Metallica: “Enter Sandman”:

“Hush little baby, don’t say a word
And never mind that noise you heard
It’s just the beasts under your bed
In your closet, in your head”

La ola

And thanks for participating!

Keep On Rocking!

Rockantenne logo Happy 8th birthday, Rockantenne, Bavaria’s Rocking Radio! By the way, not just playing the whole bandwidth of rock music, but quite a full program with news, info, fun (and advertising) and a few big raffles per year (where I’ve also won a few bucks a few years ago :mrgreen: ).

My favorite station for 4½ years that I’m now living in Bavaria…

Can be received throughout Bavaria via DAB Digital Radio (thanks to my proximity to the nearest transmitter without problems in house), FM in Augsburg, cable, Europe-wide via satellite and worldwide via Internet. Just have a listen!

Music Robot

Okay, it’s apparently available for about a year, but I just read about it in the new issue of the Bild der Wissenschaft¹, and it was new to me: miuro, the iPod dock and WLAN client that can dance and follow his master!

Official site: miuro.com (Japanese)

Without further investigation: I suppose the name results from “music robot”, or rather the re-transfer of its pronunciation from Japanese to Latin letters.

:rocks:

Oh, and I should mention a little disadvantage: the price of about 1000 € (e.g. at arktis.de)…

¹ Strangely, they spell it “Miouru” – did they get that from a French source?

Singende Tiere

This is about a long funny song in German (where even more contributors are wanted) – I really can’t translate that into English, sorry…

Für ihr “wiedererwecktes” unendliches Lied braucht die Prinzzess noch mehr Dichter für Strophen der Art

Das Gürteltier, das Gürteltier bringt gleich nen ganzen Kasten Bier… fidirallala, fidirallala, fidirallalalalalaaaaa

Der Pinguin kommt in nem Frack, hat dennoch nur ein Ei im Sack… fidirallala, fidirallala, fidirallalalalalaaaaa

Der Weihnachtsmann, der Weihnachtsmann, der schleppt die Hochzeitstorte an… fidirallala, fidirallala, fidirallalalalalaaaaa

um auf mindestens 200 Strophen zu kommen – und auch wenn euch nichts einfällt, lesenswert ist es durchaus (typisches Understatement; eher: Vorsicht, Lachkrampfgefahr!), also schaut mal rein!

:rofl: