The ultimate summer pop quiz #2
Here is the second part of the test published last week by The Guardian. The only change, compared to what the author written, is that meanwhile Gilberto Gil resigned from Brazilian culture Minister. What a shame!
POLITICS
1) The name of which rapper entered the lexicon of US politics after being criticised by Bill Clinton during the 1992 presidential campaign?
2) Which US presidents are the subjects of the following songs:
[a] Neil Young’s Campaigner and Stevie Wonder’s You Haven’t Done Nothin’?
[b] Gil Scott-Heron’s B-Movie and the Ramones’ My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg)?
[c] The Byrds’ He Was a Friend of Mine and Steinski & the Mass Media’s The Motorcade Sped On?
3) Which group has devoted a song to Spencer Perceval, the British prime minister who was assassinated in 1812?
4) How many years elapsed between the Beat releasing Stand Down Margaret and Margaret Thatcher actually standing down?
5) Scottish National Party MP Pete Wishart used to play keyboards for which folk-rock band?
6) Which Smiths song did David Cameron choose as one of his Desert Island Discs?
7) Which punk frontman ran for mayor of San Francisco in 1979, finishing fourth just behind a drag queen called Sister Boom-Boom?
9) [a] Who is “the old man” in Scott Walker’s 1969 song The Old Man’s Back Again?
[b] The song was inspired by events in which European capital the previous year?
10) Which Brazilian musician currently holds the post of minister of culture under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva?
11) According to Jarvis Cocker in 2006, who are still running the world?
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
1) Pixies’ Gouge Away and PJ Harvey’s Hair refer to which Biblical character?
2) Which Portishead song takes its chorus from Jude 1:13?
3) What belief system connects Isaac Hayes, Chaka Khan, Chick Corea and Doug E Fresh?
4) Which British band opened their 1978 debut single with the words: “Listen to the voice of Buddha”?
5) Who claimed that Jesus …
[a] died for somebody’s sins but not mine?
[b] was a crossmaker?
[c] is God’s atomic bomb?
[d] don’t want me for a sunbeam?
[e] built my hotrod?
6) Which classic reggae album contains references to Biblical books including Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Daniel and the gospels?
7) Erykah Badu, Rakim and Busta Rhymes all follow which Nation of Islam off shoot, founded by Clarence 13X in 1964?
Which Biblical location connects Talk Talk and Everything But the Girl?
9) Who sang the lines “The Christians and the Jews were having a Jamboree/The Buddhists and the Hindus joined on satellite TV”?
10) Where is heaven, according to:
[a]Stevie Wonder
[b]Belinda Carlisle
ART HISTORY
1) Which album sleeves feature the following paintings?
[a] Strategy (South face/Front Face/North Face) by Jenny Saville
[b] A Basket of Roses by Henri Fantin-Latour
[c] La Fille au Bouquet by Emile Théodore Frandsen de Schomberg
[d] The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault
2) Who retired from music after releasing his final album in 1982 to become a full-time painter in northern California?
3) Which celebrated New York artist produced the hip-hop single Beat Bop by Rammelzee vs K-Rob?
4) Coldplay’s Viva La Vida album takes its name from a Frida Kahlo painting depicting which variety of fruit?
5) For which Britpop single did Damien Hirst direct the video?
6) Which Manchester band sang about a woman who “looks like a painting: Jackson Pollock’s Number 5”?
7) Who sang the lines, “Van Gogh did some eyeball pleasers/He must have been a pencil squeezer/He didn’t do the Mona Lisa/That was an Italian geezer”?
According to Jonathan Richman, which artist never got called an asshole?
9) Joe Strummer, Sade and MIA all attended which college of art and design?
10) Which artists designed the following record covers:
[a]Velvet Underground – 1st (Banana)
[b]Red Hot Chili Peppers – By the Way
[c]David Bowie – Diamond Dogs
MATHS
1) Give the value of x in the following equations
[a] ? and the Mysterians’ tears
Joy Division’s hours
= x
[b] √Edwin Starr’s miles + √The Temptations’ cloud = x
[c] (Nena’s red balloons – Bobby Troup’s route)
De La Soul’s magic number
= x
2) Who recorded a song called in which she sang P to 137 decimal places?
3) Which 2005 single makes the improbable claim that birds fly at
770mph?
4) Gene Pitney was 24 hours from Tulsa. If he intended to travel at an
average speed of 60mph without stopping, how far away from home
was he at the time he committed adultery?
5) How far from Earth is Major Tom in David Bowie’s Space Oddity?
6) Fill in the missing geometric shapes in the following song titles:
[a] Bizarre Love __ (New Order)
[b] The __ Game (Joni Mitchell)
[c ] Dr __ (Dr __ )
[d] Port __ (Squarepusher)
Which band contended in the title of a 2003 single that 2+2=5?
9) The Beatles’ White Album contains 30 songs. If you play the album on
shuffl e, what is the probability that the fi rst song you hear will be by:
[a] George Harrison?
[b] Ringo Starr?
11) [a] Take That claim to have sung a million love songs. If each song has
an average length of three minutes, how many days would it take to
sing them all?
[b] What is the probability that Take That are exaggerating?
12) What percentage of Jay-Z’s problems are “bitch-related”?
MATHS
1) Give the value of x in the following equations
[a] ? and the Mysterians’ tears/Joy Division’s hours = x
[b] √Edwin Starr’s miles + √The Temptations’ cloud = x
[c] (Nena’s red balloons – Bobby Troup’s route)/De La Soul’s magic number = x
2) Who recorded a song called in which she sang π to 137 decimal places?
3) Which 2005 single makes the improbable claim that birds fly at 770mph?
4) Gene Pitney was 24 hours from Tulsa. If he intended to travel at an average speed of 60mph without stopping, how far away from home was he at the time he committed adultery?
5) How far from Earth is Major Tom in David Bowie’s Space Oddity?
6) Fill in the missing geometric shapes in the following song titles:
[a] Bizarre Love __ (New Order)
[b] The __ Game (Joni Mitchell)
[c ] Dr __ (Dr __ )
[d] Port __ (Squarepusher)
Which band contended in the title of a 2003 single that 2+2=5?
9) The Beatles’ White Album contains 30 songs. If you play the album on shuffle, what is the probability that the first song you hear will be by:
[a] George Harrison?
[b] Ringo Starr?
11) [a] Take That claim to have sung a million love songs. If each song has an average length of three minutes, how many days would it take to sing them all?
[b] What is the probability that Take That are exaggerating?
12) What percentage of Jay-Z’s problems are “bitch-related”?
SCIENCE
1) According to Zager & Evans, in which year will mankind be able to “pick your son, pick your daughter too/ From the bottom of a long glass tube?”
2) Who recorded songs named after the full names of the following
elements? (The years of release are given in parentheses)
[a] O (2004)
[b] Li (1991)
[c] Au (1983)
3) In Pulp’s The Trees, Jarvis Cocker describes how trees “produce the air that I am breathing”.
What is the name for this process?
4) Which Kate Bush single tells the story of Wilhelm Reich, psychiatrist and inventor of the orgone accumulator?
5) In 2005, which scientific disciplines gave their name to …
[a] a Girls Aloud album?
[b] the first single from that album?
6) Which UK garage duo named themselves after a chemical compound containing oxygen and an elementary particle with no electric charge?
7) Which German physicist was the subject of Philip Glass’s first opera?
Which song of 2006 explains the difference between a meteor, a meteorite and a meteoroid?
9) Who recorded the 1982 album Big Science?
10) Complete the following series: Nicotine, __ , Vicodin, marijuana, __ , alcohol, c-c-c-c-c-cocaine
Ecco la seconda parte del test tratto dal Guardian. L’unica differenza rispetto a quanto scritto dall’autore, è che nel frattempo Gilberto Gil si è dimesso da Ministro della Cultura brasiliano. Peccato!
POLITICA
1) Qual’è il nome del rapper che è entrato nel lessico della politica Americana dopo essere stato criticato da Bill Clinton durante la campagna presidenziale del 1992?
2) Quali presidenti USA sono i soggetti delle seguenti canzoni:
[a] Campaigner di Neil Young e You Haven’t Done Nothin’ di Stevie Wonder?
[b] B-Movie di Gil Scott-Heron e My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg) dei Ramones?
[c] He Was a Friend of Mine dei Byrds e The Motorcade Sped On di Steinski & the Mass Media?
3) Quale gruppo ha dedicato una canzone a Spencer Perceval, il primo ministro britannico assassinato nel 1812?
4) Quanti anni sono passati da quando i Beat hanno pubblicato “Stand Down Margaret” fino al momento in cui Margaret Thatcher si è dimessa veramente?
5) Il parlamentare dello Scottish National Party Pete Wishard suonava le tastiere in una folk-rock band. Quale?
6) Quale canzone degli Smiths ha spinto David Cameron a sceglierla come uno dei suoi dischi da isola deserta?
7) Quale frontman punk si è candidato a sindaco di San Francisco nel 1979, finendo quarto dietro una drag queen che si faceva chiamare Sister Boom-Boom?
[a] Chi è “the old man” nel pezzo di Scott Walker del 1969, “The Old Man’s Back Again”?
[b]A quali eventi, verificatisi l’anno precedente in una capitale europea, è ispirato il pezzo?
9) Quale musicista brasiliano occupa attualmente il posto di Ministro della cultura nel governo brasiliano di Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva?
10) Secondo il Jarvis Cocker del 2006, chi è che fa andare avanti il mondo?
TEOLOGIA
1) “Gouge Away” dei Pixies e “Hair” di PJ Harvey a quale personaggio della Bibbia si riferiscono?
2) Quale canzone dei Portishead prende il coro da Giuda 1:13?
3) Quale credo collega Isaac Hayes, Chaka Khan, Chick Corea e Doug E Fresh?
4) Quale band britannica apriva il suo singolo di debutto del 1978 con le parole: “Listen to the voice of Buddha”?
5) Chi ha affermato che Gesù:
[a] died for somebody’s sins but not mine?
[b] was a crossmaker?
[c] is God’s atomic bomb?
[d] don’t want me for a sunbeam?
[e] built my hotrod?
6) Quale classico album reggae contiene riferimenti a libri della Bibbia come La Genesi, l’Esodo, I Numeri, il Deuteronomio, Daniele e i Gospels?
7) Erykah Badu, Rakim e Busta Rhymes seguono tutti una Nazione dell’Islam strutturata, fondata da Clarence 13X nel 1964. Quale?
Quale luogo biblico collega Talk Talk ed Everything But the Girl?
9) Chi cantava le parole “The Christians and the Jews were having a Jamboree/The Buddhists and the Hindus joined on satellite TV”?
10) Dov’è il paradiso, secondo:
[a]Stevie Wonder
[b]Belinda Carlisle
STORIA DELL’ARTE
1)Quali copertine di album contengono i seguenti dipinti?
[a] Strategy (South face/Front Face/North Face) di Jenny Saville
[b] A Basket of Roses di Henri Fantin-Latour
[c] La Fille au Bouquet di Emile Théodore Frandsen de Schomberg
[d] The Raft of the Medusa di Théodore Géricault
2) Chi si è ritirato dalla scena musicale dopo la pubblicazione del suo ultimo album, nel 1982, per diventare un pittore a tempo pieno nel Nord della California?
3) Quale celeberrimo artista di New York ha prodotto il singolo hip hop “Beat Pop” di Rammelzee vs K-Rob?
4) L’album “Viva la Vida” dei Coldplay prende il nome da un quadro di Frida Kahlo che rappresenta un tipo di frutta. Quale?
5) Di quale singolo Britpop Damien Hirst ha diretto il video?
6) Quale band di Manchester cantava di una donna che “looks like a painting: Jackson Pollock’s Number 5”?
7) Chi canta i versi “Van Gogh did some eyeball pleasers/He must have been a pencil squeezer/He didn’t do the Mona Lisa/That was an Italian geezer”?
Secondo Jonathan Richman, quale artista non è mai stato chiamato “asshole”?
9) Joe Strummer, Sade e MIA hanno frequentato tutti lo stesso college di arte e design. Quale?
10) Quali artisti hanno disegnato le seguenti copertine di dischi:
[a]Velvet Underground – 1st (Banana)
[b]Red Hot Chili Peppers – By the Way
[c]David Bowie – Diamond Dogs
MATEMATICA
1)Date il valore a x nelle seguenti equazioni
[a] ? and the Mysterians’ tears/Joy Division’s hours = x
[b] √Edwin Starr’s miles + √The Temptations’ cloud = x
[c] (Nena’s red balloons – Bobby Troup’s route)/De La Soul’s magic number = x
2) Chi ha inciso un pezzo chiamato π dove canta fino a 137 decimali?
3) Quale singolo del 2005 contiene l’improbabile affermazione che gli uccelli volano a 770 miglia all’ora?
4) Gene Pitney era a 24 ore da Tulsa. Se avesse avuto l’intenzione di viaggiare a una velocità media di 60 miglia all’ora senza fermarsi, quanto sarebbe stato lontano da casa nel momento in cui ha commesso adulterio?
5) Quanto era lontano dalla terra Major Tom nella Space Oddity di David Bowie?
6) Riempite gli spazi nei seguenti titoli di canzoni con le figure geometriche che mancano:
[a] Bizarre Love __ (New Order)
[b] The __ Game (Joni Mitchell)
[c ] Dr __ (Dr __ )
[d] Port __ (Squarepusher)
7) Quale band sosteneva, in un singolo del 2005, che 2+2=5?
Il “White Album” dei Bealtes contiene 30 canzoni. Se mettete l’album su shuffle, qual è la probabilità che la prima canzone che sentite sia di:
[a] George Harrison?
[b] Ringo Starr?
9) [a] I Take That affermano di aver cantato un milione di canzone d’amore. Se ogni canzone ha una durata media di tre minuti, quanti giorni hanno impiegato a cantarle tutte?
[b] Qual’è la probabilità che i Take That stiano esagerando?
10) Quale percentuale dei problemi di Jay-Z è legata alle “troie”?
SCIENZA
1)Secondo Zager & Evans, in che anno l’umanità riuscirà a “pick your son, pick your daughter too/ From the bottom of a long glass tube?”
2) Quali canzoni hanno preso il nome da quello integrale dei seguenti elementi? (gli anni di pubblicazione sono indicati tra parentesi)
[a] O (2004)
[b] Li (1991)
[c] Au (1983)
3) Nel pezzo dei Pulp “The Trees”, Jarvis Cocker descrive il modo in cui gli alberi “producono l’aria che sto respirando”. Qual è il nome di questo processo?
4) Quale singolo di Kate Bush racconta la storia di Wilhelm Reich, psichiatra e inventore dell’accumulatore di orgoni?
5) Nel 2005, quale disciplina scientifica ha dato il suo nome a…
[a] Un album delle Girls Aloud?
[b] Il primo singolo tratto da quest’album?
6) Quale duo inglese di garage ha preso il nome da un composto chimico contenente ossigeno e una particella elementare senza carica elettrica?
7) Quale fisico tedesco era il soggetto della prima opera di Philip Glass?
Quale pezzo del 2006 spiega la differenza tra una meteora, un meteorite e un meteoroide?
9) Chi ha inciso, nel 1982, l’album “Big Science”?
10) Completate la serie seguente: Nicotina, __ , Vicodin, marijuana, __ , alcol, c-c-c-c-c-cocaina
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