Mastermind: your specialist subject (1 Viewer)

torchomatic

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Massive edit: if you were on mastermind what would your specialist subject be?

Buzzcocks, 1976 - 1981
 

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torchomatic

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Breakdown, friends of.mine, boredom, times up.

Tell you what. How about just asking if you were on mastermind what would your specialist subject be. Mines the same.
 

mrtrench

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1. Where did Devoto and Shelley meet?
2. Which artist designed the cover art for Orgasm Addict?
3. For which song did the Buzzcocks come on stage with wads of bank notes on Top of the Pops?
4. Buzzcocks singles all had the same design on the label but in different colour schemes. What colour was used for What do I get?
5. The Buzzcocks released rather short singles; which was the shortest?
6. As a 14 year old boy, which word did Mr. Trench come across for the first time from the B side of a Buzzcocks single? And why didn't he look it up in a dictionary and only learned its meaning many years later?
7. In which year did the Buzzcocks decide to release their new material as a series of singles without releasing an album?

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mrtrench

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PS, I know that's not the intention of the thread but I can't think of one so I'll help with your prep.
 

torchomatic

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1. Where did Devoto and Shelley meet?
2. Which artist designed the cover art for Orgasm Addict?
3. For which song did the Buzzcocks come on stage with wads of bank notes on Top of the Pops?
4. Buzzcocks singles all had the same design on the label but in different colour schemes. What colour was used for What do I get?
5. The Buzzcocks released rather short singles; which was the shortest?

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1. Bolton Institute of Technology
2. Linder
3. Everybody's Happy Nowadays
4. Two tone shades of green
5. Love You More - my first Buzzcocks single
 

torchomatic

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Hold on I'm still thinking them up. ;)

I wasn't quite correct on Orgasm Addict, Linder did the collage and good old Malcolm Garrett did the sleeve. He liked one of my posts on twitter, made my day.
 

mrtrench

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I wasn't quite correct on Orgasm Addict, Linder did the collage and good old Malcolm Garrett did the sleeve. He liked one of my posts on twitter, made my day.

I thought it was Linder Sterling - I've given you the points. There are two more on the original post. May I extend to Magazine (one of my very favourite bands ever)?
 

torchomatic

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6. Could have been shit or fuck but you would have known them, so you got me thwre

7. 1980, parts 1-3. I went to see them on that tour in Brum Odeon, October 1980
 

mrtrench

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1. What was the name of Howard Devoto's first solo album?
2. Which artist's work did Magazine use on the cover of their singles Shot by Both Sides and Give Me Everything?
3. Which writer's work does Magazine reference in the songs Song from Under the Floorboards and again briefly in Philadelphia?
4. Who replaced John McGeogh on guitar on the 2011 album No Thyself?
5. Which Captain Beefheart track did Magazine cover?
 

torchomatic

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Not a fair question - Autonomy.

Ah, I see. No I never knew what that meant. Doubt Steve Diggle did either.

As for Magazine, I bought their stuff but don't know much about their history.
 

clint van damme

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I thought it was Linder Sterling - I've given you the points. There are two more on the original post. May I extend to Magazine (one of my very favourite bands ever)?

Shot by both sides is a very apt song for a City supporter.
 

torchomatic

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National flags, including those of stateless nations

My son is well into flags and countries and stuff. He got a question right on University Challenge when they shoqed the Greenland flag. We didn't know. Right little anorak at 10.
 

Monners

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My son is well into flags and countries and stuff. He got a question right on University Challenge when they shoqed the Greenland flag. We didn't know. Right little anorak at 10.
My lad is also 10 - he got that one and the Aboriginal flag. The multi coloured Bolivian one (not the national one) threw us both though.

Some great flag books out there mate. The long winter hours simply fly by!
 

torchomatic

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My lad is also 10 - he got that one and the Aboriginal flag. The multi coloured Bolivian one (not the national one) threw us both though.

Some great flag books out there mate. The long winter hours simply fly by!

What a great idea. He's eleven next month so a flag book would be great. He's history mad and he tells me about the Ottoman Empire, the Korean War and all sorts.
 

Monners

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What a great idea. He's eleven next month so a flag book would be great. He's history mad and he tells me about the Ottoman Empire, the Korean War and all sorts.[/QUOT)

He doesn't play with clarinet a well does he?
I recommend this flag book;
Complete Flags of the World - The Ultimate Pocke Guide - Published by DK. £12.99.
 

Gazolba

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My specialist subject is the TV program Fireball XL5.
 
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torchomatic

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Cocked up the reply SBK style - expand the reply Torch

Thanks anthing by DK is good. For his birthday he wants a DK book on WW1, a DK book on WW2, "football stuff" and computer games called Hearts Of Iron and Europa Universalis. Both some kind of strategy games. He watches them for hours on youtube. I'll order that flag book.
 

clint van damme

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My lad is also 10 - he got that one and the Aboriginal flag. The multi coloured Bolivian one (not the national one) threw us both though.

Some great flag books out there mate. The long winter hours simply fly by!

when my lad was 10 he knew all the capital cities in the world. Now he's 14 all he know's is how to be a pain in the arse and wind me up.
 

skyblue1991

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National flags, including those of stateless nations
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rob9872

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I cant think of anytging i know enough about so I'd probably pick something about the city .... but far too many smart arses on here for me to dare post up an era ;-) do ok on the general knowledge though.
 

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