Wednesday 18 January 2012

Merry Quizmas Redux

Answers up now.  Faintly surprised no-one reads Billy Bunter anymore, and that "2,000 Miles" isn't more well-known a song than it apparently is.  Admittedly, its link to Christmas has maybe been overplayed a little (depending on how one interprets the lyrics), but in my opinion, only "Fairytale of New York" is more a more welcome tune when heard through shop speakers or a pub jukebox over the festive season.

Anyway, that's another holiday period sorted.  Time to start planning the Easter edition.

4 comments:

Talia said...

2000 Milesis my favourite Christmas song. When I mentioned this at my work's Christmas party however everyone thought I meant 500 Miles by the Proclaimers and spent 20 minutes trying to work out how that was a Christmas song.

I despair.

SpaceSquid said...

I showed this quiz to a friend of mine at work, who suggested the same song. I may have shouted at her about the importance of knowing how to convert kilometres into miles, and also that "500 Miles" has as much to do with Christmas as mustard does with the Crab Nebula.

Tomsk said...

We got that it was 2,000 miles but didn't actually know of a song called 2,000 miles. I must have heard that song 2,000 times without knowing its name...

Chemie said...

Another interesting lesson has been learned: When Chemie is reading a book about Marie Antoinette's best friend and has just finished the chapter about her execution. Her opinion on the date should be listened to more than Tomsk's.