The Official TFK Table Quiz Thread

1327

That’s correct

Twisted Kites are very popular on TFK

Mookie Blaylock and English Rose would also be very highly regarded bands for my generation

1328

Is that Pearl Jam actually?

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1329
1330

I don’t speak German :man_shrugging:

1331

REM

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1332

pech!

This afternoon, R.E.M. took to Facebook to clear the air once and for all:

It’s great to hear that construction has begun to renovate the historic St Mary’s Church steeple on Oconee Street–all that’s left of where where Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe played their first show together on April 5, 1980, for their friend Kathleen O’Brien’s birthday. And yes, it’s hard to believe it’s been thirty-five years.

Yesterday the local Athens paper repeated some common misinformation–that the guys played under the name Twisted Kites. But let us take this chance to try yet again to dispel that myth once and for all.

As Bill Berry told HQ earlier today, “We were thinking about Twisted Kites right up until show time, but just bagged it and went up and played without any introduction.” Mike Mills remembers, “We were definitely not Twisted Kites at any point.” As Bertis Downs recalls, “At their first show they did not have a name although Twisted Kites was a contender (along with some other putative monikers that do not bear repeating on a family social network). By the time they played their second show, on April 19th at the Koffee Klub, they had picked a name (out of the dictionary and beer was involved): R.E.M.

1333

Fucking hell

Good work :grinning:

1334

Ian Brown has always denied that the Stone Roses were ever called English Rose.

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1335

Would you have refused to write down Stone Roses and then queried it with the quizmaster?

The quiz was well over 20 years ago, don’t shoot the messenger

1336

As a master quiz strategist since the age of 13 I would have written it down (there being no other possible answer) and kept schtumm.

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1337

No extra marks for being too smart for your own good :+1:

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1338

There would be any number of metal bands named after phrases from Lord of the Rings, Cirith Ungol and Amon Amarth would be reasonably well known, although possibly not by anyone partaking in the quiz… :grimacing:

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1339

Anyway, that’s all of them despite the controversy.

But @Elvis_Brandenberg_Kr you have to use Rollerskate Skinny :+1:

1340

The TFK team went down tonight and walked all over the cunts.

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1341

How many managers did the Limerick senior hurling team have between 1998 and 2018?

1342

9??

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1343

10

Eamon Cregan
Dave Keane
Pat Joe Whelehan
Joe McKenna
Richie Bennis
Justin McCarthy
Donal O’Grady
John Allen
Donal O’Grady again?
TJ Ryan
John Kiely

10 in 11 spells

1344

10 was given
There’s one hotly disputed one not included. I’d be very surprised if an outsider got it.

1345

How many MEPs were elected for ireland at the recent elections?
A “crash” is the collective term for what animal?
What is the name for a male rabbit?
What book by Colleen Hoover is to be released as a film?
How many bridges cross the amazon river?

1346

Buck for rabbit
Rhino is crash

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