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Elevate! It's Half Man Half Biscuit Quiz

Who said comedy records can't be credible? How much do you know about the Wirral-based Indie fun-merchants HMHB?

A multiple-choice quiz by spaceowl. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
spaceowl

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
345,386

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

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Average

Avg Score
6 / 10

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Question 1 of 10

1. What are the gates on Friday night? Hint

Stormed by Windy Militant's Basque-like Corngrinders

Slammed in the face of Dave Stewart

Opened by dad, who's a steward in the stand

Low, and it's raining

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Question 2 of 10

2. Where did the invasion of Hebden Bridge by the Chattering Classes force our heroine to flee to? Hint

The Melkweg

Papworth General

A Styx Gig

South East Wales

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Question 3 of 10

3. What, in the band's opinion, do ninety-nine percent of gargoyles look like? Hint

Len Ganley

Bob Todd

John Peel

Bono

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Question 4 of 10

4. Who is missing from this album title, 'Mcintyre, Treadmore and...'? Hint

Ottershaw

Haggerty F.

Davitt

Haggerty R.

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Question 5 of 10

5. Which famous BBC Radio DJ championed the band? Hint

Tony Blackburn

Tim Westwood

Steve Lamacq

John Peel

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Question 6 of 10

6. After you danced a while for Andy on 'Editor's Recommendation', what did you do? Hint

Got a letter from Stringy Bob

Crashed his Cadillac

Spent the day drinking with balding senators

Travelled South America recording different sounds

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Question 7 of 10

7. A serious one for a change - what year did Neil Crossley and Nigel Blackwell form the original Half Man Half Biscuit? Hint

1980

1984

1977

1974

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Question 8 of 10

8. 'Well they say she's too hot, yeah but guess what?' What's the next line? Hint

I've got a 4AD3DCD

Fix it so she dreams of me

I've got Joy Division oven gloves

Turn a blind eye

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Question 9 of 10

9. According to the photo on the sleeve notes of 'CSI Ambleside', what does Nigel's guitar kill? Hint

Fascists

Wasps

Time

Music

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Question 10 of 10

10. Finally, thinking back to question one - who are the lower league English football team that HMHB famously support? Hint

Liverpool

Chester City

Everton

Tranmere Rovers

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What are the gates on Friday night?

Answer: Low, and it's raining

'Friday Night and the gates are low and its raining'

A hymn to the joys of supporting a lower league football team in these post terrace days, from 'Some Call it Godcore'.

2. Where did the invasion of Hebden Bridge by the Chattering Classes force our heroine to flee to?

Answer: South East Wales

'Ever since the chattering classes invaded Hebden Bridge
And priced the likes of me and mine
To the pots of the Pennine Ridge
To South East Wales I was forced to flee
And now I have no job...'

From 'Lord Hereford's Knob' on 'CSI Ambleside'. Finest use of a double entendre since the days of the Carry On team.

From: Half Man Half Biscuit: Lord Hereford's Knob - lyrics http://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/csi-ambleside/lord-herefords-knob/#ixzz1j4MmEKre

3. What, in the band's opinion, do ninety-nine percent of gargoyles look like?

Answer: Bob Todd

Bob Todd, British comedy actor of the sixties and seventies. A little cruel, perhaps, but a quick look on the internet shows that they might have had a point...

From 'Back in the DHSS', back in 1986

4. Who is missing from this album title, 'Mcintyre, Treadmore and...'?

Answer: Davitt

Released in 1991. All of the names are taken from the Monty Python team's 'Ripping Yarns' comedy TV series episode 'Golden Gordon'. They are the names of footballers from the fictional Barnstoneworth United.

5. Which famous BBC Radio DJ championed the band?

Answer: John Peel

The late, great John Peel, who liked the Biscuits almost as much as The Fall, which is saying something. They recorded twelve sessions for his show.
Tony Blackburn apparently hated the band. So they must be good.

6. After you danced a while for Andy on 'Editor's Recommendation', what did you do?

Answer: Crashed his Cadillac

'I'm a vendor of quack nostrums born in a Kansas shack
I came down to Greenwich Village with a tea chest on my back
I danced a while for Andy and crashed his Cadillac
And now I'm just waiting for my ban'

From 'New York Skiffle'

From: Half Man Half Biscuit: New York Skiffle - lyrics http://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/editors-recommendation-ep/new-york-skiffle/#ixzz1j4UeLQZD

7. A serious one for a change - what year did Neil Crossley and Nigel Blackwell form the original Half Man Half Biscuit?

Answer: 1984

And they've been going ever since, admittedly with an ever changing line up. And a break between 1986 and 1990. Not bad for a band who are often seen as a novelty act.

8. 'Well they say she's too hot, yeah but guess what?' What's the next line?

Answer: I've got Joy Division oven gloves

And so have I!
A pal of mine owns a print firm and did one for me, just like on the album cover. I can't understand why people say I've got nothing better to do with my time.
Speaking of album covers...

9. According to the photo on the sleeve notes of 'CSI Ambleside', what does Nigel's guitar kill?

Answer: Wasps

Wasps, apparently. It's a parody of the famous graffiti on Woody Guthrie's guitar, 'This Machine Kills Fascists'. Although maybe it does kill wasps too, you never know...

10. Finally, thinking back to question one - who are the lower league English football team that HMHB famously support?

Answer: Tranmere Rovers

They are Rovers supporters, to the point of refusing to appear on the big eighties UK music show 'The Tube' because Tranmere were playing a Friday evening match, even when the producers offered to fly them there by helicopter.

Take note - THAT'S keeping it real.

Source: Author spaceowl

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