Round 1 : 27 Didn't get

Modern Talking, Scott Fitzgerald & Yvonne Keeley, Kaiser Chiefs

 

Round 2 : 30 Didn't get

Cliff Richard, Robert Plant

 

 

3 in 10 : 3

Planet Earth, Save A Prayer, Rio

 

33 in R1, only missed 1 question,

the one about the duet from the 70s

 

24 in R2, missing the typical 70s songs, so many again

 

3 in 10 was easy :D

 

 

Thursday

R1: 24-

The Who -6, Nick Haywood -3, Soul II Soul -3, Billy Fury -3

 

R2: 24 -

Wilson Pickett -6, Godley & Creme -3, "I Want to Hold Your Hand" -6

 

Tiebreak: 1/4

got: "The Tide Is High" - didn't get: Mary Hopkin, Phil Everly, "It Might As Well Rain Until September"

 

3 in 10: 1/3

Celebration

 

 

Friday

R1: 27 -

1989 -3 [guess: 1982], Scott Fitzgerald & Yvonne Keeley -6, "Instant Replay" -3

 

R2: 18 -

Expresso Bongo -6, 1973 -3 [guess: 1975], Amazulu -6, Robert Plant -3, Twiggy -3

 

3 in 10:

Rio, The Reflex, Hungry Like The Wolf

 

Now that Ken has left Radio 2 there is a PopMaster break until April 3rd, where it'll restart on its new home at Greatest Hits Radio.

 

So... see you guys here again in a month! It's been a fun Radio 2 era in this thread.

It appears that Radio 2 have already brought in their PopMaster rip-off quiz then titled Ten To The Top so I guess we can use this thread for that now?

 

Scoring works as such: 1 point for question 1, 2 points for question 2 etc. but if you get a question wrong you go back to 1 point for the following question

 

R1:

1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9 = 45

missed:

Visage

 

 

R2:

1+2+3+4+5+1+2+1 = 19

missed:

'My Favourite Waste of Time', PM Dawn

 

 

not a fan of this format really, mind.

Ah thanks for the heads up Dan! Sure, why not.

 

R1:

1-2-x-1-2-3-x-1-2-3 = 15

 

didn't get:

East Side Beat, The Hues Corporation - boo thought this'd be Aaliyah until he said the year

 

 

R2:

1-2-3-x-1-x-1-2-3-x = 13

 

didn't get:

Eurythmics, Owen Paul, Westlife

 

 

Not the best start :') I was getting a bit confused about my scoring versus the contestant but I'm sure I'll get the hang of it soon :lol:

Ten To The Top Day 2:

 

R1:

1-2-x-1-2-3-4-5-6-x = 24

 

didn't get:

The Smiths, The Reynolds Girls - could only think of the word 'Jack' but not the whole title

 

 

R2:

1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-x = 45

 

didn't get:

Juan Martin

 

 

Progress :cheer: I was reminded of that

K-Klass

song yesterday so good timing.

Had my first go of this today:

 

Round 1: 65 :cheer:

Round 2: 45 - denied a clean sweep on the last question!

Juan Martin

 

Tuesday

 

R1

1+2+1+2+3+4+5+6+7 = 31

 

missed:

"William It Was Really Nothing"

 

 

R2

1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9 = 45

 

missed:

Juan Martin

 

 

none of us knowing that last question then haha

regarding Q10,

I'm from Spain and I had never ever in my life heard about that person ;D

you need a spreadsheet to play this game. The term "convoluted" springs to mind...

 

Got total marks on round 1 whatever that is, I would always opt to play the Joker on q10.

 

which didnt pay off in r2. I too have no memory of that record by Juan Martin. I mean I wrote the charts down every week, listened to the radio, and I still dont remember him. I know the TV show - Richard Chamberlain starred. The music was composed by the late brilliant Henry Mancini. But this quick cash in cover came and went very quickly! Hit number 10 apparently. Flamenco guitarist. TV show was set in Australia. Henry Mancini didn't get a hit out of it.

It appears that Radio 2 have already brought in their PopMaster rip-off quiz then titled Ten To The Top so I guess we can use this thread for that now?

 

Scoring works as such: 1 point for question 1, 2 points for question 2 etc. but if you get a question wrong you go back to 1 point for the following question

 

R1:

1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9 = 45

missed:

Visage

 

 

R2:

1+2+3+4+5+1+2+1 = 19

missed:

'My Favourite Waste of Time', PM Dawn

 

 

not a fan of this format really, mind.

Unless Ken Bruce actually cam up with the format, I'm surprised he owns the rights to it. It's hardly a surprise that the BBC are trying to come up with a format that keeps listeners loyal to Radio 2 rather than defecting to a station they had previously never heard of.

Caught up with the final Radio 2 PopMaster :snif: I guess this new Radio 2 quiz will do as a fill in to avoid trivia quiz withdrawals, it is an interesting spin on the format (particularly with the 'joker' element). Looking forward to PopMaster's return though. Hope it should still have an easily accessible podcast / catchup format, not really familiar with how Greatest Hits Radio works! I see Ten to the Top has just inherited the same page as the PopMaster podcast.

 

Friday's PopMaster:

 

Round 1: 21 (missed

1989 (-3), 'Brother Louie' (-3), Scott Fitzgerald / Yvonne Keeley (-6), 'Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me' (-3), 'Instant Replay' (-3)

)

Round 2: 15 (missed

Jocelyn Brown (-3), Expresso Bongo (-6), 1973 (-3), Amazulu (-6), Robert Plant (-3), Twiggy (-3)

)

3 in 10: 3/3 (

'The Reflex', 'Rio', 'Hungry Like The Wolf'

)

 

An ok pair of scores to end on, 3 years and 2 years early on the year questions respectively.

Jocelyn Brown's name just wasn't coming to mind, I could only think of Jocelyn Alice of Harmonica BJSC fame, also should have got 'Instant Replay' as that's another one that was in the #1 albums sessions

. Nice easy 3 in 10 to finish on too.

 

~

 

And the first two days of Ten to the Top:

 

Monday

 

Round 1: 1+0+0+1+2+3+0+1+2+0 = 10 (missed

'Bette Davis Eyes', 'Ride Like The Wind', The Hues Corporation, Visage

)

Round 2: 1+2+3+0+1+0+1+0+1+4 = 12 (missed

'Who's That Girl?', 'My Favourite Waste Of Time', 'Suddenly'

)

 

I didn't actually use a Joker on the first round, hadn't yet decided what strategy to use :lol: so theoretically could have got a 13 but realistically I'd probably have Jokered on the last question which I got wrong anyway. I did use the Joker on the last question in round 2 ofc.

I didn't immdiately recognise the name Kim Carnes but then was an 'oh yeah' moment when I heard the song title. For 'Suddenly' I said 'Crazily' oop, knew it was an adverb of some sort

 

 

~

 

Tuesday

 

Round 1: 1+2+0+1+2+3+4+10+6+0 = 29 (missed

'William, It Was Really Nothing', 'I'd Rather Jack'

)

Round 2: 1+0+0+1+0+0+1+2+0+0 = 5 (missed

'Bad Girls', 'Walk On The Wild Side', K-Klass, Angie Brown, 'Millennium', Juan Martín

)

 

Used the Joker one question too early on round 1, darn x Attempted it on the last question on round 2 but got it wrong anyway, lol already a sub-10 score.

Drew a blank on the Robbie #1 and Angie Brown's name. I guessed 'Perfect Day' for the Lou Reed question, plus 'This Charming Man' and 'MacArthur Park' for The Smiths and Donna Summer though I did think they were both probably wrong lol

.

Wednesday

 

R1:

0+0+1+2+0+1+0+1+0+1 = 6

 

missed:

The Human League, Kula Shaker, Roxy Music, Stan Ridgeway, The Blow Monkeys

 

 

well this suddenly got tough.

 

R2:

1+2+3+4+5+6+7+0+1+2 = 31

 

missed:

Candy Flip

 

 

a bit more like it!

Ten To The Top Day 3:

 

R1:

 

x-1-2-3-x-1-2-3-x-1^(x2) = 14

 

didn't get:

The Human League, Roxy Music, The Blow Monkeys

 

 

R2:

 

1-2-3-4-x-1-2-3-4-5^(x2) = 30

 

didn't get:

The Lotus Eaters

 

 

Well done on the max store yesterday Jim! I've started actually using the joker now :kink:

Round 1: 0+1+0+1+0+1+0+1+0+2 = 6 (missed

'The Sound Of The Crowd', 'Step It Up', Roxy Music, Stan Ridgway, The Blow Monkeys

)

Round 2: 1+2+3+0+0+1+2+0+1+4 = 14 (missed

Emerson, Lake & Palmer, 'The First Picture Of You', Candy Flip

)

 

Lmao getting half the questions right in round 1 but less than 10% of the maximum possible score, only getting every other question right is brutal. x

 

 

I was guessing between 'Connected' and 'Step It Up' for Stereo MC's and just guessed wrong, I know those are their two most well-known songs but forgot which one was bigger and I couldn't remember which is which from the clip oops

 

 

(Dan not partaking in Joker usage?)

Well done on the max store yesterday Jim! I've started actually using the joker now :kink:

Thanks Jade! I've now played Monday's: got 45 on Round 1 - didn't get

Visage

- and 65 on Round 2 :cheer:

 

Today's:

Round 1: 26 (0+1+2+3+0+1+2+3+4+10) - didn't get

Sound Of The Crowd, Roxy Music

 

Round 2: 65 :cheer:

 

Getting questions wrong halfway through is very costly!

Ten To The Top Day 4:

 

R1:

1-2-3-4-x-1-x-1-x-x = 12

 

didn't get:

2 In A Room - oops this has been on TOTP repeats, remembered there was a number but that's about it :lol:, Scritti Politti, The Seahorses, Psychedelic Furs

 

 

R2:

1-x-x-1-x-1-2-x-1-2^(x2) = 10

 

didn't get:

Sailor, The Police, Guns N Roses, Mica Paris

 

 

Well I was on a good run with the first four questions and then it all went downhill :lol:

Guns N Roses

was an annoying miss

Find this very difficult, mostly cos there are so many questions about the 70s and early 80s so for me it's totally impossible to get more than 3 in a row

Also miss the 3 in10 last bit, think they should come up with a sorta similar thing, lacks something as it is right now...

Round 1: 65 :cheer:

 

Round 2: 45 (1+0+1+2+3+4+5+6+7+16) - didn't get

Sailor

 

 

The contestant also got 65 on Round 1 - did it sound like she got some answers suspiciously late, I'm not sure. A lot of "name the artist" questions anyway which you either know or you don't, whereas Popmaster questions were a bit more varied and with the year questions for example you could always make an informed guess.