How many of these stupid faces can you recognise?
The machine that is Bartlett Pear Shaped knew precisely none of them. Number 2 was a charity from the table that marked the sheet, which sounds suspiciously like they felt sorry for us. They better not have, because we were making a statement. No more celebrity faces! We've got rock-all interest in knowing fatheads and cheesecake, so we didn't accept their gesture and proudly announced "We got none!"
Trivia is nonsense when a host dumbs it down to suit the punters. Sure, I understand the financial imperatives, but that doesn't mean I want to be able to recognise the likes of the gay guy from Big Brother. Or even associate with people that do. Bollocks to that. Give me word games, world events, geography, history or something properly serious, like sport. But not spelling! Wear rubbish at that.
For the record. Had not my first impression been one of utter contempt, I may have had a closer look and taken a stab at Numbers 4, 10, 13, 16 and 20. And as it turned out we still managed to run fourth despite our three point penalty, and would have run second had I not outsmarted myself on a question about Oscar winning fillums.
PS: FX you swine. No wide-angle lens is wide-angled enough to capture in its entirety the vast magnitute of the Bartlett Pear Shaped booty. I'm still to work out what best to do with the stash.
Was that face sheet an actual quiz round, or one of those poxy games they throw in to pass the time between rounds?
Posted by: carneagles | 17 August 2006 at 12:57
An actual quiz round. It made up 20 questions out of the 100.
Posted by: Tony.T | 17 August 2006 at 13:13
#4 looks like Molly Meldrum from this angle.
I got about half.
Posted by: Adam 1.0 | 17 August 2006 at 13:22
Number 4 is The Poo, although I can see the Molly bit because he does look pissed.
Posted by: Tony.T | 17 August 2006 at 13:24
Bloody hell, what a disgrace.
Posted by: carneagles | 17 August 2006 at 13:44
Love your work, Carna. I know! I know! We often complain about the dumbarse component of the nights, but the host does it as a sort of handicap for the good (serious trivia punters) teams. But it really buggers up me and Boynton. We're just a two man team - good man is that Boynton - and neither of us want anything to do with modern pop culture.
Posted by: Tony.T | 17 August 2006 at 13:48
They could have done you a favour and shown the bare chests of celebrities. You may have still got zero (maybe one for Pammy Anderson)but it would have been better eye candy.
Posted by: The (WHMECDM) President | 17 August 2006 at 14:22
I think my team-mate would have disputed that.
A Carry On gag would be in order, but I can't think of any.
Posted by: Tony.T | 17 August 2006 at 14:24
1 is Elle, 5 is Paris Hilton, 10 is Pammy Rock, 11 is Delta Goodrem Homewrecker, 13 is Posh Spice, 14 is Cate from MLC, 15 is Gwyneth, 16 looks like Elle again, 17 is Angelina Homewrecker, 18 is Liv Tyler, 20 is Jude Law.
I wish I didn't know any of that.
The Corner Hotel in Richmond has trivia nights with smart dumb questions written by blogger Scottish Dave.
The prize is a slab though.
Love the wine-attic photo.
Posted by: brownie | 17 August 2006 at 14:48
1 is someone I've never heard of, not Elle. Elle is 16.
14 is Kate someone, but NOT Kate Hudson.
I thought 11 was Judith Lucy, but it is indeed Deltrum.
You are right on the rest, and thus right to be ashamed of yourself.
That wine-attic is my kitchen. Apparently wine tastes good when you lay it down to collect dust. Au Contraire. It tastes better standing up, covered in a layer of kitchen grime.
Posted by: Tony.T | 17 August 2006 at 14:58
Takes me back to my pub quiz days. We accumulated a fair old stash of vodka, kept under the sink. My old dear nicked it for a church bring and buy sale just before I could use it to pay off an old monetary debt to a wino mate. All Smirnoff, too, none of the cheap crap.
I gave up on quizzes when they started cutting out the history and sport in place of Spice Girl specials.
Posted by: woody | 17 August 2006 at 18:10
It's certainly getting that way, Woody. Not just the Spiceys, either. Who the hell is Misha Barton? She's getting high rotation lately. As are far too many crappy TV tarts and boneheads.
Vodka's a good give-away. It's nothing but the choicest cheap wine here.
Posted by: Tony.T | 17 August 2006 at 18:34
#12 is Gwen Stefani
Posted by: Yobbo | 17 August 2006 at 18:51
What sort of person would wannabe a Madonna wannabe?
Posted by: Tony.T | 17 August 2006 at 19:28
Can I also just say that the arrangement of the bottles is near identical to the line up in an old student flat I shared a long time ago. These were empty, though, the contents having found their way into the ample bellys of my two female flatmates. I only mention this because a friend of one of these ladies had flogged a story to the News of the World of her night of romance with Ryan Giggs. She got £4000 for it, and carried a copy of the centre spread about with her as some sort of badge of honour. As you would.
Posted by: woody | 17 August 2006 at 21:26
Wot a whinger - I told youse all he was.
It's TRIVIA - not brainiacs.
Posted by: Francis Xavier Holden | 17 August 2006 at 21:48
aah Tones - I just saw that pic of the booze. On reflection - I think some hacker just stole my keyboard over the internet and is running around typing nasty stuff on comments on blogs.
anyway tones - I just remembered you are off the slops and on the wagon. I could probably help you out, do you a favour, with taking that array of grog bottles off your shelf. Old chap. Buddy. Mate.
That IS your TOP shelf I assume?
Could you send me a high definition snap - I can't make out the labels to choose.
Least I can do.
Posted by: Francis Xavier Holden | 17 August 2006 at 21:53
So Tony is it Madonna or Gwen doing Madonna?
Posted by: Yobbo | 17 August 2006 at 23:19
I think I know all of 'em except #1 and even that one is a 50/50.
If you need me in your team I want a cut of the winnings
Posted by: Russell Allen | 17 August 2006 at 23:44
Just in case you all think I'm bullshitting ya, in Reverse Order - Law, Beckinsale, Tyler, Jolie, Macpherson, Paltrow, Moss, Beckham, Stefani, Goodrem, Anderson, Actually I don't know #9, Spears, Electra, Miller, Hilton, Poo, Kournikova, Brooksby, Maybe Bingham if it a black fella.
Posted by: Russell Allen | 17 August 2006 at 23:50
This is all well fine and good, but where can I find that Chopper Read weather video I keep hearing about?
Posted by: carneagles | 18 August 2006 at 11:25
At least this lot are sort of famous. At our local, most of the pictures are of people on 'Coronation Street'.
I always get 10/10 on current affairs, and struggle with every other round. Pictures are bunkum - they don't test any knowledge whatsoever.
Posted by: Steve | 18 August 2006 at 13:03
Picture rounds should be banned!!!
http://dilletante.tenpm.com.au/?p=238>My personal trivia night picture failure
Fucking Flowers!!!
Posted by: Bruce | 18 August 2006 at 13:46