Every teatime, Stuart Maconie asks you to name three connected tracks to listen to with a cuppa and a Jammie Dodger. This quiz works on the same principle (but don’t you dare get crumbs on this book!). There are two points available here. If you can add a bit of detail, such as identifying two of the songs or artists, take two points. If you just guess the theme, it is only one.
The second part of the quiz is rather more literal: the theme is teatime, and goodies that may be consumed then. An example: the first question is about Cream, who were a band but can also be enjoyed with a bowl of strawberries at teatime . . .
Answers: here
1 Ian McCulloch; Martha and the Muffins; the most commercially successful Pink Floyd compilation album
2 Bob was asking for admittance; Bruno was excluded; Zep were buying a means of entry
3 Lily and Matchstick Men at An Exhibition
4 What connects In The Future and Heretic Pride, two albums released in 2008? What connects Fleet Foxes to them in the same year?
5 The Beatles and the Jam did it Larry Williams’ way, Foreigner couldn’t do it on their 2009 comeback album, and Oasis begged God not to do it to them: what?
6 The Killers sang about one, the Byrds gave theirs an honorific, and Blur thought they were one on their 2015 comeback album. What?
7 If Billy Joel didn’t do it at all, Adele did it to the rain and Snow Patrol did it to the Third Bar. What??
8 Blur’s was a rural retreat, Madness’s was a bit of a laugh and Ed’s was made of plastic bricks. What?
9 The Beastie Boys deemed it worth fighting for, Pink wanted to get it started, and Courtney Barnett didn’t even think it worth the bother. What?
10 Lynn was unapologetic regarding one, the Beatles dreamed about one under the ocean and Siouxsie’s was a long way away. What?
11 The Prodigy did it on Fat of the Land, Taylor Swift did it on Fearless and Pink Floyd did it on the The Dark Side of the Moon. What is it, it and where did Laura Marling do it?
12 For MGMT it preceded Feel, for Lana Del Ray it followed Body, and for Jonelle Monae it was a lady; what was it? What was it for Duran Duran in 1997?
13 If Beethoven composed the sonata, and Glenn Miller the serenade, what is it and how did it work for Toploader and Thin Lizzy?
14 It was bad for Bastille, Kanye’s was in the leaves and Norah’s was only young. What is it and what type do Mike Kerr and Ben Thtacher have?
15 Van Halen did it, House of Pain did it all over the place, and Metallica suggested you did it in the fire. What is it, and who did it on his 2009 album R.O.O.T.S. (with help from Nelly Furtado)?
16 Who was the drummer in the late sixties band Cream that included Eric Clapton on guitar? What band did he and Clapton form with Ric Grech and Steve Winwood after Cream broke up?
17 Who were the bass player and drummer in the Jam alongside Paul Weller?
18 What snack was Kacey Musgraves’ lead-off single from her second album, Pageant Material? What was the title of her first?
19 Who sang ‘Joy Division Oven Gloves’ and from which LP, with a title spoofing a famous U2 album, was it taken?
20 Steve Mason, formerly of the Beta Band, released an album called Black Gold in 20106 under which name? What was the 2016 album he released under his own name?
21 What did Marilyn Manson couple with cake on his first album? What is Manson’s birth name?
22 Errol Bown was the singer in which multi-racial pop group in the seventies and eighties? What was their only UK number one (1977)?
23 What kind of tea did Nirvana sing about on their MTV Unplugged album? To what is the song a reference?
24 What type of pie did the Beatles sing about on the White Album? Who sang about the same treat on his 1999 album, Play?
25 What were All Saints drinking at the top of the UK singles chart in 2000? And where did Squeeze drink theirs?
26 What does Snoop Dogg offer for dessert on his 2015 album Bush? Which former Gap Band singer helps him out on the track?
27 In the 1963 Searchers song, if his sweet got sweets, what did his honey get? What was coupled with this to give them another hit later that year?
28 The Beatles’ ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ was released as a double-A side single with ‘Penny Lane’. For which album was it originally intended? How, in 2013, did Justin Timberlake want to ingest his strawberries?
29 Who had a UK Top 10 hit with ‘Milk’ off their debut album in 1995? Who declared ‘Ernie’ to be ‘the fastest milkman in the West’ in 1971?
30 David Gates was the singer in which Californian band of the late sixties and early seventies? What was their biggest UK hit, in 1970?