I’m putting together a New Year quiz for a bunch of music lovers (of a certain age). Anyone know if there is a list of the various Stackwaddy questions around anywhere, or anyone have any other similar-style, ie not needing expert knowledge, questions that I could use
I think one of my favourite Stackwaddy s from a few years ago was ‘Scandinavian Death Metal band or IKEA furniture names’ but unfortunately lost the details
Stackwaddy’s and any other AW friendly quiz questions
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I did a quiz for work* not that long ago where one of the rounds was called “Festival or Jestival.” There was a list of band names and people had to guess if they were a made up name or if they had played at End of the Road festival. Happy to send it over if you like.
*Just looked, it was back in 2018
I have produced a salacious crossword to amuse folk on Boxing Days. That is, if you like saying “bum poo willy” and read the Viz Profanosaurus. Imagine if Roger Mellie set the Telegraph cryptic. Good test of the in-laws and one’s GLW’s patience.
PM me if interested.
Bugger Off!
I did the intros round for a quiz which went down well. I just made a Spotify playlist of the 10 songs and stopped the song as required.
There’s this online version of IKEA Death Metal. Alas it was forbidden to access the original.
https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/2144420/ikea-product-or-swedish-band-sudden-death
I’ve got a couple of home made sound quizzes if you want them – Intros and a “Songs with numbers” round if you’re interested. DM me and I’m happy to send. A good balance I think for anoraks and non-anoraks.
I once sent a Stackwaddy to David Hepworth and lo and behold it was broadcast on Word In Your Ear. The question was “which one of these is not a New Zealand band from the 1960s?”
The Hi-Revving Tongues
The Downunder Sect
Chapta
The Kal-Q-Lated Risk
The La-De-Dahs
Mark Ellen got it straight away (No 2) and there followed an interesting discussion about how the hardest thing about creating a Stackwaddy was creating the “odd man out”
To Hepworth’s credit he said he’d looked them all up!
I remember that Stackwaddy, Mousey. A good one!
Forgive me for asking, but what the hell is a ‘Stackwaddy question’ when it’s at home?
From The Word (or Word in your Eye) podcast, bit like Call My Bluff.
Word in your Ear!
I see. It should therefore probably have a space between the Stack and the Waddy, the latter being capitalised.
Tch.
/pedant mode
“A Space Between The Stack And The Waddy”
Afterword T-shirt
Named after the 70s Cheshire band Stack Waddy it seems. Therefore grammatically correct Vulpes
I believe the Vulpmeister knew that as his reply up above was Bugger Off.
I’d always thought it one word as Stackwaddy my ghast is flabbered to find I’ve misread it all these years.
They are/were what we used to call a guilty pleasure. Straight ahead, no-nonsense, as someone else said. Perfect party music from a time when pleasures were simpler, limbs were looser and hangovers were terrifying. For up to three days.