Dave's Challenge

Dave's Challenge took place on Saturday afternoon, after JJ's Question Time. If anyone has any photos of this event, please let me know.

It was a panel based game with limited spaces so there were qualifying questions, which are presented here.

I never saw the question sheet to enter, and neither did many people apparently as they needed volunteers to fill up the spaces.

Just as well really, as I don't know the answer to any of these! Thanks to Grant McNab for supplying the questions:

1. Who once dubbed the Stranglers 'Punk Floyd'?
   
   
2. What is the literal meaning of the Japanese word "hagakure"?
   
   
3. On the tour to promote which album were the band supported by tap dancing,
   Spoon-playing Nick Malham?
   
   
4. What exactly did the sign say on the infamous hut where the band first rehearsed?
   
   
5. Which author did Paul interview for Strangled?, and name his/her book that was turned into a BBC adaptation.
   
   
6. Where was the band's first pub gig (pub and town)?
   
   
7. Name 3 of the 8 albums Paul quoted in Strangled as his 'most influential of all time'
   
   
8. Shake Some Action' is the best-known track by a band who shared the bill with the Stranglers in the late 70s. And that band is?
   
   
9. Where did the launch party for 'About Time' take place?
   
   
10. 'and for that reason, I send a kiss to all the children of the world' - this line appears in a slightly different form no a Stranglers track. What track?
    
    
11. Obscure connection time 1: The Stranglers/Star Wars - what item links them?
    
    
12. Obscure connection time 2: The Stranglers/Mike Oldfield- connected by what or whom?
    
    
13. Who was the transsexual support act fawned over by the band? (ouch, sorry)?
    
    
14. 'It's Von Daniken meets Kraftwerk meets Giorgio Moroder meets the Stranglers' interpretation of the Old Testament' who said it and about which song?
    
    
15. The Dave Greenfield Challenge needs me because............