The Kerrang Challenge: The trivia quiz the stars love to hate
Kerrang!, April 5, 1997
[The British rock magazine Kerrang subjected silverchair's Chris Joannou, Ben
Gillies and Daniel Johns to its trivia challenge.]
Question 1: In which town was Kurt Cobain born?
Daniel: Seattle, wasn't it? Oh, fuck it if I don't know.
Kerrang: It's Aberdeen, Washington.
Daniel: I was gonna say that. You didn't give me any time!
Kerrang: And we're not giving you a point either.
Question 2: Who is the Prime Minister of Great Britain?
Daniel: George... er... fuck it.
Ben: No, that's America, mate.
Daniel: The Queen. I thought she was the head.
Kerrang: Ben, you're supposed to be the brains of the band.
Ben: Yeah, I know what he looks like. He wears glasses and he's grey. But I
can't get his name.
[John Major is the British Prime Minister.]
Question 3: Who plays Agent Mulder in The X--Files?
Daniel: Fuck it if I know!
Chris: The dude with the orange hair?
Ben: We only know him as Mulder.
Chris: I know the guy you are talking about -- the smart looking guy with a short
back and sides. Wears a trench coat.
Daniel: It starts with a "P," doesn't it? Steven?
[Agent Fox Mulder is played by David Duchovny.]
Question 4: Who is the singer in Korn?
Daniel: Jonathan Davis, YEAH!
Question 5: Who is the English coach of the Australian soccer team?
Ben: He's coaching some other team too, isn't he?
Daniel: John Bonham.
Ben: Jimmy Page.
[Terry Venables]
Question 6: Who played James Bond in Goldeneye?
Ben: The dude who from Lawnmower Man. What's his name?
Daniel: I dunno.
[Pierce Brosnan played Agent 007 in Goldeneye.]
Question 7: Pearl Jam have made four albums. Name them.
Ben: Ten, Vs., Vitalogy and No Code. That's an easy one.
Question 8: Vienna is the capital of which country?
Daniel: I thought it was ice cream.
Ben: India, Brazil...
[Vienna is in Austria.]
Question 9: Name five Shakespeare plays.
Daniel: Romeo and Juliet. That's it.
Kerrang: He did write a few.
Ben: The Terminator. We don't give a shit about Shakespeare!
[And we don't give enough of one to tell you four more besides Romeo and
Juliet.]
Question 10: Who is Mike Tyson's manager?
Daniel: Fuck, it's that guy with the funny hair. What's his name? Jeez, I don't
know.
[Don King]
Question 11: In which city is the Acropolis?
Ben: Is it Greece?
Kerrang: Yes.
Ben: Rome?
Chris: Athens!
Question 12: Name three Metallica albums.
Daniel: Load, The Black Album and Master of Puppets. YESSSSS!!!
Question 13: What is the first track on Soundgarden's Down on the Upside?
Daniel: (singing to the riff of Pretty Noose) I don't know.
Question 14: In American football, where do the Raiders come from?
Daniel: L.A.!
Kerrang: Wrong!
Chris: Oh yeah, they moved them, didn't they?
Ben: We're just dumb bastards, that's all there is to it.
[The Raiders play in Oakland, California.]
Question 15: What is the legal age for drinking in the U.S.?
All: 21!
Question 16: Who is the singer in The Offspring?
All: Dexter.
Question 17: Who wrote Huckleberry Finn?
Daniel: Oh, that old guy.
Chris: That one next door.
Ben: Roald Dahl?
[Mark Twain]
Question 18: Whose current album is called Music for the Jilted Generation?
Daniel: Sex Pistols?
[The Prodigy]
Question 19: Name two English TV soaps.
Chris: Prisoner: Cell Block H wouldn't be classed as a soap, would it?
Kerrang: Might be, but it's Australian, and therefore NOT English!
Ben: The Police? No, what is it called? The Bill!
Daniel: Melrose Place, U.K. version? EastEnders!
Question 20: What is the first track on the Red Hot Chili Peppers' One Hot
Minute?
Daniel: Warped?
Question 21: What is the second biggest city in England?
Daniel: London?
Kerrang: That's the biggest.
Chris: Birmingham.
Question 22: In Pulp Fiction, what is the inscription on Samuel L. Jackson's
wallet?
Ben: Fuck you?
Daniel: Bad boy or Bad ass.
Chris: Bad motherfucker.
[All right, two in a row for Chris!]
Question 23: What was Green Day's last album called?
Daniel: Dookie? No, Insomniac.
Question 24: If you were in England and you would order a chip butty, what
would you get?
Ben: Oh, I know! A roll with hot chips in it.
Question 25: When England play Australia at cricket, the trophy they compete for
is the Ashes. What are Ashes?
Daniel: They're the ashes of the stumps which were burned after the first game
Australia won.
HOW SILVERCHAIR SCORED:
13 OUT OF 25
THE VERDICT:
Fair to middling, but the trio could well benefit from some extra homework...
