by John Nolan
May 13, 2011 in Podcast
Happy Friday the 13th to you all. I’m in a pretty good mood today as we are slap bang in the middle of Eurovision Song Contest week. 
In honour of this special event, the Friday Five Trivia on this morning’s radio show were all about Europe’s biggest television show. You can check them out by clicking the convenient play button below.
by John Nolan
May 12, 2011 in Movies, Quizzes
Like a Bat into Hell I’m back with the answers to yesterday’s many, many questions in their many, many posts.
This article will be the one post to rule them all. In other words it will contain all the answers in one, handy location.
If you’ll cast your eyes to the right, you will see the poster for the movie from which the tie-breaker audio clip came. That’s right, it’s The Blues Brothers. It was sort of a must-see movie for our generation and, combining that with the fact they chose probably the film’s most famous line, I wasn’t exactly chewing my fingernails worrying that Mike wasn’t going to win that tie-breaker. 
by John Nolan
May 11, 2011 in Movies, Quizzes
We’re into Bonus Time this afternoon as I did find a spare half hour to recreate the Movie theme tunes round from last Monday night’s Movie Quiz in Kelly’s Bar.
Of course, there were 10 tracks on the night but Soundcloud‘s snazzy anti-piracy thingy has once again stopped two of them from uploading. Cos I’m really ripping somebody off by playing the opening 30 seconds of their song…
Movie themes:
I’ll post the answers to these, along with the answers to this morning’s post, sometime tomorrow.
by John Nolan
April 29, 2011 in Podcast
Good afternoon all. I’ve now added a second podcast to my collection on audioboo.fm.
The lessons of last week have been learned and this one is most certainly under 5 minutes long. However, I’m still not totally satisfied as I don’t think the audio quality is as good this time. Still, there’s always next week.
Rome wasn’t built in a day. In fact, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t built in a fortnight either.
Check it out below:
From here on, I don’t intend putting up a post every Friday. So, I’ve added a new box to the right-hand menu which provides a link to the latest podcast.
by John Nolan
April 22, 2011 in Podcast, Quizzes
I host a show on Claremorris Community Radio every Friday morning. It’s the Good Morning Show*, and sounds exactly you’d expect a show with that name to sound: music, diversions, you-text-in-and-I-read-it-out etc.
My own contribution to the format of the show is the Friday Five Trivia, where I ask five good questions to my faithful (or accidental) listeners. There’s no prize on offer, it’s just a little something to blow off the cobwebs and wake up the brains out there. As I say. C’mon, I’m an amateur radio DJ!
Anyway, from today I’m going to take the recording of my asking of these questions and post it on the brilliant audioboo.fm as a podcast. Here’s the first one, embedded in the post for your easy access:
If you’d like to subscribe to these weekly pods, here are the links:
Update: due to my own silliness, the end of the clip has been cut off. Click on the Continue link to see the answers.
by John Nolan
April 6, 2011 in Movies, Quizzes
Here are the answers to the questions in yesterday’s discretely titled Move Quiz II: The Bloodening.
First off, check out the accompanying picture (click for a larger version). It’s the poster I mentioned yesterday. As in, during a round in which posters were doctored to remove all text, this is the only one our team couldn’t identify. To be honest, even after it was revealed, I still couldn’t say I’d ever heard of this film!
If you’d like to give this quiz a go, you still can. At the end of the night, the MC announced that there will be at least one more Movie Quiz before the summer comes. Keep an eye on this site, I’ll post it into the calendar as soon as I hear about it.
by John Nolan
April 5, 2011 in Movies, Quizzes
Do you recognise her?
Kelly’s Bar, Galway, hosted the second quiz in their late-in-the-year movie series last night. We were the defending champions, having beaten off all competition last month, when the quiz was initiated (or perhaps resurrected, for those of us with long enough memories).
By half-time, we pretty much knew that we wouldn’t be winning again. By then, we were in fourth following a shocker of a round – 5/10 in ‘Film Scores’. Just like the All-Ireland final last November, one (terrible) round was to prove the difference between winning and not winning.
That said, we did manage to grab third place. We actually ended up in joint-third, on 66/80. Mind you, we thought we’d scored 67* but, no matter, our main man Mike bravely went up to the stage to take part in a play-off. The tie-breaker was to involve the playing of yet another film score excerpt. As soon as one of the guys taking part put up their hand the music would stop and they could give an answer. However, if they got it wrong, the other side automatically won. I don’t think Mike will be too offended if I suggest that the tune they did play (the theme from Bridge On the River Kwai) was towards the easy end of the spectrum and, sure enough, he won the race to get his hand into the air.
by John Nolan
February 6, 2011 in Housekeeping
Here is the mp3 file of my appearance on the Tubridy radio show. Just click the play button to listen at your leisure.
I’m putting this here just in case the podcast link on the RTÉ site becomes defunct some day.
