New & IMPROVED TV Theme Quiz

Spook_ie · 03-10-2019 5:39am #1

7 Rounds of 10 Theme Tunes, each tune is worth 2 points so you can score up to 140 points.

Each clip will be approx 15 secs long, spaced and numbered ( thanks for constructive criticism on previous attempt )

The Usual rules apply, no google, no shazam etc.

Some TV series would span multiple decades, Think Coronation Street, Dr. Who etc. but they are according to IMDB listed as being on during the decade.

The theme tunes may have changed for different series of a program but where possible I have used one that ( I Think ) is most recognisable.

PM me your answers using the template below

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I hope to put a round up every 2 days and expect a closing date around the 20th October and a reveal thread shortly after.

Round 1 BBC Sports
Round 2 The 1960's
Round 3 The 1970's
Round 4 The 1980's
Round 5 The 1990's
Round 6 The 2000's
Round 7 The 2010's

Spook_ie · 03-10-2019 5:43am

ROUND 1 BBC Sports

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A-M4mFpDLg

Cathmandooo · 03-10-2019 11:45am

I'll give this a go!

For the sports round is the answer just the sport or is there an actual TV show name for all of these?

If they're actual names of shows I may not do so well

Spook_ie · 03-10-2019 12:12pm

Cathmandooo wrote: »

I'll give this a go!

For the sports round is the answer just the sport or is there an actual TV show name for all of these?

If they're actual names of shows I may not do so well

Sport will do

Cathmandooo · 03-10-2019 12:18pm

Wohoo

thanks

Kolido · 03-10-2019 12:58pm

Great game Spook, PM sent

Spook_ie · 03-10-2019 1:10pm

And we have a leader and a 2nd place so far, or could that be joint first?

Spook_ie · 03-10-2019 3:19pm

Round 2 The 1960's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkXvFu4nLMs

So how many did you watch and how many do you know from remakes, reruns and films?

Spook_ie · 03-10-2019 4:57pm

Round 3 The 1970's

So you whipper snappers, you only need ask you mom and dad now instead of Granpa an Granma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NKLDl9rjOs

Ted_YNWA · 03-10-2019 6:44pm

in I hope, will try and get to this.

Sounds good.

Spook_ie · 03-10-2019 10:51pm

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

in I hope, will try and get to this.

Sounds good.

Haven't seen a pm yet

03-10-2019 11:15pm

I'd love to enter but I'd be on zero so far! Maybe when we reach the 80's I'll do better

Zaph · 03-10-2019 11:19pm

Is there a time limit for the answers for each round, or can we send them all in together at the end?

Spook_ie · 03-10-2019 11:32pm

Zaph wrote: »

Is there a time limit for the answers for each round, or can we send them all in together at the end?

Well if I get them as we go along I can get a feel for how easy/difficult they are. Surprised the BBC sports not getting people sending R1 in though.

I can say that we have a definite 1st, 2nd and 3rd

Zaph · 03-10-2019 11:38pm

Spook_ie wrote: »

Well if I get them as we go along I can get a feel for how easy/difficult they are. Surprised the BBC sports not getting people sending R1 in though.

I can say that we have a definite 1st, 2nd and 3rd

Cool, I'll try to get the three rounds to you tomorrow evening.

TheValeyard · 03-10-2019 11:40pm

Will try this when free

sKeith · 04-10-2019 12:34am

Spook_ie wrote: »

Well if I get them as we go along I can get a feel for how easy/difficult they are. Surprised the BBC sports not getting people sending R1 in though.

I can say that we have a definite 1st, 2nd and 3rd

i think i might have a good chance of scoring 2 in that round.
and even on those i unsure.

didn't watch much sport on the bbc, or if i did, i'd flick over to it, so wouldn't have heard the jingles at the start

quickbeam · 04-10-2019 7:30am

Entered, but more blank than not. Might just do better in later decades if they came.

Thanks for the adjustments. Meant at least the ones I knew (or though I knew) I could slot in the right place. Much better.

04-10-2019 8:11am

Spook_ie wrote: »

Well if I get them as we go along I can get a feel for how easy/difficult they are. Surprised the BBC sports not getting people sending R1 in though.

I can say that we have a definite 1st, 2nd and 3rd

Round 1 sent

Rounds 2 & 3 now sent too

Spook_ie · 04-10-2019 5:00pm

Decided on a marathon session learning to play with VSDC video Editor, very good for a freebie and all seven rounds are here.
Round 1 BBC Sports

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A-M4mFpDLg

Round 2 The 60's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkXvFu4nLMs

Round 3 The 70's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NKLDl9rjOs

Round 4 The 80's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFzftcQ42nY

Round 5 The 90's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8hYZOQsVzs

Round 6 The 00's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVCyVltSfBw

Round 7 The 10's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASqc7ccxAJw

Spook_ie · 04-10-2019 5:04pm

CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES

Sunday 20th October

Reveal hopefully either Monday 21st or Tuesday 22nd

Ted_YNWA · 04-10-2019 5:36pm

Have a rough draft of rounds 1-3 done.
Away for a week now, so limited time to get to rest. Will be in before 20th.

They are tough so far.

tusk · 04-10-2019 5:43pm

Hopefully get a start on this at the weekend

Spook_ie · 04-10-2019 6:13pm

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Have a rough draft of rounds 1-3 done.
Away for a week now, so limited time to get to rest. Will be in before 20th.

They are tough so far.

Think a lot of it depends on age, us oldies would have watched some of them in real life before internet streaming was a thing.

But then, us oldies could all be suffering early onset dementia.

Hence why one theme tune does appear twice in successive decades.

Ted_YNWA · 04-10-2019 6:15pm

I know a lot of the 70 ones, just cant connect the dots to the show.

04-10-2019 6:51pm

Spook_ie wrote: »

Think a lot of it depends on age, us oldies would have watched some of them in real life before internet streaming was a thing.

But then, us oldies could all be suffering early onset dementia.

Hence why one theme tune does appear twice in successive decades.

I was gonna say but I know the theme tune so stayed schtum:D

Zaph · 04-10-2019 8:23pm

Well that was spectacularly awful. I have a grand total of two answers each for the last two rounds, and I'm not anticipating adding much to those. If they're a reflection of what shows you watch Spook, I think it's fair to say we have very different tastes.

I'll have all my answers to you some time over the weekend btw.

quickbeam · 04-10-2019 8:24pm

Race you to the wooden spoon, Zaph!

Zaph · 04-10-2019 8:30pm

quickbeam wrote: »

Race you to the wooden spoon, Zaph!

Well my only hope is that I think I did pretty OK for the 70s and 80s rounds, but I do think I'm a genuine wooden spoon contender.

Spook_ie · 04-10-2019 9:24pm

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

I was gonna say but I know the theme tune so stayed schtum:D

Get it right and it's a shoe in 2 extra points

Spook_ie · 04-10-2019 9:31pm

Zaph wrote: »

Well my only hope is that I think I did pretty OK for the 70s and 80s rounds, but I do think I'm a genuine wooden spoon contender.

Well the only way to try and avoid the wooden spoon IMO is to get more people entered who might not know as many.

I might yet award a wooden spoon for each category, so who knows we could have 7 winners and 7 wooden spoons, just hopefully not 1 person getting all 7.

quickbeam · 04-10-2019 9:32pm

Spook_ie wrote: »

Well the only way to try and avoid the wooden spoon IMO is to get more people entered who might not know as many.

I might yet award a wooden spoon for each category, so who knows we could have 7 winners and 7 wooden spoons, just hopefully not 1 person getting all 7.

No need, I've already entered.

Spook_ie · 04-10-2019 9:57pm

quickbeam wrote: »

No need, I've already entered.

I'll see if anyone worse ( not saying you are the worse so far ) might enter with a shameless plug on the TV battle thread.

irishejit · 05-10-2019 10:51am

Here from the greatest TV show thread...love this! Round one in and extremely confident with it.....all those weekends glued to the sport on a Saturday during the 80's has finally paid off!!

irishejit · 05-10-2019 11:18am

Definitely showing my age, had a first run through the rest of the rounds, definitely gets much harder as the years go up...I might have 2 tops from the 2010's ones ffs

Spook_ie · 05-10-2019 3:27pm

irishejit wrote: »

Definitely showing my age, had a first run through the rest of the rounds, definitely gets much harder as the years go up...I might have 2 tops from the 2010's ones ffs

Yeah gets tougher as you get more recent, probably because Amazon and Netflix started producing their own shows and some people may not have Netflix or Amazon and unless they get picked up by main stream TV might not get well known.

05-10-2019 6:33pm

Hopefully I'll get to this 2moro! Not feeling confident......

Zaph · 05-10-2019 7:15pm

My answers are in. Marking the later shouldn't shouldn't take up too much of your time. :pac:

irishejit · 05-10-2019 7:48pm

Spook_ie wrote: »

Yeah gets tougher as you get more recent, probably because Amazon and Netflix started producing their own shows and some people may not have Netflix or Amazon and unless they get picked up by main stream TV might not get well known.

What doesn't help too, and I'm awfully guilty of this, is the ability to skip intros now.

I'll listen to the theme tune the first and last episode of a series, but rest of the time I'll skip it to get straight to the action.

Spook_ie · 05-10-2019 8:24pm

irishejit wrote: »

What doesn't help too, and I'm awfully guilty of this, is the ability to skip intros now.

I'll listen to the theme tune the first and last episode of a series, but rest of the time I'll skip it to get straight to the action.

Even worse when you're only given 15 seconds of it, to try get the brain cells engaged.

Spook_ie · 07-10-2019 11:47am

Entries So Far

Cathmandooo R1
Kolido R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7
QuickBeam R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7
sKeith R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7
Strawberry Milkshake R1 R2 R3 R4
irishejit R1
Zaph R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7
TedYNWA R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7

Under 2 weeks to go and looking like the shortest reveal thread record is under threat

Rikand · 08-10-2019 12:08am

I will be entering

Pretty sure im 10/10 for the sport and 1/10 for the rest so far :P

08-10-2019 8:21am

I’ll get the final rounds to you this evening. There’s a few that are on the tip of my tongue that’s what delayed me.

Ted_YNWA · 08-10-2019 12:56pm

It will take you about 2 mins to check my answers, more blanks than anything else.

quickbeam · 08-10-2019 2:30pm

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

It will take you about 2 mins to check my answers, more blanks than anything else.

Ooooh, a rival for the wooden spoon!

My answers only took 90 seconds to check. :P

Kolido · 08-10-2019 2:35pm

The last 3 decades was very difficult, think I did ok in the other 4 rounds.

09-10-2019 9:35am

No4 from 2000s has been driving me insane for days. I can’t take it anymore!

PM sent

Spook_ie · 09-10-2019 1:58pm

Entries So Far updated

Cathmandooo R1
Kolido R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7
QuickBeam R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7
sKeith R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7
Strawberry Milkshake R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7
irishejit R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7
Zaph R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7
TedYNWA R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7
Electric Nitwit R1

Under 2 weeks to go and looking like the shortest reveal thread record is under threat

irishejit · 09-10-2019 2:09pm

Rounds on the way....stumped now and can do no more no matter how many times I listen through.

Maddening too as there are a couple I know I'll be kicking myself about....., strong start I think...then wobble...good mid section, and then down into the abyss we go!

Electric Nitwit · 09-10-2019 2:16pm

Just sent in round one, few guesses!

I currently hadn't 0/10 on round two, I'll try to improve that before sending it in

09-10-2019 2:37pm

The only round I have any confidence in is sports.

New & IMPROVED TV Theme Quiz

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