Welcome to this week’s Music Quiz, the 11th in this series. Congratulations to Rich of https://kamertunesblog.wordpress.com/ for his perfect score last week.
This week a bunch of Beatles’ song titles have been translated through Babelfish with some unusual results – can you figure out the original song titles? It’s nice to see a few obscure titles in there alongside the obvious ones.
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14/20. I actually got 15 (don’t want to give it away) but I added a word to the title. II Pit? I should have gotten ‘Return.’
I I Pit is hilarious, right?
I know. Gimme a break. Fun, though. Keep ’em coming.
As a huge Beatles fan, this was fun, though my score was a bit dismal (12 out of 20). Oh, well, next time maybe I should play in the morning with a fresh brain rather than after work in the evening!?
You played during my morning, if that’s any consolation.
I could also point out English isn’t my mother tongue, though that’s perhaps a bit of a lame excuse. The truth is these riddles aren’t easy!
Great quiz!
I got 19/20, knew the missing one was about Mr. Kite, but couldn’t figure out the first word of the song title and thus didn’t get close enough to get credit for it!
Well done – I was totally stuck on “It Loves Making Me”. Could only think of “the love you take is equal to the love you make”, which obviously isn’t a song title.
I thought that one might have been she loves you – I was stuck on it for a bit too!
16/20….grr Dear Prudence indeed!
Yeah, I missed that one too. Did anyone get it?
17/20. And seconding Hackskeptic’s growl.
Yeah, the two words are swapped which makes it even trickier m.
Whew, tough one this week. Only got 13/20. Once I saw the songs I missed they seemed so obvious. Nice job with 18/20.
And Stephen1001 scored 19.
No surprise there, as Geoff is the musical quiz king.
Not the biggest fan, but I scored 11. That’s respectable, right?
Is it an acceptable time to say that Cs get degrees? There were definitely a few more obscure tracks in there that don’t get radio play.
I reckon so. Having had most of the stuff on CD at one point, I’m aware of the titles I missed, but they’d never be ones I’d think of.
I got 12/20 but I’m not the biggest Beatles fan to begin with. Neat idea!
Also, “Writer of the book in peasant” made my day.
I don’t quite know how they got from A to B with that one….
Well, writers are usually broke, struggling, working in the hopes of one day…
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14/20. I actually got 15 (don’t want to give it away) but I added a word to the title. II Pit? I should have gotten ‘Return.’
I I Pit is hilarious, right?
I know. Gimme a break. Fun, though. Keep ’em coming.
As a huge Beatles fan, this was fun, though my score was a bit dismal (12 out of 20). Oh, well, next time maybe I should play in the morning with a fresh brain rather than after work in the evening!?
You played during my morning, if that’s any consolation.
I could also point out English isn’t my mother tongue, though that’s perhaps a bit of a lame excuse. The truth is these riddles aren’t easy!
Great quiz!
I got 19/20, knew the missing one was about Mr. Kite, but couldn’t figure out the first word of the song title and thus didn’t get close enough to get credit for it!
Well done – I was totally stuck on “It Loves Making Me”. Could only think of “the love you take is equal to the love you make”, which obviously isn’t a song title.
I thought that one might have been she loves you – I was stuck on it for a bit too!
16/20….grr Dear Prudence indeed!
Yeah, I missed that one too. Did anyone get it?
17/20. And seconding Hackskeptic’s growl.
Yeah, the two words are swapped which makes it even trickier m.
Whew, tough one this week. Only got 13/20. Once I saw the songs I missed they seemed so obvious. Nice job with 18/20.
And Stephen1001 scored 19.
No surprise there, as Geoff is the musical quiz king.
Not the biggest fan, but I scored 11. That’s respectable, right?
Is it an acceptable time to say that Cs get degrees? There were definitely a few more obscure tracks in there that don’t get radio play.
I reckon so. Having had most of the stuff on CD at one point, I’m aware of the titles I missed, but they’d never be ones I’d think of.
I got 12/20 but I’m not the biggest Beatles fan to begin with. Neat idea!
Also, “Writer of the book in peasant” made my day.
I don’t quite know how they got from A to B with that one….
Well, writers are usually broke, struggling, working in the hopes of one day…