Congratulations to Aaron and Tony, who both demonstrated a wide spectrum of knowledge of stars, cars, and bars last week.
After the broad array of subject matter needed to success last week, this week’s quiz focuses in on one specific song. Can you fill in the missing lyrics to Dire Straits’ ‘Sultans of Swing’.
https://www.sporcle.com/games/kfastic/lyric-map-sultans-of-swing
You’d think that I’d excel at this, as I hear this song most weeks, performed by buskers at the produce market. But I only scored 61/70, and I realised that it’s not actually “Guitar John”. I did a little research, and the guitarist who’s referenced is reportedly the guitarist for The Easybeats, and sibling of AC/DC’s Malcolm and Angus Young, who passed away last week.
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Haha, an unmitigated disaster for me on this week’s quiz!
Between your score and mine, we’d have just over a perfect score 😀
Did you know the name of the guitarist? I always misheard it.
That was one of the few lyrics surprisingly that I did know – I guess with Dire Straits, I’m too busy listening to the guitar!
I just heard the song on the radio in the car an hour ago – I think I might now be able to get about 20/70 on the quiz!
Check out Canadian Geoff, he knows some of the words.
Not even going to try. Mine would be worse than a disaster.
Oh dear… given that I only know some of the words, I’ll take my score of 10 and say “hurrah!”
Hurrah! Looks like you are approximately tied for second at the moment.
64/70. I was certain I knew all the words but not so much.
Looks like you’re winning by about 50 points at the moment.
Holy cow. I thought everybody would get this. I love this song. I was just bummed I missed a few words. After it filled in the words I missed I said, “Oh, yeah.”
I wouldn’t normally pick an individual song for a quiz, but I thought this one would be universally known and liked.
I dig the quizzes even when I totally blow them. Keep ’em coming.
I didn’t even try. Never did learn all the words to that one!
I thought I was gonna nail this one. Of all the songs that probably sit at the top of my mental Last FM as it were this is up there thanks to hearing it so much as a child and on the radio ever since. I stumbled on the penultimate verse though so…. 64/70.
Great quiz though, love this format
Yeah, that one was really pretty.
Nice one. I finished three words shy of getting them all: music, strictly & guitar. My college band played this song dozens of times, and I just played Dire Straits’ first five albums last week for the first time in years, so I suppose I was primed for this quiz.
67/70! In the lead.