Music Quiz: Duets
Congratulations to Boppins and Tony, who scored the only 15/15s in last week’s quiz.
This week’s quiz concerns duets. Pick the pair of artists responsible for each song at https://www.sporcle.com/games/elviravastag/duets-1
I’m not a big fan of all of the featured songs, as I feel like duets often tend towards treacly sentimentality, but there are a few classics in this bunch like ‘Where The Wild Roses Grow’.
I scored a crisp 27/30 – can you beat me?
Aphoristical
Graham Fyfe is fascinated by pop music, and he may be the only blogger in the world to cover Neil Diamond and Ariana Grande.
21 for me. Not the best, but I could have played that all night and still wouldn’t have gotten any of the remaining 9.
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It’ll be interesting to see how other people get on. I think the Sporcle average was 18/30, so 21 is pretty decent.
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I guess the mix of dates and genres makes it more challenging than some of the others… it was interesting how many of the songs and duet couples I knew, but I just couldn’t match them up.
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I’m not sure if 20/30 still gets classified as crisp – but it’s the equivalent to Meat Loaf’s musical fraction, so I suppose it ain’t bad!
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You don’t want the meatloaf too crisp.
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Wow! Hardest one yet, IMHO. 17/30. Senza una donna? That’s a song?
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Yeah, low marks so far – it’s not really music geek territory, pretty mainstream and sentimental. I can’t remember if I got that one right or not.
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I was one shy of our host this week with a respectable 26/30. Got the first 24 with no problem, missed with a guess, got the next one with a guess and then crapped out. Tough one but enjoyable as always.
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You’re well ahead of all the other contestants so far – I figured you’d do well at this, since you’re strong on mainstream pop.
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The more recent stuff stumped me. I’m usually a better guesser so I’m disappointed I didn’t get a few more right.
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I had a brain fade on the French one – in hindsight it should have been obvious that the French artists sang the song with the French title.
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I love that song so it was an easy one. Finding the artist names in that format can be challenging, though, especially with the clock ticking.
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control + f was pretty helpful for me.
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I ran out of time and missed a ton. Not even sure what my score was.
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Seems like a tough quiz this week so far.
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24/30. Stumbled on the recent stuff. The pre 90s duets were easier. Promiscuous I have heard the most times of those- when I worked in a place was on the radio constantly!
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Good score – I think you’re coming second at the moment.
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A frustrating 28 on this one. Not only have I got ‘Barcelona’ stuck in my head but I notice that there are some atrocious songs on this list and Paul McCartney is responsible for too many of them.
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Don’t think anyone’s going to beat that this week….
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It was a bloody tough one
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Haha I got 19/30, a poor showing for me because I apparently haven’t paid much attention to duets since the 90s.
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I don’t like a lot of the songs on the list. They often turn out a little treacly.
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Hey, there’s the answer why I didn’t get some of them!
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Also, thrilled to see Freeise and Montserrat in there. I love that track. It was a drinking song for the girls on the floor above us in uni rez. Long story.
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