Congratulations to Jim S. and Bruce who both scored 49/50 in the first week of the decades quiz, putting them in the lead with an average percentage of 98%.
This week’s challenge is from the 2010s. You need to link two halves of song titles.
https://www.sporcle.com/games/babymonkee/10s-song-title-match-u2-copy-1/
I scored 25/25 – I didn’t think it was too tricky, but it will be interesting to see how the scores wind up. The more you know, the easier it is to get the rest by process of elimination.
Here are a couple of rules clarifications:
– the winner will be determined by highest average percentage.
– if you skip a week, that week counts as zero. If you miss a week before the competition ends, it’s fine to go back and catch up any time until the six week long competition ends.
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Although I probably only know about 10 of those songs (or heard them vaguely in the background at the gym), I somehow managed to score 25/25 this week with some educated guesses. I even left 54 seconds on the clock. I figured this would be my toughest decade so feeling very confident right now…but not cocky. Now I’m looking forward to a decade that doesn’t have “bling” in the song titles.
I think there was room to do well this week with good grammatical guesses. Good effort though.
25/25. Like Rich, I never heard of many of them. But I got the ones I knew and the rest, quite frankly, were just good grammatical guesses. Only so many on the right fit so many on the left. I also thought I’d be screwed in this decade, totally screwed. 48 seconds left.
Nice job, Jim. But 48 seconds left? Amateur. Hahaha.
Heh! It was an off day. 🙂 I can’t even believe I got ANYTHING in that decade.
That’s how I felt. I figured I might get 8-10 songs from this decade. If the format had been the same as last week my score would be much lower, so thanks to Graham for choosing this format.
I think we’ll need a hard 2000s one for fairness.
That seems fair. Bring it on.
Uh-oh! Note to self – find out who the hell was popular in the 2000s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_albums_of_the_21st_century
Eh… 14. I was honestly scratching my head after 10.
I went through a phase when every time I brushed my hair, lots of hair would come out due to male pattern baldness. That’s when I stopped scratching my head.
I may not have done too well in the quiz, but at least now I know not to scratch my head or brushing my hair!
21/25. Was honestly guessing about halfway through. I’m sure I’ve never heard most of those songs.
That’s a solid 84% without knowing many of the songs.
25! Though like some others, i only knew about half, the rest seemed like logical titles
Yes, seems like it was a bit of a logic test this week.
25/25 with 2mins and a second on the clock and I haven’t had my morning coffee yet. Good to see Springsteen’s 2012 album on there….
Great score. Can’t tell from the internet if you’re being ironic or not, but I assume the Wrecking Ball in question is Miley Cyrus’.
Yeah. I only know it thanks to the memes
Knowing two songs, a score of 20 is much above expectations. Shame not all of them were in English.
“And rearrange your liver with a solid mental grace”
Am doing that right now with a Marlborough Sav Blanc. Cheers!
25/25 for this one. Way better than the last one!!
Perfect!
24/25 this time
Great effort! You didn’t register a score last week, right?
“And rearrange your liver to the solid mental grace.” I had to look that one up. It’s from “Close to the Edge!” Love that tune but I guess I never picked up on that line. Makes as much sense as any of their other lyrics I guess. That said, if it had been me I might have said: “Pump your chest up to the furthest regions of the universe.”
21 of 25 -knew more than I thought I would and like you said was able to reasonably guess on a number of them.
Surprisingly I got 100% with 2 minutes and 17 seconds remaining and I don’t know that much about today’s music. Some of these were common sense guesses.
Great effort – I think that quiz was a bit easy! I tried the 2010s version of the quiz series I’ve used for the 1960s and 2000s, and found it very tough.