Music Decades Quiz: Week 3, 2000s

Welcome to week 3 of the music decades challenge. Of the contestants who’ve completed both week’s challenges so far, the leaders are:

J58%
2loud2oldmusic75%
jprobichaud 75%
Paul75%
Stephen100181%
Bruce89%
Rich K97%
Tony97%
Jim S99%

If you’d like to join in, it’s not too late. You can find previous weeks’ challenges at https://albumreviews.blog/category/sporcle/

For this week, we’re focusing on the 2000s. The quiz is the same format as the 1960s one, and should be a nice challenge after the relatively easy one last week:

https://www.sporcle.com/games/ghcgh/3-hits-1-click-2000s/

I scored 34/50, the same as the Sporcle average. I spent most of my 2000s stuck in indie, so it’s probably not too surprising.

36 Comments

  1. Well, in a word, horrible. 20/50. I never heard of most of that stuff or those artists. I kept guessing and guessing but it never got any better. Boo-hoo! 🙁

  2. I got 96% or 48/50. I’m surprised I remembered a lot of these. Then again, I’m a millennial so this was my childhood. I don’t think I’d do well on the 2010s quiz because I’m in my little classic rock bubble. I haven’t listened to the radio in a very long time.

  3. I did about as “well” as expected, joining Jim in the 20/50 club. I actually knew 19 of them and then I took a whole bunch of (obviously wrong) guesses. If there was music to accompany the song titles I think I would have gotten at least another 10-15 of them, since I know what many of the artists sound like. Oh well. We’ll let the kids have this one.

    • Good effort. I tried an aural quiz once, but didn’t get a great response – it’s a bit trickier as you need to be in a place where you can listen to music and concentrate.

  4. I’m ashamed to list it but here it goes. The 90s is about where my knowledge ends… I grew up in the 80s but I know the 60’s and 70s best. These are fun regardless because I always learn something.
    SCORE
    10/25

  5. Genuinely shocked; I managed 49/50. I had the misfortune of having to listen to a lot of commercial radio at work during a lot of these years and managed some very lucky guesses

    • We’ll go to your comfort zone of the 1970s next week. Probably won’t be any Klaus Schulze or Bert Jansch though, so your specialist knowledge will be wasted.

  6. “should be a nice challenge after the relatively easy one last week”… haha.

    Anyhoo, I scored 35 this week. That’s decent, I reckon. Loads I had never heard of right away and I was a bit discouraged when my guesses weren’t hitting the mark.

  7. Cue the howling dogs – 18-50 – I obviously was also not listening to pop radios in the aughts. And its not like I made stupid mistakes – the ones I missed I had no idea. Oh well – perhaps 80s next week?

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