Congratulations to Tony who scored 18 out of 20 in 1990s one hit wonders quiz, and shoutouts to Geoff and jprobichaud who were close behind on 17. Also, I’m impressed by anyone who recognised 69 Boyz or Us3.
This week’s quiz requires you to name a word for each letter of the alphabet from ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’.
https://www.sporcle.com/games/PenguinsMeercats/cover-the-alphabet-bohemian-rhapsody-lyrics
I scored 48/48 with 18 seconds to spare. Can you equal my score and beat my time?
In other music news, this cool info-graphic came out a few weeks ago, but I only sat down and watched it recently. I enjoyed it, but I was bemused by the inclusion of Billy Joel as a best-selling artist starting in the fourth quarter of 1971. His 1971 album Cold Spring Harbor peaked at number 202, while 1973’s Piano Man didn’t go gold until 1975. I understood that he didn’t make the big leagues until 1977’s The Stranger, so I’m bemused by his inclusion so early.
Boy, I had to think about what the hell they were talking about for a minute. Then it clicked in. Got’em all! But with NO TIME LEFT. Photo finish, right down to the wire.
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Slim Jim’s slim margin.
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I haven’t yet looked but I’ve probably already been beaten, time-wise.
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No one else has entered yet actually
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[email protected]??
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Yeah, it’s a little weird – Rich Kamerman is usually in there pretty quickly.
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Interestingly I started typing in the obvious two words, quickly recalling they are never mentioned in the song.
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I’m just a Bohemian
Singing a Rhapsody
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Holy crap that was a tough one. 18 but barely scraped it – no time left at all. Couldn’t get the spelling for that other name for Satan right
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Do you mean 18/48 or 48/48? I find Mephistopheles harder to spell.
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48/48 and fat thumbs
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30 points seems like a tough penalty for fat thumbs, so I guess the 48 should stand.
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Here it is for your future reference – Prince of Darkness.
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32/48. I didn’t think this was too bad considering I don’t know the song that well.
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I always find it hard to escape Queen. I’m burned out on a lot of their big singles.
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Me too.
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I’m familiar with the lyrics except the weird words. I wouldn’t have got “Beelzebub” in a million years. 44/48.
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There are other options for B, like “begun”.
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I forgot that it’s all letters, so spelling Beelzebub is necessary…
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46 – stumped on the Z!
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Even if you think of the word with Z, it’s tricky to spell…..
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46/48 uhgggg
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So close, so far away…
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44 and I ran out of time. Quite impressed with that given I was using my phone!
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Most people struggled to finish with a keyboard, so 44 on a phone is credible.
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ran out of time as I wasn’t paying attention to the clock. I was at 38/48. I’ll to remember to keep an eye on the clock next time.
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Yup, maybe I should have warned about the short time in my intro.
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This one was trickier than I expected. I did the quiz while other music was playing & my wife was talking last night, so I suppose I should be proud of my 44/48 score under those circumstances.
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Maybe next time turn the music off and ask your wife to sing the song in question?
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