Music Quiz: Famous Musicians Re-Imagined as Squirrels
Congratulations to John from https://2loud2oldmusic.com/, who scored the fastest time in last week’s 1980s Music Video Quiz.
This week quiz involves squirrels: https://www.sporcle.com/games/treessimontrees/squirrel
The pictures are adorable, and the clues are often funny. I do think it’s pretty easy so it will turn into a speed contest. I spent 12 seconds trying to remember the name of AC/DC’s lead guitarist, so count me out. I solved the 11 questions in 1:01, but I’m sure someone who doesn’t have a temporary mental block will beat me.
In other news, R.I.P. to Straitjacket Fits’ Andrew Brough, who passed away a couple of days ago. He was one of my favourite NZ musicians, although Straitjacket Fits never quite capitalised on the unique alchemy between Carter’s edgy rock and Brough’s pretty voice and chiming guitar. Here’s Brough’s most famous song, 1990’s ‘Down In Splendour’, voted New Zealand’s #32 best song in a 2001 poll.
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Graham Fyfe is fascinated by pop music, and he may be the only blogger in the world to cover Neil Diamond and Ariana Grande.
I got 10/11 in less than a minute but was completely stumped by the last one, who is the most current artist. I don’t think it was an accurate rendering of that artist so I’ll blame the person who drew the image.
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I found the description “ginger squirrel” quite helpful. You might place quite high this week, as it’s not showing up on the WordPress reader feed for some reason.
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11/11 with 5:50 left on the clock. Sped up immensely when I realised surnames alone would suffice
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Yup, most Sporcle quizzes allow just surnames.
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Ginger Squirrel gave me the most problem and then I thought of the movie “Yesterday” and got it.
SCORE
11/11
TIMER
04:04
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I fail to see the connection between Yesterday and Ginger Squirrel, but good work with the perfect score!
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The movie “Yesterday”… He is in it.
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11/11 with 6:09 left. The difficult one was Vaughan which I didn’t realise until the clear ‘SRV’ was on the guitar.
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Perfect score and fast time! I’ve learned about SRV from osmosis – lots of other bloggers are keen on him.
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10/11. I could not get the country guy, not even close.
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I find those red pig tails distinctive.
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Totally missed. I thought is was Neil Young.
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Neil Nelson? Willie Young?
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11 with 5:11 remaining – though I think I spent at least half of the time on the plaid one!
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Oh – and it’s now showing up in my reader, so whatever the issue was, it is now fixed!
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Yeah, sometimes it misfires if I set the post to a past date or put weird characters in the title, but I don’t think either was the case this time.
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The plaid one? Good work on the perfect score.
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10/11. Never got the ginger one. Not really the legend the others are, is he?
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Certainly not with me.
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I did get 11/11 although I struggled with that more current pop star. It took me a long while to get him. I had 5:11 left on the clock so not real fast.
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I found the ginger squirrel sub-title helpful.
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Why did the put *that* guy in? I was on a roll too… anyhoo, finally got there when I thought “hair”. 5:17 remaining.
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They liked squirrels that held guitars and had distinct hair styles.
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10 of 11 – I agree with the comments on the pop star – doesnt really belong with the others. Gave up since I would never have gotten him. Also spend some precious time trying to figure out how to spell SRV’s last name!
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I think they just went for guys with distinctive hair cuts. I really don’t like Sheeran at all.
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I really follow him and don’t really know what he looks like – I thought he had red hair. Based on the flannel shirt some of my other guesses were Kurt Cobain and John Fogerty 😀
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He pops up all over the place. I’ve seen him on Game of Thrones.
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