Congratulations to John from https://2loud2oldmusic.com/, who scored the only 20/20 in last week’s quiz about Women in Music.
This week we’ll see who knows their musical instruments – most of these are straightforward, but there were a couple I found obscure, and one I missed altogether.
There’s also a bonus quiz this week – I thought it was unfair to feature it, since I made it and it focuses on a specific artist, but if you’re a fan of The Replacements and Paul Westerberg, go ahead:
In other news, we had NZ’s election this past weekend. Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Party scored more than 50%, enough to govern alone. I would have preferred to see a coalition with the Greens, who I voted for, but I was glad to see the repudiation of various right wing conspiracy parties. For some reason there were a multitude of various far-right parties this election, all cannibalising each other’s votes and helping the left to cruise to victory.
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100% with 2:44 to go
Looks like you’re an expert at music instruments.
American played instruments at least. Both of my kids were in music in middle and high school which helps.
p.s. clueless about The Replacements so no sense taking that one.
Got ’em all. 1:40 to go. One of the reed instruments cost me time. I think it has a reed.
I think that’s the one I missed – only two 100%s so far.
BTW, I read about the PM. She’s an impressive lady.
I’m watching your president right now. They should develop a lie detector that gives out a little shock every time they say something like “I’m the least racist person in this room”.
No a bad idea but we have laws against cruel and unusual punishment. All those shocks would do him in.
Good to see at least one country has its head on straight.
Even our main right-wing party is pretty centrist, even though I don’t like the trickle-down neo-liberal economic policy that they espouse.
SCORE
15/16…. I missed the one that…started with s…
SCORE
16/20…with me brushing up lately with the Replacements has helped…but not enough.
16/20 in the Replacements quiz is pretty impressive – I had 3 songs from Suicaine Gratifaction in there, which is a record that I think I like more than anyone else in the world does.
I won’t take much credit because some were more obvious but I knew more than I thought…before your post a few weeks ago I wouldn’t have got half as many right….
I got 15/16 incredibly quickly and then stumbled on the last one (which starts with a “B”). Having played in several orchestras as a youngster, I’m disappointed in myself for not getting a perfect score. I’ll skip the Replacements quiz, as I’m only a casual fan. Saw them open for someone in the ’80s (U2? The Kinks?) and wasn’t impressed, but I’ve come around to their music as a “grown-up”.
I missed the B one too – I just haven’t dealt with one for a long time. The Replacements famously opened for Tom Petty in the late 1980s – Petty swiped the “rebel without a clue” line from ‘I’ll Be You’.
15 – missed the ‘s’ brass instrument!
I had to think about that one.
I think there were two tough ones.
16/16 – w/ 3:10 to go, I was lightning quick with all except the instrument that has the name with the composer who did the Monty Python theme. That took a little while.
12/20 – yeah, couldn’t remember the lyrics to the Replacements that well. I have listened to them but ‘Let It Be’ is one I would always go back to if I want to listen to them.
Good work!
Let It Be is my favourite Replacements album, but I didn’t use as many lyrics from that as from Tim, Pleased to Meet Me, and Suicaine Gratifaction.
16/16 with 2:50 remaining. I’m not even going to bother with The Replacements quiz. I don’t want to hurt my brain.
Perfect score!
100% with 3:20 left on the clock!
Great work!
13 for me. I spelt Maracas with two c’s so it wouldn’t accept it! I thought a clarinet was an oboe and the sousaphone was a serpent (I know really that the serpent is a much longer beast of an instrument).
Getting confused between Macca and Maracas?
14 for me. Couldn’t figure out the correct spelling for one of them and there is a brass one I tried everything on and couldn’t get it.
Did you spell Maracas with two Cs as well.
Ha!! how’d you know!!
Got em all and, for good measure 20/20 with one of my favourite lyricists
Very impressed by the 20 on the Westerberg quiz.
I’m on a Westberg / Replacements listening binge at the moment so timing couldn’t have been better
perfect score with 1:58 to go – helped that I played sax in high school and had exposure to most of the instruments listed. And congrats on living in a country with a rational leader – hopefully in about a week we will join you
Good work. Mr McConnell still managed to get his supreme court judge through today.
100% with 2:44 to go
Looks like you’re an expert at music instruments.
American played instruments at least. Both of my kids were in music in middle and high school which helps.
p.s. clueless about The Replacements so no sense taking that one.
Got ’em all. 1:40 to go. One of the reed instruments cost me time. I think it has a reed.
I think that’s the one I missed – only two 100%s so far.
BTW, I read about the PM. She’s an impressive lady.
I’m watching your president right now. They should develop a lie detector that gives out a little shock every time they say something like “I’m the least racist person in this room”.
No a bad idea but we have laws against cruel and unusual punishment. All those shocks would do him in.
Good to see at least one country has its head on straight.
Even our main right-wing party is pretty centrist, even though I don’t like the trickle-down neo-liberal economic policy that they espouse.
SCORE
15/16…. I missed the one that…started with s…
SCORE
16/20…with me brushing up lately with the Replacements has helped…but not enough.
16/20 in the Replacements quiz is pretty impressive – I had 3 songs from Suicaine Gratifaction in there, which is a record that I think I like more than anyone else in the world does.
I won’t take much credit because some were more obvious but I knew more than I thought…before your post a few weeks ago I wouldn’t have got half as many right….
I got 15/16 incredibly quickly and then stumbled on the last one (which starts with a “B”). Having played in several orchestras as a youngster, I’m disappointed in myself for not getting a perfect score. I’ll skip the Replacements quiz, as I’m only a casual fan. Saw them open for someone in the ’80s (U2? The Kinks?) and wasn’t impressed, but I’ve come around to their music as a “grown-up”.
I missed the B one too – I just haven’t dealt with one for a long time. The Replacements famously opened for Tom Petty in the late 1980s – Petty swiped the “rebel without a clue” line from ‘I’ll Be You’.
15 – missed the ‘s’ brass instrument!
I had to think about that one.
I think there were two tough ones.
16/16 – w/ 3:10 to go, I was lightning quick with all except the instrument that has the name with the composer who did the Monty Python theme. That took a little while.
12/20 – yeah, couldn’t remember the lyrics to the Replacements that well. I have listened to them but ‘Let It Be’ is one I would always go back to if I want to listen to them.
Good work!
Let It Be is my favourite Replacements album, but I didn’t use as many lyrics from that as from Tim, Pleased to Meet Me, and Suicaine Gratifaction.
16/16 with 2:50 remaining. I’m not even going to bother with The Replacements quiz. I don’t want to hurt my brain.
Perfect score!
100% with 3:20 left on the clock!
Great work!
13 for me. I spelt Maracas with two c’s so it wouldn’t accept it! I thought a clarinet was an oboe and the sousaphone was a serpent (I know really that the serpent is a much longer beast of an instrument).
Getting confused between Macca and Maracas?
14 for me. Couldn’t figure out the correct spelling for one of them and there is a brass one I tried everything on and couldn’t get it.
Did you spell Maracas with two Cs as well.
Ha!! how’d you know!!
Got em all and, for good measure 20/20 with one of my favourite lyricists
Very impressed by the 20 on the Westerberg quiz.
I’m on a Westberg / Replacements listening binge at the moment so timing couldn’t have been better
perfect score with 1:58 to go – helped that I played sax in high school and had exposure to most of the instruments listed. And congrats on living in a country with a rational leader – hopefully in about a week we will join you
Good work. Mr McConnell still managed to get his supreme court judge through today.