Music Quiz: 7 Letter Words in 1980s Songs
Last week’s quiz produced a bunch of different responses – some people cruised through it very fast, while others took a while. Personally I had trouble recognising Gloria Estafan and Paula Abdul, so it took me a while. Congratulations to Rich from KamerTunes, who just pipped J. and 2loud2old for the fastest time.
This week we’re looking at 1980s songs. Can you fill in the missing seven-letter word?
https://www.sporcle.com/games/AwesumJuan/7-letter-words-in-1980s-songs
I scored 23/25 – I had to resort to guessing at the end. As a hint, ‘Foolish Horses’ isn’t actually a song! Can you beat my score?
Also, I have a question for regular commenters. I’m looking at changing the format of some old posts – for example, I wrote a post about R.E.M.’s five best albums a few years ago: https://albumreviews.blog/2017/08/29/r-e-m-favourite-five/. I would like to expand it to include all of R.E.M.’s albums. Would anyone mind if I republish it with all of the albums included – I don’t think it makes sense to have two different R.E.M. album lists running around the site. My favourite 5 R.E.M. albums would remain unchanged, so everyone’s comments should still make sense.
Aphoristical
Graham Fyfe is fascinated by pop music, and he may be the only blogger in the world to cover Neil Diamond and Ariana Grande.
Wow, I still can’t believe how quickly I went through last week’s quiz. Very proud to come out on top. This week I got 25/25 with 0:25 left on the clock. I expect a lot of faster times than mine. As for your question, I don’t see any reason why you shouldn’t update formatting on previous posts. Sounds like a good plan.
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I think only one person has beaten your time so far.
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9/25 and ran out of time
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A few people find the time tight on these.
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I guess that’s part of what makes them fun.
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23/25 here and b ugger all time left on the clock. I blame swapping coffee for cider and some poor guess work
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Have a drink, have a quiz…
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I ran out of time! Was a fun quiz, though
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Thanks for playing – do you know what score you got? Seems like your era.
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I got halfway through with only 2 wrong!
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Update away! Makes sense to revisit and include newer stuff. Your list might change!
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Those last two R.E.M. albums are surprisingly good, but aren’t going to break into the top 5.
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No surprises to me they’re good, but tough to crack that Top 5 for them, for sure.
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Yeah I really like their very last album and thought it set them up for a sort of comeback – was pretty disappointed when shortly after they called it quits
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I think they knew it was going to be their last, and they tried to focus on it. Stipe sounds like he’s having way more fun too.
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I got 25/25 with 0:44 left.
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Great work! I think you’re in the lead at this point.
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22/25. Some poor guessing at the end.
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As far as proposed changes to your site, yes, but you will have to submit the proper forms in triplicate.
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SCORE
25/25
TIMER
00:06 I never do well on time. Three straight up guesses
Go for the changes.
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Just scraped in with a perfect score there.
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25/25 but with about five guessed.
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Good guessing….
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25/25 with 0:30 left. I had to defer a few to the end but it was stuff like Debbie Gibson (which I never knew) so I’ll still take the win.
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I forgot about the clock and got 22/25 before time ran out.
And yes, it is okay to change the post that way. All my rankings get updated with a band’s new album so no probably updating your list to be all.
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I should clearly remind people about the clock in these quizzes!
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I knew there was a clock. I get lost in the quiz sometimes and forget about it.
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25/25 with 33 seconds remaining!
Re: the R.E.M. album post – go for it!
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Great work, one of the fastest times.
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25/25 with 23 seconds left on the clock. Lots of guessing going on.
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As for your R.E.M., I say ‘go for it’! The blogosphere can always use more R.E.M. in my humble opinion.
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Obviously accomplished guessing,
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18 sure things, 7 guesses – luckily it all worked out, with 3 seconds to spare!
My only regret is not finishing it 2 seconds earlier, to line up with the ‘5 seconds to spare’ timeframe from the Smiths’ half a person.
and I practically insist you republish/revise any and all posts as you see fit!
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Good guessing – I fluked my way through the 2010s one, but my guessing wasn’t good on that one.
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19/25 – ran out of time as I forgot about the timer. Think I missed out two that I know then it would be guesswork for the rest.
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Good effort!
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19 of 25 before ran out of time – time seemed to move quickly on this one. Although checking what I didn’t get afterward wasn’t super familiar with them so probably would have been guessing anyway.
Re: your question, although haven’t been a long time commenter, I think what you propose sounds fine!
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I figured I’d know most 1980s hits but I didn’t…
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Same here – will have to look up some of the song titles of hearing it jogs memory
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