This week is a single-artist quiz, about The Beatles. You need to identify the four Beatles, an iconic album cover, and fill in the gaps in some famous songs. There are a handful of semi-obscure songs, but it’s not too tough – I scored 37/37 with 2:26 remaining. Can you beat my time?
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37/37 with 2:41. Beat you. Easiest quiz of all time. Only question is how much will I lose to Rich by?
I figured there are a couple of songs in there that people wouldn’t know without hearing the albums. Mother Nature’s Son and Maxwell’s Silver Hammer are deep cuts – I first heard the latter via John Denver’s cover (embarassingly).
Dumb song either way
Whew, I beat our esteemed host but couldn’t match Jim’s lightning-fast time. 37/37 for me with 2:32 left on the clock. Well done, Jim.
I don’t know if anyone’s going to beat Jim’s time this week.
I flew through this one like butter, Rich. I was just focused and typing as fast as I could. You know how it is. If you’re a certain age those tunes are imprinted. And I see more trivia questions about that famous cover than you can shake a stick at.
Have you seen The Rutles? On the cover of Shabby Road, Stig is seen crossing the road without trousers, an Italian sign of death.
I recall the Rules, yes. Shabby Road is what I call my measly recording setup consisting of one mic, a small amp and some recording software.
36/37 – I failed to remember what kind of hammer Maxwell had picked up at B&Q
Sledgehammer might have been a better choice?
Let there be no doubt about it
This will be my testimony
37/37 with 2:01. I thought I did pretty good.
Yup, perfect score although you got outspeeded this week (unlike last week where you were the fastest).
Oh and wow! I had the fastest time last?!
37/37 w/ 2:50 left – my fingers were ready for this quiz. I know the Beatles catalogue pretty well so this was a breeze.
Ooh, looks like you were the fastest. Did you have trouble spelling Eleanor?
37/37
TIMER
02:37
This is one I’ve been studying for all of my life
I think Jim’s time is a little faster than yours right now, but it’s close.
I liked that one! Oh is your posts in reader yet? I should not have missed this one.
Yeah, I need to talk to support about it. I have been ironing out some things – it took a few posts for me to get the scheduling working properly.
I started to check your site now… I wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing you in reader…
Graham I figured you would want to know…I tried to comment on your Wailer’s post and it just keeps saying “loading” on the comment…I refreshed it a couple of times and the same thing.
Nevermind! It just popped up on mine…sorry
I got 37/37, but with only 1:57 remaining. I’m a slow typist…
Yup, there was a lot of typing in this one.
If I hadn’t spelled Eleanor wrong the first 2 times I would’ve had ya!
I had trouble with Eleanor too – I tried spelling it without the second E to start with.
36/37 – for the Across the , I wasn’t thinking big enough.. I wouldn’t call myself a Beatles expert by any stretch, but almost all of these were simple which I think just shows how huge their influence on music was in that most came to me without a second thought.
Across the Galaxy? Across the solar system? Across this antheap?
Sadly I was typing things like room street field sea country. I think I even tried sky – needed to keep going higher. ?
37/37 with 2:41. Beat you. Easiest quiz of all time. Only question is how much will I lose to Rich by?
I figured there are a couple of songs in there that people wouldn’t know without hearing the albums. Mother Nature’s Son and Maxwell’s Silver Hammer are deep cuts – I first heard the latter via John Denver’s cover (embarassingly).
Dumb song either way
Whew, I beat our esteemed host but couldn’t match Jim’s lightning-fast time. 37/37 for me with 2:32 left on the clock. Well done, Jim.
I don’t know if anyone’s going to beat Jim’s time this week.
I flew through this one like butter, Rich. I was just focused and typing as fast as I could. You know how it is. If you’re a certain age those tunes are imprinted. And I see more trivia questions about that famous cover than you can shake a stick at.
Have you seen The Rutles? On the cover of Shabby Road, Stig is seen crossing the road without trousers, an Italian sign of death.
I recall the Rules, yes. Shabby Road is what I call my measly recording setup consisting of one mic, a small amp and some recording software.
36/37 – I failed to remember what kind of hammer Maxwell had picked up at B&Q
Sledgehammer might have been a better choice?
Let there be no doubt about it
This will be my testimony
37/37 with 2:01. I thought I did pretty good.
Yup, perfect score although you got outspeeded this week (unlike last week where you were the fastest).
Oh and wow! I had the fastest time last?!
37/37 w/ 2:50 left – my fingers were ready for this quiz. I know the Beatles catalogue pretty well so this was a breeze.
Ooh, looks like you were the fastest. Did you have trouble spelling Eleanor?
37/37
TIMER
02:37
This is one I’ve been studying for all of my life
I think Jim’s time is a little faster than yours right now, but it’s close.
I liked that one! Oh is your posts in reader yet? I should not have missed this one.
Yeah, I need to talk to support about it. I have been ironing out some things – it took a few posts for me to get the scheduling working properly.
I started to check your site now… I wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing you in reader…
Graham I figured you would want to know…I tried to comment on your Wailer’s post and it just keeps saying “loading” on the comment…I refreshed it a couple of times and the same thing.
Nevermind! It just popped up on mine…sorry
I got 37/37, but with only 1:57 remaining. I’m a slow typist…
Yup, there was a lot of typing in this one.
If I hadn’t spelled Eleanor wrong the first 2 times I would’ve had ya!
I had trouble with Eleanor too – I tried spelling it without the second E to start with.
36/37 – for the Across the , I wasn’t thinking big enough.. I wouldn’t call myself a Beatles expert by any stretch, but almost all of these were simple which I think just shows how huge their influence on music was in that most came to me without a second thought.
Across the Galaxy? Across the solar system? Across this antheap?
Sadly I was typing things like room street field sea country. I think I even tried sky – needed to keep going higher. ?
I did have to backspace first time around.
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