Congratulations to Music Enthusiast Jim, who scored the fastest time in last week’s Parentheses quiz.
Last week it was parentheses, this week it’s exclamation marks! It’s pretty eclectic, with everything from Louis Armstrong to Bruno Mars.
https://www.sporcle.com/games/Hullabaloo/song-titles
I had to do some educated guessing but still made it to 35/35 with 3:38 remaining. Can you beat my time?
Here’s one they missed:
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34/35 because of one slip-up. Why did I think it was “Boom! Went The Strings…” when I know the song? I got zing’d.
Rich, it’s entirely possible that you and I are the only ones who are, er, “mature” enough to know that song. But then Aphoristical did.
I got it by elimination – the title sounded vaguely familiar, but I don’t know the song.
Corny old Broadway tune, mostly associated with Judy Garland.
Boom went the chances of a perfect score…
35/35, 3:11 remaining. I did not beat Aphoristical’s time but boy, that was fun. I didn’t know at least 6 of them but instead of panicking I waited till I had the ones I knew and the ones I didn’t were fairly obvious. I can’t believe I didn’t know the Beatles one first time around.
It took me a little while to think of The Beatles one – it’s trickier cos it’s one word. Looks like you’re the fastest at the moment. Defender of the crown.
Wow, that never happens. Where’s the dark horse? And I don’t mean George Harrison.
27/35 and ran out of time.
Great work!
Thank you, Graham 🙂
34/35 cuz I thought the Megadeth one was Business is Up, but it’s really Business is Good. I really thought that’s what it was. What kind of punctuation are you going to have next time? Commas maybe? Lmao
Semi colons
I wonder if there really is any song titles with semi colons. I doubt it. There’s probably a lot with regular colons though. I think Mission Impossible is really Mission : Impossible. I can think of one other one. Music: Response by Chemical Brothers.
It’s business time! Business is up! Business is good! Killing is our business! State control is killing our business!
That’s not how it goes. What is that from?
Sorry, just me being silly. I keep getting spam texts and texting back with ridiculous things like that.
Oh. I figured it was something like that. That’s a good idea though. I don’t get that much spam besides all those sex ones that say something like- Hi I’m Lulu, wanna talk? lmao
I always get ones about my package having delivery issues.
35/35 with 2:31 left. Several I’d never heard of, so I had to skip and solve through a process of elimination.
I had about 10 I didn’t know on first pass. Good job on the perfect score.
35 with 2:57 remaining – knew 25, and like you, needed some guessing to finish the set!
Yup, sounds similar. Good guessing.
SCORE Score
33/35 I guessed quite a few…so I cannot be unhappy with that score.
Yup, good job!
33/35…not too bad.
Yes, you know your punctuation evidently.
32/35! A lot of Beatles/Lennon songs with exclamation points! I never knew!
I didn’t actually notice all The Beatles songs – just Help, which was tricky since it was one word.
There at least two others, perhaps three, plus two Lennon songs.
Jim, I was going to suggest that the youngsters among us would probably get this song by process of elimination, and it looks like Graham has confirmed that.
Also, it rhymes!