Welcome to this week’s music quiz. Success in last week’s secondary colours quiz was primarily determined by contestants’ familiarity with Gogol Bordello. Here’s ‘Start Wearing Purple’, a song that many of us missed. Congratulations to the contestants who scored 15.
This week, your challenge is identifying whether the bolded word is a synonym or an antonym. To refresh your memory, antonym means the opposite.
https://www.sporcle.com/games/GeoEarthling/synonym-or-antonym-bands?t=music
I scored 20/20 with 1:35 remaining. I thought that most questions were straightforward, but there was one band I’d never heard of (the one that ends with Finest).
As Max correctly guessed in last week’s bonus question, Stephen Stills uses BBQ sauce on his bass strings to make them funky, rusty, and greasy.
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20/20. 1:40 left. Doubt if that time will win but it’s my first perfect score in ages. I may have mentioned before that Stevie Ray Vaughan used very heavy (12) gauge strings. The average player uses 10, or 9 or even 8. Easy to bend. 12 are almost impossible to bend and are usually used by jazz guitarists who don’t bend strings as much. Stevie would play so hard he’d lose callouses and have to super glue them back on. Dedication or insanity?
That is so gross about the super glue!
Hey at least he wasn’t drinking it! Also, not quite as gross as the fact that he fell into a 55-gallon drum of grease while working at a burger stand. I believe that was the last regular job he had before going pro.
I hadn’t heard that drum of grease story, that’s pretty amazing.
Yeah, that’s when he said the hell with those kind of jobs, went pro and never looked back.
I loved that video and song and *knew* that was Eugene Hutz from when I saw him with Elijah Wood in the movie, “Everything is Illuminated.” Great movie, btw. Now on to take the quiz…
Loved that film. The book was great too.
Didn’t know that was based on a book, but I bet it was.
Yes, Jonathan Safran Foer is an excellent writer.
19/20 and got the last one wrong 🙁
Good work!
Thanks, Graham 🙂
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20/20
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01:22 On the color of one…I totally guessed and on a Spring! I guessed…but it turned out good.
Good work!
20/20 in 57 seconds.
Really fast score!
20/20 with 1:55 left. Fun one.
Fast score!
That was very easy. 20/20 with 1:36 left, so I got in one second quicker than you, but not nearly the fastest time.
Yeah, it wasn’t too tough if you know what synonyms and antonyms are.
19 out of 20 and 2min but I’m going to claim talking to a lawyer for 90minutes is an exonerating circumstance.
90 minutes of lawyer sounds expensive. We had a very complex house sale last year, which involved it getting rammed by a car while under offer, so I can sympathise.
It was for work so no cost to me just exhausting
I got “adorned” wrong because I didn’t know the group it was referring to so I guessed it and guessed wrong.
Otherwise it was 19/20
Great work!
Finally I succeeded at one of these. It has been awhile since I got them all…20/20 with 1:46 left on the clock.
Great work!
Only 18/20 for me this week.
Good work!
I got 17/20 with 0:59 left. That’s the best score I’ve ever gotten on one of your quizzes so far (I think)!
Good tenacity!
Thanks so much for the quiz!