Music Quiz: Hometowns of Musicians

There were a lot of strong entries in last week’s British or American quiz. But JP Robichaud emerged supreme, blitzing the quiz in less than a minute and realising that Whitesnake were British.

This week’s challenge is also geographical – you need to identify the hometown of famous musicians.

https://www.sporcle.com/games/Mattomic/localmusicians

I found this one reasonably tough – I scraped my way to 17/22. The quiz has a handful of British and Canadian towns but is heavily US. I think North Americans might find it a wee bit easier than I did – I’m barely familiar with a couple of the towns.

It was nice to see some names that don’t often feature in Sporcle quizzes, like Matthew Sweet, Chubby Checker, and Bottle Rockets.

Can you beat my score?

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    • Yeah, Sporcle needs an upgrade sometime. I like the quizzes, but it sometimes crashes or slows up under a deluge of ads.

  1. 19/22. Helps to know a bunch of American cities. Every time I didn’t know something I guessed Chicago but I believe that never worked.

  2. I got 21/22, then ran out of time. The hard part is that you had to enter the correct city for each line, unlike some quizzes where if you just type an answer that corresponds to any of the questions, it will automatically populate the appropriate box.

    • Yeah, I’m sure that was by design. Otherwise it makes the quiz a lot easier as you could just guess a lot of famous US cities.

      Great score.

    • The first time I encountered Sporcle was when we had a knockout countries of the world geography quiz at work. I thought I’d do well, but I got smoked by my first-round opponent.

  3. 15/22. I can’t believe I even got that many right cuz there was actually very few that I was sure of and the rest were just kind of logical guesses. I think they should have accepted San Francisco for Green Day because the answer said Bay Area. And it didn’t accept Newark for Frankie Valli even though that was their answer.

    • That’s weird about Bay Area – I thought I tried San Francisco for that one.

      I didn’t get Newark – I knew Frankie Vallie was from Jersey but don’t know the cities there.

  4. I’ll join you at 17 – though the quiz-makers may end up getting some strongly worded emails from citizens of Orillia, Ontario (where Gordon Lightfoot was born, and not that other larger Ontario city)!

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