Congratulations to Tony, who scored 20/20 in last week’s quiz.
This week’s quiz perhaps requires a bit less musical expertise than usual – some of it’s more general knowledge. It’s in a Jeopardy-style format.
https://www.sporcle.com/games/bhenderson79/clickable-sporcle-jeopardy-music?t=music
I scored 30/30 with 2:53 remaining. Can you beat my time?
R.I.P. to bassist John Giblin – not a household name, but he turns up on a lot of English records in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He played with Lennon and McCartney solo, and on Phil Collins’ ‘In The Air Tonight’. I like his fretless bass noodling on John Martyn’s ‘Sweet Little Mystery’.
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16/20 with 2:17 left. The classical composers effed up my score. Should have clicked next as I knew the ones at the end.
R.I.P. John Giblin
You need to remember that Brahms is much more advanced than jazz!
correction: 16/30 or was it 26/30??? either way not very good
30/30, 2:48 left. Or I did it in 2:48. Never sure how to read that. I think 2:48 left.
Great work!
29/30. I was down to two questions for Queen lyrics and picked the wrong one.
You were almost the champion, my friend.
29/30 for the 4th straight week! I didn’t know one of the Queen songs…
Seems like Queen messed a few people up. Trying to work out which was the tricky one – guessing Bicycle Race or Don’t Stop Me Now?
Don’t Stop Me Now?, a song of theirs I don’t really know.
29/30. The one I got wrong (Afternoon Delight) was a stupid error as well, trying to go too quickly. I knew the answer.
As you probably know, I hate that song and would have been proud not to get it right.
I actually though the Queen lyrics were all dead easy, but only if you know your Queen, I guess. If you don’t, you don’t.
Don’t Stop Me Now is interesting for me – it’s really gained in popularity over the years. It didn’t make it onto their 1981 Greatest Hits, but it’s now one of their best-known tracks for a younger generation.
28/30 – the Classical section killed me. Not great at remembering who did what piece.
I guess I take that for granted, but I probably know them because I did piano lessons as a kid. That Wagner track is pretty metal, as far as classical can be….
That is true.
I got 27/30 on this one…the composers threw me.
I think growing up learning piano helped me with that – I kind of took it for granted that everyone else was coming from the same place.
Yes…you would know them more than others. I did get a couple of them right anyway….and for me that was impressive.
Oh yeah, I finally got a perfect score after numerous weeks of coming so close. 30/30 with 3:12 left on the clock. I was sorry to hear about John Giblin. I knew he had been on a number of recordings I love, but when I checked out his discography I was amazed to see so many that I was unaware of.
Great work! Giblin was on a lot of art-rock stuff, especially in the late 1970s and early 1980s. We’re right in the middle of peak deaths of 1960s and 1970s rockers, I reckon, so not surprising his passing slipped under the radar a little.
Correct. It was a hit back in late 1978 but not one that anyone took much notice of. As you say, its popularity has been post 2000.
It wasn’t played by the band at Live Aid, and probably not even considered in such terms. Now, no doubt it would have been on the set list.
Yup, Shaun of the Dead helped a lot, I think?
29/30. I forget which one I got wrong. Fun, but too much dense reading which slowed me down.
Good work!
Not good enough