Congratulations to James Kalyn, who scored 18/18 in less than a minute in last week’s Hard to Google Bands quiz
Just like last week, your challenge is to identify a band from two of its popular songs. All of these bands have difficult-to-Google names.
https://www.sporcle.com/games/Velma/another-ungoogleable-band-multiple-choice
I scored 17/18. Can you beat my score and get everything correct?
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16/18, 4:04 left. One was a really dumb mistake and the other I just full on didn’t know.
16 is still a good score.
I stunk this one up big time. 15/18.
Yeah something like this: “The number of solo releases by Daltrey has been paltry”. Ha.
The number by the Ox?
Lots and lots and lots
Wait a minute. Is there a person called the Ox?? I know that’s the name of one of their songs but is it a person too???
It was Entwistle’s nickname.
I wonder why they called him the Ox. I never knew he was called that. You learn something new every day, as my mother used to say.
I think he ate a lot or something.
15 sounds pretty respectable to me.
14/18 with 3:26 left
Good work!
SCORE
16/18 ….nice song.
Good score!
A paltry 16/18 for me this week. Oh well.
I love that word paltry. I don’t think I’ve ever used it before but I’m gonna start using it all the time now. lmao!!!
I don’t know if 16 is that paltry…..
12/18
Good effort!
Thanks, G!
17/18 for me this week.
Great work – looks like we have two players on 17 so far
I got 7 right. The 7 I knew. The rest I couldn’t be bothered to guess because I would be simply guessing blind.
I still guess and sometimes I guess right.
My attitude is I either know it or I don’t. Guessing does not prove my knowledge. So, like Tommy Lee Jones “doesn’t bargain” in The Fugitive – I don’t guess.
I think guessing is part of the fun.
15/15. That was kind of hard but there was too many I never heard of. I would have got 16 but I clicked Buffalo instead of Boston for some reason. Obviously I knew the answer was Boston, but Buffalo probably just jumped out at me cuz it’s a more familiar word for me cuz I live there. Sometimes you just click the first one that you recognize.
15/18, right? I guess Buffalo Springfield might have confused you too?
A late-to-the party, paltry 15/18.
I still don’t think that 15 is particularly paltry.
It is definitely non-paltry but it appears to be the word of the week.
Jim, if 15 is paltry, what is my 12?
Well, Rich said his 16 was paltry so I lump my 15 in with him. ChatGPT says the next word down from paltry is meager so we’ll go with that.
LMAO. Well what does ChatGPT say is below meager?
Interestingly, it says modest or moderate. I think it’s being polite.
How about measly?
There you go.
Meager is another great word. I’m gonna start using that one too. Impress my friends. Lol. There’s all these great words available that I just never use. I need a better vocabulary.
Or more well-read friends.
Actually, it’s meagre…..
American spelling is meager
I didn’t know it was one of those words that is spelled different in North America, like centre. Probably because meager is a word you don’t see too often in print. All those kind of words always look French to me.
They are French in derivation – meagre/meager is maigre in French.
Centre/center is centre in French etc
We obviously need a quiz about British and American spellings….
I knew it. Cuz French has all those words that end in -re, even though it’s usually not pronounced. They just kind of drop it. French has so many letters that aren’t pronounced. Like T a lot of the time when the word ends in a T, as in cabaret or valet. I always wanted to be able to speak French. Everybody would think I was so f****** cool if I spoke French. Lol
16/18 as I didn’t know a lot of these bands and a couple guesses were pure guesses.
Good guessing then!
17/18 with 4:11 left – I took a guess for UK hard-rockers Thunder and failed at the last
I don’t think anyone has scored 18 yet, so you’re probably in the lead. And you should probably get points for choosing my favourite NBA team.
Someone needs to combine that word with a discussion of The Who’s lead singer, creating a paltry Daltrey post. 😀
I got 89%. I guess correctly on a lot. lol. nice Rush cover for your feature photo!
It’s one of the only Rush albuns I own, sorry! Good work.