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Music Quiz: Hide Your ‘U’ Albums

We’re back sorting albums this week, and up to U. Can you tell the Ultraviolence from the Undertow?

https://www.sporcle.com/games/grahama/hide-your-u-albums

I’m ineligible because I created the quiz.

Congratulations to EclecticMusicLover and UK #1s Blog, who tied on 35/40.

Here I am with the Deputy Prime Minister this week (to the left of his head).

Here’s my favourite song from Utopia Parkway:

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20 Comments

  1. After a fast start with 7 in a row I knew I was going to have trouble with these albums, and stumbled my way to 10/15. How did you end up right behind the Deputy Prime Minister?

    • Good job! I was just walking through the station on my way to work, and happened to photobomb him.

        • New Zealand isn’t that big I guess – I feel like most New Zealanders probably end up on the news at some point.

          • Yea I just looked up the population…it’s a little under the state I live in. I would have never guessed that.

          • Yeah, it’s pretty big – just lots of sheep, forest, cows, and mountains.

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