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Welcome back for another week of quizzing. This week’s challenge is simple, but requires speed – you need to answer 50 (mostly) easy questions in 2 minutes. I scored 50/50 with 28 seconds remaining – can you beat my…
Welcome back for another week of quizzing. This week, your challenge is to identify duos. I scored 22/25 – can you beat my score? Congratulations to Tony, who showcased his ornithological knowledge in last week’s birds in music quiz.…
Welcome back for another week of quizzing. This week, you need to complete song titles with birds. I scored 12/12 with 3:08 remaining – can you beat my time? Congratulations to Eclectic Music Lover, who scored 16/18 in last…
I’ve been hiking in the wilderness this week, so I can’t report back on last week’s results – last time I checked, Rich Kamerman was in the lead. This week, your challenge is to name the famous album from some…
Welcome back for quiz time. This week, your challenge I scored 19/20, which was pretty good as there are a few obscure ones in there – perhaps chosen as they make good LEGO artwork. I loved the photography. Congratulations…
Can you identify these Lego album covers? It’s pretty tough – the average is 43%. One album cover is hard to recognise, and another is a pretty obscure choice IMO. I was pleased with my 75% – can you…
Can you complete the 2000s song title with a picture? Most people smashed the 1950s quiz, but I imagine this one will be trickier. I scored 20/20 with 2:41 remaining – can you beat my time? Congratulations to NostalgicItalian,…
Can you complete the 1950s song title with a picture? I’m less versed in 1950s music than most of my regular readers, but I still puzzled my way to full marks. But you can probably beat my time. I…
Can you complete the album name with a picture? Big Black aren’t featured this week – I thought my guess was legitimate…. I scored 19/20 – can you score 20? Congratulations to Tony, who scored the fastest time in…
I featured the first quiz in this series back in 2018 – here’s part 2. Your challenge is to complete a band name with a picture. Watch out for Mad-Eye Moody. I scored 20 Can you beat my score?…
It’s another speed test this week. You have just 30 seconds to complete 10 hybrid song titles with a link word. Can you pick the correct word that ends one song title and begins another song title to complete the…
Not asking for much of your time this week – you have just 45 seconds to link six bands to an image on their Wikipedia page. It took me 16 seconds – can you beat me? Congratulations to Tony,…
This week, can you complete Aerosmith song titles by selecting an image? I’m not a big Aerosmith guy, but I think most of these songs are well known. Can you beat my 12/12 with 1:42 remaining? Congratulations to Tony,…
This week’s challenge is to identify bands by their (not particularly helpful) descriptions. I scored 15/15, but I did need to think a little. Can you beat my time of 2:09 remaining? Congratulations to Tony, who recorded the fastest…
This week’s challenge is to sort historical events by which version of ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’ they appeared in. It helps to remember that Billy Joel recorded his version in 1989, while Fall Out Boy’s is from 2023. …
I’m finally unleashed on the world again, consistently able to compete in these quizzes. Here’s one about the original versions of famous covers. I was surprised not to see Otis Redding with ‘Respect’, although he’s included with another song. …
There might be one final outtakes quiz, but we’ve reached the end of the alphabet. There aren’t many famous X,Y, and Z albums – even with all three, I think it’s one of the tougher quizzes in the series. …
This quiz is fun – it might be the only Sporcle quiz to feature Julie Andrews and Lou Bega together. Can you complete the titles of these 16 list songs. It’s not too tricky, so please record your time if…
We’re almost through the entire alphabet – X, Y, and Z will be together (although I haven’t started making that one yet). Can you tell The Wall from The Rooftops? The Wave from the Wet Leg? I’m not eligible…
Let’s take another break from sorting albums this week and guess which half of the decade songs belong to. Remember that 1975 is in the decade’s second half. I scored 42/50 – solid, but mildly disappointing. Can you beat…
We’re still sorting albums this week, and up to V. Can you tell the Violator from the Vulture Prince? I’m ineligible because I created the quiz. Congratulations to Tony, who scored 14/15 in last week’s quiz. Here’s ‘Ben Franklin’.…
We’re back sorting albums this week, and up to U. Can you tell the Ultraviolence from the Undertow? I’m ineligible because I created the quiz. Congratulations to EclecticMusicLover and UK #1s Blog, who tied on 35 Here I am…
Let’s take another break from sorting albums this week and guess which half of the decade songs belong to. Remember that 1995 is in the decade’s second half. I scored 37/40 – I need to bone up on my…
We’re still sorting albums this week, and up to T. Can you tell the real Trout Mask from its replica. I’m ineligible because I made it. There was a three-way tie last week, with Rich Kamerman, PowerPopMax, and UK…
We’re back to sorting albums this week, and we’re up to S. Fortunately, many famous albums start with S. Can you tell your Sour from your Surrealistic Pillow? I’m ineligible, although embarrassingly, I muddled Superfly and Shaft when I…
Congratulations to Tony, who won last week’s R album challenge. Let’s take a break from sorting albums this week and guess which half of the decade songs belong to. Remember that 1985 is in the decade’s second half – more…
There are 25 albums this week, but it’s much easier than that Q abomination. There are plenty of famous albums starting with R. I’m ineligible. Hopefully it’s not too tricky! Congratulations to Rich Kamerman, who scrabbled his way to…
Not gonna lie – sorting out 15 Q albums is a tricky business. There are probably some you’ve never heard of. It doesn’t help that two of the most famous Q albums in the classic rock canon are by The…
There are a lot more albums to hide this week. Can you sort out the Plans from the Pirates? I’m ineligible. Hopefully it’s not too tricky! Congratulations to EclecticMusicLover, who scored the fastest 9/9 last week. I’ve been interested…
Let’s take a break from album sorting this week. This week’s challenge is to link nine artists to their song with “call” in the title. I scored 9/9 with 2:15 remaining. I wasn’t completely in control, but when there…
Even more album sorting. Can you match the songs to the albums starting with O? Are you on the beach or out to lunch? I made this quiz, so I’m not eligible to enter. Can you score full marks…
Even more album sorting. Can you match the songs to the albums starting with N? Can you tell your Nilsson from your Schmilsson? I made this quiz, so I’m not eligible to enter. Can you score full marks this…
More album sorting. Can you match the songs to the albums starting with M? Can you tell smoke on the water and madmen across the water apart? I made this quiz, so I’m not eligible to enter. Can you…
We’re back into album sorting this week. Can you match the songs to the albums starting with L? I made this quiz, so I’m not eligible to enter. Can you score full marks this week? Congratulations to Tony and…
Welcome back for another week of quizzing. I thought we’d take a break from album sorting. Your challenge this week is to name the albums, musical terms, artists, and other ephemera starting with D. I scored 16/20, although I…
Can you identify the albums starting with K? As before I had to make this one myself. There aren’t as many albums beginning with K, so there are fewer questions than usual. I’m ineligible to enter this week. Congratulations…
It’s Waitangi Day, our national public holiday, here in New Zealand. It’s particularly fraught this year, as the far right question our nation’s founding document. Unfortunately, today’s quiz is completely unrelated to such happenings. Can you identify the albums starting…
Welcome back for another thrilling quizzing session. Can you identify the albums starting with I? Unfortunately, the person who made the original series stopped at G, so again I had to make this one myself. Apologies if some of the…
Welcome back for another week of quizzing. Can you identify the albums starting with H? Unfortunately the person who made the original series stopped at G, so I had to make this one myself. Apologies if some of the choices…
Welcome back for another week of quizzing. Can you identify the albums starting with G? I scored 23 I didn’t know the difference between Godsmack and Sum 41. Congratulations to Rich Kamerman, who just beat Tony for the fastest…
Welcome back – this week we’re looking at F albums. It’s a popular letter, so this quiz was easier than last week’s, at least for me. I scored 24 I used genre conventions to differentiate between the three albums…
I’m scheduling this early because I plan to tramp in the Southern Alps today. I scored 21 I had to resort to some guessing at the end. The quiz included some acts I liked, but I wasn’t familiar with…
The observant among you may have noticed that the quiz is a day later than usual. I figured people had better things to do than a music quiz on Christmas Day. I scored 23/24 – I could have scored…
I don’t normally run a Christmas music quiz, but let’s try it this year. I may have an advantage here, since I’ll probably be playing some of these songs on Christmas Eve. I scored 27/28 – I missed ‘Home…
I promise not to run 26 of these Hide Your Albums quizzes in a row, but I’m enjoying them. We’re up to C this week – can you tell your Clash from your Chemical Brothers? Are you crazy, sexy, or…
Last week we hid our A albums, this week it’s time to hide your B albums. I scored 24/24, although I had to guess between Blink-182 and Jimmy Eat World at the end. I had 5:04 remaining – can…
I don’t know what we will do with our lives now that almost 50 rounds of compilations are done. But we could try linking albums to artists. Even if you don’t know the albums, you should be able to link…
It’s the final quiz in the series. It’s dedicated entirely to Beatles compilations. It’s a weird quiz, with some gimmes like 1 and The Blue Album, but also some tricky ones. Even people who know every Beatles song probably don’t…
Welcome back to the final conventional week of this epic series. There’s a number 50, but it’s dedicated entirely to Beatles’ compilations. Does anyone know why 49 isn’t IL in Roman numerals? I scored 13/20 this week. I struggled…
We’re almost through this epic series. It’s getting a little obscure – I know little of P-Square or Half Japanese. Lots of country artists this week. Can you beat my score of 15/20? Congratulations to EclecticMusicLover, who top-scored with…
We’re almost at the end of this epic series – just three more to go after this quiz, one of which is dedicated entirely to The Beatles. You probably know the drill by now – link the artist to the…
We’re up to quiz 46 in our greatest hits sequence – congratulations for sticking it out so long. This week’s seemed the easiest for a while – I could guess based on genre conventions. I scored 15/20 but probably…
We’re up to quiz #45 in the series. 45AD was the year the Roman senate consulted about real estate speculation in Rome. Can you score 20/20 in this quiz. I’d be impressed if you can. I scored 11 I got fixated…
Welcome back for more quizzing. We’re up to #44, and the artists are getting ever more obscure. I scored 13 It quickly got difficult after Bert and Ernie. Can you beat me? Congratulations to Deke and Rich Kamerman, who…
We’re up to quiz #43. I found this one tricky with many artists I wasn’t familiar with. Can you tell Samantha Fox from Hilary Duff? I scored 13 I liked Squeeze’s witty album cover though. Congratulations to EclecticMusicLover, who…
We’re back into the normal rhythm of greatest hits albums. There are a few I haven’t heard of this week. Is anyone into Guano Apes? Or N-Dubz? I scored 16 Can you beat me? Congratulations to Tony, who scored…
There’s a changeup this week after 40 quizzes of the same format. Your challenge is to locate the greatest hits album based on two songs from it. I somehow scored 16/16, with a series of educated guesses. I had…
We’re up to greatest hits quiz 40. According to my maths, we had a five-way tie for first at 14/20 last week – congratulations to all the winners. It’s another tricky one this week. The 1960s male bands (as well…
It’s spring here in New Zealand, which means insanely high winds most of the time. It’s lovely when the winds stop though. This is one of the tougher Greatest Hits quizzes, at least for me. There weren’t many artists I’m…
Welcome to the future (if you’re reading this in the Americas). It’s already 29 August here, and it’s time for some quizzing. We’re up to #37 in this long-running series. This week you need to tell the difference between the…
It’s just another day of quizzing. Can you match 20 disparate artists to their greatest hits? I could do it with 85% efficiency, scoring 17 The overall results were interesting – Adam Lambert is apparently more recognisable than Freddie…
Number 36 in the series, and as we know, the sum of the integers from 1 to 36 is 666. Can you match the artist to the cover of their greatest hits? I find it difficult to believe that Sandi Thom…
We’re up to installment number 35 of Greatest Hits. Can you link these artists to their compilation covers? I scored 18 It would have helped if I’d known Conway Twitty’s gender…. Can you beat me? Congratulations to HeavyMetalOverlord and…
We’re still slogging through greatest hits collections. There were many artists I care deeply about in this edition. The Flaming Lips, Cheap Trick, Bo Diddley, Talk Talk, Tom Waits, Ariana Grande, and the Delfonics are all worthwhile. Despite my…
In the year 33AD, a financial crisis hit Rome. In Greatest Hits XXXIII, you have another selection of 20 increasingly obscure artists to guess. Can you tell The Zombies from The Yardbirds? Connected to The Yardbirds, John Mayall passed…
Welcome back for another week of quizzing. We’re up to round 32 of greatest hits. Can you distinguish between Jimmy Somerville and Blake Shelton? I scored 16 I was confused by sixties star Sandie Shaw, who looked like a…
Welcome back for another week of quizzing. Can you link 20 (increasingly obscure) artists to their greatest hits albums? There seem to be increasing numbers of artists I don’t care about (sorry Gareth Gates) but I scrounged my way…
Good morning (NZ time), and I hope you’re ready for another round of quizzing. Like before, you need to link 20 greatest hits albums with their artists. I scored 14/20 – can you beat me? Apart from Ron Mael’s…
Welcome back for #29 in a series that seemingly never ends. Well done to EclecticMusicLover, who top scored with 19 I scored 17/20, which I was happy with. I’d never heard of Letters to Cleo, Baccara, or Katherine Jenkins.…
No one scored more than 19/20 in last week’s quiz. I’m not sure if this week’s task is any easier – I thought it was one of the tougher ones of the series. I scored 15/20 – there were…
You know the drill – 20 more greatest hits albums to identify. Can you match the heroics of Tony, who scored 20/20 with more than 2 minutes remaining in last week’s quiz? I scored 20/20 this week (with 41…
Congratulations to EclecticMusicLover who had the only perfect score in last week’s quiz. My performance this week is a little controversial. I was interrupted 3/4 of the way through, forgot to pause, and had to restart. I tried to reconstruct…
Another week, and the artists are just getting more obscure. Can you guess these 20 artists from their greatest hits albums? Somehow, I thrifted my way to 19 I had a slight advantage where there’s a relatively obscure NZ…
Congratulations to EclecticMusicLover, who scored the fastest 20/20 in last week’s quiz. Someone made a ton of these Greatest Hits quizzes. We didn’t start at number 1, but we’re down to #24. This week’s challenge involves distinguishing between a bevy…
Another week, another batch of increasingly obscure artists. This lot’s particularly eclectic, with everything from Reba McEntire to Captain Beefheart. Can you differentiate between Coolio and Shaggy? Or between Snow Patrol and Milli Vanilli? I was surprisingly successful this…
Welcome back for another round of quizzing. It’s a little trickier this week in my opinion. Can you tell the difference between Cascada and Jessica Simpson? I scored 17/20, but I was a little lucky. Can you surpass me?…
You probably know the drill by now – match the artist to the greatest hits album. I found this week’s selection the easiest for a while, scoring 18 Guessing between Mis-Teeq and Eternal felt like a coin toss, though.…
It’s ANZAC Day here in New Zealand, where we remember the Gallipoli campaign, a disastrous attack on a Turkish peninsula during World War 1. It also would have been my dad’s 80th birthday – he was born during World War…
Welcome back for another week of quizzing! This week we have yet another collection of greatest hits albums. I scored 5(!) out of 20. I found all the hard rock acts hard to differentiate. Thin Lizzy and Zappa were…
Noone scored 20 in last week’s quiz – congratulations to Tony, EclecticMusicLover, and Rich Kamerman, who all peaked at 19. There’s more of the same this week – can you identify 20 more greatest hits albums. I found the selection…
It’s that time of the week – identifying more compilations! There are a few compilations in my collection this week. But also some weird, tricky, arty covers that you might find tough even if you know the artist. I…
These greatest hits quizzes are fun, so let’s do another one. Identify the greatest hits based on its cover. IMO this was easier than the last few, with some big-name bands. But I did it when I was tired and…
You probably know the drill by now – link the artist to the greatest hits compilation. We’re down to the fifteenth selection of twenty artists, so it’s getting pretty obscure. I like the collection of artists who don’t usually surface…
Welcome back to another week of quizzing. We’re back for yet another round of identifying greatest hits albums. As with the last few weeks, identify the greatest hits album given the artist and title. I scored 15/20 – I got…
Welcome back to another week of quizzing. We’re back for yet another round of identifying greatest hits albums. Just like last week, identify the greatest hits album given the artist and title. I scored 17/20 – it was a little…
Welcome back to another week of quizzing. We’re back for another round of identifying greatest hits albums. This week’s quiz requires you to identify the greatest hits album by artist, given the artist and title. Congratulations to Heavy Metal…
I was a keen buyer of greatest hits records in my teens. With a limited budget, they were bang for your buck, and they suited the CD format of the 1990s – often the LP length of 40 minutes wasn’t…
Welcome back. If you’re in America or the UK, it’s still probably “Pash Wednesday”. This has happened twice since World War 2, when Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday fall on the same day. To honour this, we have a love-titled…
Welcome back to another round of quizzing. Last week, a late-ish entry from Tony, replete with coffee, blitzed the field. This week, you challenge is to fill in the blank of a song title with the photo of a place.…
Welcome back for another week of quizzing. Congratulations to EclecticMusicLover, who won easily with 29 This week’s challenge is relatively straightforward – it will probably end up as a speed test. You need to name music stars by their real…
Last week’s quiz produced a tie between 2loud2oldmusic and Geoff Stephen. This week we’re continuing the theme of less-than-blockbuster hit songs. Your challenge is to identify artists by the their three biggest hits on the Billboard Hot 100 that failed…
Welcome back. Kingclover won last week’s quiz, a tough challenge of 1980s small hits. This week, we’re dealing with more minor hits. Can you match 20 artists with 20 songs for twenty #20 hits? I found it tough –…
Congratulations to Rich Kamerman, who schooled the rest of us on famous drummers. Although Deke also scored a credible 27 out of 30. This week, your challenge is to identify an act by three songs that failed to make the…
Congratulations to Geoff Stephen, who took Canada to a glorious win in last week’s Bands that should play together II quiz. Your challenge this week is to name some famous drummers. I scored 23 I did it late at…
Congratulations to Jim, who won for the second consecutive week, narrowly in front of a few other contestants. This week, it’s the sequel. It’s a little easier as there are only thirty answers to deal with. I scored 30/30…
I’m on holiday, so I’m drafting this up slightly early. Congratulations to Jim, Music Enthusiast, who scored full marks with the fastest time in last week’s quiz. This week your challenge is to insert a popular phrase into a pair…
