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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15/22 before the page reloaded on me for Reasons? Not sure I was likely to get any more anyway.
Yeah, Sporcle needs an upgrade sometime. I like the quizzes, but it sometimes crashes or slows up under a deluge of ads.
Not all North Americans….SCORE
15/22
Lots of scores in that range this week.
Yea on this one I was stumped….it froze up halfway through so I had to restart it…or it could have been one or two lower.
Yeah, mine crapped out top. I had to redo it to remember my score, and I missed one I got correct the first time.
Some of those quizzes delays a little but usually not a big deal
14/22 for me so not a good one. Can’t believe the easy ones I missed.
It was a tough one, I reckon.
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.
19 is a really good score.
But alas, not the best.
Oh, and BTW, I tried every city I could think of for Black Sabbath but just could not get it.
Did you see the answer – it took me a while to figure out. Randy Newman has a song about the Alabama city of the same name.
Nope, missed that.
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.
Only 11/22 this time around. Apparently, my geography isn’t as good as I thought,
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.
I think I used to be a lot better on trivia when I was young enough to remember things too
11/22 and there were a couple I should have known that I couldn’t get
Good effort anyway.
🙂
15/22 for me. That was a hard one.
Yup, lots of 15s and 16s this week so you did OK.
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.
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)!
Good score! I have never heard of Orillia (but have been spinning some Lightfoot this week).