Last week’s history quiz produced a wide range of scores, but congratulation to the three players who were all tied on 23/25 – boppin, Jim, and Tony.
This week’s quiz requires you to tell Sporcle if a song was recorded by heavy metal behemoths Metallica or Australian children’s band The Wiggles. Most of the answers are obvious, but a few are surprisingly tricky.
I scored 48/50 – I think it will be easy to get a high score, but difficult to get a perfect score.
I know most of you probably haven’t felt the cultural impact of The Wiggles, but they’re huge in Australia and New Zealand. There was a backlash from older fans a few years ago when most of the band retired and were replaced by younger musicians, but I really like the new Purple Wiggle Lachy. Here’s his take on Bruce Springsteen‘s ‘Thunder Road’:
And in case you don’t think there’s much crossover between The Wiggles and Metallica, here’s Lachy covering Metallica.
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50/50 on this one. Though I’d be curious of the Wiggles’ take on Creeping Death
Perfect score!
49/50 on this one since I decided to blow through it quickly without thinking much about it. Not sure how I got that one song “Trapped Under Ice” wrong. Considering I wrote a multi-part series on the Metallica discography, I really should have gotten a perfect score, but I’ll take 98%. This was a particularly fun (and silly) quiz. Thanks for sharing.
I’m actually not a big Metallica guy, and I’m more familiar with The Wiggles. I have been trying to catch up on Metallica’s 1980s stuff which I’m liking, but I’m pretty unfamiliar after that. When I became interested in music, they were past their best, and I generally wrote them off as lame.
I never really cared about Metallica when they were in their creative & commercial prime, but I eventually went back & explored their entire discography, which is filled with hits & misses in equal measure. Most of the artist series I’ve written have been about the lesser-played artists in my collection and they were no exception. After a month immersed in their music I was worn out, and I might still be recovering. The first 4-5 albums are still pretty amazing, whenever I’m in the mood for them.
I got one wrong! And really, it could have gone either way. Alas.
I wanna hear Metallica’s take on “Wah Hoo Hey, I’m Combing My Hair Today,” though.
I found it funny how 95% are blindingly obvious, but the last few could go either way.
Maybe it’s a spectrum, metal in one direction from center, kids stuff in the other. Go far enough in either direction and it wraps back around and meets the other end anyway!
This whole thing is genius
48… thrown by two that probably could have gone either way.
I got the two least guessed wrong – I imagine you probably did the same?
Quite possibly, aye.
49
So close to perfection!
As I haven’t felt any cultural impact from Metallica, I won’t bother with the quiz this week.
But I will say this, Lachy has a fine voice!
People diss the new Wiggles. I do miss Murray, but with three strong singers I think they actually sound a lot better.
Along similar lines, I did chuckle several times doing this James Bond VS Austin Powers quiz…
https://www.sporcle.com/games/MrChewypoo/danger-is-my-middle-name?playlist=chewys-stupidest-quizzes&creator=MrChewypoo&pid=4q26142f9
49. I can’t believe I missed one. My kids loved the Wiggles when they were young so this was a lot of fun.
47 – there was more potential overlap than I expected!
Yes, especially Zombie Feet.