Music Quiz: Questioning Song Titles

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1. Very easy quiz this week, and my time would have been so much faster if I was in the office and using a mouse. Instead, I got 22/22 with 2:40 left on the clock using the track pad on my laptop.

   • All those birds were just beautiful but I voted for Parakeet because it reminds me of my childhood, because we always had parakeets when I was little. We had a lot of them over the years because they always used to die!! And then I would bury them in the backyard because I had a little pet cemetery, where I buried all our pets that died. There was turtles, gerbils, mice, hamsters, birds. And then I would take two popsicle sticks and make a crucifix and put it on top of the grave. But eventually it got dug up when my father built a deck on the back of the house. This was like later after I moved out and I didn’t find out about it right away and I was really pissed off about it!!!

     • What kind of parakeets did you have?

       It reminds me of a family member whose dog ate their rabbits. They had to quickly find replacement rabbits during the school day so their kids didn’t find out.

       • I have no idea what kind of parakeets they were. I didn’t even know there were different kinds. But they were usually white and blue, or white and green, or white and yellow, and green and yellow. Those are the ones I could remember. I like that one in the poll that was all green and looked just like a parrot. That was really cool.

   • Good work anyway – it was any easy one this week.

2. 22/22 with 1:55 left. This was easy and I could have done it faster but wanted to get them all so went slower. I think this is my first 100%. YAY!

   p.s. Comments were not allowed in the feed, so I came directly to your blogsite.

   • Thanks for letting me know – looks like there was a temporary issue in the morning, but it came right. There was a core WordPress update the night before, so it might have been connected to that.

3. That was easy as all fuck. Too bad I didn’t go faster though. I got 22/22 with 1:29 left.

   • Yup, easy one this week.

4. Phew, 22/22 with 2:58 left on the timer.
   I sat down with the boy and our vote went to the Fiordland crested penguin

   • Good job, fast time. I’ve never seen a crested penguin before, but they’re pretty cool.

5. Got ’em all and I tied Tony’s time. Also, I assume you’ve seen John Oliver’s take on the bird thing.
   John Oliver is campaigning hard in New Zealand’s Bird of the Century poll

   https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/07/entertainment/john-oliver-new-zealand-bird-poll-scli-intl

   • Yup, it’s been all over the news here. The results were supposed to be announced tomorrow, but they’re pushed back a couple of days due to the volume of entries.

     • How do you feel about his intervention?

       • It’s good- the more votes the better I think.

         He’s pretty obsessed with New Zealand – often mocks it. It is pretty dumb that a bat won recently.

6. 22/22 with 2:06 left. Didn’t beat your time, but still good.

   • What bird did you vote for?

     • My favourite is the fernbird for some reason – I’ve never seen one. I have a painting that my wife painted for me when we were dating. I also voted for the weka, the shore plover, the tieke, and I should have voted for the kakapo.

       Kakapo are pretty funny – there’s a famous video of one trying to mate with Stephen Fry’s cameraman’s head.

     • I didn’t. I figured I shouldn’t vote since it isn’t my country.

   • Perfect score!

7. Perfect score with 1:55 remaining.

   • Perfect score!

8. 21/22 with 1:37. For me an all time best! lol

   • Great work!

9. I tied your score exactly. And I voted against John Oliver’s fancypants bird. I voted for the Morepork because lol more pork

   • We have morepork in our yard at night sometimes. We normally call them ruru – the Maori name.

10. 22/22 with 2:32 left

    • Great work!