Music Quiz: US Bands Spelling Bee

16 Comments

1. SCORE
   15/15
   TIMER
   00:18

   • Great work!

2. 15/15 with 14 seconds left. I’m a pretty good speller too but not always the quickest.

   • Good effort!

3. 15/15 5 seconds left. That said, I am disqualified because it took me 5 tries to get this. I had plenty of time to get them all right but kept rushing and effing up.

   • I only got seven right. I didn’t know you had such a short time to do it.

   • I like your commitment to the cause.

     • 🙂

4. 15/15 with 15 seconds left

   • There’s a pleasing symmetry there.

5. As someone who does proof-reading as part of his job, I’m embarrassed to say I stumbled after getting 13 with the correct spelling. On another note, I’ve had trouble leaving comments at your blog, including last week’s quiz when I was never able to post my comment (I did poorly so you didn’t miss much).

   • Sorry you’ve been having trouble commenting. I’ve been playing with caching plugins, which are a pain with the comment form. I think I might have fixed it going forward.

6. I never heard of that Harry Nilsson song before. I like it. I knew he was a Brill Building guy before he started singing but I never really knew any songs he wrote way back then other than Paradise by The Ronettes. He was from New York too. I think Brooklyn. And I just found out somebody else who is from Queens. Melanie. I thought I knew everybody who was from Queens.

   • I neve really thought about where Nilsson was from, and I had no idea about the Brill Building stuff. I just thought the Beatles discovered him.

7. Got 100% with 19 secs left! Really added the pressure with that countdown.

   • Great work!