Music Quiz 2.0
I'll admit it. My cold, cold heart has warmed up as I've aged. My "show no mercy" attitude has given way to things like smiles, and... and mercy-showing. I remember a day when omarphillips.net quizzes would make Ken Jennings cower in fear, or make Alex Trebec say, "that's hard, eh?" Incorrect answers would yield disparaging feedback like, "you've shamed your family name," or "maybe you should read the question first, next time." Ah, the glory days.
But then months later, I held the first "name that tune" styled music quiz, which was won with a score of 17 out of 20 (85%). Worse yet, every answer was picked correctly by at least one person, and suddenly words like "fair" were being thrown around. Chants of "Omar the Merciful and Fair" followed me everywhere I went. Sickening.
And now, I'm sure it's about to get worse (or better, depending on your perspective): omarphillips.net music quiz version 2.0 is here. This time, I intentionally got all old-school on y'all, as there are no songs more recent than the early 80's. But they're all songs that were either fairly popular when released, or they have more recently been used in some pop culture context (e.g. movie soundtracks). Plus, the clips are slightly longer this time around, and many include lyrics.
The wife pre-screened it for me, and she got 16 out of 20 points. While she does have some prior knowledge of the kinds of music in my iTunes playlist, the two of us have rather different musical tastes. I'm always wrong when I guess how people will do, but the little remaining cold portion of my heart is afraid that a perfect score is possible...
So what are you waiting for? Go take the quiz (requires audio). Answers will be revealed on Thursday.
Comments
cadiz12 said:
it's KILLING me that i don't know that poppin' lockin' song. thanks a lot, phillips.
Jadioactive Ram said:
Hmm. Some. I needed the challenge, though. Thanks!
jazzy said:
this one was fun.
mostly because i think i did well.
if i didn't, i take it back and this one sucked.
Mr. 5000 said:
Cripes and crud!! No sound at work!!! however, this will make my overall score that much more impressive…
“Wow, he got 28 of them right and he didn’t even use sound?”
“Yeah, plus, there weren’t even 28 questions!!”
“That Mr. 5000 is dreamy… (long, profound sigh)”
-Conversation overheard in the men’s bathroom at the local saloon*
*True story
Becky said:
no sound here, either...
but thank you for finally giving me the motivation to install the driver for my modem at home so that i can get back online and try my hand at your quiz.
Sarah said:
I suck.
Carrot Jello said:
You cannot possibly know all those songs. I'm older than you. It wouldn't be....fair.
Mr. 5000 said:
ok, with sound, I was less than stellar, but I think I got over 50%
Does it count for anything that I got song #9 after .8 seconds? That's been one of my personal favorites for a long time.
Nadia said:
I'm going to go ahead and excuse myself from this one, reason being that, as a mere glint in my father's eyes, I retained very little (i.e. no) musical knowledge.
*sigh*
Good luck, you fortunate 70's-born buggers.
seventeen syllables said:
Jeez, I was born even before the 1970s (though not by much) and while I recognized the sound of all of the clips I couldn't name both the artist & title for more than two or three. Waaah!
I said:
Wow. I'm not gonna give anything away here, but let's just say that 17 points will not win this contest. BUT there have been no perfect scores (yet).
And just like last time, every answer was guessed correctly by at least one person.
wendela the semi-ancient said:
benjamin- uh, I mean, omar, I think you're just trying to help out us oldsters. I've been having that age-related angst, as you know, and you came up with this- so thanks, I feel better. :) Oh, and I thought of you when seeing the dvd related to song #1 at the store last night.
Tayster said:
For some reason, only the first six download the player for me.
I'm sure it has something to do with my computer, but I was ripping it up and ready to win this one.
Lianne said:
I am so not going to win, but this was fun. At least some were familiar.
cadiz12 said:
wow, so people are doing better than 17? that must mean that the next quiz is going to be about obscure hobbit rock or something, just to get back at us. right omar?
Jonathan said:
Looks like I’ll be turning over my Title, so so sad :(. I could only answer 16 out of 20. I don’t even have a guess for the 4 I couldn’t answer. I know I have heard them before but I just couldn’t place them.
I am truly distraught over not being able to defend my title.
Pre-Congratulations to the winner