The Wednesday Quiz -- Season III -- Quiz 9
Rock Discography
The Wednesday Quiz is a "closed-book" test of knowledge and intuition; please do not look up answers, ask others for help, or answer as a team.
Questions about the rules and the ~Fabulous Prizes~ are answered here.
This week, I have selected twelve (12) rock music acts off of a major North American popular culture magazine's list of the 100 greatest such acts of all time! I have provided you with four or five of their album titles -- leaving out most of the dead giveaways, however. For each list of albums, name that rock music act!
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This week, I have selected twelve (12) rock music acts off of a major North American popular culture magazine's list of the 100 greatest such acts of all time! I have provided you with four or five of their album titles -- leaving out most of the dead giveaways, however. For each list of albums, name that rock music act!
Since I have no idea if this is a really hard or a really easy Quiz, we'll just split the 100 points 12 ways and give 8 1/3 points per correct answer. Rock on!
1. Anthem of the Sun, Aoxomoxoa, American Beauty, Shakedown Street, In the Dark
2. Between the Buttons, Let It Bleed, Goats Head Soup, Tattoo You, Voodoo Lounge
3. Boy, October, War, Pop
4. Check Your Head, Ill Communication, Hello Nasty, To the 5 Boroughs
5. Freak Out!, We're Only in It for the Money, Uncle Meat, Weasels Ripped My Flesh, Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning WitchSubmit your answers, and a blistering guitar solo, in the comments.
6. High Voltage, Let There Be Rock, Flick of the Switch, Who Made Who, Stiff Upper Lip
7. Hunky Dory, Pin Ups, Station to Station, Low, The Buddha of Suburbia
8. Nashville Skyline, Desire, Slow Train Coming, Shot of Love, Oh Mercy
9. Rocket to Russia, End of the Century, Pleasant Dreams, Subterranean Jungle, Too Tough to Die
10. That Stubborn Kinda Fellow, M.P.G., What's Going On, Midnight Love
11. This Year's Model, Armed Forces, Punch the Clock, Blood & Chocolate, Mighty Like a Rose
12. True Blue, Like a Prayer, Ray of Light, Music
Oh. Music. Not my forté. I likely wouldn't have got this if you left the dead giveaways in. I can't name the artists of my own favourite songs. Top rock music of all time you say? That means the last fifty years, right? Did Rock exist before 1960? If they're that great I've probably heard of them, so let me see if you've left some hints in, then fill in the rest with bands I've heard of that might be great and that probably are known outside Canada.
ReplyDelete1. ZZ Top - 'cause Zs are like Xs
2. Rolling Stones - I think there's a tongue on it
3. Abba - Easily internationalizable, no word play
4. AC/DC - maybe they're from NYC
5. Pink Floyd - I liked that ship/witch thing
6. The Who - maybe that's a hint
7. Elvis Presley - Has anyone said "hunky dory" since the '50s?
8. Johnny Cash - The slow train one sounds familiar
9. Michael Jackson - I can't think of anyone else.
10. Billy Joel - I like him
11. The Police - I'm running out of names
12. Madonna - Prayer/virgin: close enough
Guitar solo: Twing twing thurumb twing woom woom feedback squeal twing ouch.
Not going to get many of these, but here goes.
ReplyDelete1. No idea
2. Rolling Stones
3. Culture Club
4. Beasty Boys?
5. Frank Zappa
6. Twisted Sister
7. David Bowie
8. Bob Dylan?
9. Liberace
10. Smokey Robinsong
11. Elvis Costello
12. Madonna
that was terrible, I knew only four of them. but four points is four points. blech.
1. mmm, Grateful Dead?
ReplyDelete2. Rolling Stones
3. U2
4. Beastie Boys
5. Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention
6. AC/DC
7. David Bowie
8. Bob Dylan
9. The Ramones
10. Marvin Gaye
11. Elvis Costello
12. Madonna
1. Charles Ives
ReplyDelete2. Gustav Mahler
3. Aaron Copeland
4. E. McDowell
5. Johannes Brahms
6. Tilson Thomas
7. Stephen Foster
8. Arlo Guthrie
9. Peter Tchaikovsky
10. John Rutter
11. John Philip Sousa
12. Pablo Picasso *
*(during his litte-known Blue Period of music composition)
1. Grateful Dead
ReplyDelete2. Rolling Stones
3. U2
4. Beastie Boys
5. Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention
6. AC/DC (don't know how to type the lightning bolt)
7. David Bowie
8. Should know but don't.
9. The Ramones
10. Marvin Gaye?
11. Elvis Costello
12. Madonna
Incredibly hard. I don't know ANY of these names. But I never paid much attention to album covers anyway. However, in a conversation this past weekend, I correctly remembered "Equinoxe," the second album by Jean-Michel Jarre.
ReplyDelete1 / Santana
ReplyDelete2 / Rolling Stones
3 / U2
4 / Ramones
5 / Mothers of Invention
6 / Generic heavy-metal band
7 / David Bowie
8 / Bob Dylan
9 / Frankie Avalon
10/ Marvin Gaye
11/ Elvis Costello
12/ Madonna
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1. Grateful Dead
ReplyDelete2. Rolling Stones
3. U2
4. Beastie Boys
5. Zappa
6. AC/DC
7. Bowie
8. Shit . . .Springstein?
9. Ugh. No idea
10. Marvin Gaye?
11. I dunno
12. Madonna!
Shit. I thought I was going 100% on that one for sure. Couple toughies in there. U a Zappa fan? Love Frank.
Denali alum Fred Chu and I are doing this together:
ReplyDelete1. Grateful Dead
2. Rolling Stones
3. U2
4. Beastie Boys
5. Meat Puppets
6. AC/DC
7. Cracker
8. Bob Dylan
9. Ramones
10. Marvin Gaye
11. Elvis Costello
12. Madonna
NYAHHJDFKDLJSLDFJKSDLFN nya (Hendrix-style)
Hmmm... I have an inkling of an idea about maybe 4 of these. The rest will be completely random guesses, per usual.
ReplyDelete1. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
2. The Rolling Stones
3. U2
4. Beasty Boys
5. Frank Zappa
6. AC/DC
7. Led Zeppelin
8. Elvis Presley
9. Oh hell, I give up.
10.
11.
12. Madonna
To me, this is really hard. Except for the ones which are really easy, but they definitely are in the minority. So, simply going for good attendance:
ReplyDelete1 The Grateful Dead
2 The Rolling Stones
3 U2
4 no idea--The Ramones
5 Frank Zappa?
6 The Who?
7 no idea--REM
8 Bob Dylan
9 no idea--AC/DC
10 no idea--Eric Clapton
11 Elvis Costello
12 no idea--Nirvana
1. Grateful Dead
ReplyDelete2. Rolling Stones
3. U2
4. Beastie Boys (opened for first concert I saw)
5.
6. ACDC
7. David Bowie
8. Bob Dylan
9.
10. Marvin Gayes
11.
12. Madonna (First concert I saw- combine with above comment for odd trivia tidbit)
1. The Dead
ReplyDelete2. The Stones
3. U2
4. ????
5. Frank Zappa
6. The Ramones
7. David Bowie
8. Dylan
9. ??
10. Marvin Gaye
11. Elvis Costello
12. Maddona Louise Ciccone
Meat and Weasels....who else but?
1. Aoxomoxoa? I think it's the Grateful Dead, yeah?
ReplyDelete2. The Rolling Stones. At least two of those albums are actually ok.
3. Is this U2? It feels pretentious enough to be U2, and I can't get them out of my head.
4. m5000 favourite, the Beastie Boys.
5. Frank Zappa and the Mommas. I only know this from the Drowning Witch Droodle.
6. ACDC
7. Bowie, anyone? Buddha gave it away.
8. I think Slow Train Coming is Dylan, but it could have been a cover...
9. The Ramones.
10. I have no idea, so I'll say Hendrix, because no list of musicians misses Hendrix.
11. The Attractions, an acquired taste, I guess.
12. Again, absolutely no idea, but I'll go for Ray Charles, cause that dude would have loved the pun.
My daughter's undergraduate degree (a BA in Physics and Philosophy--she swears it makes sense) is from Hendrix College.
ReplyDeleteCan I get extra credit for that?
Well, I missed Wednesday, but since you haven't posted answers yet maybe I can sneak these in.
ReplyDelete1. The Grateful Dead
2. The Rolling Stones
3. U2
4. (mom you're just jealous it's the) Beastie Boys
5. The Mothers of Invention
6. AC/DC
7. Green Day
8. Bob Dylan
9. Ay yay yay!
10. No Clue
11. I'm gonna kick myself
12. Madonna
deedalee deedalee deedalee wa-ow-wa-ow deedaleedeedale
1. Grateful Dead
ReplyDelete2. Rolling Stones
3. U2
4. Beastie Boys
5. Frank Zappa (and the Mothers of Invention, at least some of them)
6. AC/DC
7. David Bowie
8. Bob Dylan
9. Ramones
10. Marvin Gaye
11. Elvis Costello
12. Madonna
1. Grateful Dead
ReplyDelete2. Rolling Stones
3. U2
4. Beastie Boys
5.
6.
7.
8. Bob Dylan
9.
10. Marvin Gaye
11.
12. Madonna
Dang it, I like rock music. I thought I'd know more.
Lessee...
ReplyDelete1. The Grateful Dead
2. The Rolling Stones
3. U2
4. The Beastie Boys
5. Frank Zappa
6. AC/DC
7. David Bowie
8. Bob Dylan
9. The Ramones
10. Marvin Gaye
11. Elvis Costello
12. Madonna
And, Physics and Philosophy is a righteous program of academic study.
ReplyDeleteMaking our big winners this week:
ReplyDeleteRocker la gringissima, with a perfect score.
Rocker DrSchnell, with a perfect score.
Rocker Elaine's daughter, who may -- or may not -- be studying philosophy and physics at the same time, but there's no way of checking for sure.
Rocker Dug has an almost-perfect score, but will nonetheless spend a grim hour wondering how he forgot about Bob Dylan's Christian phase.
So, with three episodes of the Wednesday Quiz left, the state of play is:
ReplyDelete1. Unwise Owl seizes first with a substantial lead -- but will start to have problems adding more points.
2. la gringissima jumps a place to second, with a little more room to move.
3. Mrs.5000 drops two places to third.
4. DrSchnell is well back from the top three, but with only seven numbers on the board.
5. Phineas is up two places from 7th -- looking for a late-season rally?
6. Cartophiliac is holding steady at sixth.
7. Elizabeth drops two to 7th, but has plenty of room to move.
8. nichim elbows her way into the top ten!
9. Ben trades places with Aviatrix.
10. Aviatrix trades places with Ben.
Elaine waits for a more favorable topic to launch back into the Top Ten, and is meanwhile very proud of her daughter, a highly complex construction of electromagnetic fields among atomic particles that possesses a remarkable but empirically untenable "consciousness" of agency.
Just to fill you in, M5000: yes, said daughter does exist (see early June blog post with picture of graying, bespectacled Mutti with two bespectacled Kinder.) Daughter's BA in Physics and Philosophy (Hendrix, 2003) was followed by MS and Ph.D. in Microelectronics and Photonics (Physics/Engineering field) AND a job (Research Physicist) as a Federal Employee. With health insurance. Your tax dollars at work! (I, on the other hand, did not understand a word of your notation.) On the other, other hand, said daughter does not cook.
ReplyDeleteDid those of us who provided the obligatory guitar solo get bonus points?
ReplyDeleteElaine: I can dig it.
ReplyDeleteAviatrix: You get boring postcards.
Yes!! weeba weeba weeba twang TWANG!
ReplyDelete(I'm a terrible guitar player).
Wow...I had the feeling that I was doing horribly this season...
ReplyDeleteNice.