Comments on: The Music Intelligence Quiz Wants To Know: Are You Smarter Than An Icelander?

By: BakerStreetSaxSolo

BakerStreetSaxSolo — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:28:10 +0000

159 – Coldplay, Bela Lugosi, and something else I cannae mind

By: Chris Molanphy

Chris Molanphy — Wed, 28 May 2008 04:46:51 +0000

Oh…and, as usual, I bow before Dan.

By: Chris Molanphy

Chris Molanphy — Wed, 28 May 2008 04:45:42 +0000

Getting in late, sorry. (Long day...)

150. Missed mostly the usual suspects, but I got the Bad Brains question right--you guys almost psyched me out on that one. Most embarrassing misses for me were Kinks and Björk.

By: DavidWatts

DavidWatts — Wed, 28 May 2008 04:08:14 +0000

@punkybunky: right? Who gives a fuck about Coldplay. "What inspired yellow?" Radiohead?

120. I'm drunk, so leave me alone.

By: Dan Gibson

Dan Gibson — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:10:28 +0000

@Chris Molanphy: I'm almost certain a high score comes with a badge of shame, actually.

By: punkybunky

punkybunky — Wed, 28 May 2008 01:55:08 +0000

120--Did they mean to make the Mouse on Mars question so easy?

I made educated guesses to some, like the Monterey Pop, Polyphonic Spree, & Bjork questions. Got the punk questions, but also the Frankie goes to Hollywood question. (Pays to watch Zoolander one too many times?)

Wrong: Yellow, Ryan Adams, minimalist composers, Beatles, ZZ Top, Otis Redding, & a couple others.

By: Lieutenant 030

Lieutenant 030 — Wed, 28 May 2008 01:44:20 +0000

153 - missed Monterey Pop, Coldplay, Ryan Adams, and Ronnie Scott.

I suspect some questions are worth more points than others. 26 out of 30 should be 156 out of 180, if they're all worth the same amount.

By: moomintroll

moomintroll — Wed, 28 May 2008 01:23:32 +0000

@Jay-C: Me three...
I was happy with my 114, I didn't know the Coldplay question, the Ryan Adams question, and that one about modern classical music. I was so pleased until I saw what everyone on here says they got. Hmmph. (nerds) :)

By: blobby

blobby — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:45:12 +0000

@Jay-C: Yeah, me too. What the holy hell is wrong with you people?

By: BadUncle

BadUncle — Tue, 27 May 2008 09:57:28 +0000

I’m a “Birthday Party DJ!” oddly accurate, that.

By: Charlie Kerfelds Jetsons Tee

Charlie Kerfelds Jetsons Tee — Tue, 27 May 2008 09:38:16 +0000

156/180.

Missed the Kinks question (D'oh!), the Spree/Broken Social Scene question, the Ryan Adams question, and the Bad Brains question.

I could've SWORN Broken Social Scene has more members than the Polyphonic Spree.

I am also very embarassed that I knew the answer to the Coldplay question.

By: moomintroll

moomintroll — Tue, 27 May 2008 09:03:16 +0000

at first I thought this quiz was made just for me! That Kinks song is one of my fave songs, as is Bela Lugosi’s Dead. And the Factory records/Tony Wilson question…come on too easy!
Then came the modern classical questions and stuff about Coldplay’s inspiration for Yellow. I mean do Coldplay know the answer to that?

By: walkmasterflex

walkmasterflex — Tue, 27 May 2008 08:51:38 +0000

wow, i thought that bad brains question was more common knowledge. i’ve clearly spent too much time reading wikipedia/living in the midatlantic punk scene

By: Chris N.

Chris N. — Tue, 27 May 2008 08:29:41 +0000

All the punk questions screwed me up. I thought I knew more about punk.

By: mackro

mackro — Tue, 27 May 2008 08:18:44 +0000

144: Wrong: Monterey Pop, Coldplay, Ryan Adams, Kinks song, and I forget what else.

By: rogerniner

rogerniner — Tue, 27 May 2008 08:00:53 +0000

147/180: Wrong – Monterey Pop, first Punk single, Bad Brains name, (standard misses for an ex-pseudo raver) Ryan Adams name, Coldplay

By: silkyjumbo

silkyjumbo — Tue, 27 May 2008 07:52:37 +0000

162. damn you coldplay, bad brains, and ronnie scott. and i totally guessed on the ryan adams one – i don’t think i’ve ever listened to a ryan adams song.

By: rogerniner

rogerniner — Tue, 27 May 2008 07:52:16 +0000

@friendslikeJimRome: Icelanders use ketchup on spaghetti, and eat rotten shark that they pee on to preserve it in the ground. Also, Iceland has only 300,000 people. How many Americans have taken the quiz so far? We can beat them with our numbers alone!

By: TheBeard

TheBeard — Tue, 27 May 2008 07:38:14 +0000

144 — they got me on the kinks, ryan adams, bjork, zz top, and the minimalism one

By: baconfat

baconfat — Tue, 27 May 2008 07:27:00 +0000

150. i’m pretty sure deep down i knew the bad brains answer but i guessed wrong.