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Weekend Genius Challenge #10 Winner!
by Sandy Wood - December 10, 2007 - 8:37 AM

The entrant with the most correct answers was Bryan, who (amazingly!) came up with 14 of the 15 songs in our percussion medley from 1980. So Bryan, congratulations! We’ll drop you an email and then get your T-shirt in the mail to you ASAP.

The answers follow after the break, but if you’d like to try the puzzle without seeing the correct answers, just click here and give it a shot. Thanks to all those who played!

Correct answers:

1. “Call Me” by Blondie
2. “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” by Hall & Oates
3. “Whip It” by Devo
4. “Rock with You” by Michael Jackson
5. “Workin’ My Way Back To You”/”Forgive Me Girl” by The Spinners
6. “Little Jeannie” by Elton John
7. “Emotional Rescue” by The Rolling Stones
8. “Hungry Heart” by Bruce Springsteen
9. “Master Blaster (Jammin’)” by Stevie Wonder
10. “The Long Run” by the Eagles
11. “Dreamin’” by Cliff Richard
12. “How Do I Make You” by Linda Ronstadt
13. “Into the Night” by Benny Mardones
14. “In America” by The Charlie Daniels Band
15. “You May be Right” by Billy Joel

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Comments (3)

  1. Wow, Bryan! Very impressive. Congrats.

    posted by Will on 12-10-2007 at 9:01 am

  2. Wow, Bryan! Very impressive. Congrats.

    posted by Will on 12-10-2007 at 9:01 am

  3. Thanks! I was able to identify about 8 or 9 of them immediately but didn’t follow up until I saw that no one else had guessed than many as of Saturday night.

    Then when I saw some incorrect guesses (Pina Colada Song, Tide is High) I knew I had a shot and proceeded to dig through my iTunes library for the remainder of the songs. The hardest two were How Do I Make You and In America (since I don’t have any Country in my library) but was able to listen to clips online to help identify them.

    Oddly, the only one I missed, Dreamin’, was one that I checked several times in my iTunes but I think somehow the front end of the song was chopped off and I didn’t make the connection.

    Lookin’ forward to the next mentalfloss music quiz!

    posted by Bryan on 12-10-2007 at 11:25 am

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