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Where Knowledge Junkies Get Their Fix
Calling all guitarists and the heroes who love ‘em! Sure you know the songs when you hear ‘em with the lyrics, but do you know them just by their guitar solos? Take our classic Guitar Solo quiz and find out.
Awesome Quiz. I aced it….of course, I do play guitar and have every one of these albums.
posted by Ian on 8-1-2008 at 11:07 am
50% Knew half, guessed at half. Guess I’m not a good guesser…
posted by Point Special on 8-1-2008 at 11:53 am
None of the music is playing for me (the rest of the audio quizzes have always worked)
posted by Tristan Hartry on 8-1-2008 at 12:03 pm
Tristan: what platform? Mac or PC? The clips take a little while to load. Try again and be patient. If they’re still not working for you, try another browser. If that doesnt’ work, let me know what kind of computer and browser you’re using and I’ll look into it. Thanks, and sorry!
posted by David K. Israel on 8-1-2008 at 12:30 pm
Left it loading a solid 10 minutes so that’s not it. XP pc with Firefox.
Upon trying with IE it did work, but the firefox page is still sitting there sad and lonely.
posted by Tristan Hartry on 8-1-2008 at 12:33 pm
I got everyone right! Took me a while though, had to remember. Good tuens :-)
Of course I do play guitar and have all of those albums…
haha! arrogance is funny.
And sad.
posted by Emily on 8-1-2008 at 12:34 pm
I obviously play way too much Guitar Hero!
posted by Dana on 8-1-2008 at 1:27 pm
Had the same problems with Firefox and XP. Worked fine with IE. 100%.
posted by Stew on 8-1-2008 at 1:30 pm
Aced it!
BTW, working fine on FF and OSX.
posted by Marci on 8-1-2008 at 2:21 pm
100%:-).
posted by Eli on 8-1-2008 at 2:34 pm
100% yea!
posted by Lynne on 8-1-2008 at 5:17 pm
Ok… now I’m really losing patience.
Audio won’t play in Firefox (always has before. Tried multiple times.
And when I try IE it crashes when I click on the link to take the test! 5 times now.
I see I’m not the only one that has had difficulties.
posted by Nerak on 8-1-2008 at 6:40 pm
Aced it. And that’s just from listening to the radio which, between the car and just relaxing at home, I do a lot.
posted by Chris on 8-3-2008 at 3:57 pm
Finally got the quiz to work in IE, with some sporadic crashing. The weirdest thing was I had to hold the “Shift” key down while clicking on the links and also when submitting so that it wouldn’t crash!
I didn’t ace it like I thought I would. But I got a respectable 11/16 anyway. (Missed Grateful Dead, Young, Police, Yes, and Jane’s Addiction)
posted by Nerak on 8-4-2008 at 3:36 pm
That was a lot of fun. Got 100%.
Can you do something simular with keyboards? Or how about opening riffs?
posted by Andy on 8-6-2008 at 12:47 am