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Another great quiz from our favorite intern Jason Plautz. There are some song lyrics that are so poetic, so real that they just make your heart stop and your eyes flutter. These aren’t them. Click here to play!
100%. Never a doubt.
posted by Miss Cellania on 8-31-2007 at 8:52 am
100% as well, some were rediculously easy… i.e. The Ramones.
posted by Scott on 8-31-2007 at 9:07 am
100%, as well. Too easy!
posted by JustMarci on 8-31-2007 at 9:08 am
100%. Whoo Hoo!!!!
posted by JaneM on 8-31-2007 at 9:13 am
100% one of your easiest, I’d have to say. Loads of fun!
posted by Emily Jane on 8-31-2007 at 9:21 am
100%. To be honest, I looked at about 12 of the photos and knew what the samples would be before I played them. Spice Girls? Zig-a-zig-ah, of course. Steam only ever had one hit, so that was a gimme.
A fun idea for a quiz, but maybe next time choose some not-s-obvious artists/songs.
posted by Jill on 8-31-2007 at 12:57 pm
Sweet! 100% for me too!
posted by Scott A. on 8-31-2007 at 1:53 pm
I love sound quizzes! How about an all scat quiz?
posted by elizabutt on 8-31-2007 at 3:06 pm
I got 100% too. There definitely were some really easy ones in there. It was still a fun way to spend my break at school.
posted by Emily on 8-31-2007 at 3:10 pm
apparently gibberish isn’t on my ipod, I only answered 4 of them correctly!
posted by korin on 8-31-2007 at 3:23 pm
100% to easy.
posted by Patch on 8-31-2007 at 8:56 pm
100%
I think Sting (of The Police) might be too smart to be a song writer. I had to look up “Scylla and Charybdis” (from “Wrapped Around Your Finger”) in the dictionary.
posted by Tdave on 9-1-2007 at 12:28 am
Yes, it was too easy, although I had to go back to Otis. I am very ashamed!!
posted by gus on 9-1-2007 at 6:01 am
Interesting idea, but way to easy. Aren’t Scylla and Charybdis from ancient Greek mythology?
posted by bobthewalrus on 9-1-2007 at 4:44 pm
Scylla is a dangerous rock in the straits of Messina, opposite the whirlpool Charybdis: In Greek mythology they were personified as female monsters.
The song lyric is “….caught between the Scylla and Charybdis.” It’s like the saying “Caught between a rock and a hard place.”
posted by Tdave on 9-3-2007 at 2:23 am
100% with no doubts and no replays. Way too easy!
posted by Marta on 9-4-2007 at 2:24 pm