My name is... My name is... My name is... Slim Shady

[venta]

Fancy a lyrics quiz ? Go on, it's Friday.

ChrisC and I have been evolving this quiz for a week or so now, and we think it's about time to unleash it on the world.

For each question, simply fill in the name which has been removed from the lyric. If you want to be smug, you can name the artist and song title as well, but that's not required.

For example:

It's me, ________, I've come home.

Would be "Cathy", from Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush.
Sometimes a single gap denotes more than one word missing:

________, dance on air

Would be "Ginger Rogers", from Vogue by Madonna.



If you don't like the poll format, post your answers as an anonymous comment, which will be screened.

[Poll #383221]


Update: Bits I forgot earlier: No googling, obviously. No going and listening to check the name if you think you've identified the song :)
If you want to change/update/add to your answers, go here, select Fill Out Poll and you can.

Update2: Sorry about the formatting cock-up between 14 and 15.
Also, "named" in question 35 should read "name of", and "name of" in question 19 should read "named" :(

Update3: Since people are still wandering along here, and being pointed here by others... I'm afraid to announce that this quiz was closed on 19/11/04. People are still welcome to fill the poll in, of course, but they won't get scores calculated for them. Full answers, and a score table, can be found here.

Comments

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

Good quiz!

[http://users.livejournal.com/elle_/]

It's great.

I started doing it but I could only get seven of them so I was too embarrassed to submit it.

Oh well.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Question 14 has odd formatting. Is this going to be a "can't change it now" problem?

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Yay! Fun quiz! Much better than the regular 'name the artist / title' type.

[uitlander]

Well, I think I've just confirmed that I'm an old git with weird musical tastes. Never mind eh?

Aaah! That's better!

[wimble.livejournal.com]

There's an awful lot of this which goes "I know it, I know it. I'll just sing it... Argh, no! I can't remember that line!"

But having got back to my mp3 collection, I've corrected the one answer where I knew I was wrong!

[leathellin.livejournal.com]

Well I didn't cheat but I did have metame sitting here who might have got slightly over half 'my' answers :-)

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Very good quiz.

How long do I have to post again if I do decide to promote it?

[triskellian]

My answers are also a joint effort. By which I mean, I did the typing and smiorgan did most of the knowing stuff about music ;-)

[broadmeadow.livejournal.com]

Fab. I do like a lyric quiz; feeble answers submitted. There's a couple there which are bugging me and I'll probably have to Google for, if only to put me out of my misery. (I promise not to go back to it if I do.) There's quite a few I really don't recognise at all and fear are a probably little too modern for me - but ta for putting in some oldies too!

Many millions of hero points to you and Chris for putting it together.

[cuthbertcross.livejournal.com]

Hoorah! Great quiz; I came home from work really knackered and a bit stressed and this has really helped me unwind. I don't promise a good score, but I really enjoyed not getting it!

[pookee.livejournal.com]

Excellent quiz, though you might have spotted some comedy answers in there from me. Can I just say you'd be welcome to post your quizzes in pubquiz? They'd love them over there!

[eostar.livejournal.com]

Hello:)

You do know me ... Hope you don't mind me doing your quiz... It's a good 'un! I need distracting, It's been a mad day ^_^

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

Fabulous quiz. The most annoying ones are those where I know the song well but have a mental block for the name :)

[cardinalsin.livejournal.com]

I only bothered answering because several people professed to being able to answer a number of questions totalling not more than one digit. I now join their ranks!

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

Excellent quiz; hope I'm not too late, as I think I did reasonably well!

[ruudboy.livejournal.com]

Excellent quiz. I'm going to kick myself too when I see the answers to 18, 29 and 48.

[addedentry.livejournal.com]

Damn, that's a great quiz. Sorry I was too late to play (not that it stopped me completing the poll before reading the answers), and even sorrier to have missed Dammit Janet ...

[duranorak.livejournal.com]

Came and did this just because I could. :) Didn't actually realise it was closed - but there you go, it was good fun nonetheless, and an excellent idea.

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[spyinthehaus.livejournal.com]

Oops - I just did it as well, How silly of me. By the looks of the answers, I would have got about 40...

The moral of the story being that, on average, everybody in songs is called Johnny.