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Posted by: JulianT 4th April 2021, 10:12 AM

Hi all

Here is my quiz for this week - I know it’s not long since the last NMTB quiz but this is the first time I’ve hosted anything so I wanted to stick to a tried and tested format.

There are 20 clips, all mashed together, for you to identify. Please PM me your answers, listing the artist and title for each of Numbers 1 to 20.

All the songs are Top 40 hits and I think the majority are well known. Most are from this century, but all six decades from the 1970s to the 2020s are represented.

There is also a connecting theme between 19 of the 20 answers. Please identify this connection, and the red herring.

Also please guess which will be the most and the least correctly identified clips. You can give me a number from 1 to 20 for this even if you don’t know it yourself.
Obviously no Shazam-ing, but otherwise use of internet, for example to look for songs that might fit the theme, is fine.

Here are the clips. Apologies that the the quality is not brilliant - my technology is slightly limited.



Scoring

2 points for each artist (please do include all OCC credits)
2 points for each title
Bonuses:
1) What is the theme connecting the clips? (5)
2) Which clip is the red herring? (5)
3) Which will be the most correctly answered clip? (5)
4) Which will be the least correctly answered clip? (5)

Total 100

Good luck!

Posted by: JulianT 4th April 2021, 10:13 AM

Participants: 25
garyfeld, Mangø, chrissmith276, jimwatts, Dobbo., dan::G, Bjork, paulglib, n4yr, PeteFromLeeds, Riser, StoneDragon, Jade, coi, Chez Wombat, King Rollo, LewisGT, Ansel, dandy*, CJK, Mack., vibe, LiamSime, uptempo_owww!, awardinary

Posted by: Mangø 4th April 2021, 03:48 PM

Nailed the connection! Just got a few more songs to get.

Posted by: Mangø 6th April 2021, 04:47 PM

Entered

Posted by: JulianT 7th April 2021, 05:15 PM

Just giving this a bump - think it’s a very doable quiz so give it a go!

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 7th April 2021, 05:23 PM

I've only got six so far so desparately trying to find some theme which might help me get a few more!

Posted by: JulianT 8th April 2021, 05:33 PM

QUOTE(PeteFromLeeds @ Apr 7 2021, 06:23 PM)

Posted by: Dobbo. 9th April 2021, 02:10 PM

First half went pretty well. Second half terribly.

Posted by: JulianT 10th April 2021, 07:56 AM

Thanks very much to the 9 entrants so far! Keep them coming - I’ll send some friendly reminders to the regular quizzers who haven’t entered later in the weekend.

Posted by: JulianT 11th April 2021, 07:42 AM

Deadline’s officially at the end of today but I’ll leave it until tomorrow 5pm or so and finalise the results after work. I guess it’s not the end of the world if there are fewer participants than usual but it would be nice to have some more.

If you’re on the leaderboard I may spam you with a personal reminder.
Lots of guaranteed participation points as it stands!

Posted by: Mangø 11th April 2021, 10:12 AM

From experience there's always a surge of last minute entries!

Posted by: Jade 11th April 2021, 01:29 PM

Entered

Posted by: coi 11th April 2021, 02:14 PM

Also entered!

Posted by: dandy* 11th April 2021, 09:43 PM

Entered!

I'm not at all sure I've got the odd one out correct but we'll see

Posted by: CJK 11th April 2021, 09:49 PM

Entered. Put an answer for most of them... but there's only so many times you can sit there listening to them over and again. You either know or you don't.

Posted by: awardinary 11th April 2021, 09:52 PM

I would still like to enter if I get time to before the extended deadline!

Posted by: JulianT 11th April 2021, 10:01 PM

QUOTE(awardinary @ Apr 11 2021, 10:52 PM)

Posted by: JulianT 11th April 2021, 10:02 PM

Up to 20 entrants now - thanks all!

I’ll keep it open until 7pm tomorrow as I’ll be working during the day anyway.

Posted by: LiamSime 11th April 2021, 10:04 PM

Could I enter as well? I can give my answers tomorrow morning, I take it it’s okay to leave some blank if you don’t know them, I doubt I’ll know them all! 😂

Posted by: JulianT 11th April 2021, 10:09 PM

QUOTE(LiamSime @ Apr 11 2021, 11:04 PM)

Posted by: JulianT 12th April 2021, 12:28 PM

Just a few hours to go - I can reveal that one of the bonuses is on a knife edge and the picture has changed several times!

Posted by: LiamSime 12th April 2021, 12:35 PM

I have PM’d you my answers but they are not saying if they have sent, did you receive them?

Posted by: JulianT 12th April 2021, 12:38 PM

QUOTE(LiamSime @ Apr 12 2021, 01:35 PM)

Posted by: JulianT 12th April 2021, 06:41 PM

Entries now closed!

Results from 9pm.