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Posted by: awardinary 16th May 2020, 01:00 PM

You love to be a detective and guess from the clues given, this album cover quiz is just that! Following on from the success of M4NGO’s album cover quiz recently, these snippets from album covers are from varying genres and time periods. There is no set chart peak criteria here, though many of these albums would have peaked relatively high in the UK or elsewhere, but not all of them.

Additionally, this album cover quiz has a hidden theme contained within, which is Greatest Hits! Correctly count the number of ‘Greatest Hits’ albums contained within these 40 album covers to receive bonus points! You can also get bonus points for guessing how many albums peaked at #1 and which ones did not chart at all.

Having not hosted a quiz of this kind before, I’m not sure on a scale of difficulty how easy or challenging this will prove to be for you all, but hopefully you’ll figure them out! The deadline for entries is Saturday 23rd May 2020 at 23:59 and the results will come the following day. http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?act=Msg&CODE=4&MID=21587 working numerically across each row of 4 images until you reach the bottom row.

You can score points as follows;

10 points for correct artist and album.
or
5 points for correct artist (without album name)
or
5 points for correct album (without artist name)

and there are lots of ways to earn extra points including;

25 bonus points for correctly guessing the number of ‘Greatest Hits’ albums (this includes any album with a collection of the artist’s hits or singles from other albums by that artist, not just albums with “Greatest Hits” in their title)
and
25 bonus points for correctly guessing the number of albums which peaked at #1 in the UK Albums Chart
and
10 bonus points for correctly guessing the two albums which did not chart in the UK Albums Chart

Get started!



Participants (27):

:')
Bjork
Bré
chrissmith276
Cremey
DalekTurret32
dan-G
Jade
J🐠hq
jimwatts
Jordan Lee
King Rollo
LewisGT
✖ leww ✖
Mack
M4NGO
MrAndrewMan
n4yr
PeteFromLeeds
Riser
Rush
Sarah
Scene
StoneDragon
The Hit Parade
vibe
West

Posted by: Jordan Lee 17th May 2020, 01:15 AM

I’ll be entering this!

Definitely some I remember instantly and also some what I’ve legit got no idea at all on!

Posted by: Jordan Lee 17th May 2020, 01:19 AM

32 is already stressing me.

I think it’s something what my dad definitely owns I can visualise the cover right away but can’t for the life remember who it actually is.

Posted by: M4NGO 17th May 2020, 11:05 AM

Nice to do an album covers quiz that isn't my own

Think I've got about half of them so far but there's a few that I should definitely get but just can't put my finger on right now. 3 and 38 are annoying me the most at the moment because I know I know them!!

Posted by: Bjork 18th May 2020, 09:40 AM

for the last question, you mean they didn't go top 40? or didn't chart at all?

Posted by: M4NGO 18th May 2020, 10:44 AM

The dancing pineapple is annoying me because I don't know if I should know it or not lol. Same with the smiley face, I don't know if it's something really obvious or obscure!

Posted by: awardinary 18th May 2020, 10:48 AM

Didn’t chart at all (Top 100 only).

Posted by: awardinary 18th May 2020, 04:19 PM

I’ve noticed since making this quiz that at least 2 of the albums from this selection are featured in other album quizzes within BuzzJack so that might be a clue to help you in your quest for answers!

Posted by: Cremey 18th May 2020, 04:25 PM

Number 12 😍

Posted by: awardinary 20th May 2020, 09:05 PM

Bump with just two participants so far, more are welcome.

Posted by: The Hit Parade 20th May 2020, 09:22 PM

I'm not sure whether to go in now or wait and see if I recognise any more of them.

Posted by: M4NGO 20th May 2020, 10:38 PM

I think everyone's waiting until they get a few more. I might just submit mine tonight though cos I think I've got as many as I'm gonna get (I think I've done fairly well though).

Posted by: awardinary 20th May 2020, 10:43 PM

Yes of course, if you wanted more time to think you can wait until nearer the deadline, it’s coming up to just under 3 days now.

Also, if you wanted to send some answers now and others later (if you think of them after submitting) I’ll of course accept that up until the set deadline.

Posted by: Bjork 21st May 2020, 06:44 AM

There's a couple I got at the tip of my tongue but cannot recall, but I know I might even have the CD
But I'm totally lost with the pineapple and the smiley ones

Posted by: StoneDragon 21st May 2020, 08:57 AM

I'm terrible at these - I currently only know 5 - is it worth me entering?

Posted by: awardinary 21st May 2020, 09:37 AM

I’d say have a go, plus your points will go toward your overall quiz score on the leaderboard.

Posted by: dan-G 21st May 2020, 09:47 AM

even if you only know one, you’re basically guaranteed leaderboard points unless we get a huge rush of entries towards the end (top 30 get points).

Posted by: :') 21st May 2020, 12:20 PM

I'm still stuck on the pineapple one

Posted by: M4NGO 21st May 2020, 12:28 PM

It's either totally obvious or really obscure, I just can't work out which one

Posted by: awardinary 21st May 2020, 10:59 PM

48 hours left to participate in this quiz! 5 Participants so far.

Posted by: chrissmith276 22nd May 2020, 02:31 AM

I will be entering.

The smile is doing my head in haha!

Posted by: ✖ leww ✖ 22nd May 2020, 04:02 AM

i've played!!! amazing quiz.

Posted by: awardinary 22nd May 2020, 10:59 PM

Only 24 hours left to participate in this week’s quiz. We are up to 7 participants now, please take part even if you know just a few answers you will get some points!

Posted by: Jade 🐝 22nd May 2020, 11:02 PM

Will have a go tomorrow!

Posted by: Jordan Lee 22nd May 2020, 11:10 PM

Set a reminder to do this tomorrow afternoon. I know like less than half but have gotten one more than I had yesterday today when I closely looked at one of the covers as I spotted it in my iTunes library

Posted by: awardinary 23rd May 2020, 10:59 AM

12 hours left to send your entries now! 9 participants.

Posted by: Jordan Lee 23rd May 2020, 12:32 PM

I’m coming last but I’ve entered!

Number 25 is the ones what’s stressing me bc I know I’ve seen it. I went through my cd collection though and it’s not there and it’s not in my iTunes library either

Hoping I’ve somehow slayed the bonus questions!

Posted by: Scene 23rd May 2020, 01:37 PM

I've only managed about a dozen. This is really difficult! I decided not to waste any more time trying to figure this out.

Posted by: J🐠hq 23rd May 2020, 04:40 PM

I will enter but I've only got seven so far which I feel is rather disappointing as a percentage of total covers in the game, and compared to what I got in M4NGO's puzzle

But then there's only a couple that are actually bugging me, the majority I haven't got a clue..

Posted by: awardinary 23rd May 2020, 05:01 PM

Just under 6 hours to go now.

Posted by: Bré 23rd May 2020, 05:09 PM

Let me try not to forget about this like I did with the previous 2 cover puzzles

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 23rd May 2020, 05:31 PM

Had a first look at this and got 8 on first look which is considerably more than usual but I'd still like to get a few more!

Posted by: awardinary 23rd May 2020, 08:11 PM

Just 3 hours to go for entries, please send them to count towards the total score.

Posted by: Riser 23rd May 2020, 08:49 PM

Submitted my answers, hoping my strategy worked at least slightly in my favor

Posted by: awardinary 23rd May 2020, 09:14 PM

Thanks for keeping the entries coming, now up to 21 participants with less than 2 hours to go, time to get that last minute message to me please!

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 23rd May 2020, 09:23 PM

Entered!

Posted by: ✖ leww ✖ 23rd May 2020, 09:25 PM

great turnout!

Posted by: awardinary 23rd May 2020, 09:59 PM

One final call for entries as we approach the final hour of this quiz! Please enter if you haven’t done so!

Posted by: Jade 23rd May 2020, 10:58 PM

Had a really busy day today so I left this way too late as a result, most are random guesses but I think I at least have a double-figure amount right

Posted by: awardinary 23rd May 2020, 11:17 PM

Thanks everyone!

We managed to get a respectable 25 entries when early signs pointed to a low turnout! Very happy with this, though not quite the 29 that M4NGO managed to get on the previous Album Cover Quiz!

Results coming tomorrow hopefully but if anyone wishes to send a last minute entry, usually there is leniency on this forum, so I’ll follow suit and allow up to midday tomorrow in case anyone wishes to send a late entry or alteration to their entry, but no later.

Thank you all for participating!

Posted by: Bré 23rd May 2020, 11:21 PM

I'm pretty sure these quizzes always get barely any entrants until the last couple of days xx