Posted September 26, 20231 yr Hello again! Hope you all enjoyed taking part in Buzzjack Pointless – it’s now time for the results. We’ll kick off around 6ish – I’ll post a few tidbits in here before then. Feel free to discuss and speculate away until then!
September 26, 20231 yr Author A few public service announcements whilst we wait: - This week’s quiz will be held in The Lounge – please do take part, I’ll drop a link in here as soon as it’s open! - We’re still looking for a quiz host for next week in the Chart Forum – if you’re interested please leave a post in this thread - If you want to host a quiz that’s less chart-focussed and more general knowledge-focussed, we still have four free quiz slots in The Lounge. Pop a message in this thread if you’re interested!
September 26, 20231 yr Author Aaand a few notes before we begin: - 40 people took part in the quiz in total. All 40 completed both sections and made sure to take part in the ‘survey’ section, which I think is a first – and also means that there are some pretty high scoring answers! - If you didn’t put anything in the ‘Your Answer’ section and didn’t inform me otherwise, I took your first guess in the ‘name as many as possible’ section as your answer. - Whether I accepted ambiguous answers was at my discretion, but in general if I knew what you were getting at I accepted it. - Below you’ll see all the correct answers, and an incomplete selection of incorrect ones (this is because the more incorrect answers given, the harder it is to count – so I only included them if you voted early, you gave it as your answer, multiple people guessed it or I found it particularly amusing) - The highest scoring answer was guessed by all bar one person - There were eleven Pointless guesses during the quiz - Some of my decisions may be controversial – if enough people yell at me I might change my mind (and do let me know if I’ve gotten something wrong!) Also – on a slight change to the rules, because everyone did so well at guessing, I’ve change the rules to deduct 3 points from the top 3 best guessers
September 26, 20231 yr Author 1. Number 1 singles from 2022 or 2023 OiC1rgCPmUQ And so we begin with a question which everyone was able to give a good few answers to! Recency bias was definitely a thing here, with the top 4 answers being the last four number ones, even though three of them only spent a single week at the top. But Dua is clearly Buzzjack's favourite of the lot of them! Going down the list we see fairly small margins between everything, with no songs being forgotten and the best scoring answer being the first number 1 of 2022, Adele's Easy On Me (likely forgotton as it also had a long run in 2021). Unfortunately for elliotmith Sweet Melody topped the chart in 2021! Correct Answers 28 - Dua Lipa - Dance The Night - Cow P, Klaus 27 - Doja Cat - Paint the Town Red - awardinary, King Rollo 25 - Olivia Rodrigo - vampire 23 - Billie Eilish - What Was I Made For? 22 - Eliza Rose - B.O.T.A. (Baddest Of Them All) - Chez Wombat, oof, JulianT 21 - Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero - !!! 20 - Dave & Central Cee - Sprinter - LewisGT 20 - Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God) - Mango, ConArtistTim 20 - Harry Styles - As It Was 19 - Lewis Capaldi - Pointless 18 - Miley Cyrus - Flowers 18 - Lewis Capaldi - Forget Me - LiamSime, chrissmith276, Calum 17 - LF System - Afraid To Feel - Ansel 17 - RAYE (feat. 070 Shake) - Escapism. - Maestro 17 - Wham! - Last Chrismas 16 - Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding - Miracle - Addy! 15 - LadBaby - Food Aid - Brett-Butler, dandy*, Roboplop, SamM351, Jade 15 - Dave - Starlight - Hadji, Roba, baddaDan, jimwatts 14 - Ed Sheeran - Eyes Closed - Bjork, xajnipi 13 - Encanto Cast - We Don't Talk About Bruno 13 - Lewis Capaldi - Wish You The Best - Dobbo, I am Kenough 12 - David Guetta & Bebe Rexha - I'm Good (Blue) 12 - GAYLE - ABCDEFU - rio309, paulgilb, Y'all Starlight, Riser 12 - Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You - Anita Hanjaab, Mack. 11 - Sam Smith (feat. Kim Petras) - UNHOLY 7 - Adele - Easy On Me - conorw, RyanFM Incorrect Answers 1 - Olivia Rodrigo - Drivers License 1 - Olivia Rodrigo - Good 4 U 1 - Little Mix - Sweet Melody - elliotsmith 1 - No Answer - My Random Music Best Guessers 24 - jimwatts 23 - conorw 23 - Maestro 23 - Y'all Starlight 21 - I am Kenough 20 - RyanFM 19 - oof 18 - paulgilb 17 - Dobbo 17 - Riser 16 – LewisGT
September 26, 20231 yr I had Unholy and then I'm Good (Blue) as my answer before changing to Starlight in the last few seconds. Yay for guessing the most though!
September 26, 20231 yr Oh that's a decent start. I thought 'Starlight' wouldn't be too obvious an answer that'd score very high or anything!
September 26, 20231 yr Author 2. Top 40 singles by Lewis Capaldi zABLecsR5UE I chose this question as I knew that, despite him being massive, Mr. Capaldi only had a small number of songs actually get into the charts (just that nearly all of these were Top 10 hits). Someone You Loved is unsurprisingly the most popular here, with Pointless finishing second - likely due to the fact that that's the name of this quiz, even though I hadn't even thought about that before writing the question! The big success here came if you'd managed to remember either of his non-Top 10 hits - How I'm Feeling Now or Haven't You Ever Been In Love Before - both of which got significantly less than all his others. And a big well done to the five people who managed to get all ten songs! Correct Answers 38 - Someone You Loved - Brett-Butler 33 - Pointless - Cow P, Bjork, RyanFM, Roboplop, SamM351, awardinary 31 - Forget Me - King Rollo 29 - Before You Go - rio309, LewisGT 27 - Hold Me While You Wait - chrissmith276, Chez Wombat, Calum, Roba, !!!, Mack. 26 - Bruises - Hadji, dandy*, xajnipi, Addy!, Jade, Ansel 25 - Wish You The Best - LiamSime 23 - Grace - Anita Hanjaab, oof, paulgilb, Mango, Riser, ConArtistTim, JulianT 12 - How I'm Feeling Now - elliotsmith, I am Kenough, Klaus 9 - Haven't You Ever Been In Love Before? - conorw, Dobbo, Maestro, baddaDan, Y'all Starlight, jimwatts Incorrect Answers 1 - No Answer - My Random Music Best Guessers 10 - Maestro 10 - baddaDan 10 - Mango 10 - Y'all Starlight 10 - jimwatts 9 - conorw 9 - I am Kenough 9 - Klaus 9 - LewisGT
September 26, 20231 yr Not sure how proud I am that I knew all of Lewis capaldi’s charting singles but I’ll take it I guess
September 26, 20231 yr Author 3. Artists from South Korea credited on a Top 40 single gdZLi9oWNZg A clear Top 3 on this question! BTS and BLACKPINK make up the Top 2, being the biggest male and female K-Pop artists respectively (and with most of the following artists being a part of one or the other). Just behind them we have the icon that is PSY - just as memorable as the others, but clearly percieved as less so by a lot of people given how many chose him as their final answer! Below that we have some recency bias for Jung Kook and V who have both charted in recent weeks. Lower scorers come from Peggy Gou, from South Korea but not a K-Pop artist which I imagine caused a lot to miss her out, and of course Pinkfong with everyone's favourite childrens' song! A few incorrect answers here include ROSE, who just missed out on a Top 40 hit, TWICE who have surprisingly never been in the Top 100, and LiamSime unfortunately listing songs instead of artists - an easy mistake to make! Correct Answers 35 - BTS - Mack. 32 - BLACKPINK - rio309, Addy! 31 - PSY - Brett-Butler, Hadji, Chez Wombat, elliotsmith, Anita Hanjaab, Roboplop, SamM351, awardinary, Maestro, King Rollo, JulianT 20 - Jung Kook - dandy* 19 - V - chrissmith276, Bjork, conorw, xajnipi, Klaus, Y'all Starlight, ConArtistTim 13 - Fifty Fifty - Jade, jimwatts, Ansel 9 - Jimin - Dobbo, I am Kenough, Riser, !!! 8 - Peggy Gou - Roba, oof 5 - Jisoo - RyanFM, baddaDan, LewisGT 4 - j-hope 2 - Pinkfong - paulgilb, Mango Incorrect Answers 3 - TWICE 2 - ROSE - Cow P 2 - No Answer - Calum, My Random Music 2 - NewJeans 1 - Butter - LiamSime 1 - 2NE1 Best Guessers 10 - LewisGT 9 - Dobbo 9 - baddaDan 8 - Riser 8 - Ansel 7 - paulgilb 7 - Y'all Starlight 6 - Cow P 6 - chrissmith276 6 - conorw
September 26, 20231 yr Oops not the best start (thought 'Food Aid' might be a good one in case people forgot what the latest LadBaby single was, but clearly not :lol:) but happy with how FIFTY FIFTY went.
September 26, 20231 yr Lol at me thinking Jung Kook was like really obscure!! I was dreadful at that one
September 26, 20231 yr I thought I'd guessed 7 of those (the top 6 plus Peggy Gou), still some way off the bonus though. I couldn't remember the name of Jimin, ironically!
September 26, 20231 yr I thought Peggy was a German now. :lol: That would mean she's still a South Korean citizen?
September 26, 20231 yr The first three questions I couldn't think of much to put in the list of other answers or a very good one for my main answer. All a bit too 2020s for me.
September 26, 20231 yr Author I thought Peggy was a German now. :lol: That would mean she's still a South Korean citizen? Wikipedia describes her as 'a South Korean DJ'! Plus the wording of the question said she had to be 'from' there which is definitely true (this will definitely come back to bite me looking at one of my decisions for a later question :P). Q4 coming up now, sorry for the delay!
September 26, 20231 yr Author 4. People who have collaborated with Ed Sheeran on a Top 100 single ehQcuKhO5n0 This one was one of the most open questions on the quiz, as whilst there are plenty of artists remembered for collaborating with Ed, there are quite a fefw who are a lot less well known - and the fact it was a Top 100 single meant that some less-known features appeared. And hence, we get our first pointless answers of the quiz! Well done to those of you who remembered Sheeran's collaboration with Nick Mason nd Mike Rutherford, as I don't think I remember it at all. And of course 'Boa Me' with Fuse ODG and Mugeez was quite the song! Everyone managed to avoid the top two answers though - Stormzy and Taylor. Now here's the slightly controversial part, as we go into the incorrect answers. Technically Beyoncé, Andrea Bocelli and Lil Baby did release versions of Sheeran songs which reached the Top 100, but none of them were credited. Now I realise I didn't put 'credited' in the question, but I hope I implied it in my introductory post, so for now I've not included them. Pharrell is a similar situation - whilst he did perform on 'Sing', he didn't get a credit. Other incorrect answers are some people who would reasonably collaborate with Ed Sheeran, but I'm rather thankful he's not done one with Drake yet! Correct Answers 30 - Stormzy 30 - Taylor Swift 28 - Camila Cabello - Addy!, Riser, JulianT 27 - Justin Bieber - King Rollo 22 - Khalid - Bjork, awardinary 22 - Elton John 20 - Eminem - paulgilb, Mack. 19 - LadBaby - ConArtistTim 16 - Cardi B - oof 15 - Fireboy DML 14 - Rudimental - Cow P, chrissmith276, I am Kenough 13 - Burna Boy - elliotsmith, rio309 12 - Aitch - LiamSime, dandy*, Roboplop 11 - Chance The Rapper - Dobbo, Roba 9 - PnB Rock - Hadji, Jade 6 - Devlin - Chez Wombat, RyanFM, Klaus, jimwatts 3 - Fuse ODG - Maestro, Ansel 2 - Future 1 - Russ - conorw, LewisGT 1 - Wretch 32 - baddaDan 0 - Nick Mason - Brett-Butler 0 - Mugeez - Mango 0 - Mike Rutherford - Y'all Starlight Incorrect Answers 10 - Beyoncé - SamM351 4 - Pharrell Williams - xajnipi 4 - Andrea Bocelli - Anita Hanjaab 4 - Lil Baby 3 - Travis Scott 2 - Bruno Mars 2 - Drake 1 - Lil Tjay 1 - Demi Lovato - Calum 1 - No Answer - My Random Music 1 - Skepta 1 - Paulo Londra - !!! Best Guessers 16 - Mango 16 - Y'all Starlight 15 - RyanFM 15 - baddaDan 14 - Maestro 14 - LewisGT 13 - Ansel 12 - Mack. 11 - chrissmith276 11 - Dobbo 11 - oof 11 - Riser
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