I was astonished – 13/15 – (lots of lateral guesses).
Anybody else going to have a go?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5zJW6gYsCHXTwg3Z0X5QVM5/take-6-musics-ultimate-bowie-quiz
BBC Bowie Quiz
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10 (Under Pressure).
It seems I know more about Dave in the 60s 70s and 80s than I do for the following 3 decades.
Time to buff up the trivia and do the Bowie Listening Project … backwards
I got 15 but several of them were complete guesses.
13/15 The 60’s single and the name of the play got me.
Moi Aussi (although I did guess at 2 of them)
Et moi. (;
14 – with a lot of guesses.
God bless multiple choice, the saviour (machine) of lazy barstits everywhere.
The hardest exams I ever sat were multiple choice physiology exams, and this was in a degree with 95 100%-of-assessment exams over 5 years (and just one assignment!).
First, the 5 choices were very technical and only marginally separated.
Next, there was negative marking so you actually lost a mark for each incorrect answer, so it was entirely possible to get a negative final score.
Then, you were docked 20% of your score at the end on the assumption that you had guessed them.
Finally, the pass mark was 60%.
Students today seem to have the personal resilience of a quiche, so I imagine this sort of thing is no longer allowed.
I think negative marking is long gone. I think it should come back, especially for albums. Every duff track you get a partial refund – musicians are making too much money as it is.
I was stunned when I got to university and found out you could pass on 40%.. A bone-idle coaster’s dream.
(cue joke about Yakety-Yak)
I think the dumbing down of Australian universities is evidenced by me working my arse off in my undergrad degree from 89-93 and getting a GPA of 5.6 (5=credit, 6=distinction, 7=high distinction), which was enough to get me honours. Doing my postgrad degree at the same Uni 15 years later I received a GPA of 7 without much effort (and with no honours).
11 with a fair number of guesses
I gave up after not having the faintest idea about the first 3. It demands obsessive levels of biographical knowledge rather than music fandom.
I almost gave up after I didn’t have a Scooby about those
12 with quite a few guesses.
Ditto
13 with use of The Force…
….or are you the man with the power of voodoo?
13 – the play and the stage painting one. That second one is a good bit of trivia.
12/15.
100% on the 60s, useless on Elizabeth Taylor in 1974, 1980s Super Yachts and 1990s Girl Groups… i.e. just as I’d want it.
Seriously, I’d be the guy you’d want in a Sainted Dave quiz down your local, it would be the Pye b-side from ’66 or the Ice Lolly commercial directed by Ridley Scott that would tip the balance, not anything about Ashes to Ashes.
Oh no Luv, you’re not alone! 😉
I’d have got 13 if I hadn’t actually “underestimated” the sheer lack of taste and tackiness of 1974, and the nudging up to rock ‘n’ roll by the likes of Lisa Minnelli etc.
OF COURSE, it would be Elizabeth Taylor!
I’m still kicking myself for it.
6/15, 4 of those were gusses.
When do I get the wooden spoon?
You’re behind me in the queue. I really lost interest after The Laughing Gnome.
Dosen’t matter, you may have guessed some correctly and ended with more than me, that feckin’ spoon’s mine.
OK. Here’s my riposte with an additional question.
Which is the only Bowie song that thecheshirecat has performed as a song ‘in the tradition’ at his folk club?
Life on Mars? (And I don’t think you told me, but I can imagine it, trad. arr. and unaccompanied.)
A-ha, no, though I have seen that performed at a folk festival.
Jean Genie could be done in Trad. Arr. fashion, I reckon.
oooh, way to much syncopation. Last year I was challenged to sing Tainted Love in a folk stylee. It was getting rid of the syncopations that was the greatest hurdle.
Any road up, it was Letter to Hermione.
But that is a Folk Song.
naaah, just singer-songwriterish
It had an acoustic guitar on it. Therefore is folk. Those are the rules.
Also: electric guitars and long hair=rock.
Electric guitars and short hair = indie.
Electric guitars and dyed hair = punk.
The RULES.
I recall Peter Bellamy singing Pinball Wizard to the tune of The White Cockade years ago.
Here’s a request, for when next we meet, @thecheshirecat , a rousing Ashes to Ashes, unaccompanied, in the beer tent. I think it would work.
It’s a deal, though I should say that I already have a commission for Lola.
10 …. and a lot of wrong guesses.
12 (officially 11, but I accidentally pressed wrong answer once)
10 – a few guesses in there. It’s a good set of questions.
11, but I only confidently knew the answers to 3 or 4.
12 for me.