Pickled Egg Quiz

[NewcastleFalcon]

4 and never heard of track or artist!!

I'm on a hot streak, only 7 seconds.

Sampled this classic


Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Worldle fail but coincidentally the answer appeared on "Pointless Celebrities" tonight.
Wordle (5) Nerdle (3)
and the aforementioned Heardle success in 7 seconds.

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

What is the characteristic of a really good song Maybe that has simply seeped, like it or not, into instant recognition.

Try heardle today, and see if you get it in one second. By no means a favourite artist or favourite song of mine, but just so instantly recognisable, and crafted by a hugely successful artist and songwriter.

Give it a go...

https://www.heardle.app/

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

Pretty good on the rdles today!! When looking up the Heard and McDonalds islands the other day I noticed the starburst island as per today's worldle! Unfortunately I couldn't remember its name other than

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French

so I plumped for the wrong one!! Hence a 2 which might have been a bullseye!! Followed it up with 3 and 4 and then (trumpet fanfare ) I got the heardle in 2 secs!! I thought I knew it in one but took another one to be sure, no problem with my record!!

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[myglaren]

Try heardle today, and see if you get it in one second.

Had to wait for the 8" clip.
As with so many now I can listen for several minutes, knowing that know it but unable to put a name to it.
Used to recognise them within four notes. Often it is finished before I twig it.

[bobins]

Answer to the Pop Quiz......

Pop Quiz

Different type of quiz this week - a simple (Ha!) "What links the following ?"


1.Maxi Priest
Neneh Cherry
Freddy Mercury

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They're all cars. Austin Maxi. Nissan (or Datsun) Cherry. Ford Mercury

2.Don Henley - Dirty Laundry
Department S - Is Vic There ?
Landscape - Einstein A Go-Go
In Deep - Last Night A DJ Saved My Life

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A ringing phone or phone call can be heard in each song

3.Foreigner - Waiting for A Girl Like You
Prefab Sprout - King Of Rock & Roll

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Thomas Dolby wrote and played the recognisable piano part in 'Waiting for A Girl Like You' (you'll know it when you hear it !), and he produced 'The King Of Rock & Roll'

4.OMD - Enola Gay
The Beat - Too Nice To Talk to
Mike Oldfield - Moonlight Shadow
Leo Sayer - Orchard Road

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There's a time check or clock time mentioned in each of the songs

5.Squeeze - Up The Junction
Dire Straits - Private Investigations
Roxy Music - Virginia Plain

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The title of the song isn't mentioned until right at the end of the song

6.Blondie - The Tide Is high
The Beloved - The Sun Rising
Ultravox - Reap The Wild Wind

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Tide, sun, and wind are all types of renewable energy

7.The Beat
Fine Young Cannibals

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Two memebers of The Beat went on to form Fine Young Cannibals

8.Natalie Cole - Pink Cadillac
Manfred Mann - Blinded By The Light
Patti Smith Group - Because The Night

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Bruce Springsteen wrote or co-wrote each of those songs

9.The Cure
Tears For Fears
The Fall

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Singers in the band are all called 'Smith'. Robert Smith, Curt Smith, Mark E. Smith (or Brix Smith acceptable)

10.Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene (Pt.4)
Steven 'Tin Tin' Duffy - Kiss Me
Spandau Ballet - Gold

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Oxygen, Tin, and Gold are all elements

Full marks to Neil who worked out all the answers in less than 24 hours and gets his well deserved 50 points I'll give Mick 10 points for getting some acceptable replies

[NewcastleFalcon]

Thanks for devising the quiz Bobins, as ever I enjoyed my delve. I had never heard dirty laundry by Don Henley before, should have done, because I like his stuff. Still a very valid song today.

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

Thanks bobins!! 10 points duly accepted even though I think that may be over generous!!
Sorry not to have got more into it but I just don't enjoy listening to any new to me stuff these days, my music memory is full with no room for anything made after 1975!!

[NewcastleFalcon]

Failed on the heardle but if anyone wants a cryptic clue "A type of UFO" and my little picture of some 3/6 books on "Remember these all out yesterdays" should allow you to select the right track from the suggestions...

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

Easiest Worldle yet, if you don't get that in one you should be ashamed of yourself!! I followed it up with 4, 3, and the usual complete failure on the Heardle, although I have heard of the artiste!!

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[NewcastleFalcon]

and the usual complete failure on the Heardle, although I have heard of the artiste!!

You could have tried my cryptic clue Mick!

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

and the usual complete failure on the Heardle, although I have heard of the artiste!!

You could have tried my cryptic clue Mick!

Regards Neil

Yes I could have, had I not already done the heardle before I saw it!!

[NewcastleFalcon]

Worldle Today is a "Jolene by Dolly Parton" one second open goal day on world le. Good day for your first try.

Wordle
I have witnessed a bullseye on Wordle from my armchair, but today was my own best ever performance. With the initial letter from my first word being green and no others right, I hit the five greens on my second go ,
One of those that, without that initial letter, could have quite a number of alternative possibilities to waste attempts on.

Nerdle A near fail 5 on Nerdle

Heardle simple case of didn't know it, although folk who like their stuff would get it straight away.

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

Another Worldle bullseye today thanks to my daughter pointing out the likeness to a Queen Victoria postage stamp image!! Followed up with 3, 3, and the usual complete blowout on the herdle!!:

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[NewcastleFalcon]

Worldle Pressure was on there but I also held my nerve and hit the back of the net in one.

Wordle
got it in 4.

Nerdle got it in 4

Heardle ...recognised the tune and having some resemblance to Milkshake by Kelis, minor amount of enquiry and up comes one of my favourites "get Ur Freak on" by Missy Elliot.....bingo in 16 secs

Regards Neil