Comments on: Rock Challenge Quiz

Rock Challenge Quiz

MiguelCardoso — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 07:16:03 -0800

So You Think You Know All About Rock Music, Do You? Well, try Rough Music's Rock Challenge quiz. (Click on the top left-hand corner, where it says "Test Your Rock Knowledge", include nom-de-plume and imaginary e-mail addy - with spaces even - and prepare to ransack that befuddled memory of yours.). There's additional fun to be had by betting on each question. I loved it! Be warned, though: if you're any good, it's a great time-waster! P.S. The site itself isn't half-bad either. (Via LinkFilter.)

By: signal

signal — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 07:20:07 -0800

The actual link.

By: starvingartist

starvingartist — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 07:27:04 -0800

Is it just my connection, or is the server getting whacked?

By: trust_no_one

trust_no_one — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 07:36:42 -0800

Well, 6750 on my first try ranks me 1040 out of 6393. I missed 2 questions and wasn't aggressive enough in my wagering.

By: jburka

jburka — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 07:37:31 -0800

just your connection; it seems fine to me, though there's a bug if you reach the highest level; when it tries to tell you what the next level to aspire to is, there's an asp error. Oops. (40750, rank 337/6397 so far) Thanks, Miguel, this is fun!

By: Quartermass

Quartermass — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 07:45:47 -0800

trippy. I love this. Thanks!

By: dobbs

dobbs — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 07:59:03 -0800

the first time i played i got the first 6 in a row wrong. the second time i scored perfect (each wager being half of my score) and still only placed 294th. weird. seems the questions are really uneven as far as difficulty goes. great link though. thanks. lotsa fun.

By: afro

afro — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 08:02:54 -0800

if you want to get the highest possible score make sure you bet exactly half on each question, down to decimal places! (ended up 1.65 off the pace, and came 214th...). oh, and answer every question right too!

By: afro

afro — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 08:16:20 -0800

ooh er, i came first! (as d.black. third attempt, first going to 3 decimal places, managed to get 57655.027) this one's for mefi!

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 08:21:46 -0800

Hey, giant-size congratulations, afro! That Heaney bastard (could it have been the great poet Seamus, known to like this rock music?) was starting to irritate me. ;)

By: backOfYourMind

backOfYourMind — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 08:38:04 -0800

afro - Nice one son, I thought it was you! Guess all those years of D.I.T.C. finally paid off (sort of) Hats off!

By: dobbs

dobbs — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 08:44:06 -0800

afro, unfortunately the game is rounding your score down so they're saying you're second and the heaney bastard is first. there's no way to unseat him! bastiches!

By: archimago

archimago — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 08:45:12 -0800

This is way too much fun to be playing at work.

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 08:46:46 -0800

I had a great deal going where I would bet a small amount and miss the question, then bet half and get it. Until I got one on the small amount, and the whole thing was thrown off. Wound up with 3700. [sour grapes] But how much "knowledge of rock" is really about identifying album-cover details, anyway? (Actually, the only thing I was really good at) [/grapes]

By: thomcatspike

thomcatspike — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 08:51:07 -0800

Not very good with the album/cd covers...dang it. Fun trivia.

By: ursus_comiter

ursus_comiter — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:07:50 -0800

images.google.com is your friend thomcatspike

By: afro

afro — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:20:23 -0800

looks like my winning position is a fleeting thing. at least i've got the screengrabs to pore over when i'm old and lonely. thank you to all. backOfYourMind, is that really you? see you at L'n'F'n'R?

By: Badmichelle

Badmichelle — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:53:32 -0800

ahhh-damn! I was betting too conservatively right off the bat, fearing that this was actually going to be hard or something...the only one I got wrong had to do with the lead singer of Travis' haircut's name. I mean, really, this is rock trivia? But by that point I was betting the full 50%, and lost a lot of ground to a friggin' hairdo! Blatt.

By: Quartermass

Quartermass — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:12:40 -0800

#9 with a bullet! (QuartermassMeFi)

By: Item

Item — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:13:48 -0800

Hmm. I'm number nine with my perfect score. Haven't they heard of ties?

By: cadastral

cadastral — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:58:36 -0800

Good game, good concept... but what is the point of wagering if you don't know what the next topic is going to be (or am I missing something?) I could see adjusting a bet based on how well you feel you know something... but what would be the point of not betting 1/2 every time?

By: emf

emf — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 17:03:18 -0800

There's not enough Righteous Brothers questions.

By: meech

meech — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 17:48:18 -0800

I was going for that perfect score with all the decimal points etc and I was on 100% when I got to question 10: What year was Velvet Undergrounds debut released? Amazing coincidence - I was listening to it at the very time so checked out the label: 1966. Wrong, quiz people say 1967. I may sue.

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:15:39 -0800

That's why it's called A Rough Guide To Music, meech. ;)

By: dobbs

dobbs — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:42:08 -0800

you'd lose, meech. it was recorded in the spring of 1966 but wasn't released till 1967.