Comments on: You gotta beat 53/70!

You gotta beat 53/70!

dash_slot- — Sat, 04 Sep 2004 16:02:41 -0800

BBC Test the Nation: Popular Music.
UK centric [slightly] quiz in the Test The Nation series [- but allows a 'not UK' option.]
Who did write the theme from 'The Office' Handbags & Gladrags'?

By: amberglow

amberglow — Sat, 04 Sep 2004 16:22:30 -0800

that was fun--i got 45/70 (and i had to guess about the uk top ten questions) : >

By: MarkC

MarkC — Sat, 04 Sep 2004 17:38:21 -0800

47/70 (I also had to guess the UK top ten questions, and I live in the UK.)

By: dhoyt

dhoyt — Sat, 04 Sep 2004 17:58:14 -0800

Who did write the theme from 'The Office' Handbags & Gladrags'? Mannfred Mann? Hope I didn't spoil it for anyone...

By: paddbear

paddbear — Sat, 04 Sep 2004 18:16:01 -0800

45/70 for me, too. But, I *DID* guess a lot...

By: F4B2

F4B2 — Sat, 04 Sep 2004 18:22:14 -0800

46/70 for me too... sheesh, and I thought I did better. I also guessed on most of the British-centric questions.

By: John Shaft

John Shaft — Sat, 04 Sep 2004 18:48:33 -0800

59/70, but I know I got one wrong when I "mis-clicked" on the wrong Audrey Hepburn film.

By: Samizdata

Samizdata — Sat, 04 Sep 2004 23:25:36 -0800

(quietly whimpers)

By: synecdoche

synecdoche — Sat, 04 Sep 2004 23:37:14 -0800

44/70. Had to guess on a lot of them, though.

By: misteraitch

misteraitch — Sun, 05 Sep 2004 00:09:36 -0800

62! Here's a page on Handbags and Gladrags: The Complete History (that was one of the eight I got wrong).

By: biffa

biffa — Sun, 05 Sep 2004 02:38:18 -0800

47. Badly downhill on the last section, scoring a miserable 7/18, only fractionally better than a chicken would have done pecking at a mouse.

By: salmacis

salmacis — Sun, 05 Sep 2004 02:50:29 -0800

45/70 for me. Not bad, as anyone who has received one of my MeFi swaps will confirm..

By: ciderwoman

ciderwoman — Sun, 05 Sep 2004 05:42:39 -0800

53 out of 70 for me, and a whopping great big "I must get out more often" sign.

By: ed\26h

ed\26h — Sun, 05 Sep 2004 06:09:57 -0800

37 - Crap. But not relatively.

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Sun, 05 Sep 2004 06:18:26 -0800

53. ciderwoman, you want to get together sometime?

By: quarsan

quarsan — Sun, 05 Sep 2004 06:53:41 -0800

46 - and i'm mildly suprised

By: skoosh

skoosh — Sun, 05 Sep 2004 07:10:16 -0800

43/70, twice. Although I didn't change my answer on "Handbags & Gladrags" - for some reason, I thought that would be cheating.

By: SpaceCadet

SpaceCadet — Sun, 05 Sep 2004 07:14:28 -0800

49/70

By: dodgygeezer

dodgygeezer — Sun, 05 Sep 2004 07:47:33 -0800

55 for me. I only got four wrong out of 43 on the first three sections and then it all fell apart on the last two.

By: feelinglistless

feelinglistless — Sun, 05 Sep 2004 12:38:40 -0800

I'm 47? Oh...

By: gompa

gompa — Sun, 05 Sep 2004 13:48:44 -0800

38/70. As sort of half-assed retribution for copping to the lowest score posted so far, I'll point out that doing really well on that test might well indicate a taste in awful music, inasmuch as you're being rewarded for knowing trivia about showtunes, boy bands and Kylie Minogue.

By: gompa

gompa — Sun, 05 Sep 2004 14:53:27 -0800

Oops - just noticed ed\26h scored lower than me. Still . . .

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Sun, 05 Sep 2004 15:17:02 -0800

41/70 - pretty poor, but i knew that.

By: monkey closet

monkey closet — Mon, 06 Sep 2004 08:10:55 -0800

47. I do feel dirty about some of those I did know though...

By: penguin pie

penguin pie — Mon, 06 Sep 2004 12:16:02 -0800

Same result and same reaction as quarsan, a surprised 46... surprised because I did better than I thought and because that was much more fun than I expected, thanks dash_slot.