Quiz

This page contains a number of music quizzes we created and got sent:

Graham's Alternative Lyrics Quiz

This is Graham Taylor's alternative lyrics quiz. It contains lyrics from current and older songs that may not have topped the charts, but are well known if you look beyond your Blue and Britney Spears songs. They start of relatively easy, but they do get harder as you go along!

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O'Hal's Album Cover Quiz

This quiz shows album covers from the 70's to this decade. 25 from the 70's and 90's, 25 from the 80's and 15 from this century. The giveaway text has been obscured so it is up to you to name the album title and the performing artist! The albums are mostly American based, so you will need to know your American bands.

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Note: ensure you have version 1.0.2 or higher of this quiz as numbers 11-15, 23, 56 and 75 had errors in them, as well as the scoring being a bit off...

American 70's and 80's Music Quiz

The Kalico Girls decided our quizzes are far too English and made an American quiz with lyrics from the 70's and 80's. These songs are famous in America and are sure to give your brain a good workout. All you have to do is give the song title and the original artist. This means Mariah Cary is not correct for 'Without You' or Madonna not correct for 'American Pie'.

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Jemma's Lyrics Music Quiz

Jemma P has sent us a quiz filled with lyrics of songs she likes. And I bet you like them too. The songs are mostly recent (up to September 2005) with a few golden oldies thrown in for good measure. And her taste is quite diverse too with rock, rap, R&B and some good old pop thrown in the mix. A few artists make multiple appearances and make sure you know your Blazin' Squad from your Blue!

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Note: ensure you have version 1.0.1 or higher of this quiz as numbers 21 and 42 did not work properly...

Gav & Arno's Eurovision Artists Quiz

Crack open the Irish cream, get Terry Wogan round and enjoy the fun! Start to make your mind up, but don't play that song again! ;-) Name the artist that sang these 90 Eurovision song contest songs.

You get a point for each of the artists and there are 90 in total. All songs are UK entries or winning entries. And in rare occasions the UK entry actually won!

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E's Lyrics Music Quiz

This is a quiz submitted by Erin Keates. It contains 100 famous lyrics, where you name the song and artist from a clue.

You get 2 points for naming the song or the artist and 5 if you get them both.

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Mark's Mega Music Crossword 3

Mark loves making these crosswords. This is the hardest one so far, so get your teeth stuck in!

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Mark's Mega Music Crossword 2

By now, all of you will know Mark's Mega Music Crossword. And now there is a sequel. And like Bridget Jones, this is one of the few that is better than the original. So try it out!

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This is another of Matt Shaw's quizzes. This time, you have to guess the artist and album title from an album cover. Of course they have been altered to hide the artist and title. In total there are 44 album covers to get.

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This is another quiz we created ourselves. Who does not immediately think of the Blues Brothers movie when hearing 'Everybody Needs Somebody To Love'? Songs are an essential part of movies and sometimes they become more famous than the movie they were featured in.

In this quiz, you get the a song title and have to give the artist and the movie in which the song was used. There are no songs identical to movie titles, so no 'Men in Black'. You get 2 points for identifying the artist or the movie and 5 if you get both right! And as I hate the Titanic song, you will not find that in the quiz.

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Now this is a different type of quiz. This is actually a crossword where you answer music questions in crossword format. This means you can get letters of the answer by answering the questions surrounding the one you are stuck on!

There are a few smart tricks in this crossword. First of all, the crossword fills itself. All you do is type the answer next to the question, so you don't have to fill each cell separately. Secondly, you can print off a list of all the questions so that you can solve the crossword on the train! Thirdly, the list of questions is automatically updated with the answers you gave in the crossword.

All in all, this is a stunning piece of work. A preview of the quiz is below:

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This is the follow up to Matt Shaw's original lyrics quiz. The concept is very much the same. You get the opening lyrics of a famous song and supply the song title and artist. There are 100 lyrics, divided over the 60's, 70's 80's and 90's to now. You get one point for the song title and one for the artist, so 200 points in total.

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This is Matt Shaw's original lyrics quiz. He very kindly let us host it. It contains lyrics from well known songs and you have to supply the song title and artist, although in some cases the year of release is asked instead. They are not opening lines or chorus lines, just famous lines. There are 125 lyrics, so you can score 250 points in total.

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In this quiz, you get a memorable lyric of a song released in the 1990's. You have to give the title and performing artist. If you get one of them right, you get 2 points and both will earn you 5 points. There are 200 songs in total, so 1000 points to be earned.

As there were some errors, we have put this quiz into the Gav & Arno format.

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This excellent quiz is divided into four decades. You get 25 clues for the 1960's, 1970's, 1980's and 1990's. We have updated this quiz and converted it into Gav & Arno's format.

You get the first line of a famous song and you have to name the song title and artist. You get 2 points for either and 5 points if you get both. We have taken some errors out, but the quiz is left untouched.

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This quiz is exactly as it sounds. You get to see an album cover and have to say what the artist and album title is. It has beenchecked by Gav & Arno. There are 100 covers in all.

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