Take This Classical Music Quiz

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Take This Classical Music Quiz

Post by Ralph » Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:21 am

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/quiz/questio ... 47,00.html
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premont
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Post by premont » Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:00 am

My score:

"You scored 43 out of a possible 74
Not bad at all - a decent Handel on the material."

Well, the quiz was about many other things besides music! :)
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Post by jbuck919 » Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:32 am

It's Mir ist so wunderbar. Sheesh, can't they get anything right?

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
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Post by GK » Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:16 am

I only got 40 but will now listen to the operas of Donizetti in a new light.
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Post by jbuck919 » Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:54 am

Well, I finally took the thing, and assume I did better than 50%, but I couldn't get a score upon submitting, just an ad for the Manchester Guardian. I'm not going to go through it again, and pretty obviously it is nothing for high school students.

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
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Post by Teresa B » Tue Sep 19, 2006 1:17 pm

41. What an odd quiz!

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Post by Lark Ascending » Tue Sep 19, 2006 1:52 pm

My jaw dropped when I learned my score - 45. I consider that pretty good for someone whose knowlege of classical music prior to June 2005 was non existent. I did make quite a few lucky guesses though.
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Post by Holden Fourth » Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:37 pm

You scored 46 out of a possible 74
Bizet does it! Brilliantly done. You're a winner.

It would be interesting to see some of the answers.
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Post by Harold Tucker » Tue Sep 19, 2006 6:05 pm

48 with the same Bizet comment. Why can't you see the answers? I did.
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Niki
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Post by Niki » Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:02 pm

I guess I flanked it

You scored 33 out of a possible 74
Not bad at all - a decent Handel on the material.
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Post by lmpower » Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:51 pm

I scored 41. I knew some of the answers, but a lot of it was guessing.
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Post by val » Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:54 am

56 in 74.
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Post by Donaldopato » Wed Sep 20, 2006 10:34 pm

59 out 74... I am a very trivial person and guessed lucky a lot.

Strange quiz I do agree.
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