Artist of the Week III – Quiz #28

July 14, 2019

Exceptional Artist of the Week III Series logo by Sarca @ caughtmegaming

2019 Artists of the Week (so far): George Harrison, Notorious B.I.G., Amy Winehouse, Van Halen, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mariah Carey, Elton John, Gorillaz, Led Zeppelin, Aretha Franklin, Cheap Trick, Can, Kanye West, Fleetwood Mac, Morrissey, Franz Ferdinand, Black Sabbath, Tina Turner, Jeff Buckley, The Monkees, Fiona Apple, Kiss, Dr. Dre, Ella Fitzgerald, Pixies, Supertramp, The Strokes

My thanks to all who have participated in the “Artist of the Week” quizzes so far.

Congrats to all those who correctly identified The Strokes last week.

The results after 27 weeks (as of Thursday afternoon – results submitted after that time will be added to next week’s spreadsheet):

Ready for Quiz #28?

Extraordinary!

Quiz Rules/Format
(Same as last year, feel free to skip to the quiz if you know the rules already)

Your Task: Name the mystery Artist, ideally with as few clues as possible.

Correctly guess the artist on the first clue? 500 points.

After scrolling down to the second clue? 400 points.

Still don’t know after the fifth clue? 0 points, but a crisp high-five for participating.

I’ll use google translate to put the correct answer at the bottom in Arabic (if you read Arabic, that’s fantastic, but no cheating by reading ahead!) and you can translate it back to the language of your choice to confirm your answer.

In the comments, please enter your POINTS earned (not the artist name) and I’ll keep track of the running totals in a spreadsheet.

In addition to eternal bragging rights, the winner at the end of the year may even get something as prestigious as a digital certificate.

Here goes!

Artist of the Week #28
Record POINTS Earned (Not Artist Name) in the comments
(scroll down for additional clues)

For:

500 points………………..American rapper/actor/writer/philanthropist, born in Chicago in 1972 (birth name Lonnie Corant Jaman Shuka Rashid Lynn), his album, Like Water for Chocolate, is on the 1001 list

400 points……………….His collaboration with John Legend, Glory (the theme song from the film Selma), won the 2015 Academy Award for Best Original Song

300 points……………….To solve the fraction problem below, you would multiply all terms by the Lowest __________ Denominator (in this case, 6)*

$fractions$

200 points………………..An antonym for unusual or rare (or the repeating lyric in Deep Blue Something’s Breakfast at Tiffany‘s, “You say that we’ve got nothing in _________, no _________ ground to start from”)

100 points………………..The artist is C__________

Answer: الكومنولث دون ثروة

(Please post your points earned in the comments section)

Thanks for playing!

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Verbalize the Positive

1. I had to do a bit of fun problem solving with the google translate today – ironically, his stage name wasn’t a routine/ordinary translation

2. *When you hear someone complaining about having to learn fractions (“when are we ever going to need this?”), tell them it just might come in handy on a 300 point clue some day!