Artist of the Week IV – Quiz #1

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

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

This year, I’m excited to be hosting quizzes once again, to be published every Sunday morning at 12:01 a.m. E.S.T.

Welcome back to returning participants, welcome to new friends!

And my humongous thanks to Sarca for creating another exemplary logo to introduce this year’s series, Artist of the Week IV!

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Ready for Quiz #1?

Show me, show me, show me!

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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!

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Artist of the Week #1
Record POINTS Earned (Not Artist Name) in the comments
(scroll down for additional clues)

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500 points………………..A constant among my all-time top 5 groups, here is this English band’s 1992 hit song (and one of lead singer Robert Smith’s uncharacteristically optimistic lyric sheets), as a T-shirt:

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400 points……………….Credited with inventing &/or perfecting the genre of ‘goth rock,’ they have a trio of albums on the 1001 list: Seventeen Seconds (1980), Pornography (1982), and the Kyle-from-South-Park-endorsed, Disintegration (1989)

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300 points……………………The band shares a name with a 1995 film featuring Joseph Mazzello and their tunes are sometimes used as movie titles, such as Boys Don’t Cry and Just Like Heaven

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200 points………………..Charities raise money to help find The _____ for various diseases

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100 points………………..The artist is The C___

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Answer: الجمعة أنا في حالة حب

(Please post your points earned in the comments section)

Thanks for playing!

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Verbalize the Positive

It was a tough week for google translate – so the translation is for the song referenced in the 500 clue.

A practically perfect tune!