Artist of the Week V – Quiz #20

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

2021 Artists of the Week (so far):

Bruno Mars, Stone Temple Pilots, Carole King, 2Pac, “Weird” Al Yankovic, Sonic Youth, Lady Gaga, Lionel Richie, Kings of Leon, Kenny Rogers, Nina Simone, Alice in Chains, Neil Diamond, Cher, Nine Inch Nails, Phil Collins, Curtis Mayfield, Kelly Clarkson, Foo Fighters

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

Congrats to all those who correctly identified Foo Fighters last week.

The results after 19 weeks (as of Tuesday evening – results submitted after that time will be added to next week’s spreadsheet):

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Ready for Quiz #20?

Wake Up Everybody!

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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 #20
Record POINTS Earned (Not Artist Name) in the comments
(scroll down for additional clues)

For:

500 points………………..American hip hop band, formed in 1987.

Their 2002 album, Phrenology, is on the 1001 list (2 palindromic numbers in 1 sentence, yay!)…

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400 points……………….featuring the drummer, ?uestlove, the group is also the house band for The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon.

And how do you know a band is a good band?

When they still sound great, playing on classroom instruments!

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300 points……………………The band shares its name with a 1996 Sepultura album.

And if you need to find The ______ to a quadratic equation? Why, use the quadratic formula of course!*

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200 points………………..One-word band name, as shown below:

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100 points………………..The artist is The R______

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Answer:  الجذور

(Please post your points earned in the comments section)

Thanks for playing!

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Verbalize the Positive

I am forever grateful to Former Student / Current Quiz Participant & Friend Devon R for his modification of the lyrics to Smash Mouth’s All Star, when teaching the quadratic formula:

“x equals negative b, plus or minus square root, of b squared minus 4ac

all over top of 2a, that is how you find x, unless you know an easier way

like factoring!”