# A Challenge for Readers of The Straight Dope **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 4, 2003, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258 "2003-11-04T02:10:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/1 "2003-11-04T02:10:10Z")
…OR Find the SD Reference A friend of mine gave me a link to a quiz about 80s music at [We hear the playback and it seems so long ago](http://www.yetanotherdot.com/asp/80s.html) today. One of the questions, if you get it right, mentions The Straight Dope on the scoring page. Let’s see how many of you can get it. 😃 83. Warm smell of colitas Rising up through the air Ok either 1)You’ve read The Straight Dope or 2)You are a god. Either way 10 points. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/2 "2003-11-04T02:20:21Z")
Jesus that’s a long bastard. I bailed after about 30 questions. I now have some very bad songs in my head. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/3 "2003-11-04T02:24:51Z")
Aaagh! I hit return after the 50th question…there were 50 more! [sub]and I got _forty-one_ of them right. What the hell was I doing during the 80’s to remember all this bad pop music?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![ResIpsaLoquitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@ResIpsaLoquitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ResIpsaLoquitor)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/4 "2003-11-04T02:29:00Z")
I got a 47–some of them baffled me. I’d feel worse if I hadn’t been a little kid through much of the 80s. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/5 "2003-11-04T02:34:52Z")
The SD response was: [In the song “Hotel California,” what does “colitas” mean?](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_001.html) Surely that’s not all you wanted? No, I see now… ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/6 "2003-11-04T02:38:13Z")
I got a 72.9. I missed a couple that I actually knew due to a brain fart. About a half-dozen I flat out didn’t know. I was penalized 30% for being a Yuppie (which I’m definitely not!). ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/7 "2003-11-04T02:40:45Z")
Is this what you wanted? > [@](#): > > **83. Warm smell of colitas Rising up through the air** > Ok either 1)You’ve read The Straight Dope or 2)You are a god. Either way 10 points. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/8 "2003-11-04T02:50:23Z")
Final Score: 78.5 Pop Junkie I would have got more but I had a couple of typos. I typed porn instead of porno and Jesse instead of Jessie. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/9 "2003-11-04T02:54:55Z")
I think it _was_ Jesse, **Homebrew** … ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/10 "2003-11-04T02:57:30Z")
I got 80.5 (and would have esocred higher if I had not mispelled a couple of answers) ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f1d935/32.png) [@Lady\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Ice)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/11 "2003-11-04T03:13:24Z")
I couldn’t remember how to spell colitas. Crap. And I only scored a 56. Double crap. But I did get the 4 pts. each for both of the Tina Turner lyrics. I really don’t know how I pulled that one off.There were quite a few of them that I could have kicked myself on afterward. OK, most of them. Oh well. I’m the _ **prime** _ age for this stuff. I even missed lyrics of groups I’ve seen in concert. ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/12 "2003-11-04T03:13:35Z")
I got every single one right. Including the bonus. How much more could I have acheived in life if all of the brain space which is occupied by 80s pop lyrics was occupied by something useful? ---
**Author:** ![Mastema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@Mastema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mastema)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/13 "2003-11-04T03:18:56Z")
I only scored 62, but I specifically looked that up during my big Eagles kick. . . which I may still be on. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/14 "2003-11-04T03:24:00Z")
101 points. I lived the dream, kids. I lived it. ---
**Author:** ![DaisyFace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@DaisyFace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaisyFace)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/15 "2003-11-04T03:37:31Z")
68.5 I’m not sure whether this urge to cry is over how many I missed or how many I _knew_. Talk about wasted gray matter. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/16 "2003-11-04T03:39:55Z")
Good googly moogly, I can’t believe I took the whole thing! 100 pts. Which might make me do the celebratory hoochie dance if I knew what the highest score possible was. ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/17 "2003-11-04T04:06:17Z")
Yikes! You scored 100 pts?? That’s truly scary. I didn’t follow directions as to revealing gender or some other information, so I don’t know my score. I did get all the heavy rock and new wave songs correct, and was rather clueless on the mainstream music. I think they should have included the following: Swing it to the left, swing it the right, think about \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_, swing all night! ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/18 "2003-11-04T04:15:58Z")
I only scored a 73 on this particular test, but I’d kick your collective butts were this a 1970s test. And **TeaElle** - I have said this… > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TeaElle \* > \*\*How much more could I have acheived in life if all of the brain space which is occupied by 80s pop lyrics was occupied by something useful? \*\* …many times, about 70s music. Why, if I could clear out all the crappy music from 1975 alone… the mind just boggles. ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/19 "2003-11-04T04:16:30Z")
Or “swinging”… it’s all semantics, I say. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/20 "2003-11-04T04:26:10Z")
79.9 - not altogether bad given that I did lots of cassette music in the 80’s and had limited radio exposure time. ^5 to **Johnathan Chance** - a kickass score! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258.md?page=2)