# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Marathon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@Marathon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marathon)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/21 "2003-11-04T04:48:42Z")
Oh, man. 115.5 (“The 80s are my LIFE.”) I’m so mortified that I haven’t used the brainspace for more useful things. I missed some really easy ones, but apparently I made up for it by knowing stuff like the “hurry, boy, it’s waiting there for you” in Toto’s “Africa”. ---
**Author:** ![akennett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee59a6/32.png) [@akennett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akennett)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/22 "2003-11-04T05:08:54Z")
129!!! Of course, it could be the years spent listening to '80s cover bands in college bars and the fact that half my mp3s are '80s music… I sat there kicking myself for missing such easy ones - the Ghostbusters theme…oh, man I’m such a loser! ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/23 "2003-11-04T05:48:21Z")
1. Not bad. I made up ground on the supposedly hard ones. ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/24 "2003-11-04T06:30:11Z")
93.55 My head is full of all sorts of crap. ---
**Author:** ![Tinkertoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@Tinkertoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinkertoy)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/25 "2003-11-04T07:15:12Z")
75 But like **LifeOnWry** I’d kick butt on 70’s music. Did anyone else have a much easier time with the songs they hated? I didn’t miss one of those. ---
**Author:** ![Vlad\_Dracul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/50afbb/32.png) [@Vlad\_Dracul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Dracul)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/26 "2003-11-04T07:16:04Z")
1. Strange thing is, I didn’t own a single tape or record during the 80’s. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/27 "2003-11-04T07:36:13Z")
118.5 And I made two typing errors, and there’s one song where the first chorus has one lyric and the second chorus has a different one and I picked the one that he didn’t pick. so, higher. (how much, I don’t know) and those are braincells are not going to anything useful either… ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/28 "2003-11-04T08:11:16Z")
> [@](#): > > Ok either 1)You’ve read The Straight Dope or 2)You are a god. Either way 10 points. 15 points if it’s both. ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/29 "2003-11-04T09:08:04Z")
60.9 I’d like to think my only exposure to 80’s music is Time/Life commercials and Vice City, but then I remember that I was actually self-aware in the 80’s. But I never listened to the radio. All I got to hear on road trips was Mom’s Beatles tapes and Dad’s Third Reich marches. Help me. ---
**Author:** ![manwithaplan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@manwithaplan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manwithaplan)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/30 "2003-11-04T11:44:08Z")
97.5 - not great considering I was in my teens in the eighties. Like most of us, I had a couple of typos. The test is pretty fair in that there is a reasonable mix of stuff from either side of the pond. ---
**Author:** ![Velma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/85e7bf/32.png) [@Velma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velma)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/31 "2003-11-04T15:32:10Z")
98.5. Considering most of these came out when I was in grade school and I grew up without MTV, I think I did pretty well. I made some stupid mistakes, though - should have gotten 5-10 more, for sure. And I switched ‘broken’ and ‘lonely’ hearts. I can’t believe I missed an INXS one! I loved, loved them, had all their cassettes. It’s been too long since I listened to them. There were only one or two that I didn’t know at all when I saw the answers. ---
**Author:** ![ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c77e96/32.png) [@ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/32 "2003-11-04T16:25:28Z")
I scored 118, thus proving that: a) I have way too much time to do nothing at work b) There is way too much useful space in my brain taken up with useless shite and, c) I was born in 1969 ::singing:: Conjunction junction, what’s yer function…:: ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/33 "2003-11-04T16:33:47Z")
Way too long, it made my eyes glaze over. Too bad, I love those kind of quizzes. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/34 "2003-11-04T17:14:58Z")
> [@](#): > > Hi, Mom. Mom bonus of 20 points. > 5 point bonus for telling me where you saw this. Thanks! > > Final Score: 52 I didn’t listen to non-NPR radio much, and I never watched MTV. Pretty amazing I got the few that I did. ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/35 "2003-11-04T18:41:31Z")
Final Score: 93.5 Can’t believe I got the first one wrong. Billie Jean, not Dirty Diana, you bonehead. ::knocking on forehead:: ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/36 "2003-11-04T18:50:45Z")
101 - Should have been MUCH lower. Supid college jobs. Being a DJ on the campus station sucked much less than working in the registrar’s office. As a result my knowledge of 80’s music is far, FAR, more extensive than it should be. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/37 "2003-11-04T18:52:14Z")
1. And I missed several due to the picky spelling standards. So much for me being a classical freak. If I can remember all of these old song lyrics, why the hell can’t I remember my own cell phone number? Geez. Time for a brain flush. ---
**Author:** ![skeptic\_ev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@skeptic\_ev](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skeptic_ev)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/38 "2003-11-04T18:59:07Z")
118, mainly because I had some major brain farts. I knew all but one or two of the songs. I’m not worried about the brain thing because I have figured out that about half my brain is devoted to lyrics, and nothing else will fit in there. And for the record, I am not afraid to admit that I **LOVE** 80s music. Say it loud, say it proud, people. ---
**Author:** ![skeptic\_ev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@skeptic\_ev](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skeptic_ev)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/39 "2003-11-04T19:01:10Z")
Oops, it was actually 118.5. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258/40 "2003-11-04T19:21:10Z")
90.675 Not bad for someone born in the '50s. Actually, I SHOULD have done better. I was a radio DJ throughout most of the '80s. I’m so ashamed… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-challenge-for-readers-of-the-straight-dope/211258.md?page=3)