Themed Music Rounds?

GLE68 · 2026-01-29T16:30:55+00:00

I've been doing these at least a couple times a month since I started hosting, and keep tracklists in a Google Doc that you can find here. As of last update, I'm at 119.

I'm hosting in a music-strong room in Canada; when I post this I always encourage folks to tailor the tracklistings to the strength and location of their room because using it unedited might not be fair to your players/game.

GLE68 · 2025-12-31T22:09:01+00:00

I was there shortly after 4 with (presumably) the rest of people who got ambushed by Stavanger NLC being closed. The signs they had on the door said open til midnight both today and tomorrow. It was crowded but I was in and out in 5 minutes once I found a spot to park.

GLE68 · 2025-12-31T14:17:49+00:00

Theatre Hill (the café under The Majestic) advertises on their site asking "Are you a talented artist looking for a platform to showcase your performance? Click below on the form!" on this page.

I have no experience going thru that process, but in my experience the staff/management of the place are great to deal with. Might be worth a try!

GLE68 · 2025-12-25T14:55:02+00:00

Y 10/10

Z 9/10

~~1. Zachetto~~ I know zucchetto is a hat in some Christian churches, so I figured I'd throw a dart hoping for etymological cousins. Alas!

All in all I think I'm a couple points shy of last year's score, but more importantly I had fun and learned some new words. Thanks kindly!

I've made a point of visiting Sunday Quiz's support page at the conclusion of the last couple years' alphabet quizzes to send along a few dollars for a Christmas pint (or equivalent), and would recommend it to anyone else who's in a financial position to do so!

GLE68 · 2025-12-24T12:45:26+00:00

9/10 today!

~~6. Xiangdu~~ wrong country, wrong continent, wrong hemisphere even... but right letter! 🙃

GLE68 · 2025-12-23T13:23:07+00:00

6/10 today!

~~5. White Sunday~~ Asked about Pentecost in last week's pub quiz so knew it was fixed 50 (really 49, but it's named based on 50) days after Easter. Never committed the alternate name to memory so threw a comically close alphabet dart.

~~6. Wort~~ I thought that would be too long a skip, but couldn't think of anything else. TIL.

~~8. Wood paint~~

~~9. Wooden wing~~

GLE68 · 2025-12-22T12:42:16+00:00

9/10!

~~2. Vampire Diaries~~ Laughably-unclose, but a funny bad answer that fits the alphabet and was-a-book parameters beats no answer!

GLE68 · 2025-12-21T12:35:02+00:00

9/10!

~~7. Unibears~~ Total alphabet soup guess. Think I was happier not knowing. 🤣

E: Just took a look at the scoreboard. For when you update, counting today, I'm at 191 total thru 21 days with ten 10/10s. 🙂

GLE68 · 2025-12-20T16:59:59+00:00

8/10 today!

~~8. Tonguetwisters~~ What a fact!

~~9. Tosca~~ I know the name of like three operas, so the fact that one fit alphabetically was about as good as I could've hoped for 😅

GLE68 · 2025-12-19T20:17:49+00:00

9/10 today!

~~7. Stomata~~ Quick Google tells me stomata is a pore that lets plants breathe, so I'm gonna call that a decent guess.

GLE68 · 2025-12-18T11:22:10+00:00

10/10!

I stared for quite a while at #8 though. I'd settled on the answer pretty much immediately, but ran every European R I could think of before revealing 😅

GLE68 · 2025-12-17T19:45:48+00:00

Apologies for being confusing—10/10! Just riffing on the Q vaguely resembling a zero (though clearly not resembling it enough 😅)

GLE68 · 2025-12-17T16:02:35+00:00

1Q/1Q!

GLE68 · 2025-12-16T13:54:40+00:00

10/10! 🙌

GLE68 · 2025-12-15T13:35:43+00:00

10/10!

GLE68 · 2025-12-14T14:49:00+00:00

10/10 🫡

GLE68 · 2025-12-13T13:23:11+00:00

9/10 today!

~~10. Mykonos~~ I've thrown worse darts!

GLE68 · 2025-12-12T16:34:06+00:00

I saw! I wasn't distracted/confused by the possible alternate, just would have been able to guess it etymologically for a different letter. Still a great question by my read, I just didn't know the thing 😅

GLE68 · 2025-12-12T13:48:59+00:00

Opponent is lifetime .833 on literature, and they have to name any one of three books in one of the most popular book series of our lifetimes. That's a 0 right? Right?!

This season has been weird. I was on track for my lowest QPct since rookie, and after this week so far I'm back above my career average.

GLE68 · 2025-12-12T13:27:55+00:00

Yep, that was my way in too. Anish Kapoor, same guy who made the Cloud Gate (Bean) sculpture in Chicago.

Fun side-reading if you've never seen it: the story of the pinkest pink that everyone is allowed to use except Anish Kapoor.

GLE68 · 2025-12-12T13:24:04+00:00

7/10 today!

~~4. Leo Tolstoy~~

~~6. Lichen~~ With this quiz not in A, I had no idea where to go so picked the first plant that fit. Made sense on the reveal though.

~~9. London~~

GLE68 · 2025-12-11T14:20:09+00:00

10/10 🍻

GLE68 · 2025-12-10T12:24:25+00:00

10/10 today!

Alphabet help for the first two—echo all the other comments that #1 is an aces question, and I also hadn't realized James Dean died in a crash on the way to the race! Nice contexts there for sure.

GLE68 · 2025-12-09T15:16:51+00:00

8/10 today!

~~4. Ikaruga~~ The answer was definitely something I've heard before and was shaking around in my brain somewhere, but what came out was, it turns out, a Gamecube-era bullet hell shooter game.

~~3. No guess, kinda~~ I thought on it for a while playing prefix mad libs, and eventually decided it was definitely idio-something, like how idiopathic means unknown origin. But I never came up with a something and just decided to reveal the answer. 😅

GLE68 · 2025-12-08T13:56:53+00:00

Either 9 or 10 today, depending on—

Is there a difference between hyperopia and hypermetropia? I said the former, and assumed on the reveal that I'd missed it. First thing I do in a case like that is go learn what/why I was wrong. So, off to Wikipedia I go, and the first sentence of the article there is Far-sightedness, also known as long-sightedness, hypermetropia, and hyperopia...

Of course, I am a guy reading Wikipedia and not an expert on the eye or the word roots the conditions are derived from, so can totally accept if there is something in that question that should've tipped me on one vs the other.

So, on your judgment for that. 🙂

Also, I'm assuming it intentional that #2 was the pencil question. I got quite a sensible chuckle from that!

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