Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Cryptic Music Quiz

Due to the success of Phil's album cover quiz
I have made a cryptic artist quiz to keep your brains
ticking and to waste the working day away.
Sorry if they are too easy, I haven't really tried this before

EDIT :
21/11 - answer clues now added (number of letters)

23/11 - Anne is doing some cleaning up, 15 left

24/11 - Phil says "Hammertime" and sorts a tasty Gyro, Anne picks the Idol, 12 left!
830pm - reworded some for extra clues

25/11 - Phil and Anne battling the last few out

1. At the finish you wont be dead - Phil - The Living End
2. Hey! I cast out your mispellings - Phil - Outkast
3. Robert can be found inside some vans (3,5)
4. Nippon is the avarian capital - Phil - Birds of Tokyo
5. Religious belief? now empty (5,2,4) - Anne - Faith No More
6. Oz dog is famous in the dark continent - Phil - Toto
7. Wonderland visitor now shackled - Phil - Alice in Chains
8. Something odd about the aero's myth - Phil - Aerosmith
9. A cuppa coffee for our Inuit friend - Anne - Eskimo Joe
10. Mixed up dove has slang disappointment (4) - Anne - Devo
11. Simply 36 ebonies (3,5,4) - Anne - The Black Keys
12. Can you hear the icy rain in my truck? - Jemma - Van Halen
13. Letter between Y and I needs a double - Jemma - U2
14. Greek wrap at the end of the telescope (9) - Phil - Gyroscope
15. Little Fiona finds things difficult (4,2) - Anne - Hard-Fi
16. Adam uses UK prog rock for his inspiration (4) - Anne - Muse
17. Rests on his patellas whilst atop a shark (4,4) - Neil Finn
18. Theatrical award goes to popular herb - Phil - Toni Basil
19. An imitator? maybe a mixed up freak (5)
20. Hardware is found in mirrored loot - Phil - Tool
21. Sweet sunshine for fly singers - Phil - SugarRay
22. Bob's is in the middle of a palm error - Phil - Robert Palmer
23. No moss on short Michaels outfit (3,7,6) - Anne - The Rolling Stones
24. A most common surname for this last testimony (4,5) - Phil - Will Smith
25. Idol Aussie Ned has teamed up with Griswald's boy (5,8) - Anne - Kelly Clarkson
26. Had too much of being within the minx situation? (4)
27. This ocean mammal remains unopened (4) - Anne - Seal
28. Shuffled game in, from a return to innocence (6)
29. Look for the fruity centre of the common people - Phil - Pulp
30. Footy's Cousin's mixed messages re: harp (3,6) - Anne - Ben Harper
31. Finding out the number in a murder (8,5)
32. Motorcycle is initial transport for mallet (2,6) - Phil - MC Hammer
33. Number one card for military facility - Phil - Ace of Base
34. Star Trek's Patrick is handy for fishing (3,7) - Anne - Rod Stewart
35. Looks like a frog's seat for director Woody (4,5) - Anne - Lily Allen
36. Mends clothes at a rapid pace (6,5) - Anne - Taylor Swift
37. Look inside ; The Go-Go's sip coffee during idle chatter (6)
38. Fresh powder will maintain watch around here - Jemma - Snow Patrol
39. Evil is back, it continues its existence - Anne - Live
40. Puzzled harpists built this city - Phil - Starship

41 comments:

  1. 1. Living End
    4. Birds Of Tokyo
    7. Alice In Chains
    22. Robert Palmer
    34. Greenday

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  2. by 8. I obviously meant 9.

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  3. are you taking the piss? or you just waiting til everyone else has a chance to have a go

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  4. theres a band called hail! no not taking the piss just remarkably stupid

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  5. ever get the feeling you're the only one playing :/

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  6. nope, its not that cryptic, think more literally

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  7. COME ON!!!! Tell us what the last ones are!! Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease.

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