No answers, just do your best to figure out the answers from a sampling of these music quiz questions we had last week.

We managed to win a double first place sweep at our most recent music quiz game – two $20 prizes!

We also dominated both games leading into the final questions.

It was nice to be able to do that after getting off to a rough start for the season. We still trail the Armless Chairs (aka Party Sharks) team by 12 league points, but we have some time left in the season to either do – or do not – end up on top for a second season in a row.

Our Monday night crew is actually a hybrid team including the captains of the Pods team (myself, Heb/Heather) and Kim, whose team is Sparty On. Both of our trivia teams have been battling out trivia games locally for more than a decade, and both of us are pretty equal when it comes to our passion for and addiction to trivia!

When bands combine their members to make another band, it’s called a “supergroup.” How many “supergroups ” can you name? I’ll start – “The Traveling Wilburys.” Two of their members are still alive 😂

If you want a more “deep cut” supergroup name…Bad English!

I learned this factoid while, ironically enough, joining forces with another trivia team in a trivia semifinal game a few years ago in Dearborn Heights. So while I was playing trivia with a trivia “supergroup,” I learned a cool fact about musical supergroups!

Kim and I have began partnering up for music trivia games in the My Trivia Live league occasionally beginning in 2016 when the Plymouth ROC bar offered those games Tuesday nights. But this bar did not survive the pandemic, and closed a few years ago. We’ve also occasionally played music theme trivia nights locally – and not so locally!

When Sporcle Events started offering Music Quiz games locally about a year ago –  close to home, we decided to make it a weekly meetup spot.

At first, the games were only offered every other week – now they are weekly – and growing!

Our team these days includes Kim and I, my husband Mike, and a couple of Kim’s longtime friends Amy and Evelyn (when they can make it out).

We’ve learned that having differing and sometimes even opposite  loves of music genres is what makes a music trivia team great! It’s awesome having someone well versed in modern hits, hip-hop and country, but you also need someone who knows hair band hits, remembers disco and 70s classic rock hits – and occasionally even goth, swamp rock and jazz songs!

Hmmm I wonder if we’ll ever actually have the rock subcategory of “swamp rock?” I’ll be happy to go up to bat for that! #skynyrdcreedenceforever

Categories on music quiz nights tend to be a mixed bag – you not only need people who know the modern hits, but someone who can spot Elvis songs too. So don’t hesitate to bring your mama or grandma! Even your hound dog (check with bar staff first lol).

On our most recent music quiz night, we had questions in categories of crossovers, garage rock, TV themes, 70s bands, 80s hip-hop, pop rock, indie and glam metal for game one .

We got to hear a snippet from Beyonce’s country album (go her for doing this), a Kinks song covered later by Van Halen, an ABBA song with one word repeated three times (that word is not gimme) whose video was inspired by the 1972 movie Cabaret, the Bust a Move one-hit wonder song from the 80s, some song by Paramore, an indie song by an Aussie group none of us recognized (Empire of the Sun) and lastly, a song by Poison whose name sounds like a fatty brand of microwave popcorn if you changed a “b” to a “p.”

Fun fact, our teammate Amy actually got to meet Poison lead singer Bret Michaels IRL more than once! She shared a pic of the meeting with us on her phone (she did not want it shared here). Very cool!

The only cool rock celebrity story I have is that my dad lived next door to Iggy Pop in the Ann Arbor area in the 60s! I think he just went by “James” or “Jim” back then. Maybe “Jamie?” 🤔

We were in first with 61 points heading into the final, Marvin Gayme was in second with 59, Strip Your Bartender was in third with 56 – eight total teams.

Our final question for game one was about album titles – we heard songs by Fiona Apple, The Wallflowers, Natalie Umbruglia and Chumbawumba and had this question:

We kinda used profiling here to figure out which of these artists would most likely say something like “the boy bands have won.” And our strategy was sound (whew)!

Our game two categories were:

2000s Pop, Heavy Metal, Pop Rock, Pop Rap, R&B, Psychedelic Rock, 2000s Collaborations and New Wave.

We heard a good Britney song to go along with her recent brush with the law – Oops I Did it Again (too soon?), one of the very best rock songs of all time IMHO with a very recognizable guitar riff by Black Sabbath, a Black Panther movie song by an artist who dislikes extra vowels, a Cheap Trick song mentioning crying about unrequited love, some R&B song none of us recognized, a country collaboration including an artist whose first name is also the first name of Liv Tyler’s mom and her last name sounds like an Eastern European capital name, a Doors song that I was probably not really about actual fire but actually about…sex, and lastly, a Duran Duran song mentioning a lupine creature (no not that guy from Twilight).

Our final question was this:

We heard songs by Eminem, Outkast, Nelly, and Lil Nas X and had to decide which artist fit the clue the best.

Thankfully we thought I’d the right band. Man we’ve blown so many final questions over the past few weeks! 😭

We’ll be back at it again next Monday night. Maybe we’ll see some of YOU there!

As always, Go Pods, Sparty On and stay classy, Liza Minnelli!