In memory of Maxine Powell

 

https://www.legacy.com/news/did-you-know/legends-of-motown-quiz/1586/

 

I'm ashamed to say I only got 70% 

In memory of Maxine Powell

 

https://www.legacy.com/news/did-you-know/legends-of-motown-quiz/1586/

 

I'm ashamed to say I only got 70% 

80%

80% also think I misunderstood the Levi Stubbs question

80% without cheating.

50%. Not bad for someone who's never been interested in Motown.

50%. Not bad for someone who's never been interested in Motown.

 

....and had a 50% chance if he'd done it blindfold!

 

80% for me with no cheating.   90% if I cheat - 'cos I didn't like one of the answers.

 

 - Kev

90%

90%

80%

100% this time

90%.

 

Four Tops question about being a jazz group wrong.

80%

80% also think I misunderstood the Levi Stubbs question

 

Me too, although I maintain that their question is phrased wrong.

70%

At the risk of sounding like a big headed twat, I got them all right.

50%. Not bad for someone who's never been interested in Motown.

 

Snap...

....and had a 50% chance if he'd done it blindfold!

 

80% for me with no cheating.   90% if I cheat - 'cos I didn't like one of the answers.

 

 - Kev

 

 

90%.

 

Four Tops question about being a jazz group wrong.

 

Yep, that was the one I didn't like.

They didn't say jazz group - they said jazz BAND. That makes me think of Kenny Ball.

 

Does singing a few jazz standards make you a jazz band/group? What about their doowop stuff? I'd always imagined their roots lay there, but am willing to be enlightened.

 

 - Kev

Yep, that was the one I didn't like.

They didn't say jazz group - they said jazz BAND. That makes me think of Kenny Ball.

 

Does singing a few jazz standards make you a jazz band/group? What about their doowop stuff? I'd always imagined their roots lay there, but am willing to be enlightened.

 

 - Kev

Kev , a bit of a trick question I reckon but maybe wrong. The thing that made me pick jazz was the Album that's mega rare or doesn't exist , which I reckon was something like 'Jazz Workshop' (nearly put 'Worksop' )

Or I may have imagined it 

 

Just re read what I put , if the album doesn't exist it must be bloody rare

Edited October 15, 201312 yr by SWIFTY

Kev , a bit of a trick question I reckon but maybe wrong. The thing that made me pick jazz was the Album that's mega rare or doesn't exist , which I reckon was something like 'Jazz Workshop' (nearly put 'Worksop' )

Or I may have imagined it 

 

Just re read what I put , if the album doesn't exist it must be bloody rare

 

That's right I remembered the Jazz Workshop LP as well.

Kev , a bit of a trick question I reckon but maybe wrong. The thing that made me pick jazz was the Album that's mega rare or doesn't exist , which I reckon was something like 'Jazz Workshop' (nearly put 'Worksop' )

Or I may have imagined it 

 

Just re read what I put , if the album doesn't exist it must be bloody rare

 

 

 

Unissued album, titled "Breaking Through", supposed to include some of the recordings on the Lost and Found CD, was slated for release on Workshop Jazz, as Workshop LP Jazz W217.

 

80% also think I misunderstood the Levi Stubbs question

Me too . Kind of a contradictory answer ?

90% without cheating.

 

Only got one wrong that was the Diana Ross/Jackson 5 tie up

....and had a 50% chance if he'd done it blindfold!

 

 

 

 - Kev

 

excellent response! we call this the "proportional reduction in error" problem in statistics. comparing correctly predicted variance to either guessing the modal category, or relying on random chance (as in this case). 

 

you should be a social scientist! (maybe you are?)

 

you would be surprised how many researchers report results that are WORSE than random chance as being "significant"...

90% .The Diana Ross/Jackson 5 myth took me in.

I got the Please Mr Postman question wrong, I thought "Money" had got to number 1 first for some reason

I got a 90%. Even though I was warned about the Four Tops question- I still got it wrong !

excellent response! we call this the "proportional reduction in error" problem in statistics. comparing correctly predicted variance to either guessing the modal category, or relying on random chance (as in this case). 

 

you should be a social scientist! (maybe you are?)

 

you would be surprised how many researchers report results that are WORSE than random chance as being "significant"...

 

Ha, no not a Social Scientist!  Never been a fan of statistics as they always seem to be missing something significant which would drastically alter what they pretend to portray.

 

On another note - thanks to all for mentioning the Jazz Workshop LP which I had no idea about.   You live and learn.

 

-  Kev

70% without cheating 60% with cheating, because I did it without my glasses on

I got the Please Mr Postman question wrong, I thought "Money" had got to number 1 first for some reason

Yes I thought that too Pete ....

70% , though I thought Bobby Taylor discovered The J5 ........

sad to say 100% though if I hadn't read some of this post first it would have been 90% cos I wouldn't have got the four tops as a jazz band lol

Stupid quiz. I answered true to every question and got 50%. I thought I'd try and improve my score by answering false to each one, but still only got 50%!

The only one I got wrong was the Diana Ross founded the Supremes one, and I think that's a bad question. She was an original member of the group and she may not have been THE founder, I would still consider her a founder... She was there before they were even the Supremes...

70% , though I thought Bobby Taylor discovered The J5

 

 

That's what I heard.

Bobby Taylor heard these youngsters sing, and told Gladys Knight who went along to see them and was impressed.

Between them, they convinced Berry Gordy to take a look.

Miss Ross had nothing to do with it, though she took the credit of course.

 

I got 90% - got the Mary Wells/Beatles question wrong.

I got the Please Mr Postman question wrong, I thought "Money" had got to number 1 first for some reason

That one nearly caught me as well...80% BTW...:-)

Bobby did discover the Jackson Five   ... 90 % 

80% not bad considering I am not a Motown fan probably own about 5 or 6 Motown records

80%

70% but i disagree that MG was a 'member' of the Funk Brothers

Also as noted above it was Bobby Taylor who found the J5

Finally - simply because they covered some jazz standards doesn't make the 4 Tops a jazz group

Dx

Edited October 18, 201312 yr by DaveNPete

70% i didn't   like the jazz one neither 

Edited October 18, 201312 yr by night nurse

70%.