Thought I was going for new high score in the first half, but it turns out I’d need several minutes to figure out question 10 to avoid my worst score ever. I can be happy that I was sitting on like 4965, right?
I did, but only because of the Sound of Music and the tea a drink with jam and bread song. This is kind of an unfair question because it has multiple answers - it's not like you can say it's in English, because in English music is CDEFGAB.
Sure you can. It's solfege as practiced by English speakers (not sure what other versions exist). Solfege just assigns a syllable to each of the notes so you don't have to sing the name of the note itself.
There is also the letter transcription c,d,e,f,g,a,b. In Germany, b is written as h (much like the difference between ti/si), while b is the German name for h flat. Confusing enough?
It was always a debate with scrabble for us (I'm Dutch) I remember something was written inside the box which one of the two or both were ok, something like ti=si. I also remember something about whether it is so or sol..
Edit could have had something to do with my mother being in England for a few years when she was younger, I think the game we have is from like 1974... so she could have picked when she was there, or perhaps from the song from Sound of music.. because it is suppósed to be si in Dutch
9/10 today, lost a coin toss on the Stephen King novel, at least I can take comfort in knowing that I went for the most picked option. Also it took me exceptionally long to work out the sequence for question 10 😅
@freestatebear What does that have to do with anything? Yes and in hungary they speak hungarian.. However the naming of the notes is (originally ut re my fa sol la) based on the LATIN hymn Ut Queant Laxis, using the first syllables of each line (and referring to the notes those syllables were sung in);
Ut queant laxīs
resonāre fibrīs
Mīra gestōrum
famulī tuōrum,
Solve pollūtī
labiī reātum,
Sancte Iohannēs.
I'm sorry if this was written in sloppy English, my brain is once again not working at maximum capacity. (Happy to even produce some semblance of sentences haha)
I was pretty sure that the answer to the last question was Si, but I was wrong... Is at least still pronounced the same, and is it an Anglosphere thing?
Ack, my American self read question 7 as 8000 FEET and thought "there's towns that high, no way it's anything super ominous..." But meters... That's different 😰
I guess you either see it at once, or not at all.
In Catalan we say Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Si
Edit could have had something to do with my mother being in England for a few years when she was younger, I think the game we have is from like 1974... so she could have picked when she was there, or perhaps from the song from Sound of music.. because it is suppósed to be si in Dutch
Ut queant laxīs
resonāre fibrīs
Mīra gestōrum
famulī tuōrum,
Solve pollūtī
labiī reātum,
Sancte Iohannēs.
I'm sorry if this was written in sloppy English, my brain is once again not working at maximum capacity. (Happy to even produce some semblance of sentences haha)
Although I always thought it originated from The Sound of Music movie, so maybe it was the Americans lol
Lost the last 3. Had no clue.
Had all the questions had a music theme, sure. But today, if there was a theme, it was beyond me. I think most people had to guess.
prob would have got the last one if i thought about it but went for the speed :(