March 01, 2006

Non-Pyramidal Mystery Years

Is it wrong to know cold the year "Madman on the Water" came out despite not being at all an Elton John fan?

I put it to you that of any random collection 10 distinctive songs from that year, "Madman" is certainly more than 10th most likely to trigger exact year recognition.

Why not just play several callers' wrong guesses from that decade to explicitly rule out those alternatives, then give the game away with a news snippet about Arab boycott-induced fuel shortages? Oh, wait...

Is it wrong to be annoyed when people who do trivia don't really know how to present it?

Posted by Matt Bruce at March 1, 2006 10:18 AM
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