Test my music test

[cos]

Years ago I made a "Music of the World" test on OkCupid, testing one's breadth of knowledge about music from all over the world. Recently I overhauled the test - about 1/3 ot the questions are new, most other questions have one or two new answer choices, some are reworded, and they're all rearranged into sections.

Scores don't give you fun categories yet, because I don't know how to score it. I need more people to take it!
http://www.okcupid.com/tests/the-music-of-the-world-test

Even people who know a lot more than I about music probably won't get 100% without using Google. I only got 94% and I made the test! But what scores mean what in the real world? The more I see scores from people I know, and whose level of music knowledge I'm familiar with, the better a sense I'll get. Wanna take the test and tell me what you got? (without Googling for answers, of course :)

Edit: Comments here have spoilers, so take the quiz before you read the comments!

Comments

[ceelove.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty pleased with myself for 62%:
http://www.okcupid.com/quizzy/results?quizzyid=5200452637586656373&userid=0

[forgotten-aria.livejournal.com]

I didn't finish the test, my brain caught fire, but I'm not sure if I could get the taiko question right and, well, I teach people about taiko. Part of the problem is that what taiko means in North America is very different from what it means in Japan. It's simply the japanese word for any drum at all. Kumidaiko is the modern form of playing together in an ensemble, which is also an important part of modern taiko. They are also not always super loud, since I don't consider okedo that loud, but they're still part of wadaiko. So I'm not quite sure what you wanted as an answer to your question.

[cos]

It's not written for a Japanese audience, so the meaning of the word inside Japan only isn't what I had in mind, but I don't think it actually matters. If you're referring to the question I think you are, there's one answer that's clearly best (and scores the most points), and one other answer that's clearly not best but still scores a bit because it shows the person has some familiarity with the term. Some answers are very obviously wrong and you'll lose a point for those. The correct answers are also the ones someone in Japan would choose.

P.S. I slightly adjusted the wording of a couple of answers on that question due to your comment.

[goljerp]

That was a REALLY tough quiz, for me at least. I got 56%; for some questions I was really clueless. My background: I know a fair bit about classical, a smattering of other kinds -- but some of the Klezmer questions, which I thought I'd have a chance with, were really tough. For example, the instrument which you can't have klezmer without... ??? I picked clarinet, although I thought that fiddle or accordian could have been valid answers, as well.

[cos]

Clarinet is the one truly essential instrument for klezmer. Fiddle and accordion are commonly used, but plenty of klezmer bands lack one or the other, and they still sound totally klezmer. Without a clarinet you just cannot make a band really sound like klezmer.

[ Edit: In fact, I just saw my favorite klezmer band perform last week, and they have no accordion ]

BTW, on this quiz there are many questions where while one answer is best, some answers are wronger or righter than others. It's not all or nothing.

But yes, it totally is a really tough quiz, which hopefully will give a lot of variation between people who do know music, rather than lumping them all at >90%. Which is why I'm trying to calibrate.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

62% and a bunch of mine were guesses or semi-educated guesses (where I recognized one or more answers options but didn't know the correct choice for sure)

[cos]

The way this quiz works, you do better on average for educated guesses than random guesses even if you don't get the correct answer. For example, a question may have one answer that's +2 and two answers worth 0 points and two answers worth -1 because they're clearly wrong if you know something about it. Or, maybe for a hard question one answer will be +3 and two others will be +1 and the others 0.

[lindseykuper]

That was, indeed, a tough quiz. I got 62%, and I have a music degree. A few were utterly wild guesses, and others, I could only eliminate one or two wrong answers.

[cos]

Okay, this is starting to look like a pattern. Of the four people who commented here so far with scores, three got 62%. I hope I haven't made a test that gives almost everyone the same score! But maybe I'll end up with a score category just for 62% :)

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

I got 73%, which apparently is fairly high. Majoring in music accounts for some of it, but having fallen down the rabbit hole that is the Christmas Revels at the age of seventeen and never really finding my way out again accounts for rather more of it. :)

[feuervogel]

I gave up on page 2.

[ayeshak.livejournal.com]

I got 70%, but I guessed a LOT. o_o
Background: singer in choirs, choruses, operettas, an a capella group, and lead singer in various bands (funk/soul, rock, wedding, acoustic duo); music-obsessed friends and family with wide-ranging tastes; a history of extensive Wikipedia multi-hour click-trances.

[ayeshak.livejournal.com]

Also, I admit that if I didn't know the quiz's maker, I'd've given up around page 4... >_>;