Bonus
Brittney Spencer covered The Chicks’ song “Cowboy Take Me Away” in recordings made at a studio named for this creature. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this creature that also titles a 2024 cover featuring Spencer. That cover song named for this creature is the second track on an album with the songs “II (“2”) MOST WANTED” and “16 CARRIAGES.”
ANSWER: blackbirds [accept “Blackbird;” accept “BLACKBIIRD;” accept if i ever get there: a day at blackbird studio; prompt on bird or avian]
[10e] Brittney Spencer and other rising Black women in country music are featured in this artist’s cover of The Beatles’ “Blackbird.” This singer created the albums Cowboy Carter and Lemonade.
ANSWER: Beyoncé [or Beyoncé Knowles or Beyoncé Knowles-Carter or Beyoncé Giselle Knowles or Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter]
[10m] Country artist Joy Oladokun was inspired to learn guitar by watching Tracy Chapman, who wrote this 1988 song about failing to escape poverty. In 2023, a Luke Combs cover of this song hit the top of the country charts.
ANSWER: “Fast Car”
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| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 100 | 17.90 | 95% | 79% | 5% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern California | US | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Southern California | US | Y | 7 | 12.86 | 86% | 43% | 0% |
| Eastern Canada (1) | US | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
| Eastern Canada (2) | US | Y | 9 | 20.00 | 100% | 89% | 11% |
| Florida | US | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 75% | 50% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | US | Y | 11 | 17.27 | 100% | 64% | 9% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 9 | 20.00 | 100% | 89% | 11% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 9 | 18.89 | 100% | 89% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Midwest | US | Y | 9 | 17.78 | 89% | 89% | 0% |
| North | US | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| Northeast | US | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Pacific | US | Y | 8 | 20.00 | 88% | 100% | 13% |
| Southeast | US | Y | 12 | 17.50 | 92% | 83% | 0% |
| Upstate NY | US | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 80% | 20% |