I was going to complain about Seattle not being on here but now that I understand the methodology I will refrain from whining. Fun quiz, thanks for the hard work!
Stevie Wonder's hometown is Detroit even if his birth certificate lists another city as his place of birth. Stevie was 4 years old when his family moved to Detroit. Motown signed him when he was 11. Ask anyone from whence Motown came. How many would say Saginaw? You clearly put in a lot of effort to create these metrics, but it feels like there's room for improvement if that's how these totals were compiled.
Great work on this, but I have to agree with a couple of others that Saginaw's points (Stevie Wonder's, at least) should be awarded to Detroit. If all were, Detroit would top Chicago.
Gary is still included in the Chicago metro area. Chicago is in the northeast corner of Illinois. It's only about a 40-minute drive to Gary with no traffic. The first city you hit upon crossing the border is East Chicago, Indiana, and Gary is only about six miles east of that, and about 20 miles southeast of Chicago, Illinois. It's part of what people call "the Region": the area in northwest Indiana that functions as part of Chicagoland. It's even on Central Time (unlike the rest of Indiana, which on Eastern Time) to accommodate the many people who commute to and from Chicago for work every day.
For this amount of effort, you get 5 stars; I don’t even care if the topic is dull or loathsome af to me. (Not that this one was; I’m just sayin’.) Thanks for all you do to give us cool and accurate quizzes!
I'm right there with you. Just goes to show you've got to read the tiny print in the instructions. I got all of the American cities and just kept listing anything, even ones that didn't make sense.
Yeah, they don't have a lot of famous groups. The top pointgetters for Cleveland are Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Henry Mancini, and Tracy Chapman, none of whom are rockers.
Just a couple of quick questions, one on methodology and one about a specific band. What did you do for bands? The Eagles were made of people from all over the country. If they got a score of 120 for a year did you divide it by 4/5 and give points based on where each member was born or did you attribute all the points to the city where they formed? That would help explain the huge numbers for cities like NYC, Los Angeles and London where young musicians flocked to and bands formed. Second for curiosity sake, did you attribute the Bee Gees to Douglas and if so where did it fall on the list?
I'd have to imagine the points go to the city where the band was formed and got its start. The Eagles are definitely an LA band, even though the members grew up in other places.
Cleveland-That is where Alan Freed got Rock 'n" on the map. That is why the R&R Hall of Fame is there. We were very happy when he came to New York City in 1954 on 1010 WINS. Great memories of listening to him and the great music he played.
Are London, Liverpool, and Manchester the British cities responsible for the Jam, the Beatles etc or obscure US cities? Birmingham Alabama or Birmingham Warwickshire?
I always forget to read the notes under the title.