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Heavy Metal Umlauts

By Miss Cellania in Music on Aug 17, 2009 at 10:46 am



Today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss is for heavy metal fans and spelling buffs. An umlaut is those two dots above a letter that find their way into a lot of band names. Can you pick out the correct placement of the world’s heaviest diacritic in each band name? Difficulty: Some names don’t even have an umlaut. I scored 40%, which involved mostly guessing. Link


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  1. eni
    Aug 17th, 2009 at 11:09 am

    Woohoo! 80%

  2. Foreigner1
    Aug 17th, 2009 at 12:06 pm

    I feel deeply ashamed- 8 out of 10 ... The Mötley Crüe question and the Spinal Tap question... Truly Deeply Ashamed...

  3. Laura_v
    Aug 17th, 2009 at 4:06 pm

    70%. Sad really. I've looked at those band names for years...

  4. Caitlin
    Aug 18th, 2009 at 12:36 am

    i some how got 100% but i guessed on like 3 i'd never head of!

  5. Guest
    Aug 18th, 2009 at 8:05 am

    ...........

    Umlaut = ä, ö, ü.

    Rest = not.

  6. cryptique
    Aug 18th, 2009 at 2:20 pm

    80% here. I missed Motorhead and Rammstein.

  7. veripales
    Aug 21st, 2009 at 5:46 am

    Megadeth is not misspelled, it is a measurement of... death.

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