Daily Getsmuchworse here I come!

I smelt a rat with the Palin cover mock-up, but didn't have the courage of my convictions. And I was looking forward to the worst rock accidents..........

6 correct, 1 partial (question 2, only knew Ringo & Brian Wilson),2 not a clue (7&8).

I'm so proud.

They are doing this on purpose to get sponsorship from Gilette...

81% - I didn't know the Jimmy Nicol or Matt Deighton answers. I knew that Nazareth compilation and a slavish devotion to the career of Westlife would come in useful one day.

I've never knowingly heard a Nazarath song in my life. Sorry.

The Girls Aloud song and the Chris Martin cameo I knew. The rest I couldn't even guess an answer.

Missed Madness, Girls Aloud and the Number ones. Not really heartbroken at not knowing the last two.

and 2 out of three (which ain't bad) on the last. I also will be losing no sleep over the two I goofed on. Isn't 'clownstep' where the rest of the band send drummer's to sit when he says 'can we do one I wrote, lads?'

Albeit with a couple of lucky guesses. Clownstep has regrettably passed me by.

Stalled on Jimmy Nicol, fell into the tippex monkee trap and dissolved into getting all the last few wrong. I thought Chilli Willi and the Red Hot Peppers, Chumbawamba and the Rockingbirds had most number ones.......

...why not ten?

Weills law of inverse disequitude.

to point out that Chris Martin doesn't play a zombie, but plays himself in Shaun of the Dead?

Does Adrian Thrills really write for the Mail? Sheesh. Is this the same Thrills that wrote for NME at its left wing height? (or low, depending on your point of view.)

I didn't know Nazareth or Clownstep but got all the others. Hooray for me! Jimmy Nicol is a source of much fascination for me. His gradual retreat into virtual reclusedom after his week of being a fab is startling.

I got the housemartins and No 1s and knew about Glen campbell but not the other two.

but I got a lousy three right.

- I have never heard of 'clownstep', and nor do I wish to

- I have never knowingly heard 'Sexy! No No No' by Girls Aloud

- Question 4, I thought Lou Reed may have had a brief romantic liaison with Clive Dunn during his yellow peroxide crop years (that's Lou Reed's yellow peroxide crop years, not Clive Dunn's), but that proved to be incorrect.

I'm not sure one has to pass some political persuasion test to write about music for the Mail. (Or indeed, any of the arts or features sections.)

Mrs Horse knew that I wouldn't be able to resist this one, so she asked me the questions last night. Very pleased with a score of 10 which put me behind the mighty Petridis only.

Do I now qualify to work as a national newspaper rock critic? (I promise to brush up on my Nazareth.)

As a side note, why didn't you quiz Kitty Empire?

Shame. She would have wiped the floor with most of them, and offer a glimmer of hope to your readers that the profession isn't entirely geekboy-dominated.

.....with all the unexpurgated answers was a joy to read. Whilst my own score was, at least for anything remotely modern, poor, somehow one expects better.....
(Am I allowed to say, and I hide this away in this strand to avoid angry tirades and sulky asides, that this months Word was the poorest yet, with this article being the highpoint for me, and little else of appeal. Even the reviews were as dull as ditchwater. And this in a month when Slomo was particularly strong.......
* One star)

Creamed the first question. Concluded that I was culturally disadvantaged by the rest.

Our risible knowledge of music trivia and the fact that we both appear to have cut our own hair.