The Weekly Quiz That Turns Music Absurdity Into Sport

Each Friday, veteran journalist Daniel Griffiths sifts through MusicRadar’s coverage and selects ten stories for the Quiz of the Week. It’s not a test of expertise. It’s a test of attention, specifically the kind you pay to an industry that routinely churns out the baffling alongside the brilliant.

The fifth edition includes what the publication itself calls “outrageous quotes, unlikely new gear and a raft of impossible collaborations.” Those words aren’t clickbait. They’re a fair summary of a news cycle where synthesizers are shaped like something you’d find in a kitchen drawer, artists who’ve never shared a stage are suddenly collaborating, and public figures say things that make you check if the headline is satire.

There’s no prize for a perfect ten, just a small moment of clarity. When you match the quote to the guitarist or the gadget to its manufacturer, you’re proving something less about knowledge and more about how closely you followed a week’s worth of noise. And if you fail? It’s probably a sign the absurdity finally outpaced your memory.

For Rombo, the quiz matters not as a competition but as an accidental archive. It captures the ephemera that most news roundups discard, the weird corners of music culture that are here for a week then vanish unless someone bothers to list them. Griffiths has been doing this for years across multiple beats, so the selection carries