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Number	Songs	Answer	% Correct
1	Purple Haze, Voodoo Child	Jimi Hendrix	96%
4	Hot for Teacher, Panama	Eddie Van Halen	90%
3	Kashmir, Stairway to Heaven	Jimmy Page	88%
14	Purple Rain, When Doves Cry	Prince	87%
2	Johnny B. Goode, Maybelline	Chuck Berry	85%
15	Gimme Shelter, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction	Keith Richards	83%
35	Tears in Heaven, Bell Bottom Blues	Eric Clapton	78%
31	Something, Let It Be	George Harrison	78%
11	Oye Como Va, Black Magic Woman	Carlos Santana	76%
105	Sweet Child O' Mine, Welcome to the Jungle	Slash	75%
33	Brighton Rock, Killer Queen	Brian May	73%
32	Seven Nation Army, Ball and Biscuit	Jack White	73%
38	Back in Black, Whole Lotta Rosie	Angus Young and Malcolm Young	71%
8	Sweet Sixteen, The Thrill Is Gone	B.B. King	71%
30	Rockin' in the Free World, Cowgirl in the Sand	Neil Young	69%
28	Comfortably Numb, Shine on You Crazy Diamond	David Gilmour	67%
155	Nero, Falkor	Yvette Young	67%
159	Help!, Day Tripper	John Lennon	65%
107	Time Between, Chestnut Mare	Clarence White	64%
88	Smells Like Teen Spirit, Scentless Apprentice	Kurt Cobain	64%
37	My Generation, Substitute	Pete Townshend	62%
22	Born Under a Bad Sign, As the Years Go Passing By	Albert King	61%
19	Hide Away, The Stumble	Freddy King	61%
47	Sunday Bloody Sunday, Where the Streets Have No Name	The Edge	60%
100	Angel of Death, Raining Blood	Kerry King	58%
210	Playing With Pink Noise, Skimming the Fractured Surface to a Place of Endless Light	Kaki King	57%
16	Ramblin' on My Mind, Traveling Riverside Blues	Robert Johnson	56%
44	Blitzkrieg Bop, Judy Is a Punk	Johnny Ramone	55%
96	Sultans of Swing, Romeo and Juliet	Mark Knopfler	55%
205	Cliffs of Dover, Benny Man's Blues	Eric Johnson	54%
13	Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Symptom of the Universe	Tony Iommi	54%
41	Bo Diddley, Road Runner	Bo Diddley	53%
111	Not for Sale, Yeah Right	Kelley Johnson	53%
173	Maybe I'm Amazed, Taxman	Paul McCartney	53%
106	Radio Free Europe, The One I Love	Peter Buck	53%
10	You Don't Love Me, Whipping Post	Duane Allman	52%
84	Rollin' Stone, Mannish Boy	Muddy Waters	51%
203	Idle Moments, Jean De Fleur	Grant Green	49%
62	Albatross, Rattlesnake Shake	Peter Green	49%
5	Freeway Jam, I Ain't Superstitious	Jeff Beck	48%
110	Rhiannon, Go Your Own Way	Lindsey Buckingham	47%
185	Aztec, Wiggle Wobble	Peggy Jones	47%
228	God Save the Queen, Pretty Vacant	Steve Jones	47%
18	Killing in the Name, Guerrilla Radio	Tom Morello	46%
23	One, Fade to Black	James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett	45%
101	Up Around the Bend, Ramble Tamble	John Fogerty	45%
75	Highway Star, Smoke on the Water	Ritchie Blackmore	45%
83	Hallowed Be Thy Name, Aces High	Adrian Smith / Dave Murray	44%
20	Love Struck Baby, Cold Shot	Stevie Ray Vaughan	43%
21	Crazy Train, Mr. Crowley	Randy Rhoads	42%
182	Cassandra, Rat Race	Earl 'Chinna' Smith	39%
50	Dust My Broom, The Sky Is Crying	Elmore James	39%
240	Love Thing, P.R.D.C.T	Erin Smith	39%
225	Looking at You, Poison	Fred 'Sonic' Smith / Wayne Kramer	39%
136	Mama Kin, Walk This Way	Joe Perry	39%
164	You Really Got Me, All Day and All of the Night	Dave Davies	38%
103	Crazy on You, Mistral Wind	Nancy Wilson	38%
178	Sick Bed Blues, Devil Got My Woman	Skip James	38%
43	Creep, Paranoid Android	Johnny Greenwood and Ed O'Brien	37%
56	This Charming Man, How Soon Is Now?	Johnny Marr	37%
89	Heroin, Sister Ray	Lou Reed	37%
194	The Boys Are Back in Town, Emerald	Brian Robertson / Scott Gorham	36%
25	Dani California, Under The Bridge	John Frusciante	36%
247	52 Girls, Mesopotamia	Ricky Wilson	36%
198	Guitar Man, Amos Moses	Jerry Reed	35%
55	Can't You Hear Me Knocking, All Down the Line	Mick Taylor	35%
7	Le Freak, Good Times	Nile Rodgers	35%
58	2112, The Spirit of Radio	Alex Lifeson	34%
102	Jesus Left Chicago, La Grange	Billy Gibbons	34%
196	The Frozen Man, Fire and Rain	James Taylor	34%
94	Surfing With the Alien, Summer Song	Joe Satriani	34%
76	Cherry Bomb, Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)	Joan Jett	33%
69	The Shape I'm In, Like A Rolling Stone	Robbie Robertson	33%
232	Billie Jean, Dirty Diana	David Williams	31%
70	Django's Tiger, Djangology	Django Reinhardt	31%
130	The Bomber, Funk #49	Joe Walsh	31%
113	Free Bird, Simple Man	Allen Collins / Gary Rossington	30%
250	Message in a Bottle, Every Breath You Take	Andy Summers	30%
121	Misirlou, The Peter Gunn Theme	Dick Dale	30%
34	Dark Star, Morning Dew	Jerry Garcia	30%
60	That's All Right, Mystery Train	Scotty Moore	30%
46	Willie the Pimp, In-a-Gadda-Stravinsky	Frank Zappa	29%
127	For the Love of God, Yankee Rose	Steve Vai	29%
57	Silver Rocket, The Diamond Sea	Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo	29%
52	Boom Boom, Boogie Chillen'	John Lee Hooker	28%
9	For The Roses, Coyote	Joni Mitchell	28%
68	How High the Moon, Tiger Rag	Les Paul	28%
248	Riders on the Storm, Roadhouse Blues	Robby Krieger	28%
59	21st Century Schizoid Man, Heroes	Robert Fripp	27%
77	Whiskey River, Night Life	Willie Nelson	27%
156	Blue Suede Shoes, Glad All Over	Carl Perkins	26%
131	Floods, Cemetary Gates	Dimebag Darrell	26%
117	Frosty, Sno-Cone Part 1	Albert Collins	25%
180	Breakdown, You Got Lucky	Mike Campbell	25%
246	Dazzling Blue, Kathy's Song	Paul Simon	24%
145	In Memory of Elizabeth Reed, Jessica	Dickey Betts	22%
65	T-Bone Shuffle, Mean Old World	T-Bone Walker	22%
123	Starship Trooper, Close to the Edge	Steve Howe	21%
29	Maggot Brain, Funky Dollar Brain	Eddie Hazel	20%
124	Even Flow, Animal	Mike McCready / Stone Gossard	20%
135	Mr. Tambourine Man, Eight Miles High	Roger McGuinn	20%
45	Soul Man, Green Onions	Steve Cropper	20%
27	Stone Crazy, First Time I Met The Blues	Buddy Guy	19%
172	Brass in Pocket, Stop Your Sobbing	Chrissie Hynde	19%
98	Rumble, Jack the Ripper	Link Wray	19%
39	Your Cheatin' Heart, Wake Up Little Susie	Chet Atkins	18%
61	Gravity, In Your Atmosphere	John Mayer	18%
109	The Width of a Circle, Suffragette City	Mick Ronson	18%
63	Shoot Out the Lights, 1952 Vincent Black Lightning	Richard Thompson	18%
140	Bluebird, Carry On	Stephen Stills	18%
148	Rocket 88, It's Gonna Work Out Fine	Ike Turner	17%
192	Black Widow, Lisa	Lita Ford	17%
51	Marquee Moon, Little Johnny Jewel	Tom Verlaine	17%
54	Runaway, Something to Talk About	Bonnie Raitt	16%
48	Gypsy Woman, Move on Up	Curtis Mayfield	16%
239	Rebel Rouser, Peter Gunn	Duane Eddy	16%
24	Susie Q, Hello Mary Lou	James Burton	16%
42	Pride, Cult of Personality	Vernon Reid	16%
80	Joyful Noise, Whipping Post	Derek Trucks	15%
166	I'm Yours and I'm Hers, Fast Life Rider	Johnny Winter	15%
146	East-West, Like a Rolling Stone	Mike Bloomfield	15%
175	Bullfrog Blues, Laundromat	Rory Gallagher	15%
6	Strange Things Happening Every Day	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	15%
26	Rattlesnake, Cruel	St. Vincent	15%
219	Victim of Changes, Breaking the Law	Glenn Tipton / K.K. Downing	13%
189	We Die Young, No Excuses	Jerry Cantrell	13%
74	Feel The Pain, Little Fury Pain	J Mascis	13%
67	Soon, Only Shallow	Kevin Shields	13%
126	Black Hole Sun, Gun	Kim Thayil	13%
153	Homework, Double Trouble	Otis Rush	13%
186	Razamatazz, Hold the Line	Steve Lukather	13%
120	Soulshine, Blind Man in the Dark	Warren Haynes	13%
118	The Great Curve, Elephant Talk	Adrian Belew	12%
190	Little Wail, What'd I Say	Lightnin' Hopkins	12%
66	Boomer's Story, Memo From Turner	Ry Cooder	12%
73	Spoonful, Smokestack Lightning	Hubert Sumlin	11%
72	Right Off, The Noonward Race	John McLaughlin	11%
160	No Aloha, Drivin' on 9	Kim and Kelley Deal	11%
132	Share a Little, Beggars Day	Nils Lofgren	11%
149	TV Eye, I Wanna Be Your Dog	Ron Asheton	11%
183	Wayfaring Pilgrim, The Messiah Will Come Again	Roy Buchanan	11%
216	Horizons, Firth of Fifth	Steve Hackett	11%
161	Bad, Playing God	Tim Henson	11%
171	Little Man With a Gun in His Hand, Corona	D. Boon	10%
167	Search and Destroy, Raw Power	James Williamson	10%
40	Poor Boy, The Yellow Princess	John Fahey	10%
212	Light My Fire, Here, There and Everywhere	José Feliciano	10%
17	Wildwood Flower, Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow	Mother Maybelle Carter	10%
115	You Satellite, Confection	Nels Cline	10%
157	And I Love Her, Bright Size Life	Pat Metheny	10%
53	Stash, Fluffhead	Trey Anastasio	10%
229	You'll Lose a Good Thing, I'll Suffer	Barbara Lynn	9%
195	Damaged II, Revenge	Greg Ginn	9%
12	Let Yourself Go, Papa's Got a Brand New Bag	Jimmy Nolen	9%
245	Mississippi Queen, Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin)	Leslie West	9%
218	I Miss the Misery, The Steeple	Lzzy Hale	9%
87	Human Fly, Goo Goo Muck	Poison Ivy	9%
82	Four on Six, Willow Weep for Me	Wes Montgomery	9%
209	This Land, Grinder	Gary Clark Jr	8%
99	Cafo, Tooth and Claw	Tosin Abasi	8%
104	Heygana, Safari	Ali Farka Touré	7%
79	That Lady, Voyage to Atlantis	Ernie Isley	7%
231	One Dime Blues, Carolina Breakdown	Etta Baker	7%
234	Philadelphia, Spellbound	John McGeoch	7%
158	Born to Lose, Jet Boy	Johnny Thunders	7%
241	Highway Don't Care, Blue Ain't Your Color	Keith Urban	7%
215	Pretty Pimpin, Wakin on a Pretty Day	Kurt Vile	7%
97	Gold Soundz, Night Society	Stephen Malkmus	7%
139	It Hurt So Bad, Midnight in Harlem	Susan Tedeschi	7%
243	Mr. November, Bloodbuzz Ohio	Aaron / Bryce Dessner	6%
36	Freight Train, Going Down the Road Feeling Bad	Elizabeth Cotten	6%
49	Missed, Autumn Key	PJ Harvey	6%
202	Liza Jane, Oklahoma Borderline	Vince Gill	6%
163	Let's Get It On, How Long (Betcha Got a Chick on the Side)	Wah Wah Watson	6%
92	Huge, Just Abandoned Myself	Wata	6%
78	Solo Fight, Gone With That Wind	Charlie Christian	4%
193	Running on Empty, Mercury Blues	David Lindley	4%
71	Ngungi, Mario	Franco Luambo	4%
233	Hold On, Comfortable	H.E.R.	4%
168	How You Love, Gold and Silver	John Cipollina	4%
213	Night Shift, I Don't Wanna Be Funny Anymore	Lucy Dacus	4%
187	Jockey Full of Bourbon, Aurora En Pekin	Marc Ribot	4%
211	Y Control, Maps	Nick Zinner	4%
138	Love and Happiness, Take Me to the River	Teenie Hodges	4%
81	Black Water Side, The Waggoner's Lad	Bert Jansch	3%
134	Real World, Celebrated Summer	Bob Mould	3%
249	History Repeats, Presence	Brittany Howard	3%
181	You Just Can't Win, Everything I Want	Larissa Strickland	3%
85	Josie, Rio Samba	Larry Carlton	3%
108	Cannonball Rag, Nine Pound Hammer	Merle Travis	3%
197	Midnight Express, Kiss It Better	Nuno Bettencourt	3%
170	Amazona, Lagrima	Phil Manzanera	3%
133	Smoking Gun, This Man	Robert Cray	3%
112	The Friend Catcher, Junkyard	Rowland S. Howard	3%
208	Djanfa, Ce N'est Pas Bon	Amadou Bagayoko	2%
152	Both Hands, Gravel	Ani DiFranco	2%
128	Kids Don't Follow, I Hate Music	Bob Stinson	2%
199	Azamane Tiliade, Tenere (The Desert, My Home)	Bombino	2%
191	Ask of You, Untitled (How Does It Feel)	Chalmers Edward 'Spanky' Alford	2%
200	Midnight Heat, Outside of This Town	Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram	2%
220	Turning Green, Over Everything	Courtney Barnett	2%
238	I Am a Tree, Mr. Child	Doug Gillard	2%
244	No Me Olvides, Bendita Nena	Edilio Paredes	2%
184	Ida Red, Twin Guitar Special	Eldon Shamblin	2%
226	The Clutch, Independence Day	El Kempner	2%
179	My Boy Lollipop, 54-46 Was My Number	Ernest Ranglin	2%
141	Bleed, Demiurge	Fredrik Thordendal	2%
201	Cosmic Slop, One Nation Under a Groove	Garry 'Diaper Man' Shider	2%
227	Light Field (In Consonance), Velvets and Pearls	Glenn Branca	2%
236	When It's Over, Up Front	Greg Sage	2%
230	Canción Animal, La Excepción	Gustavo Cerati	2%
206	Hey Nineteen, Killing Me Softly With His Song	Hugh McCracken	2%
221	Theme from Captain Black, Timeless	James Blood Ulmer	2%
237	Flight of the Bumblebee, Giant Steps (Rock Version)	Jennifer Batten	2%
169	She-Wolf, Shame on You	Jessie Mae Hemphill	2%
142	Undo, Chega de Saudade/No More Blues	João Gilberto	2%
223	Brownskin Girl, Jump in the Line	Joseph Spence	2%
207	Like Rats, Silver	Justin Broadrick	2%
214	A Shredded Coiled Cable Within This Cable Sincerity Could Not be Contained, Why in the Courtesy of the Prey Always Confused With the Courtesy of the Hunters Pt. 1	Keiji Haino	2%
235	I Was an Eagle, Wild Fire	Laura Marling	2%
93	Cissy Strut, Just Kissed My Baby	Leo Nocentelli	2%
242	Heat Wave, Pristine	Lindsey Jordan	2%
137	Strange Loop, Shane	Liz Phair	2%
204	007 (Shanty Town), Take It Easy	Lynn Taitt	2%
188	Shea Stadium, Vibrational Match	Marnie Stern	2%
174	Way Out West, Hillbilly Rock	Marty Stuart	2%
224	Cruisin, The Tracks of My Tears	Marv Tarplin	2%
147	When the Levee Breaks, Me and My Chauffeur Blues	Memphis Minnie	2%
222	Take the Journey, El Dorado	Molly Tuttle	2%
114	Girlfriend, Blank Generation	Robert Quine	2%
177	Tamacún, Weird Fishes/Arpeggi	Rodrigo y Gabriela	2%
165	The Man I Love, Né So	Rokia Traoré	2%
162	Asa Branca, Tristeza Em Mim	Rosinha de Valença	2%
176	American Horror, Tiger Tank	Sadie Dupuis	2%
217	Easy, Brick House	Thomas McClary	2%
125	Typical Girls, So Tough	Viv Albertine	2%
116	Only Loved at Night, No One's Little Girl	Ana da Silva	1%
154	Live to Tell, Pipeline	Bill Frisell	1%
64	Call The Doctor, Get Up	Carrie Brownstein	1%
119	Slide, Deathwish	Donita Sparks	1%
143	Blue Line Swinger, I Heard You Looking	Ira Kaplan	1%
122	Sunny Ti De, 365 Is My Number / The Message	King Sunny Ade	1%
150	It All Means Nothing, I'll Make You Sorry	Marissa Paternoster	1%
95	Pat's Trick, Glass Tambourine	Mary Timony	1%
129	Halo of Flies, The Wolf You Feed	Nita Strauss	1%
144	Hit or Miss, Take This Hammer	Odetta	1%
151	Moja, Smokestack Lightning	Pete Cosey	1%
91	Try Jah Love, 1865 (96 Degrees in the Shade)	Cat Coore	0%
90	Afrique Victime, Tarhatazed	Mdou Moctar	0%
86	Yesternow, Many Mansions	Sonny Sharrock	0%