How many of the top 100 composers can you name by popularity

19. Sad that John Adams is not included.

I got 7%. Nailed it!

16.  Got the top 5, and 8 of the top 13.

Joker's Wilde

wow this is so impressive.  i did the same as you but only made it to 27. then when i looked at the results i was like "wtf, how could i forget about this/that guy" but there were still about 20-30 names I didnt know and wouldnt have remembered. 

I did to forget some big ones just due to memory fail. got 1-7 and then 9 and 10 and just couldn't come up with number 8. dont remember who that was but it was one of those "of course" names once the time was up. engaging but frustrating test/

I got 21 and for my effort I was mocked by the quiz: "You may want to wait on that Jeopardy application."

I might have gotten more if I remembered how to spell a lot of the names. I put out my "RSTLNE"-- Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Wagner, Rossini-- and then sat there fumbling to spell Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky. I didn't know if I was getting the spelling wrong (I was) or if they weren't on the list. I think this was where I failed.

Good stuff, though. And I thought it was a respectable showing for someone who only dabbles in classical.

Thanks, but, nah, I'm just a classical music geek. There's a ton of things a quiz like this could be about that I'd fail miserably at! As for the review, believe it or not I haven't seen any films in over a year now. Been mostly involved with music, video games and (lately) TV shows. 

Well, thanks for the kudos. Because of my various interests I always feel like a jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none sort. I would recommend you not dismiss all philosophy so easily, though. It's an incredibly wide/diverse field that's directly relevant to many aspects of our lives. Take epistemology, eg, which is the study of knowledge. If you don't have any understanding of how knowledge works, you're pretty much at the mercy of cognitive biases and rationalizations, unless you just get lucky and are born rational/logical. Morality/Ethics is another obvious one that's very relevant to our lives. As for politics, yeah, I'm mostly liberal but there are some conservative positions I agree with and I think both sides have extremes that can get loony.

As for religion, my position on that has changed a lot over the years. Right now I'd say I'm mostly only anti-fundamentalism and against those who try to push religion onto others or into politics. Beyond that, I don't really have a problem with religion and I actually think it has contributed a lot of positive things to humanity, including much of the best music from the greatest composers. What I tend to say about religion these days is that it's rarely the problem itself; to the extent that it's good and bad it's merely a reflection of what's good and bad in humanity. Eliminating religion wouldn't eliminate what's bad about humanity, as various genocidal atheist regimes proved. I can also appreciate religion as what Wallace Stevens called the "supreme fiction," or fiction that felt so truthful that people simply took it as literally true, and reading Blake, Jung, Stevens, and even Jordan Peterson (to a lesser extent) has made me appreciate how many psychological/experiential truths there are in religion. 

I don't take compliments well. 

I think my lack of pride comes from insecurity about the fact that I've never formally studied anything. I was selling stuff online in my teens and took up online poker at 18, and I've been successful enough that I never bothered going to college. So what I know just comes from learning on my own. Like, I'm a weirdo that reads textbooks for fun and listens to science/philosophy podcasts; but I'm very aware that for any subject I've learned about there are undoubtedly many out there who know far more than me, and I really don't want to make myself look like an ignorant ass if they happen to be around. 

But, here, take this compliment: you're one of my favorite posters on the Politics forum. There are only a handful of people over there that I can read without wanting to bash my head against a table, and you're one of them.