WHAT I MISSED:

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Can you name this song? (Click the image for a closer look.)

This is all the lyrics of a song, minus any mentions of the title, cloudified by Wordle. The bigger the word, the more the songwriter used it.

UPDATE: Solved by Kza in the comments. Congrats!

Can you name this song? (Click the image for a closer look.)

This is all the lyrics of a song, minus any mentions of the title, cloudified by Wordle. The bigger the word, the more the songwriter used it.

UPDATE: Solved in the comments. David had the fastest fingers.

Can you name this song? (Click the image for a closer look.)

This is all the lyrics of a song, minus any mentions of the title, cloudified by Wordle. The bigger the word, the more the songwriter used it.

Can you name this song? (Click the image for a closer look.)

This is all the lyrics of a song, minus any mentions of the title, cloudified by Wordle. The bigger the word, the more the songwriter used it.

Can you name this song? (Click the image for a closer look.)

This is all the lyrics of a song cloudified by Wordle, minus any mentions of the title. The bigger the word, the more the songwriter used it.

Can you name this song? (Click the image for a closer look.)

I plugged the lyrics of a popular song into Wordle and edited out any mentions of the title. The size of a word in the cloud represents how frequently the word appears in the song.

UPDATE: Solved in the comments! Well recognized, Alex.

Can you name this song? (Click the image for a closer look.)

I plugged the lyrics of a popular song into Wordle and edited out any mentions of the title. The size of a word in the cloud represents how frequently the word appears in the song.

UPDATE: Solved in the comments.

Round 2 at the Old Pequliar on October 7, 2008

The correct answer to each of these questions will be a German loanword — that is, a German word adopted into English, such as zeitgeist or schadenfreude.

1) In heavy metal, once you “get the led out,” what are you left with? 
2) You can support humanitarian clowning at what Patch Adams institute that takes its name from a common blessing?
3) Though he doesn’t have a lot in common with the Rosenheim manifestation, or the Freeling family’s “TV people,” in the Harry Potter universe, Peeves is what kind of magical creature?
4) Nixon went to China because of what pragmatic diplomatic policy advocated by Henry Kissinger?
5) A German who longs to see the world would say they’ve got Fernweh. But an American a yen for travel–or Bjork, R.E.M., or Megadeth–says they have what desire instead?
6) What subgenre of electronica gets its name because it incorporates sounds like CD skipping, hardware noise, system errors, and other technological malfunctions?
7) It could have been named for Engis, Belgium or Forbes’ Quarry, Gibraltar, but what extinct species instead takes its name from the German valley where the third fossil specimen was discovered?
8) Oval, D, offset-D, and pear are four common shapes of what piece of equipment that often holds mountain climbers, cavers, or keys?
9) John Williams put the opera in space opera by composing what Wagnerian themes for Luke, Leia, Darth Vader, Yoda, the droids, and even the Jawas?
10) “Don’t hit people,” “be aware of wonder,” and “flush” are three lifelong lessons Robert Fulghum first learned where?

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