March 9 12:00 AM ET

The Geek Lyrics Quiz

Here are twelve lyrics snippets from geek musicians. Can you match the lyric with the artist which performed it?

1. Up above aliens hover making home movies for the folks back home
       Jonathan Coulton
       Devo
       Radiohead
       Oingo Boingo
   

2. The sun is a mass of incandescent gas. A gigantic nuclear furnace
       Talking Heads
       Radiohead
       Devo
       They Might Be Giants
   

3. I hope the smoking man's in this one
       MC Frontalot
       Barenaked Ladies
       Rush
       Beck
   

4. If the series of Zs should always stay close to Z and never trend away that point is in the Mandelbrot Set
       Jonathan Coulton
       They Might Be Giants
       Devo
       Weezer
   

5. Invisible airwaves crackle with life bright antennae bristle with the energy
       Beck
       Rush
       Oingo Boingo
       Talking Heads
   

6. My rhymes are hotter than the Cracks of Doom. The orcs got bass, but we got boom.
       Weird Al
       MC Hawking
       MC Frontalot
       The Lords of the Rhymes
   

7. God made man but he used the monkey to do it
       Talking Heads
       Devo
       Jonathan Coulton
       Barenaked Ladies
   

8. Fantasy and microchips Shooting from the hip Something different
       Radiohead
       Beck
       Oingo Boingo
       They Might Be Giants
   

9. You better PGP the .rar because so far they ain’t impressed.
       Weird Al
       The Lords of the Rhymes
       mc chris
       MC Frontalot
   

10. The spheres are in commotion The elements in harmony
        Thomas Dolby
        Rush
        Weezer
        Devo
    

11. You think your Commodore 64 is really neato What kinda chip you got in there, a Dorito?
        MC Frontalot
        MC Lars
        Weird Al
        mc chris
    

12. Now these points of data make a beautiful line. And we're out of beta. We're releasing on time.
        Radiohead
        MC Frontalot
        Weird Al
        Jonathan Coulton