Sirius Satellite Canada has launched a very tough online music quiz called Face The Music. If you think you have the chops, give it a try, but a warning, as they are pulling from all of the music featured across their 100+ channels, it's quite the challenge. They are giving out prizes, so it has to be.

Yesterday I took part in a charity version of the challenge where I joined seventeen of my media peers at the Harbourfront Centre stage to try and win some cash for our respective charities. I played on behalf of Musicounts.ca, a national foundation that aims to improve school music programs regardless of their economic situation including grants for instruments and awards for music teachers who win their battles. I briefly attended a school outside of the city that didn't have enough instruments to go around, so half of the class got to play while the other half had to listen in the next room and take "music history". Ugh. Musicounts.ca is about fixing that kind of imbalance. Sadly I won them no cash. Only the winner gets a prize and yesterday Alan Cross from the Edge 102.1 grabbed $5,000 for MusicCares.

Kris struggles to identify a Belinda Carlise song alongside fellow competitor and film reviewer Jim Slotek 

It was fun, but brutal. This was Sirius' first attempt at this challenge and I think they skewed the difficulty too high, few players got more than one question right. It wasn't just the breadth of music (basically everything), but the use of live recordings, cover songs (Miley Cyrus covered The Who?) and some very obscure artists. Fortunately for those of you who play online you'll be given a multiple choice system to use. See if you can get above 300,000 points. Good luck.