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Quiz November 2004


Carl

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There are two winners this month.

Marshall from Bethesda, MD

Tom from Beverly, MA

Marshall and Tom both nailed the tiebreaker, so we'll send them both clean and comfortable Songfacts T-Shirts.

Here are the answers:

  • What hit from the '80s featured high school cheerleaders in the video?
    - "Mickey" by Toni Basil

  • What popular singer grew up in Alaska?
    - Jewel

  • What song became the title of a movie based on a Stephen King novel?
    - "Stand By Me"
    The 1986 movie was based on King's "The Body."

  • What U.S. Top 10 rap hit sampled a Van Halen guitar riff?
    - "Wild Thing" by Tone Loc
    It sampled "Jamie's Cryin'."

  • What musician said, "Onstage I make love to 25,000 people, then I go home alone"?
    - Janis Joplin

  • What famous band has a member who was a top-ranked junior tennis player.
    - Metallica
    Lars Ulrich moved from Denmark to California to work on his game, but ended up playing the drums.

  • What is the best selling group whose name is a palindrome?
    - Abba

  • What singer released 7 consecutive singles that hit #1 on the US pop charts?
    - Whitney Houston
    Starting with "Saving All My Love For You" in 1985 and ending with "Where Do Broken Hearts Go?" in 1988.

  • What song did Vanilla Fudge, The Supremes and Kim Wilde all cover?
    - "You Keep Me Hanging On"

  • Which line from a Who song made it into the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations?
    - "Hope I die before I get old"

    Tiebreaker: How many pumpkins did the Songfacts staff buy for Halloween?
    2

Thanks to everyone who took the quiz, and be sure to take the new one

here.

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