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Quiz October 2005


Carl

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James from Fairfax, VA wins a clean and comfortable Songfacts T-shirt.

Here are the answers:

1) What popular Elton John song is a tribute to a famous musician who died?

- "Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)"

"Candle In The Wind" was about Marilyn Monroe.

2) What rapper has a current hit song about a woman who goes after men only for their money?

- Kanye West - "Golddigger"

3) What Creedence Clearwater Revival song is named after a city in California?

- "Lodi"

We also accepted "Porterville."

4) What popular song from the '70s shares a title with a book (and movie) about a monster?

- "Frankenstein" by Edgar Winter (also a book by Mary Shelley). "Godzilla" was a good guess, but it wasn't a book.

5) What famous song was written about the daughter of one of the Everly Brothers?

- "Sweet Child O' Mine"

Axl Rose wrote it for his girlfriend at the time, Erin Everly.

6) What song by Sting mentions (more than once) an ingredient used to make beer?

- "Fields Of Gold"

The ingredient: Barley

7) The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin each wrote and recorded a song with the same title. What is it?

- "Good Times, Bad Times" or "Heartbreaker"

8) What band did some concerts where they emerged from a giant toilet?

- Limp Bizkit

In 1998, they came out of the crapper at Ozzfest.

9) What group's lead singer rolls on top of the crowd in a giant transparent ball?

- The Flaming Lips

Peter Gabriel has done something similar on stage, but Wayne Coyne rolls around the crowd.

10) What song from the '00s has lyrics consisting almost entirely of a list of drugs?

- "Feel Good Hit Of The Summer" by Queens Of The Stone Age

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

here.

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