TedGuy’s Music Quiz

Identify the lyrics

1. Name 4 occupations mentioned in Penny Lane.
2. What did Tommy Roe say to Sweet Pea underneath the stars?
3. Who was Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart’s favorite girlfriend?
4. In I Wonder What She’s Doing Tonight, Boyce and Hart say, "I tell myself I didn’t lose her." Why?
5. Before Neil Young joined them, Crosby, Stills & Nash sang about a train ride to a location in Morocco. What was the name of the train?
6. According to Mungo Jerry, what should you do if your daddy’s rich?
7. What song by the O’Kaysions memorialized a favorite male pastime?
8. In Kentucky Rain, where were the old, gray-bearded men sitting?
9. In what city and what month did A Boy Named Sue find his dad?
10. How do Mac Davis’s blue jeans fit (from Lord, It’s Hard to be Humble)?
11. In Your Song, what would Elton John do if he had much money?
12. What two fruits did Nilsson put together that caused him to call the doctor and wake him up?
13. What four adjectives did Herman use to describe the girl he was waiting for while Leaning on the Lamp?
14. What will happen in you make an ugly woman your wife?
15. In Dr. Hook’s Sylvia’s Mother, from what city is Sylvia’s fiancé?
16. What kind of airplane carried Credence Clearwater Revival’s Traveling Band?
17. Why did the Temptations search the sky, desperately for rain?
18. While under the boardwalk, what do you hear from the park?
19. As Gary Lewis sings in Save Your Heart for Me, what will happen "when you’re all alone, far away from home"?
20. Where could the Supremes go to "see heaven much better"?
21. When you take the last train to Clarksville, by what time can you be here?
22. What dance are you ready to do when you "put a guy in front, make a line in back"?
23. What, according to the song by Sue Thompson, "causes watering of the eyes and rubefaction of the skin, but it is very very tasty."?
24. Who wants to be just like Zsa Zsa Gabor?
25. What three rock acts do Peter, Paul and Mary imitate in I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll Music?

Name the Song

1. "I’ll send you all my dreams every day in a letter."
2. "Counting the hours and the minutes, too."
3. "I love the little wiggle in your walk/The way you cuddle on my shoulder."
4. "Pulled out of San Pedro late one night/The moon and the stars were shinin’ bright."
5. "I’m not supposed to be alone with you."
6. "So hurry home to your mama/I’m sure she wonders where you are."
7. "You’re still livin’ in a paper doll world."
8. "Shoot me out of a cannon, I don’t care."
9. "If I appear to be carefree, it’s only to camouflage my sadness."
10. "You don’t laugh, you just go home runnin’."
11. "No one knows he dyin’ on the inside, cause he’s laughin’ on the outside."
12. "Although I might be laughin’ loud and hardy, deep inside I’m blue."
13. "On your mark, get set, let the kissin’ start."
14. "Superman and Green Lantern ain’t got nothin’ on me."
15. "When she walks by, she brightens up the neighborhood."
16. "Waitin’ for the train that goes home, sweet Mary, hopin’ that the train is on time."
17. "You’re my reason for laughin’, for cryin’, for livin’, and for dyin’."
18. "You read your lines so cleverly and never missed a cue."
19. "I saw her sitting in the rain, raindrops falling on her."
20. "We don’t care what you name is, boy, we’ll never turn you away."

Identify the One Hit of the One-Hit Wonder

1. The Fantastic Johnny C.
2. The Beginning of the End.
3. Steam.
4. Keith.
5. The Crazy World of Arthur Brown.
6. Jeannie Knight.
7. The Ides of March.
8. Chase.
9. Argent.
10. Terry Stafford.