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Sat Mar-06-04 08:55 PM
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Music trivia questions for everyone except Night Train |
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1. Which of the following songs was the biggest Top 40 hit?
a. "Stairway To Heaven" - Led Zepplin b. "I Melt With You" - Modern English c. "What I Like About You" - The Romantics d. "Never Say Goodbye" - Bon Jovi
2. Who had more Top 40 hits, The Smiths or Morrissey?
3. What was Elvis Costello's biggest hit single?
4. What song has currently been on Billboard's Hot 100 for over a year?
5. All of the Beatles have had solo number ones. Who was the first?
Good luck, and Night Train, stay out of this! :-)
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Sat Mar-06-04 08:59 PM
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Sat Mar-06-04 09:02 PM
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2. No. Good guess, but... |
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"Alison" never even made the Top 100.
Hint: Part of the point these questions is to show how different chart positions are from our memories of the time, or from what endures today.
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Sat Mar-06-04 09:03 PM
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1. Which of the following songs was the biggest Top 40 hit?
a. "Stairway To Heaven" - Led Zepplin b. "I Melt With You" - Modern English c. "What I Like About You" - The Romantics d. "Never Say Goodbye" - Bon Jovi
Wild guess here -- Bon Jovi?
2. Who had more Top 40 hits, The Smiths or Morrissey?
Morrissey, tragically.
3. What was Elvis Costello's biggest hit single?
I'd wager "Veronica."
4. What song has currently been on Billboard's Hot 100 for over a year?
I have no freaking clue.
5. All of the Beatles have had solo number ones. Who was the first?
Ringo? "It Don't Come Easy?"
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Sat Mar-06-04 09:08 PM
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4. You got 2 out of the five. |
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Sat Mar-06-04 09:09 PM
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Sat Mar-06-04 09:12 PM
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My parents married. It doesn't matter if it was 5 months after I was conceived.
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Sat Mar-06-04 09:09 PM
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1. c-the Romantics (couldn't get away from that song!) 2. I thought Morrisey was in the Smiths....are we talking after he left or something? I dunno... 3. Radio, or maybe Accidents Will Happen? I liked Watching the Detectives best... 4. some piece of shit, I'll wager. 5. John Lennon?
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Sat Mar-06-04 09:11 PM
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Nice try though!
Hint: At least one is a trick question.
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Sat Mar-06-04 09:14 PM
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Guess I didn't listen to the radio enough.
Hasn't Dark Side of the Moon (the album) been on the charts for 30 years or something?
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Sat Mar-06-04 09:11 PM
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8. veronica was elvis's most 'commercial' hit in the u.s. |
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though, speaking as a HUEUEUEUEUEUGE elvis fan, there's just something wrong about using 'elvis costello' and 'hit' in the same sentence.
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Sat Mar-06-04 09:12 PM
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10. I understand your feelings, but.... |
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You and Whitacre D are right!
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Sat Mar-06-04 09:15 PM
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12. 5) has to be my sweet lord, george harrison |
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i'll pass on the other ones, i'm sure i could google all this but....
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Sat Mar-06-04 09:23 PM
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We have two of the three.
"Veronica" was Elvis Costello's biggest hit (it got to #19).
George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" went to #1 in 1970, nearly a year before any other Beatle went to #1.
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Sat Mar-06-04 09:24 PM
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18. I thought about that, but figured it couldn't be my first impulse. |
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Sat Mar-06-04 09:17 PM
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Edited on Sat Mar-06-04 09:18 PM by Ysabel
1. a.
2. i don't know any morrissey...
3. allison...? edit - oh - um - red shoes...?
4. i have no idea...
5. john i think...
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Sat Mar-06-04 09:20 PM
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14. #2, neither had any top 40 hits? |
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Sat Mar-06-04 09:21 PM
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15. I'm sure "How Soon Is Now" was top-40 in the UK |
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Though I imagine Morrisey had more in the UK than the Simths.
I think you might be right that neither had any on this side of the pond.
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Sat Mar-06-04 09:24 PM
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17. Nope. One of them had 1 Top 40 hit. nt |
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Sat Mar-06-04 09:25 PM
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Was I wrong in guessing Morrissey?
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Sat Mar-06-04 09:27 PM
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no.
:-)
What was the song?
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Sat Mar-06-04 09:33 PM
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23. Was it the Smiths? Really? In the U.S.? |
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Sat Mar-06-04 09:35 PM
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24. No, no, I meant uhh, no, that you were wrong. |
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You were right the first time. It was Morrissey. What was the song?
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Sat Mar-06-04 09:40 PM
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25. I have no goddamned clue. |
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Sat Mar-06-04 09:27 PM
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20. did anybody get elvis yet...? |
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watching the detectives...?
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Sat Mar-06-04 09:29 PM
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22. Sorry. See DING DING above. |
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For the record, Elvis only had 3 Top 100 hits: "Veronica", "Everyday I Write the Book" (which got to #36), and "The Only Flame In Town" (which peaked somewhere in the 50s.)
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Sat Mar-06-04 09:42 PM
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Edited on Sat Mar-06-04 09:45 PM by Ysabel
oh well - congrats up there...
edit - hmmm - that was weird - post order went all wacky for a second there...
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Sat Mar-06-04 09:44 PM
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shucks and congrats should go here...
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Sat Mar-06-04 09:41 PM
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1 - ? 2 - Morrissey 3 - Veronica 4 - ? 5 - Harrison
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Sat Mar-06-04 09:45 PM
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1. None of them.
"Stairway to Heaven" and "Never Say Goodbye" were never released as singles. "What I Like About You" and "I Melt With You" did not make the Top 40 (and "I Melt With You" was even released as a single TWICE).
2. Morrissey had the only U.S. Top 40 hit with "The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get".
3. "Veronica"
4. "Unwell" by Matchbox 20 has spent over a year on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
5. George Harrison, "My Sweet Lord".
Thanks for playing!
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Sat Mar-06-04 09:48 PM
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That's all I have to say. That song fucking well sucks.
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Sat Mar-06-04 09:53 PM
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that means I got 4 right, I said "some piece of shit"!
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Sat Mar-06-04 09:54 PM
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