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- From: jhopkins@cbacc.cba.uga.edu (John Hopkins)
- Subject: Answers to Seventies Pop Lyrics Quiz
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- Organization: Terry College of Business, University of Georgia
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:09:15 GMT
-
-
- Thank you all for your responses. The answers to the quiz, along
- with some discussion, are below, followed by a breakdown of the
- scoring.
-
- Congratulations to Richard Copeland of Corning (the company that
- brings you blue cornflower cookware) who won the quiz.
-
- In case your mailers choke during the holidays, I will send these
- answers again in early January. Happy Holidays to all!
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- > 1. Well I didn't want to bring her
- > and I know it will make her worse.
-
- "Edge Of The Universe" Bee Gees
- [From the last flurry of good stuff before they descended into disco.]
- 0 correct answers
-
- > 2. And they whirl and they twirl and they tango.
-
- "Muskrat Love" Captain And Tennille (also America)
- [I'm not sure which group did it first, but they both ought to be
- ashamed of themselves.]
- 10 correct answers
-
- > 3. So here I am with pockets full of good intentions,
- > but none of them will comfort me tonight.
-
- "I Need To Be In Love" Carpenters
- [From the album entitled "A Kind Of Hush" which was one of their
- best, although not terribly popular. Congrats to Simon Parsons for
- knowing this.]
- 1 correct answer
- 1 partial answer
-
- > 4. One chromosome too many.
-
- "Mongoloid" Devo
- [For a good laugh, listen to their cover of "Don't Be Cruel" on the
- album "Total Devo."]
- 4 correct answers
-
- > 5. We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.
-
- "Hotel California" Eagles
- [The easiest one on here, admitedly.]
- 20 correct answers
- 1 partial answer
-
- > 6. There's an open road that leads to nowhere,
- > so just make some miles between here and there.
-
- "Evil Woman" Electric Light Orchestra
- 0 correct answers
-
- > 7. Know that the Lord is well and inside of you.
-
- "Crackerbox Palace" George Harrison
- 0 correct answers
- 2 partial answers
-
- > 8. It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics
- > to set you on your feet again.
-
- "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" Elton John
- [I could never figure out the words to this song until he sang it on
- The Muppet Show.]
- 9 correct answers
-
- > 9. She's mighty mighty, just lettin' it all hang out.
-
- "Brick House" The Commodores
- [I can remember when people were actually offended by this song!]
- 7 correct answers
- 4 partial answers
-
- > 10. A woman that I know just came from Majorca, Spain.
-
- "The No-No Song" Ringo Starr
- 6 correct answers
- 1 partial answer
-
- > 11. Don't play B-17, it was our song, it was his song.
-
- "Please Mister Please" Olivia Newton-John
- [From the good old days before "Physical" and "Xanadu."]
- 8 correct answers
- 1 partial answer
-
- > 12. I was on the dance floor acting strange.
-
- "Disco Duck" Rick Dees And His Cast Of Idiots
- [I think this guy hosts a late-night talk show now. You've come a
- long way, baby.]
- 2 correct answers
-
- > 13. Writing something nasty on the wall.
-
- "I Wish" Stevie Wonder
- 2 correct answers
-
- > 14. We were at the beach;
- > everybody had matching towels.
-
- "Rock Lobster" B-52s
- [I had to include some fellow Athenians.]
- 10 correct answers
-
- > 15. Have you ever had to push push push push?
-
- "Car Trouble" Adam And The Ants
- [This was the first incarnation of the Ants, which went on without
- Adam to form Bow Wow Wow.]
- 0 correct answers
-
- > 16. You may feel a little sick.
-
- "Comfortably Numb" Pink Floyd
- [Another easy one.]
- 11 correct answers
- 2 partial answers
-
- > 17. Ain't no beauty queens in this locality, I'll tell you.
-
- "Fat Bottomed Girls" Queen
- [My personal theme song, along with "Goody Two Shoes."] :-)
- 8 correct answers
-
- > 18. Well your big brown eyes are all filled with tears
- > from the bitterness of those lonely years.
-
- "C'mon Marianne" Donny Osmond
- [Hey, it could have been worse -- I could have used "Deep Purple"
- instead.]
- 0 correct answers
-
- > 19. I'm the one you're using, please don't push me aside.
-
- "Heart Of Glass" Blondie
- 6 correct answers
-
- > 20. In a silk dress, running like a watercolor in the rain.
-
- "Year Of The Cat" Al Stewart
- 6 correct answers
- 2 partial answers
-
- > 21. I think I had met my match.
- > He was singing.
-
- "Sara" Fleetwood Mac
- 2 correct answers
-
- > 22. I got the world calling me up here tonight on the phone.
-
- "I Need A Lover" John Cougar (also Pat Benatar)
- 2 correct answers
-
- > 23. This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.
-
- "Vincent" Don McLean
- [It's gratifying that a good number of people knew this classic.]
- 10 correct answers
- 2 partial answers
-
- > 24. You can get yourself clean,
- > you can have a good meal,
- > you can do whatever you feel.
-
- "YMCA" Village People
- [I used to think these guys were the worst band in the history of the
- universe. Then I heard Kris Kross.]
- 14 correct answers
-
- > 25. In these old familiar rooms, children would play.
-
- "Knowing Me, Knowing You" Abba
- 4 correct answers
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Now for the scoring. I gave one point for song title, one point for
- "artist," and no negative points for wrong answers. This makes a
- possible 50 points on a quiz. I also added one bonus point if you
- were the only person to get a song right. To get the bonus points,
- you had to get both the title and artist correct. Bonus points are
- listed in parentheses.
-
- Richard Copeland 32 points
- Adri Verhoef 29 points
- The Prisoners of Sociology 24 points
- Christina Powell 24 points
- Lisa Houdek 20 points
- Greg Sroka 19 points
- Simon Parsons 18 points (+1 bonus) = 19 points
- <mattc@npg-sd.sandiegoca.NCR.COM> 17 points
- Michael P. Colburn 16 points
- Ronald Chrisley 15 points
- James Lalopoulos 13 points
- Charles E Carraher 12 points
- Mike Rahilly 11 points
- Dave Robinson 8 points
- Kristjan Gaukur Kristjansson 8 points
- David A. Mattingly 7 points
- John R. Hiatt 5 points
- Patrick Chou 4 points
- Matt Messinger 4 points
- Ashley Edward Collins 4 points
- Tei Laine 3 points
- Josh Brandt 2 points
- Teemu Mottonen 2 points
- <U15289@UICVM.BITNET> 2 points
- Adrian Bradley 1 point
-