# Lyrics quiz 2: Where was that? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [December 3, 2011, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-quiz-2-where-was-that/604934 "2011-12-03T10:14:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-quiz-2-where-was-that/604934/1 "2011-12-03T10:14:28Z")
Inspired by [Mean Mr. Mustard’s thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=633332) As therein, spoiler your answers. 1. Where did I see you driving with the girl I love? 2. Where did Patty Valentine enter from? 3. Where won’t there be snow this Christmastime? 4. Where will Christmas Eve find me? 5. Where did Candy come from out on? 6. Where did Tommy used to work? 7. Where will summertime be a love-in? 8. Where doesn’t there seem to be a shadow? 9. Where did I meet Romeo when my faith in him was fading? 10. Where do I never stray because of you? 11. Where have I been out of my brain? 12. Where may you find yourself living? 13. Where should people get ready for the train to? 14. Where had I heard the music years before? 15. Where did I take the tube back out of town to? 16. Where did I see a werewolf drinking a pina colada? 17. Where am I setting an open course for? 18. Where do I love that dirty water? 19. Where should we be going fast? 20. Where did they send a carrier out from to pick the Yankees up for free? 21. Where did she hear the cars go by, like the waves crashing on the beach? 22. Where in New York do you go to get injected, inspected, detected, infected, neglected, and selected? 23. Where did you take your Learjet to see the total eclipse of the sun? 24. Where did God say to Abraham to kill him a son? 25. Where is Christmas a gift God wrapped up in green? 26. Where will the world be your oyster after one night? 27. Where do I have a gal who won’t do it? 28. Where am I going down to with my rider by my side? 29. Where was I toting my pack when along came a semi? 30. Where am I hanging on a moment of truth? ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-quiz-2-where-was-that/604934/2 "2011-12-03T10:42:35Z")
Think I can answer 14, 16, and maybe 27… 1. the sacred store 2. Trader Vic’s. 3. on the hill. Adding a few of my own… 1. Where do they love the governor? 2. Where was I born? 3. Where did I lose my shaker of salt? 4. Where did we used to walk in the rain? 5. Where did Brother and Becky Thompson buy a store? 6. Where was I busted flat? 7. Where had you better you stay away from? 8. Where did I leave a good job? 9. Where would they’ve made if they’d put 15 more miles behind her? 10. Where am I taking tips and getting stoned? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-quiz-2-where-was-that/604934/3 "2011-12-03T11:27:22Z")
To answer some of the extra questions… 1. Birmingham. 2. Oklahoma, not Arizona? 3. Margaritaville. 4. In the city. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-quiz-2-where-was-that/604934/4 "2011-12-03T11:33:46Z")
31, 33, and 38 are correct. 32 is not. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-quiz-2-where-was-that/604934/5 "2011-12-03T11:58:08Z")
How about… 1. In the wagon of a travelling show? All your answers were correct, BTW. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-quiz-2-where-was-that/604934/6 "2011-12-03T12:38:54Z")
That’s it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-quiz-2-where-was-that/604934/7 "2011-12-03T13:37:38Z")
Is the answer to 12… in a shotgun shack? ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-quiz-2-where-was-that/604934/8 "2011-12-03T13:42:31Z")
Oh! I think 16 is At Trader Vic’s. (And his hair was perfect, btw…) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-quiz-2-where-was-that/604934/9 "2011-12-03T13:50:59Z")
> [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](#): > > Is the answer to 12… > > in a shotgun shack? That’s one of the answers. We would also have accepted… In another part of the world. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-quiz-2-where-was-that/604934/10 "2011-12-03T16:00:43Z")
2. from the upper hall 5. out on the island 6. on the docks 7. San Francisco 12. In a shotgun shack? In another part of the world? Behind the wheel of a large automobile? in a beautiful house with a beautiful wife? 13. Jordan 14. the Sacred store 16. Trader Vic’s 17. the virgin sea 18. Boston 21. out on 441 22. Whitehall Street 23. Nova Scotia 24. out on highway 61 26. Bangkok 29. the dusty Winnemucca road And **Oakminster’s** : 31. Birmingham 33. Margaritaville 36. Baton Rouge 37. Copperhead Road 38. the city 40. in my taxi ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-quiz-2-where-was-that/604934/11 "2011-12-03T17:27:03Z")
These are much easier to write, I find, than to answer. 1) Where did I see you driving with the girl I love? 2) Where did Patty Valentine enter from? **The upper hall** 3) Where won’t there be snow this Christmastime? 4) Where will Christmas Eve find me? **Where the love light shines** 5) Where did Candy come from out on?\*\* Out on the island\*\* 6) Where did Tommy used to work? **On the docks** 7) Where will summertime be a love-in? **San Francisco** 8) Where doesn’t there seem to be a shadow? **In the city** 9) Where did I meet Romeo when my faith in him was fading? 10) Where do I never stray because of you? 11) Where have I been out of my brain? **On the 5:15** 12) Where may you find yourself living? **In a shotgun shack** 13) Where should people get ready for the train to? 14) Where had I heard the music years before? **The sacred store** 15) Where did I take the tube back out of town to? **The rolling pin** 16) Where did I see a werewolf drinking a pina colada? **At Trader Vic’s** 17) Where am I setting an open course for? **The virgin sea** 18) Where do I love that dirty water? **Boston (also, Detroit)** 19) Where should we be going fast? 20) Where did they send a carrier out from to pick the Yankees up for free? 21) Where did she hear the cars go by, like the waves crashing on the beach? 22) Where in New York do you go to get injected, inspected, detected, infected, neglected, and selected? 23) Where did you take your Learjet to see the total eclipse of the sun? **Nova Scotia** 24) Where did God say to Abraham to kill him a son? **Out on Highway 61** 25) Where is Christmas a gift God wrapped up in green? 26) Where will the world be your oyster after one night? 27) Where do I have a gal who won’t do it? 28) Where am I going down to with my rider by my side? 29) Where was I toting my pack when along came a semi? 30) Where am I hanging on a moment of truth? ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-quiz-2-where-was-that/604934/12 "2011-12-03T17:30:23Z")
**Oak’s** portion: [spoiler]31) Where do they love the governor? **In Birmingham** 1. Where was I born? **In a cross-fire hurricane** 2. Where did I lose my shaker of salt? **Margaritaville** 3. Where did we used to walk in the rain? **Alabama, for one (Jim Croce)** 4. Where did Brother and Becky Thompson buy a store? 5. Where was I busted flat? **Baton Rouge** 6. Where had you better you stay away from? 7. Where did I leave a good job? **In the city** 8. Where would they’ve made if they’d put 15 more miles behind her? **Whitefish Bay** 9. Where am I taking tips and getting stoned? **Frisco** [/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-quiz-2-where-was-that/604934/13 "2011-12-03T19:43:47Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > And **Oakminster’s** : > > 31. Birmingham > 33. Margaritaville > 36. Baton Rouge > 37. Copperhead Road > 38. the city > 40. in my taxi All correct 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-quiz-2-where-was-that/604934/14 "2011-12-03T19:46:17Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > **Oak’s** portion: > > [spoiler]31) Where do they love the governor? **In Birmingham** > > 1. Where was I born? **In a cross-fire hurricane** > > 2. Where did I lose my shaker of salt? **Margaritaville** > > 3. Where did we used to walk in the rain? **Alabama, for one (Jim Croce)** > > 4. Where did Brother and Becky Thompson buy a store? > > 5. Where was I busted flat? **Baton Rouge** > > 6. Where had you better you stay away from? > > 7. Where did I leave a good job? **In the city** > > 8. Where would they’ve made if they’d put 15 more miles behind her? **Whitefish Bay** > > 9. Where am I taking tips and getting stoned? **Frisco** [/spoiler] All correct except 32 & 40. 35 remains unanswered. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-quiz-2-where-was-that/604934/15 "2011-12-03T20:07:07Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > All correct except 32 & 40. “I was born in a cross-fire hurricane.” - “Jumping Jack Flash”, The Rolling Stones. As for 40, yeah, he was in his taxi. But his taxi was in Frisco. Half-point? 😃 mmm ---
**Author:** ![azraiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@azraiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/azraiel)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-quiz-2-where-was-that/604934/16 "2011-12-03T20:24:23Z")
32 has so many possibilities. Imma go with the most obvious one: in the USA. Alternately, in a dead man’s town. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-quiz-2-where-was-that/604934/17 "2011-12-03T23:18:19Z")
Very good! Questions still unanswered; 1, 3, 9, 10, 19, 20, 25, 28, 30. ---
**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-quiz-2-where-was-that/604934/18 "2011-12-04T01:47:57Z")
1. Tupelo ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-quiz-2-where-was-that/604934/19 "2011-12-04T02:07:05Z")
I think the answer to number 1 is Around town. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-quiz-2-where-was-that/604934/20 "2011-12-04T03:20:55Z")
1. Where would Aqualung go to warm his feet? 2. Where was the _ **Edmund Fitzgerald** _ bound when she left, fully loaded? 3. Where did we come to make a record with a mobile? 4. Where did I meet a Cajun lady who taught me everything? 5. On what street is a cop moonlighting across from a medical center? 6. Where does your mother gets her kicks now? (And where DID she get her kicks, but not any more?) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-quiz-2-where-was-that/604934.md?page=2)