# Song lyric trivia **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 8, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-trivia/316166 "2005-08-08T19:49:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-trivia/316166/161 "2005-08-19T19:24:56Z")
> [@Turek](#): > > Aja. DING DING DING! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-trivia/316166/162 "2005-08-19T21:29:04Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > DING DING DING! 😃 Yeah, but nobody got mine from page 2. ☹ > [@Turek](#): > > 1. Where and with whom would I like to tour? Hint: Same artist(s) ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-trivia/316166/163 "2005-08-19T21:50:31Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > Correctamundo!NDP 11) Warring The other answers are correct as well, which leaves: [ul] > [li]5. Who is giving readings at 14 Moscow Road? (Hint: Famous literary name)[/li][li]6. Who plays with Hans and Dave? (C’mon, Dopers, this one’s easy!)[/li][li]7. When all my dime dancing is through, who do I run to?[/li][/ul] :smack: Correction to NDP 11–Lying ---
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-trivia/316166/164 "2005-08-20T00:33:16Z")
_5. Who is giving readings at 14 Moscow Road? (Hint: Famous literary name)_ Edith Sitwell op by want2know In New York City, what runs inside? ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-trivia/316166/165 "2005-08-20T00:52:33Z")
> [@Gail](#): > > _5. Who is giving readings at 14 Moscow Road? (Hint: Famous literary name)_ > > Edith Sitwell > > op by want2know > In New York City, what runs inside? Give that Doper a see-gar! You do our state proud!One to go, gang! ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-trivia/316166/166 "2005-08-20T03:05:07Z")
> [@Frostillicus](#): > > A brand new jar of cashew nuts and a Japanese TV Upon further review, I would like to revise and extend my remarks. “We got fifteen dollars and a can of STP A big ol’ jar of cashew nuts and a Japanese TV” ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-trivia/316166/167 "2005-08-26T22:43:10Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > **Sally** (I’m ashamed I know this one.) What’s so shameful about that? 😕 Nobody knew these??! 1. Why does B. B. King say “It’s All Right”? 2. What was special about the girl Tex Williams had a date with? 3. What was Cowboy Copas going to look back on? 4. It’s “all right” because he has another love now. 5. The prettiest dame in the forty0-eight states. 6. His money’s worth. Here’s another ten: 1. In “Bang Bang” (by Cher), who came and changed the time? 2. Who outsped Ramblin’ Jimmy Dolan and the driver of the Mercury? 3. What bird is mentioned in “The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise”? (honoring Les Paul, who turned 90 today) 4. What was “Ricky” told not to lose, and why? 5. What was the name of Amos Moses’ mother? 6. Who wrote the music for “Lovers’ Concerto”? (Bonus if you know what movie this was featured in, in the last ten years or so) 7. What happened between the first and second verses of “Fernando” by Abba? 8. What is love supposedly like a barrel of, according to Frankie Lyman and The Teenagers? 9. What shocked the PTA members about the student’s mother in “Harper Valley P.T.A.”? 10. In “Yackety Yak,” what are you supposed to do after you’ve finished at the laundromat? ---
**Author:** ![DarRRva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/53a042/32.png) [@DarRRva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarRRva)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2005, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-trivia/316166/168 "2005-08-26T23:24:53Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > Here’s another ten: > > 1. In “Bang Bang” (by Cher), who came and changed the time? > 2. Who outsped Ramblin’ Jimmy Dolan and the driver of the Mercury? > 3. What bird is mentioned in “The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise”? (honoring Les Paul, who turned 90 today) > 4. What was “Ricky” told not to lose, and why? > 5. What was the name of Amos Moses’ mother? > 6. Who wrote the music for “Lovers’ Concerto”? (Bonus if you know what movie this was featured in, in the last ten years or so) > 7. What happened between the first and second verses of “Fernando” by Abba? > 8. What is love supposedly like a barrel of, according to Frankie Lyman and The Teenagers? > 9. What shocked the PTA members about the student’s mother in “Harper Valley P.T.A.”? > 10. In “Yackety Yak,” what are you supposed to do after you’ve finished at the laundromat? Okay well i know 1 is **seasons came and changed the time** and I think 10 is **bring in the dog and put out the cat?** dunno about any of the others though… _According to Garbage, what happens when she hears the noise that keeps her awake?_ ---
**Author:** ![silverfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e480ec/32.png) [@silverfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silverfish)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-trivia/316166/169 "2005-08-27T00:08:49Z")
Turek 1. Where and with whom would I like to tour? “I would love to tour the southlands, with a travelling minstrel show” 1. What was “Ricky” told not to lose, and why? “That number”, because “You don’t wanna call nobody else” ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-trivia/316166/170 "2005-08-27T01:37:23Z")
Not that anyone gives a shit, but here are the answers to my Jethro Tull/London quiz: 1. Fulham Road - “A Passion Play” 2. Highgate - “Cross-Eyed Mary” 3. Kensington (two answers) - “Salamander” and “Later That Same Evening” 4. Knightsbridge - “Jump Start” 5. Leicester Square - “Jeffrey Goes to Leicester Square” 6. Marylebone Road - “Baker Street Muse” 7. Mayfair - “Pussy Willow” 8. Piccadilly Circus - “Mother Goose” (this is the only one that anyone answered) 9. Princes Gate - “Crossfire” > [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > What mystical substances does Frank Zappa’s Mystery Man carry in a shaving kit? The oil of Afro-dytee and the dust of the Grand Wazoo. (The conventional spelling of Aphrodite would also be acceptable.) ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-trivia/316166/171 "2005-08-27T03:32:51Z")
_4. What was “Ricky” told not to lose, and why?_ Ricky, don’t lose that number. It’s the only one you own." – Steely Dan 6\*. Who wrote the music for “Lovers’ Concerto”? (Bonus if you know what movie this was featured in, in the last ten years or so)\* Johann Sebastian Bach. Featured in Mr. Holland’s Opus (that’s how I knew the answer) ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-trivia/316166/172 "2005-08-29T20:58:35Z")
1. Who outsped Ramblin’ Jimmy Dolan and the driver of the Mercury? 2. What bird is mentioned in “The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise”? (honoring Les Paul, who turned 90 today) 3. What was the name of Amos Moses’ mother? 4. What happened between the first and second verses of “Fernando” by Abba? 5. What is love supposedly like a barrel of, according to Frankie Lyman and The Teenagers? 6. What shocked the PTA members about the student’s mother in “Harper Valley P.T.A.”? 7. A kid–in a hopped-up Model A. 8. The thrush. 9. Hannah. 10. They became old and gray. ☹ 11. Dynamite. 12. She wore a mini-skirt and otherwise looked a lot like her daughter. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-trivia/316166/173 "2005-08-30T00:27:50Z")
Answer to my last one: Who plays with Hans and Dave?A: Lottie (Games Without Frontiers) ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-trivia/316166/174 "2005-08-30T01:14:27Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > Answer to my last one: Who plays with Hans and Dave?A: Lottie (Games Without Frontiers) There’s no “Dave” in that song. It’s “Hans plays with Lotte, Lotte plays with Jane.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyric-trivia/316166.md?page=8)