# Trivia from songs

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 27, 2011, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755 "2011-09-27T12:07:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/41 "2011-09-27T17:49:36Z")

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> [@Oakminster](#):
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> 1. What penalty, if any, was enforced for going to see the finest picker to ever play the Blues? Bonus: How where funds raised to entice said picker to perform?

Obviously, that should be “How were funds raised to entice said picker to perform?”

The answers offered for 2&3 are correct.

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**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/42 "2011-09-27T17:52:34Z")

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> [@Oakminster](#):
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> Obviously, that should be “How were funds raised to entice said picker to perform?”
> 
> The answers offered for 2&3 are correct.

1. Curtis Lowe (?) Collect pop bottles and turn them in for dough…

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**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/43 "2011-09-27T17:53:54Z")

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> [@Oakminster](#):
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> Steve

yup,suprised that one took so long.

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**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/44 "2011-09-27T17:54:12Z")

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What would Meat Loaf NOT do for love? (Hint, “THAT” is not the answer).

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**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/45 "2011-09-27T17:54:58Z")

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> [@cornflakes](#):
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> What are the options for a poor boy in London (1968) who wanted to join in the protests?

Well, for one, he could sing for a rock and roll band. It’s a compromise solution.

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**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/46 "2011-09-27T17:56:14Z")

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> [@panamajack](#):
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> You can’t have what you want from life; but as an American citizen, what are you entitled to (name at least three)?

A beautifully restored Third Reich swizzle stick,  
A Winnebago, what the hell a herd of Winnebagos, we’re giving them away,  
A solid gold Kama Sutra coffee pot,  
A baby’s arm holding an apple

> [@MadTheSwine](#):
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> Raped her,killed her,took her home,dug up her grave and built a cage with her bones.

Yes.

> [@Leaffan](#):
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> Well, that sounds like a cheery little ditty.

He’s just an excitable boy.

Where did mommy serve with the WACs?

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**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/47 "2011-09-27T17:56:48Z")

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> [@Bob Ducca](#):
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> What would Meat Loaf NOT do for love? (Hint, “THAT” is not the answer).

Clean out the Spice Girls’ toilets 😃

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**Author:** ![rpinrd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@rpinrd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rpinrd)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/48 "2011-09-27T18:01:05Z")

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> [@SiXSwordS](#):
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> Before speaking in class, where did Jeremy bite the recess lady?

The breast.

1. How many conductors and how many sacks of mail on the _City of New Orleans_?

2. Fully loaded, how many tons of iron ore on the _Edmund Fitzgerald_?

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**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/49 "2011-09-27T18:03:35Z")

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> [@muldoonthief](#):
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> What happened to little Susie after the junior prom? (2 parter)

She fell asleep. (The movie wasn’t so hot, it didn’t have much of a plot).

Who works at Mister Cacciatores down on Sullivan Street across from the medical center?

What was the devil looking for when he went down to Georgia?

Well, they say I’d better get a chaperone. Why?

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**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/50 "2011-09-27T18:05:08Z")

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> [@Dung\_Beetle](#):
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> What was the devil looking for when he went down to Georgia?

Some souls to steal.

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**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/51 "2011-09-27T18:06:34Z")

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> [@Oakminster](#):
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> 1. Where do they love the Governor? (boo boo boo)
> 
> 2. What is that bustling in my hedgerow?

> [@ministryman](#):
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> 1. 
> 2. Birmingham
> 3. The may queen

> [@Oakminster](#):
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> The answers offered for 2&3 are correct.

CHALLENGE!

I maintain that it was a _spring clean_ for the may queen. You can’t expect a may queen to do her own spring cleaning. That’s for the Cinderella types.

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**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/52 "2011-09-27T18:07:31Z")

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> [@Dung\_Beetle](#):
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> She fell asleep. (The movie wasn’t so hot, it didn’t have much of a plot).

1. Nope - **MadTheSwine** already got it

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> Who works at Mister Cacciatores down on Sullivan Street across from the medical center?

Mr. O’Leary?

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**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/53 "2011-09-27T18:08:42Z")

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> [@Dung\_Beetle](#):
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> Who works at Mister Cacciatores down on Sullivan Street across from the medical center?

Officer Leary.

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**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/54 "2011-09-27T18:09:24Z")

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I was sitting in the Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel,what was I staring at?

Out in the West Texas town of El Paso,I fell in love with who? (bonus for the name)

Who was searching everyone for the band on the run?

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**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/55 "2011-09-27T18:09:52Z")

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> [@cornflakes](#):
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> Ten weeks.

I was going for Seventy Days, but since she wouldn’t go I guess it doesn’t matter.

My girl don’t go for smokin’ and liquor jus’ make her flinch, what does she like? (Bonus: despite the prurient implications, what is the item in question?)

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**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/56 "2011-09-27T18:11:12Z")

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> [@Dung\_Beetle](#):
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> Well, they say I’d better get a chaperone. Why?

‘Cause you can’t stop messin’ with the danger zone.  
Why can’t I have any pudding?

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**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/57 "2011-09-27T18:12:38Z")

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> [@kaylasdad99](#):
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> CHALLENGE!
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> I maintain that it was a _spring clean_ for the may queen. You can’t expect a may queen to do her own spring cleaning. That’s for the Cinderella types.

Hmmm. True.

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**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/58 "2011-09-27T18:17:38Z")

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> [@Leaffan](#):
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> Why can’t I have any pudding?

If you don’t eat your meat, you can’t have any pudding.

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**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/59 "2011-09-27T18:18:35Z")

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> [@muldoonthief](#):
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> Where did mommy serve with the WACs?

In the Philippines.

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**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/60 "2011-09-27T18:20:32Z")

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> [@muldoonthief](#):
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> 1. Nope - **MadTheSwine** already got it  
> Mr. O’Leary?

1. Crap!

2. Close…

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