# 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:** ![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, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/61 "2011-09-27T18:21:36Z")

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> [@kaylasdad99](#):
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> Officer Leary.

You’re getting warmer…

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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, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/62 "2011-09-27T18:23:11Z")

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> [@Leaffan](#):
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> ‘Cause you can’t stop messin’ with the danger zone.

So true.

> [@SiXSwordS](#):
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> 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?)

My big ten inch?

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**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/63 "2011-09-27T18:24:01Z")

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> [@MadTheSwine](#):
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> I was sitting in the Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel,what was I staring at?
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> Out in the West Texas town of El Paso,I fell in love with who? (bonus for the name)
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> Who was searching everyone for the band on the run?

My empty coffe cup

A Mexican girl - Felina

The jailer man and sailor Sam

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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, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/64 "2011-09-27T18:25:44Z")

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What is Frank Sinatra going to do if there’s nothin’ shakin’ come July?

How old was Neil Diamond relative to the girl at whose hands he became a man (or if you prefer, how old was she relative to him)?

According to Bob Dorough, which is a magic number?

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**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/65 "2011-09-27T18:27:58Z")

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> [@kaylasdad99](#):
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> What is Frank Sinatra going to do if there’s nothin’ shakin’ come July?

Roll himself into a big ball and die! :eek:

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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, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/66 "2011-09-27T18:29:12Z")

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Who is the Saviour or the Universe?

Where does Clifton Clowers live?

What did the beer that made Milwaukee famous do to me?

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**Author:** ![Satchmo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/satchmo/32/4223_2.png) [@Satchmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satchmo)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/67 "2011-09-27T18:29:24Z")

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> [@MadTheSwine](#):
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> If you don’t eat your meat, you can’t have any pudding.

How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat?!?  
😃

> [@Dung\_Beetle](#):
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> So true.
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> My big ten inch?

Record.  
Who’ll scratch your back just like a rake?

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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, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/68 "2011-09-27T18:35:57Z")

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> [@Dung\_Beetle](#):
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> You’re getting warmer…

Is it Sgt. O’Leary?

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**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/69 "2011-09-27T18:36:18Z")

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> [@MadTheSwine](#):
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> Where does Clifton Clowers live?
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> What did the beer that made Milwaukee famous do to me?

On Woolverton Mountain

It made a loser out of you!

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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, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/70 "2011-09-27T18:40:45Z")

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> [@MadTheSwine](#):
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> Who is the Saviour or the Universe?

Flash Gordon

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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, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/71 "2011-09-27T18:50:00Z")

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> [@Leaffan](#):
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> Is it Sgt. O’Leary?

Bingo.

What hours did Tony and Lola work at the hottest spot north of Havana?

What is the lineman doing as he drives the main road?

What was the just reward of the valley people, found when they turned the stone and looked beneath it?

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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, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/72 "2011-09-27T18:56:13Z")

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> [@Dung\_Beetle](#):
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> Bingo.  
> What is the lineman doing as he drives the main road?

Searching in the sun for another overload.

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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, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/73 "2011-09-27T18:56:53Z")

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> [@Dung\_Beetle](#):
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> What was the just reward of the valley people, found when they turned the stone and looked beneath it?

“Peace on Earth” was all it said.

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**Author:** ![Mr.Skinny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3be4f8/32.png) [@Mr.Skinny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Skinny)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/74 "2011-09-27T18:58:02Z")

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> [@rpinrd](#):
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> The breast.
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> 1. How many conductors and how many sacks of mail on the _City of New Orleans_?  
> I believe it was three conductors and 29 sacks of mail.
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> 2. Fully loaded, how many tons of iron ore on the _Edmund Fitzgerald_?

26, 000 tons more than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty.

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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, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/75 "2011-09-27T19:02:44Z")

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I drank some champagne,what did it taste like?

Is there anybody out there? What is your response?

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**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/76 "2011-09-27T19:07:51Z")

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> [@MadTheSwine](#):
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> I drank some champagne,what did it taste like?

Cherry cola or Coca cola, depending on the version

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**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/77 "2011-09-27T19:08:18Z")

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> [@MadTheSwine](#):
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> I drank some champagne,what did it taste like?

Being from Atlanta, I’d say it tastes just like Coca Cola.  
There are some who’d say it tastes just like cherry cola, but I don’t buy it!

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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, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/78 "2011-09-27T19:08:43Z")

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> [@MadTheSwine](#):
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> I drank some champagne,what did it taste like?

Coca Cola

In a more rhetorical vein, is there supposed to be someone there besides [his] wife to 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, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/79 "2011-09-27T19:17:46Z")

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> [@MadTheSwine](#):
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> Is there anybody out there? What is your response?

Nods head.

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**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/80 "2011-09-27T19:29:11Z")

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