So, I've written quite a few posts on literature, like this one about children's literature and this one about dysfunctional literary families. Since I've filled my quota, and already written about my two favorite literary genres, I've decided I'm going to do my own thing this week. (Mostly because, as of now this week's postings are limited, and I don't feel like I should be held back by rules if no one's even bothering to write). You may have noticed that I title every blog posting I write with a song title. Today's quiz will be a listing of alllll of my quiz titles and you have to pick the band that sang the song. I've been planning to do this for a long time. Have fun and Happy Holidays!
1. The first quiz was called "Ice Breaker You Got the Best of Me." This is a play on "Heartbreaker You Got the Best of Me." Who sang it?
a. Mariah Carey
b. Whitney Houston
c. Britney Spears
d. Jamie Lynn "I'm-Just-As-White-Trash-As-My-Sister" Spears
a. Mariah Carey
2. Quiz two was about the end of the world. The song lyric was "Birthday Party, Cheesecake, Jelly Bean, Boom!" What?
a. The Cure's "The End of the World"
b. R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World as We Know It"
c. Skeeter Davis' "The End of the World"
d. Ash's "End of the World"
b. R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World as We Know It"
3. The third quiz, about Presidents was called "Lump Sat Alone on a Boggy Marsh," and I'm not really sure why...
a. Why not?
b. Presidents sit in boggy marshes.
c. Because the theme was Presidents and Presidents of the USA sang that song.
d. Our current President is a lump.
c. Is why I chose the title, d is true as well.
4. Week four I went with a quiz title of a song I didn't know and hadn't heard of before. It was "I saw this bird fly off his head without him ever looking up." It's a Flaming Lips song called "The giraffe." F.Y.I. Giraffes (and elephants) are my favorite animals, so that's what I wrote the quiz about. No question here, just a tidbit of knowledge.
5. The Bathtub was in existence for a whole month! Time for a quiz on Sesame Street! And Monster Trucks! Called "Here I Go Again on My Own" for some reason I can't figure out. Who sang this and what is good for?
a. AC/DC; Getting it on
b. Whitesnake; Karaoke
c. Aerosmith; pooping
d. Van Halen; Living in New Jersey
b. "Here I Go Again on My Own" is a great karaoke song. But I'm sure the other options are viable.
6. Woohoo! N.C.A.A. Tournament time, and apparently my title making was creative: "Shootin' Some B-Ball Outside of the School." Do I even have to ask?
a. Jazzy Jeff, "Break it Down"
b. Will Smith, "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air"
c. Scarface, "On My Block"
d. Biggy, "I Love it When You Call me Big Poppa"
b. Will Smith, and no, I don't want to see that "I Am Legend Movie." I hate it when the world ends in movies.
7. This one won't be a question, because no one really knows the national anthem of North Korea, which has the line "May God Bless Korea Our Land for Endless Ages to Come!"
8. My theme choice is obviously Disney. I picked a song title from my favorite Disney movie ever. What movie?
a. The Lion King
b. The Little Mermaid
c. Beauty and the Beast
d. Mary Poppins
d. TRICK QUESTION! They're all my favorite movies, but Mary Poppins is my all time favorite, therefore: "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!"
9. I think the theme was breakfast this week, so I obvi wrote about the book and movie Breakfast at Tiffany's using the line "And I said What About Breakfast at Tiffany's." Who sang that song?
a. Deep Blue Something
b. Green Day
c. Beck
d. All-4-One
a. Deep Blue Something
10. Week 10 = another really stupid title.
11. What toy is "Fun For a Girl and a Boy?"
a. A top
b. A doll
c. A truck
d. A slinky
d. A slinky!
12. "Don't Know Much About History" is by Sam Cooke. What else did he sing?
a. "You Send Me"
b. "Only Sixteen"
c. "Chain Gang"
d. "Twistin' the Night Away"
All of the above =)
13. I've got no questions about "My Yiddishe Mamma."
14. Ooh this one's appropriate because I just started watching Season One again. Please, God, let the writer's strike be over so I can watch the show with the "Beep Boop Beep Boop" opening.
a. Lost
b. Heroes
c. Bones
d. 24
d. Out of all those shows, I only watch 24. Hmm.
15. I am way more obsessed with Muppets than I previously realized. Which Muppet sings the line "Anything Dirty or Dingy or Dusty?"
a. Elmo
b. Grover
c. Oscar
d. Ernie
c. "I Love Trash" by none other than Oscar the Grouch
16. "Who Put the Bomp (In the Bomp-A-Bomp-A-Bomp)?"
a. We never find out
b. The Viscounts
c. The Discounts
d. I don't know, but I'd like to shake his hand, he made my baby fall in love with me.
Both a and d are true, and b, The Viscounts sang it.
17. Wow, I have no idea what the theme was, but my title was "She Had Dumps Like a Truck Truck Truck" and it was a quiz about famous people's rear ends. What song is this?
a. The Thong Song
b. Depends
c. Black Drawers
d. Underneath Your Clothes
a. Sisqo's "The Thong Song." It made this list of worst rap lyrics ever. Those other choices are all song titles about underoos too!
18. Holler at the 1996 Grammy Nominees CD. "Nobody Calling on the Phone, 'Cept for the Pope Maybe in Rome" is a lyric from Joan Osborne's One of Us. And that blog postings is the first hit on Google when you search for the lyric, so I've got no question.
a. (Wow. I still can't get rid of this hyperlink.) 3-2-1 Contact
b. Square One
c. Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
d. Arthur
c. Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? I got rid of the hyperlink!
20. Happy July 4th! I wrote about the Teapot Dome Scandal, obviously and picked "When I Get All Steamed Up Hear Me Shout" as my title. And I have no queries on that matter.
21. Savage Garden had a hit with the song that had the lyric "I want to live like animals, wild and free." What movie featured the song?
a. American Beauty
b. Being John Malcovich
c. The Green Mile
d. The Other Sister
d. The Other Sister. (All the choices were movies that came out in 1999)
22. Good lord I love PBS. Another song lyric that's from a PBS show. "Take a look, it's in a book...Reading Rainbow" Who was the host?
a. Patrick Stewart
b. LeVar Burton
c. Jonathan Frakes
d. Marina Sirtis
b. LeVar Burton was the host, but all of those people were cast members of "Star Trek: The Next Generation."
23. "My Momma Told Me, You Better Shop Around" is a lyric from a Smokey Robinson and the Miracles song. What other songs did the Miracles sing?
a. "I Second that Emotion"
b. "The Tracks of My Tears"
c. "You've Really Got a Hold on Me"
d. "The Tears of a Clown"
I'm sure you're on to me by now...They're all Miracles songs! And unless you're Lauren, and hate Motown, they're also all great songs.
24. This was probably my best quiz, and it was all about Trivial Pursuit. The title was "And Go Round and Round and Round in the Circle Game." Who sings it?
a. Joni Mitchell
b. Pete Seeger
c. Woody Guthrie
d. Jim Croce
a. Joni Mitchell sang the Circle Game.
25. The best selling album of all time, a fourteen minute music video, and a great dance scene in 13 Going on 30, the lyric I chose for a quiz on phobias was from which Michael Jackson hit?
a. Don't Stop Till You Get Enough
b. Black or White
c. Billie Jean
d. Thriller
d. Thriller. And for good measure, the lyric was "You try to scream, but terror takes the sound before you make it." Excellent lyric.
26. I try not to talk about it on first dates, but I was on a game show. My 26th quiz covered all the questions. I titled the post, "I Would Buy You a Green Dress, But Not a Real Green Dress That's Cruel," a Barenaked Ladies line from which song?
a. It's All Been Done
b. The Old Apartment
c. If I Had $1000000
d. One Week
c. Is the only answer that makes any sense at all.
27. Hi! We're your weather girls...The theme this week was weather, so I used the most popular, if not only popular song and gay anthem they wrote. It is...
a. It's Raining Men
b. Earth Can Be Just Like Heaven
c. Well-A-Wiggy
d. I Got the Feeling
a. Hallelujah! All those other songs are Weather Girls songs too. They were also known as "Two Tons 'O Fun" apparently.
28. Brain Quest is awesome, and Emily is obsessed with her childhood. The title this week is "There Ain't Nothin' You Could Ask, I Could Answer You With I Won't." What awesome song by Aretha Franklin is this from?
a. Chain of Fools
b. (You Make Me Feel) Like a Natural Woman
c. Respect
d. Think
d. Think! Think about what you're trying to do to me.
29. "Sweet Child of Mine" was a quiz on famous people as kids. This is already entirely too long, so I'm going to keep going.
30. It's shockingly hard to find quotes about New Jersey in songs. Luckily, I found the lamest one ever: "Call me New Jersey 'cuz I'm always in a new jersey." Wow. What rapper came up with that gem?
a. 50 Cent
b. 'Lil John
c. Chamillionaire
d. 'Lil Wayne
c. That was the fine Chamillionaire. Although for some reason I love that "Ridin' Dirty" song and I can't quite figure out why.
31. I am the proud owner of the album that brought you the lyric "I'm craving for you, I'm missing you like candy." Ah, the poetry of a teeny bopper.
a. Britney Spears
b. Mandy Moore
c. Jessica Simpson
d. Hilary Duff
b. Is the correct answer but I am sad to say I own CDs created by all of those ladies.
32. "Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jacks!" Yay baseball!
33. I can't believe this quiz is still going on. I'm glad I took a break and went to the bar though. That brings us to our next week where the theme was alcohol. The lyric/title is from a song called "Beer" and is "If I get drunk well I'll pass out on the floor now baby." Who sings it?
a. Reel Big Fish
b. Less Than Jake
c. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
d. The Toasters
a. Reel Big Fish. Whom I enjoy immensely.
34. It must be internet potato again, because for some reason I'm writing about New Jeresy again. "New Jersey is my home" temporarily "and I like it" is a lyric written by...
a. Jon Bon Jovi
b. Bruce Springsteen
c. Frank Sinatra
d. The Four Seasons
b. That's a Springsteen lyric, and I'm sure it's no surprise that those other guys are from Jersey too. I mean, the musical about The Four Seasons is called Jersey Boys...
35. See that pretty girl in that mirror there?
Answer: What mirror where?
Question: Who could that attractive girl be?
Answer: West Side Story.
36. It's clear that anyone who reads this blog has deep admiration for a Mr. Ben Folds. The next two weeks were a blur of Ben love in the trivia scene. At least lyric wise this week. "Mom and Dad you made me so uptight, I'm gonna cuss on the mike tonight" is from what song?
a. Brick
b. Kate
c. Rocking the Suburbs
d. Landed
c. If you don't know that, you must not have read next week's blog...
37. Ben Folds week, yay! No question.
38. This one is from my fave song from Evita, "And the money kept rolling in from every side." I feel like a question about this would be repetitive. And we're already in November (thank God), so it's recent too.
39. "Life in Plastic, It's Fantastic!" Who sang Barbie Girl?
a. Aqua
b. Teal
c. Green
d. Blue
a. Aqua, a mid 90s Danish band. Good job
40. The theme was high school and the lyric was "don't know much about the French I took." A song I already used. Ouch. I'm getting lazy.
41. The lyric "well she lit up that sky on that fourth of July" is from a song from what country crooner?
a. Shania Twain
b. Faith Hill
c. LeAnn Rimes
d. Martina McBride
d. Martina McBride. You guys should be happy I didn't bring in any opera lyrics.
42. Oh my goodness, we're almost done! This obscure lyric "now I would tell you about boll weevil, but that bug is just too scary" is from one of my all-time favorite CDs that also has a song about peaches, dead lizards, and candy. I also already used a song about a lump for a title. What is the name of the Presidents of the United States of America album where these songs coexist?
a. The Presidents of the United States of America
b. Dune Buggy
c. Naked and Famous
d. Kitty
a. It was named after themselves. If you listen to that CD as much as you did in 1996, you probably have all those songs stuck in your head now. Sorry.
43. = LAST WEEK, and therefore the last question. The quiz was about illegal substances, and the quote worked well both from a trivia quiz and because it's from an Eric Clapton (he covered it, J.J. Cale was the one who wrote it) song that fit. The lyric/title is: "Don't forget this fact, you can't get it back" and it's from...
a. Layla
b. My Father's Eyes
c. Cocaine
d. Change the World
c. That couldn't have been too hard.
Fun factoid if you've made it this far: If you Google the song lyrics that are my titles (in quotes), your number one hit is usually The Bathtub. Yay!
P.S. Today's lyric is from The Sound of Music and will most likely be continued next week.
Emily's Trivia Quiz runs Fridays at 9:00 a.m. She's shocked you've read this far and is now going to bed. Goodnight.
Hooooooooly crap, Em. I figured out the connection to the theme: you WROTE a book for today's post :-)
Nice work!
Posted by: Lauren | December 21, 2007 at 10:08 AM
Someone's already written a really long, really fabulous Friday post?
I'm taking the day off!
Posted by: Tori | December 21, 2007 at 12:18 PM
HOLLza AT A long ass pozt
Posted by: KELLYq | December 22, 2007 at 04:26 PM