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Pale Blue Dot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 08:55 PM
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Music trivia questions for everyone except Night Train
1. Which of the following songs was the biggest Top 40 hit?

a. "Stairway To Heaven" - Led Zepplin
b. "I Melt With You" - Modern English
c. "What I Like About You" - The Romantics
d. "Never Say Goodbye" - Bon Jovi

2. Who had more Top 40 hits, The Smiths or Morrissey?

3. What was Elvis Costello's biggest hit single?

4. What song has currently been on Billboard's Hot 100 for over a year?

5. All of the Beatles have had solo number ones. Who was the first?

Good luck, and Night Train, stay out of this! :-)
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Syrinx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 08:59 PM
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1. #3, Alison?
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Pale Blue Dot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 09:02 PM
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2. No. Good guess, but...
"Alison" never even made the Top 100.

Hint: Part of the point these questions is to show how different chart positions are from our memories of the time, or from what endures today.
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Whitacre D_WI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 09:03 PM
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3. I'll try:
1. Which of the following songs was the biggest Top 40 hit?

a. "Stairway To Heaven" - Led Zepplin
b. "I Melt With You" - Modern English
c. "What I Like About You" - The Romantics
d. "Never Say Goodbye" - Bon Jovi

Wild guess here -- Bon Jovi?

2. Who had more Top 40 hits, The Smiths or Morrissey?

Morrissey, tragically.

3. What was Elvis Costello's biggest hit single?

I'd wager "Veronica."

4. What song has currently been on Billboard's Hot 100 for over a year?

I have no freaking clue.

5. All of the Beatles have had solo number ones. Who was the first?

Ringo? "It Don't Come Easy?"
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Pale Blue Dot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 09:08 PM
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4. You got 2 out of the five.
I won't say which 2 yet.
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Whitacre D_WI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 09:09 PM
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5. You bastard!
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Pale Blue Dot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 09:12 PM
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9. That's not true.
My parents married. It doesn't matter if it was 5 months after I was conceived.
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NC_Nurse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 09:09 PM
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6. Let's see...
1. c-the Romantics (couldn't get away from that song!)
2. I thought Morrisey was in the Smiths....are we talking after he left or something? I dunno...
3. Radio, or maybe Accidents Will Happen? I liked Watching the Detectives best...
4. some piece of shit, I'll wager.
5. John Lennon?
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Pale Blue Dot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 09:11 PM
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7. 0 out of 5.
Nice try though!

Hint: At least one is a trick question.
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NC_Nurse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 09:14 PM
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11. Oh well...
Guess I didn't listen to the radio enough.

Hasn't Dark Side of the Moon (the album) been on the charts for 30 years or something?
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unblock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 09:11 PM
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8. veronica was elvis's most 'commercial' hit in the u.s.
though, speaking as a HUEUEUEUEUEUGE elvis fan, there's just something wrong about using 'elvis costello' and 'hit' in the same sentence.
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Pale Blue Dot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 09:12 PM
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10. I understand your feelings, but....
You and Whitacre D are right!
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unblock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 09:15 PM
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12. 5) has to be my sweet lord, george harrison
i'll pass on the other ones, i'm sure i could google all this but....
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Pale Blue Dot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 09:23 PM
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16. DING DING!
We have two of the three.

"Veronica" was Elvis Costello's biggest hit (it got to #19).

George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" went to #1 in 1970, nearly a year before any other Beatle went to #1.
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Whitacre D_WI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 09:24 PM
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18. I thought about that, but figured it couldn't be my first impulse.
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Ysabel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 09:17 PM
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13. ...
Edited on Sat Mar-06-04 09:18 PM by Ysabel
1. a.

2. i don't know any morrissey...

3. allison...? edit - oh - um - red shoes...?

4. i have no idea...

5. john i think...
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Syrinx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 09:20 PM
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14. #2, neither had any top 40 hits?
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Whitacre D_WI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 09:21 PM
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15. I'm sure "How Soon Is Now" was top-40 in the UK
Though I imagine Morrisey had more in the UK than the Simths.

I think you might be right that neither had any on this side of the pond.
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Pale Blue Dot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 09:24 PM
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17. Nope. One of them had 1 Top 40 hit. nt
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Whitacre D_WI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 09:25 PM
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19. "How Soon Is Now?"
Was I wrong in guessing Morrissey?
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Pale Blue Dot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 09:27 PM
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21. uhhh....
no.

:-)











What was the song?
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Whitacre D_WI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 09:33 PM
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23. Was it the Smiths? Really? In the U.S.?
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Pale Blue Dot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 09:35 PM
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24. No, no, I meant uhh, no, that you were wrong.
You were right the first time. It was Morrissey. What was the song?
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Whitacre D_WI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 09:40 PM
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25. I have no goddamned clue.
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Ysabel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 09:27 PM
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20. did anybody get elvis yet...?
watching the detectives...?
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Pale Blue Dot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 09:29 PM
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22. Sorry. See DING DING above.
For the record, Elvis only had 3 Top 100 hits: "Veronica", "Everyday I Write the Book" (which got to #36), and "The Only Flame In Town" (which peaked somewhere in the 50s.)
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Ysabel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 09:42 PM
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27. shucks...
Edited on Sat Mar-06-04 09:45 PM by Ysabel
oh well - congrats up there...

edit - hmmm - that was weird - post order went all wacky for a second there...
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Ysabel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 09:44 PM
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28. ooops...
shucks and congrats should go here...
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Whitacre D_WI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 09:41 PM
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26. So...
1 - ?
2 - Morrissey
3 - Veronica
4 - ?
5 - Harrison
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Pale Blue Dot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 09:45 PM
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29. Answers:
1. None of them.

"Stairway to Heaven" and "Never Say Goodbye" were never released as singles. "What I Like About You" and "I Melt With You" did not make the Top 40 (and "I Melt With You" was even released as a single TWICE).

2. Morrissey had the only U.S. Top 40 hit with "The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get".

3. "Veronica"

4. "Unwell" by Matchbox 20 has spent over a year on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

5. George Harrison, "My Sweet Lord".

Thanks for playing!
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Whitacre D_WI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 09:48 PM
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30. "Unwell" sucks.
That's all I have to say. That song fucking well sucks.
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NC_Nurse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 09:53 PM
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31. Hey!
that means I got 4 right, I said "some piece of shit"!
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Pale Blue Dot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 09:54 PM
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32. LOL
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