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Trivia Challenge #11: “What He Said”
by Benjamin Ray & Elizabeth Crowder
Posted 7/16/07
So you think you’re a musical connoisseur, eh? Many people say they like all types of music; this lyric quiz will test that.
Below are 10 songs from different genres and time periods. We will provide a couple lines and you tell us the song and the artist.
We will hold you to the honor system, so be a man (or woman) and don’t cheat. Ready? Good luck!
1. Open your door, I’ll be your tenant, don’t got much baggage to lay at your feet
2. I don’t really want to stop the show, but I thought that you might like to know,
That the singer’s going to sing a song, and he wants you all to sing along
3. When I get there she’s got incense, wine and candles, it’s such a freaky scene.
4. Maybe I’ve been here before, I know this room, I’ve walked this floor, I used to live alone before I knew you.
5. Well I’ve been afraid of changes ‘cuz I built my life around you
6. Freezin’, rests his head on a pillow made of concrete, ooh yeah
7. Being good isnt always easy, no matter how hard I try, when he started sweet-talkin to me, he’d come and tell me everything is all right
8. The greatest thing you’ll ever learn, is just to love and be loved in return
9. There’s a sign on the wall, but she wants to be sure, cuz you know sometimes words have two meanings
10. I told my mother, my brother, my sister and my friends, told the others, my lovers, both past and present tense, that everytime I see you everything starts making sense
Answers:
1. “I’ll Cover You,” Rent
2. “Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band,” The Beatles
3. “Super Freak,” Rick James
4. “Hallelujiah,” Leonard Cohen or Jeff Buckley
5. “Landslide,” Fleetwood Mac (or Smashing Pumpkins or
6. “Even Flow,”
7. “Son of a Preacher Man,” Dusty
8. “Nature Boy,” Nat King Cole (also heard in ‘Moulin Rouge’)
9. “Stairway to Heaven,” Led Zeppelin
10. “Ain’t No Other Man,” Christina Aguilera