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  10 Questions: The Pretenders Multiple Choice Quiz   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
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As I can find no quiz based on this fantastic group, I hope this will fuel other quiz setters. Enjoy!
Average, 10 Qns, che1sea, Jun 01 14
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  The Pretenders: Songs and Lyrics    
Multiple Choice
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This quiz covers the songs and song lyrics of one of my favorite bands, The Pretenders. Almost all of these songs got radio airplay in both the U.S. and U.K., and most were on the charts in both countries.
Average, 10 Qns, Amanda77586, Jun 01 14
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  Multiple Choice Quiz about The Pretenders    
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The Pretenders were and still are a great band. This will take you down a memory lane of their records. Hope you enjoy.
Difficult, 10 Qns, JenPenWen, Jun 01 14
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The Pretenders Trivia Questions
1. 'Hey what you got to hide? I get angry too, well I'm a lot like you. When you're standing at the crossroads and don't know what path to choose. Let me come along 'cause even if you're wrong.' A beautiful song, do you know what it is called?

From Quiz The Pretenders

Answer: I'll Stand By You

'I'll Stand by You' was a release from the album 'Lost of the Independents'. The single got to number ten in the UK singles charts and the album got to number eight in the album charts. Apparently the name The Pretenders was thought of by Chrissie Hynde when she heard the song 'The Great Pretender'.

2. What Kinks song did the Pretenders record?

From Quiz The Pretenders: Songs and Lyrics

Answer: Stop Your Sobbing

Chrissie Hynde is a huge Kinks fan and was involved in a relationship with Ray Davies of the Kinks. They have a daughter named Natalie Rae. The Pretenders recorded a cover of the Jimi Hendrix song "Roomful of Mirrors" later in their career.

3. 'Now look at the people in the streets in the bars. We all of us in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars. Look round the room, life is unkind.' Another great Pretenders track, what is this one called?

From Quiz The Pretenders

Answer: Message Of Love

'Message Of Love' reached eleven in the UK singles charts. It is a release from the album 'Pretenders II' which was released in 1981 and got to number eleven in the UK album charts. Although Chrissie Hynde was an American artist, she moved to the UK when she was 22. That is where she made her fame and fortune as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of The Pretenders.

4. The Pretenders' singer, the wonderful Chrissie Hynde, was not born in the UK, but originated from where in the USA?

From Quiz The Pretenders

Answer: Akron, Ohio

Chrissie came to the UK in 1973 and formed the group in Hereford, UK. She was born on September 7, 1951.

5. What song has a chorus that contains the line "I'm special, so special"?

From Quiz The Pretenders: Songs and Lyrics

Answer: Brass in Pocket

The song title "Brass in Pocket" comes from the first line of the first verse rather than the chorus. Though the song came out in 1980, it's still popular today. In the 2003 film "Lost in Translation", there is a scene of Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson performing this song in a Japanese karaoke room.

6. 'Once in a while two people meet. Seemly for no reason they just pass in the street. Suddenly thunder, showers everywhere. Who can explain the thunder and rain but there's something in the air.' A catchy tune, can you name it?

From Quiz The Pretenders

Answer: Don't Get Me Wrong

'Don't Get Me Wrong' reached ten in the UK singles charts. It came from the album 'Get Close' which was released in November 1986 and reached ten in the UK album charts. Chrissie met Farnham in 1978 and together they selected the other band members. The band did its first gigs in Paris but after releasing their first single they started doing gigs in the UK.

7. The Pretenders' breakthrough single in the UK, "Stop Your Sobbing", was not written by Chrissie Hynde. Which member of The Kinks wrote it?

From Quiz The Pretenders

Answer: Ray Davies

Ray and his brother Dave Davies were in The Kinks. Alan Clarke was the lead singer of The Hollies and Mike Pender led The Searchers.

8. What was the name of the Christmas-themed song recorded by the Pretenders?

From Quiz The Pretenders: Songs and Lyrics

Answer: 2000 Miles

The song "2000 Miles" was the first single released off the "Learning to Crawl" album in 1983. It was a hit in the U.K. It gets seasonal radio play in the U.S. since it is considered to be a Christmas song. While researching this quiz, I learned that Coldplay and KT Tunstall have both covered this song.

9. 'When I look up from my pillow I dream you are there with me. Though you are far away I know you'll always be near to me. I go to sleep, sleep and imagine that you're there with me.' Can you name this one?

From Quiz The Pretenders

Answer: I Go To Sleep

'I Go To Sleep' reached seven in the UK Singles charts. It was another release from their album entitled 'Pretenders II'. An interesting fact - the band were introduced to the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2005.

10. The Pretenders had their only number one hit single in the UK with a song that was inspired by a northern England term for possession of money. What was the name of the song?

From Quiz The Pretenders

Answer: Brass in Pocket

"Brass in Pocket" reached number one in the UK in 1979. It only reached number 14 in the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.

11. What, Pretenders ballad from the 1990s has a video of Chrissie Hynde caring for a sick, depressed man?

From Quiz The Pretenders: Songs and Lyrics

Answer: I'll Stand by You

Both "I'll Stand by You" and "Night in My Veins" were singles off the 1994 album "Last of the Independents". "Night" was the first single released, but the second single, "Stand", did much better. The romantic lyrics and the theme of loyalty obviously struck a chord with a lot of fans. The song "Human" (a Divinyls cover) is a more recent single - off the 1999 album "Viva el Amor". The song was released as a single in the U.K. but not in the U.S. "My Baby" was released in 1987.

12. 'Cause I gonna make you see. There's nobody else here, no one like me. I'm special, so special. I got to have some of your attention give it to me.' One of my favourites, what is it called?

From Quiz The Pretenders

Answer: Brass In Pocket

'Brass In Pocket' was the band's only number one UK chart entry and featured on their first album 'The Pretenders'. This their first album also made it to number one in the UK album charts. Chrissie has been married three times and has had a child with each husband, Ray Davies from The Kinks, Jim Kerr from Simple Minds and Lucho Brieva.

13. As well as fronting The Pretenders, Chrissie Hynde has collaborated with other artists. With whom did she team up with to make a UK hit remake of Sonny and Cher's "I Got You Babe"?

From Quiz The Pretenders

Answer: UB40

She teamed up with Ali Campbell and the rest of the lads in 1985. She did the same three years later to record the single "Breakfast in Bed".

14. Which Pretenders song is about Chrissy Hynde's hometown?

From Quiz The Pretenders: Songs and Lyrics

Answer: My City Was Gone

"I went back to Ohio and my city was gone", sings Chrissy Hynde in the first verse. The song is called "My City Was Gone" and was originally on the B-side of the single "Back on the Chain Gang". Both of those songs appeared on the 1983 album, "Learning to Crawl". The lyrics are about the rampant pollution and development in Ohio (and, by extension, other places in the world) that are destroying formerly beautiful green spaces.

15. The Pretenders released a Christmas single in 1983 called "2000 Miles". In the accompanying studio-based snowy-scene video, what uniform was Chrissie Hynde dressed up in?

From Quiz The Pretenders

Answer: Salvation Army

The song went to the lower reaches of the UK Top 20. It failed to register in the US.

16. 'It is time for you to laugh instead of crying. Yes it's time for you to laugh so keep on trying oh, oh, oh. There's one thing you gotta do to make me still want you.' Can you name this Pretenders song?

From Quiz The Pretenders

Answer: Stop Your Sobbing

'Stop Your Sobbing' was a release from their first album 'The Pretenders' and reached 34 in the UK singles charts. In fact it was their first single and it is a cover version of The Kinks' record of the same name.

17. Which Pretenders single's video features a couple of the band members manually working in a quarry, whilst Chrissie sings and looks sultry in her denim jacket?

From Quiz The Pretenders

Answer: Back on the Chain Gang

Apparently Chrissie was in the advanced stages of her pregnancy when the video was made. "Back on the Chain Gang" was released on November 12, 1982.

18. Which song(s) appear(s) on the soundtrack of the film "The Living Daylights"?

From Quiz The Pretenders: Songs and Lyrics

Answer: Both of these

Both of these songs were on the soundtrack of this James Bond movie, which came out in 1987.

19. 'Making me crawl in the dust again. It's just the night under my skin. Slipping it in. His got his hands in my hair and lips everywhere. Oh yeah, it's alright feels good.' What is the title of the track with these lyrics?

From Quiz The Pretenders

Answer: Night In My Veins

'Night In My Veins' was a release from the same album as 'Stand By Me' which was 'Lost of the Independence'. Altogether they released nine studio albums, four compilation albums, one EP, two live albums and thirty three singles. In 2013 Chrissie was voted one of the fifty best-dressed over 50s by the Guardian.

20. Which song from The Pretenders' album "Last of the Independents", released in 1994, was written by Chrissie Hynde and was a hit for British group Girls Aloud in 2009?

From Quiz The Pretenders

Answer: I'll Stand by You

The melody for the song originated from Johann Sebastian Bach's "Minuet for Lovers". The single reached number ten in the UK singles chart in 1994, but only got to number 95 in the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1995.

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