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1. "Mr. Telephone Man" debuted in 1983 initially by teenager Junior Tucker, and is about a young man trying to call his girlfriend only to have her keep hanging up or not answering.
What is the name of the R&B group that covered it in 1984 to get it to reach number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart?
2. In 1971, the song "You've Got a Friend", was a major success for both James Taylor and Carole King. But from the listed responses below, which answer is NOT correct?
3. What movie/series is about a shady personal injury attorney with a myriad of names - "Slipping Jimmy", "Saul Goodman", and "Gene Takavic", to name a few - and stars Bob Odenkirk as Jimmy McGill?
4. On February 24, 1988, this performer received 165 curtain calls, the most of any other artist, when he performed "Nemorino" in Gaetano Donizetti's "L'elisir d'amore." Please name him.
5. The uplifting Pop song, "Call Me Maybe", was an overnight sensation written and recorded in Canada. It charted number one in at least fifteen countries.
Can you name the singer who voiced this cultural phenomena?
6. The inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, made the first call on March 10, 1876, to his assistant, when his said, "Mr. Watson--come here--I want to see you." Which "Watson" was the recipient of that call?
7. Where, in the King James Bible, is the use of the word, "calling" used to describe how "there are not many wise, mighty, or noble men, called" to God, while, at the same time, telling us OUR calling....is in Christ Jesus. And, "who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: that, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord."?
8. This famous Jack, let's call him Jack Yukon for now, wrote an adventure novel in 1903 named "Call of the Wild", its setting during the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s. The protagonist just happens to be a dog called Buck. Can you give me the author's real name?
9. In peace times, military units use tactical call signs that they can constantly change, if needed. The call signs used by the United States Army begin with what letter when sent to the U.S. Army Headquarters?
10. The 1975 novelty song, "Convoy", was about a group of ticked off truck drivers, frustrated about the 55 mph speed limit, among other matters, driving across America from the West Coast to the East Coast without stopping for diesel.
Who performed the hit along with Chip Davis?
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