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1. What is the title of the "boozy" song popularized principally by Frank Sinatra, that was written by Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen for the 1943 musical "The Sky's the Limit"?
2. Which drinking song, of Irish descent, tells of a traveller going over the mountains of Cork and Kerry, stealing money from Captain Farrell, having a tryst with Molly in her bed-chamber, shooting Captain Farrell and ultimately ending up in prison with just a ball and chain for company?
3. Complete the title of the beautifully named song "I'm At Home Getting Hammered, ------------". A track by the fictional Banjo & Sullivan from Rob Zombie's 2005 horror movie "The Devil's Rejects".
4. "Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down", "I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink" and "Misery and Gin" are just three drinking songs popularized by which legendary country singer from California?
5. The first verse of "Little Old Wine Drinker Me", a song made famous by Dean Martin, runs as follows:
"I'm praying for a rain in ----------
So the grapes can grow and they can make more wine
And I'm sitting in a honky in -------
With a broken heart and a woman on my mind."
What are the two missing locations? One state, one city.
6. Another complete the title: this time a number one hit for Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five: "What's the Use of Getting Sober -------------"? The song was later covered by Joe Jackson on a 1981 album.
7. "What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)" was taken to number four in the UK charts by Rod Stewart in 1972. Lynn Anderson, Hank Thompson and the punk/rock band Flogging Molly are others to have recorded the track. Which rocker's version is considered the original and made number two on the Billboard's Country chart in 1968?
8. What is the name of the song about weeping during alcohol consumption, written by Hank Williams in 1951, but not released until 1989 when Williams and his son made number seven on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles chart?
9. "And it's no, nay, never! No, nay, never, no more." Is the first line of the chorus to which popular drinking song that has been recorded over the years by such diverse artists as Dropkick Murphys, Foster and Allen and Rolf Harris?
10. Released in 2004 "Whiskey Lullaby", is a tragic country ballad about a couple who love, yet cannot be together and eventually drink themselves to death. The song is a duet. Alison Krauss sings for the female character with which multi-award winning artist singing the part of the male?
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