Sing Me Some Booze Trivia Quiz

Answer: Jimmy Buffett

"Margaritaville" is a song written by Jimmy Buffett when he was in Florida, and it appears on his album "Changes in Latitudes Changes in Attitudes". The song reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100, number one on the Easy Listening (Adult Contemporary) chart, and number thirteen on the Hot Country Songs chart.

The song is named after a cocktail, the "Margarita". The ingredients in a Margarita vary a little bit but mainly are: 2 measures of Tequila, 1 measure of Cointreau and 0.5 measure of Lime Juice. This is reputed to be the most popular tequila-based cocktail in the United States.

Here is the first verse and the chorus:

"Nibblin' on sponge cake
Watchin' the sun bake
All of those tourists covered with oil
Strummin' my six-string
On my front porch swing
Smell those shrimp they're beginnin' to boil

Chorus:
Wastin' away again in Margaritaville
Searching for my lost shaker of salt
Some people claim that there's a woman to blame
But I know it's nobody's fault."

Answer: Eagles

"Tequila Sunrise" appeared on the Eagles' second album, "Desperado". When released as a single it could only manage to make number sixty-four on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was written by Eagles members Don Henley and Glenn Frey.

The Eagles, an American rock band, formed in 1971 and have won six Grammys, five American Music Awards and had six number one albums. They were one of the most popular and successful bands of the 1970s. They have sold over 120 million albums worldwide and are one of the highest selling American bands in America.

Answer: UB40

Neil Diamond's own recording of "Red Red Wine" only reached number sixty-two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1968.

UB40 covered the song for their album "Labour of Love" in a lighter reggae-style. Released as a single in 1983, it reached number one in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand and on the US Billboard Hot 100. It rose to number two in Australia and Canada. The song also charted well in Austria, Germany, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland.

UB40 formed in Birmingham, UK, in 1978 and have sold over 70 million records, and in terms of those record sales are one of the world's most commercially successful reggae acts.

Answer: Amos Milburn

"One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" as recorded by Amos Milburn, rose to number two on the US Rhythm & Blues chart. Milburn's single lists the performers as "Amos Milburn and His Aladdin Chickenshackers" after his first number one single, Chicken Shack Boogie". Known for his drinking, Milburn said "I practiced what I preached".

John Lee Hooker's version in 1966 changed the order of the lyrics and added narrative dialogue. When George Thorogood and the Destroyers recorded the song in 1977, their version was a medley of this song and another John Lee Hooker song "House Rent Boogie".

The order of "bourbon" and "scotch" in the title was changed in different recordings.

Answer: Rupert Holmes

"Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" was a hit for Rupert Holmes in 1979 and 1980. It was number one on the Billboard Hot 100, the Canada RPM chart, and the Canada Adult Contemporary chart. It was in the top ten in Australia, Belgium, and New Zealand, but could only make it to number twenty-three in the UK in 1980.

This song was the last number one song on the Billboard Hot 100 for the 1970s, and the second number one song of the 1980s, being replaced as number one by "Please Don't Go" by KC and the Sunshine Band. However, it peaked at number one again in the second week of January 1980.

When Holmes originally wrote the song, the chorus started with "If you like Humphrey Bogart" but he changed it at the last minute to 'If you like Pina Coladas.

The drink Pina Colada was reputedly created in 1954 in a hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico and is made from rum, cream of coconut, and pineapple juice, which is blended and/or shaken with ice, and garnished with a pineapple wedge and/or a maraschino cherry. It is the official beverage of Puerto Rico.

Answer: The Pub With No Beer

"The Pub With No Beer" was the biggest-selling record by an Australian when it was released in 1957 and was the first Australian record to go "gold". The song was included in the Australian National Film and Sound Archive's "Sounds of Australia" in 2008. The song rose to number three in the UK in 1959.

The song was recorded by Bobbejaan Schoepen in several languages: Dutch in 1959, German in 1960 and they both were number one hits in Belgium and Austria. The song stayed in the German charts for thirty weeks. The song was very successful in Canada in 1958, following a strike involving 1,200 employees of a brewery.

Here are the first three verses:

"Oh it's-a lonesome away from your kindred and all
By the campfire at night we'll hear the wild dingoes call
But there's-a nothing so lonesome, morbid or drear
Than to stand in the bar of a pub with no beer

Now the publican's anxious for the quota to come
And there's a far away look on the face of the bum
The maid's gone all cranky and the cook's acting queer
Oh what a terrible place is a pub with no beer

Then the stockman rides up with his dry dusty throat
He breasts up to the bar and pulls a wad from his coat
But the smile on his face quickly turns to a sneer
As the barman says sadly the pub's got no beer".

Answer: The Champs

Shortly after "Tequila" was released in 1958 it was a number one hit on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Billboard R&B charts. This was the only US Top twenty hit by the group The Champs. The only word in the song, "tequila", is spoken only three times.

"Tequila" was often heard on the "Happy Days" TV series soundtrack and has been heard in the 1988 movie "Cheech and Chong's Next Movie", the 1985 movie "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure", and the 1990 movie "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", among others.

The Champs were formed by studio executives at Gene Autry's Challenge Records to make a B-side for a Dave Burgess (aka Dave Dupree) single, "Train to Nowhere". However "Tequila" rose to number one in just three weeks after the record's release. It won the Grammy Award in 1959 for "Best Rhythm & Blues Recording".

Tequila is distilled from the blue agave plant growing in a 65 kilometre (40 mile) range of the city of Tequila, where the soil is very well suited for the blue agave plant. The number of plants harvested there every year is approximately 30 million.

Answer: Robert Mitchum

Robert Mitchum recorded his co-written song "Little Old Wine Drinker Me" in 1967. It rose to number nine on the Billboard Country chart and number ninety-six on the Billboard Hot 100.

Mitchum usually did his own singing when a character he was playing was required to sing, for example in the movies "Rachel and the Stranger", "River of No Return", and "The Night of the Hunter".

Dean Martin recorded "Little Old Wine Drinker Me" also in 1967. It rose to number thirty-eight on the Billboard Hot 100 and number five on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.

Answer: Jimmie Rodgers

The version of "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" by Jimmie Rodgers rose to number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1957. The following year Frankie Vaughan had a hit with the song in the UK where it rose to number eight.

James Frederick (Jimmie) Rodgers was born in 1933 in Washington. He had hits such as "Honeycomb", "Oh-Oh, I'm Falling in Love Again", and "Bimbombey". He received a fractured skull in 1967 following a beating when he was pulled over on the San Diego Freeway; neither the identity ofthe assailants nor the reason for the beating were ever been established. However, Rodgers eventually sued the Los Angeles Police Department, and the case was settled out of court for $200,000.

Answer: True

"Cracklin' Rosie" was a big hit for Neil Diamond in America, rising to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in October 1970. The song reached number two in Australia and number three in the UK.

Cracklin' Rosie is not a person, but a nickname for a type of wine brewed and drunk by a native Canadian tribe. It seems that the tribe had more men than women so they brewed their Cracklin' Rosie and sat around the fire, talking and drinking together. When Diamond wrote the song he was not referring to any type of Rose wine.

Neil Diamond has sold over 115 million records worldwide. He has been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He has had 18 number one hit singles including "Song Sung Blue, "Desiree", "Love on the Rocks", "Longfellow Serenade" and "Yesterday's Songs".