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6 Jim Croce quizzes and 65 Jim Croce trivia questions.
1.
  Jim Croce - Lyrics    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
A question about a few of my favourite Jim Croce lyrics. Taken from a posthumously collaborated album 'Greatest Hits'.
Average, 10 Qns, Hawkeye's gal, Sep 26 07
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2.
  "Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy)" Lyrics Quiz!    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
Some questions about the song "Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy)" by Jim Croce.
Easier, 15 Qns, Hawkeye's gal, Dec 28 15
Easier
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3.
  Jim Croce - Lyrics 2    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Ten more questions about one of my favourite folk singers ever!
Average, 10 Qns, Hawkeye's gal, Jan 31 03
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4.
  Jim Croce Lyric Snippets    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
The lyrics I provide are far more general, but I will ensure that they don't appear in any other songs. Just pick the right song from the 3,4 or 5 word snippets I give.
Tough, 10 Qns, Hawkeye's gal, Aug 04 08
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5.
  Jim Croce Songs    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Answer each question by selecting truth or false; or one of the four multiple choice answers. Each question is directly related to Jim Croce or his music.
Tough, 10 Qns, hunter82086, May 23 07
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6.
  Jim Croce - Lyrics 3    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Another 10 questions. This time there's a hint, all songs have their titles somewhere in the lyrics.
Tough, 10 Qns, Hawkeye's gal, Feb 25 03
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Jim Croce Trivia Questions
1. In the song "Operator" The man calls the operator searching for a number to reach his ex-lover who ran off with whom?

From Quiz Jim Croce Songs

Answer: His ex-best friend

She ran off with his "ex-ole-best-friend Ray." He never talks with her in this song.

2. "Somehow it just can't be true, that's all I've left of you." Which song does this come from?

From Quiz Jim Croce - Lyrics 3

Answer: Photographs and Memories

"Photographs and memories, christmas cards you sent to me, all that I have are these, to remember you." Opens this beautiful song from the album "You Don't Mess Around With Jim" Released May 1972.

3. "If I had a box" Which song does that snippet come from?

From Quiz Jim Croce Lyric Snippets

Answer: Time In A Bottle

"If I had a box just for wishes and dreams that had never come true, the box would be empty except for the mem'ry of how they were answered by you." From the 1972 album "You Don't Mess Around With Jim" This song went number one in the US just after Jim's passing September, 1972.

4. "Oh Rapid Roy that stock car boy he too much to...?"

From Quiz "Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy)" Lyrics Quiz!

Answer: Believe

He does some pretty wild things, that you would have a hard time believing.

5. "If I had a ____ just for wishes and _____ that had never come true..." What are the two blanks?

From Quiz Jim Croce - Lyrics 2

Answer: Box and Dreams

From the song "Time In A Bottle" and taken from the album "You Don't Mess Around With Jim" released May 1972.

6. "Well I know it's kinda... I hope I didn't wake you"

From Quiz Jim Croce - Lyrics

Answer: Late

From 'I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song', from the album "You Don't Mess Around With Jim." Released in May 1972.

7. "He got a girl back home, name of Dixie Dawn" Where does this line belong?

From Quiz Jim Croce - Lyrics 3

Answer: Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy)

"Rapid Roy the Stockcar boy, he too much to believe..." Is the opening line from this song, which hails from "You Don't Mess Around With Jim" Released May 1972. None of the others have the title as thier opening line.

8. "I never was much..." What song is that snippet from?

From Quiz Jim Croce Lyric Snippets

Answer: Lover's Cross

"Coz I never was much of a martyr before, and I ain't bout to start nothing new, but baby I can't hang upon no lover's cross for you." From the posthumously released album "I Got A Name" which came out in December 1973.

9. "You know he always got an extra pack of ______ rolled up in his t-shirt sleeve." What does he have on hand?

From Quiz "Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy)" Lyrics Quiz!

Answer: Cigarettes

I'd say he's too cool to have gum.

10. "________ can you help me place this call?" Who's helping him?

From Quiz Jim Croce - Lyrics 2

Answer: operator & Operator

"Operator (that's not the way it feels)" Again from the album - which believe it or not I don't own - "You Don't Mess Around With Jim." released in May 1972.

11. "If she's still around he's gonna settle down with his hard-lovin' _____ girl".

From Quiz Jim Croce - Lyrics

Answer: Georgia

From 'Walkin' Back To Georgia'. The line goes "And if you're still around, I'm gonna settle down, with you, my hard-lovin' Georgia-girl." From the album "You Don't Mess Around With Jim." Released in May 1972.

12. "Tote that barge, lift that bale..." Which song does this one come from?

From Quiz Jim Croce - Lyrics 3

Answer: Ol' Man River

Written by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstien. The first line of this song is indeed, "Ol' Man River". To my knowledge Croce never recorded "Summertime"

13. "That what we had..." Where does this snippet belong?

From Quiz Jim Croce Lyric Snippets

Answer: Thursday

"Well it started out just like a dream and like a dream I knew that what we had, would have to end. Coz I was looking for a lifetim lover and you were looking for a friend." From the Album "I Got A Name" 1973.

14. "He got a tattoo on his arm that says _____ he got another one that just say _____" What do they say?

From Quiz "Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy)" Lyrics Quiz!

Answer: Baby and Hey

Personally he sounds like the Fonz from "Happy Days" "Hey!" And "Hi" is a bit preppy.

15. "Sometimes I think about, our good ol' highschool days, you would always kid about my ________ ways..." What would she always kid about?

From Quiz Jim Croce - Lyrics 2

Answer: adolescent

The song "Salon and Saloon" was written by his guitarist Maury Meuhleheisen and was on the album "I Got A Name" posthumously released December 1973.

16. "If I could save ____ in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do..."

From Quiz Jim Croce - Lyrics

Answer: time

From 'Time In A Bottle'. From the album "You Don't Mess Around With Jim", released in May 1972.

17. "You're the girl who said you loved me." Which song does this line come from?

From Quiz Jim Croce - Lyrics 3

Answer: Walking Back To Georgia & Walkin Back To Georgia & Walkin' Back To Georgia

"Walking back to Georgia, and I hope that she will take me back." Not sure where he's walking from, but it's a long way. He'd even crawl if he had to. Once more from "You Don't Mess Around With Jim" Released May 1972.

18. "Break your heart..." This snippet belongs where?

From Quiz Jim Croce Lyric Snippets

Answer: Chain Gang Medley (Chain Gang, He Don't Love You & Searching)

From "He Don't Love You" "He don't love you, like I love you, if he did he wouldn't break you heart. But he don't love you, like I love you, he's trying to tear us apart." I believe this is from the album "The Faces I've Been" December 1972

19. "And every ______ afternoon he is a dirt track demon," What day of the week does he race?

From Quiz "Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy)" Lyrics Quiz!

Answer: Sunday

Good way to spend Sundays.

20. "But now and then I find myself, thinking of the days when we were walking in the ______?" What were they walking in?

From Quiz Jim Croce - Lyrics 2

Answer: Alabama Rain & Alabama rain & AL Rain

"Alabama Rain" from the album "Life and Times" released January 1973.

21. Who is not to blame even though the Christmas carols sound like blues?

From Quiz Jim Croce - Lyrics

Answer: The Choir

From 'It Doesn't Have To Be That Way': "And the Christmas Carols sound like blues, but the choir is not to blame." From the album 'Life and Times', released in January 1973.

22. Which song does this line come from? "One hand on the Bible, one hand on the gun."

From Quiz Jim Croce - Lyrics 3

Answer: Which Way Are You Going?

"Which way are you going? Which side will you be on?" The other 'titles' I made up. From "I've Got A Name" released 1973 by ABC records.

23. "I'd be crawlin'..." Which song can claim this snippet as its own?

From Quiz Jim Croce Lyric Snippets

Answer: Walkin' Back To Georgia

"Georgia can't you hear me callin'? I'll be home in just a while, and if I had to I'd be crawlin' just to share another mornin' smile. Coz you're the girl who said you loved me, on that hot dusty Macon road. And if you're still around, I'm, gonna settle down with you, my hard-lovin' Georgia-girl." The song is from the album "Don't Mess Around With Jim" released 1972.

24. "He is a dirt track demon in a ___ Chevrolet." What year is his Chevy?

From Quiz "Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy)" Lyrics Quiz!

Answer: '57

1957, a very good year.

25. "She was a Mississippi Lady, my loving Gulfport gal..." What was his lady's name?

From Quiz Jim Croce - Lyrics 2

Answer: Sweet Cordelia Brown

From the album "The Faces I've Been" "She was a Mississippi Lady My lovin' Gulfport gal. She taught me how to love And she really loved me well. She took me up to heaven Then she brought me down That Mississippi Lady, Sweet Cordelia Brown"

26. "Hello Momma and Dad I had to call collect..." Which song is this from?

From Quiz Jim Croce - Lyrics 3

Answer: Box #10

"Hello Momma and Dad I had to call collect coz I ain't got a cent to my name..." From the 1972 album "You Don't Mess Around With Jim"

27. "Is it hard..." From which song does this snippet originate?

From Quiz Jim Croce Lyric Snippets

Answer: Mississippi Lady

"Now I'm back in New York City, playing in a band. But my mind's on Mississippi, is hard to understand?" From the posthumously released album "The Faces I've Been" which made its debut in December 1972 just 3 months after Jim Croce's death.

28. "Oh Rapid Roy that stock car boy he's the best driver in the ____" Where?

From Quiz "Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy)" Lyrics Quiz!

Answer: Land

"And they say that he learned to race a stock car, by runnin' shine outta Alabam'"

29. Not written by him but complete the line of this song he's done. "Tote that barge, lift that bale, get a little drunk and you land in..."

From Quiz Jim Croce - Lyrics 2

Answer: Jail

Written by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstien, "Ol' Man River" if you ask me sounds the best when sung by Jim Croce.

30. "He run so cool, that racin' fool, he don't know what fear's about. He do a-hundred-thirty-mile-an-hour smiling at the camera with a toothpick in his mouth" Who is he?

From Quiz Jim Croce - Lyrics

Answer: Rapid Roy

From "Rapid Roy (the Stock Car Boy)" From the album "You Don't Mess Around With Jim." Released in May 1972.

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