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8 Ani DiFranco quizzes and 105 Ani DiFranco trivia questions.
1.
  The Songs Of Ani DiFranco    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Hailing out of Buffalo, New York, Ani DiFranco became a regular part of the folk-rock scene from the late 1980s. Find ten of her songs from the lyrics quoted.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Jan 27 22
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Jan 27 22
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  Ani DiFranco Lyric Quiz    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Ani DiFranco is a talented Folk-Rock artist and an even more talented lyricist. Let's see how well you do with interpreting Ani's poetry and song lyrics...
Average, 10 Qns, Smurphie, Nov 10 02
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Smurphie
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  Ani Difranco: Name That Song!   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Another lyrics quiz dedicated to one of the best songwriters ever! It's pretty simple. I give you a lyric, you tell me the song.
Average, 10 Qns, trixieloo, Nov 04 04
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  Test Your Knowledge of Ani Lyrics!    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
"I speak without reservation from what I know and who I am. I do so with the understanding that all people should have the right to offer their voice to the chorus, whether the result is harmony or dissonance..." --ani
Average, 10 Qns, naptowngirl, Feb 18 03
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  Long Ani Difranco Lyrics    
Multiple Choice
 25 Qns
For those who think they know Ani's music to the fullest - I challenge you.
Average, 25 Qns, star9fire6, Jul 08 02
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6.
  Another Ani Quiz    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
This quiz is for the TRUE Ani fan... you have to listen to her words...
Average, 15 Qns, tyrailia, Aug 12 05
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  For Fans of Ani!    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
A must for any Ani fan!
Average, 15 Qns, gurl00711, Jul 27 06
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  Ani Difranco - Not Another Lyric Quiz    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Enjoy this quiz on little known facts about ani difranco, her band, her tours and her songs!
Tough, 10 Qns, atkineve, Sep 21 05
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trivia question Quick Question
The song "Letter to a John" is about the experiences of who?

From Quiz "Test Your Knowledge of Ani Lyrics!"





Ani DiFranco Trivia Questions
1. In 1999, drummer Andy Stochansky left ani's band. What was strange about his leaving?

From Quiz Ani Difranco - Not Another Lyric Quiz

Answer: He left her stranded on tour in Australia with no drummer and no notice

Andy did indeed leave ani in Australia. She had no drummer and had to come up with one, fast. A replacement drummer was found in time for the next show, but was not kept on permanently. Shortly after, Daren Hahn joined the band. He is a very accomplished drummer, but has never achieved the level of chemistry with ani that Andy had.

2. Which Ani song is this lyric from: "Feel free to listen, feel free to stare"?

From Quiz Ani Difranco: Name That Song!

Answer: Cradle and All

"Rockabye baby in the treetop, when the wind blows, the cradle will rock..." From the album "Not A Pretty Girl".

3. In what song does Ani sing, "Self-preservation is a full-time occupation"?

From Quiz Test Your Knowledge of Ani Lyrics!

Answer: Talk to me Now

These lyrics come from Ani's first album, self-titled, which was released in 1990, when Ani was only 19 years old.

4. In "Tiptoe," Ani sets her scene as she is "Standing on the piers" of which highway?

From Quiz Ani DiFranco Lyric Quiz

Answer: West Side Highway

"Tiptoe" is one of Ani's lyric poems that appears on her album, "Not a Pretty Girl" as well as on her compilation album, "Living In Clip."

5. What song includes the lyrics, "In each other's shadows, we grew less and less tall"?

From Quiz Long Ani Difranco Lyrics

Answer: "Both Hands"

"...And eventually our theories couldn't explain it all..." from "Both Hands" off of Ani's first album.

6. Finish these lyrics: 'I am writing, graffitti on your body, I am drawing the story of... '

From Quiz Another Ani Quiz

Answer: how hard we tried

This is from the song 'Both Hands' from Ani's self titled album.

7. What is the first song on Ani's first album?

From Quiz For Fans of Ani!

Answer: Both Hands

8. "Squint your eyes and look closer, I'm not between you and your ambitions...", in which song by Ani DiFranco do these lyrics appear?

From Quiz The Songs Of Ani DiFranco

Answer: 32 Flavors

"Squint your eyes and look closer I'm not between you and your ambition I am a poster girl with no poster I am thirty-two flavors and then some..." In 1995, this was a track on Ani's sixth album "Not A Pretty Girl". It was later covered by Alana Davis and that cover had its best chart performance at number 17 on the Billboard Adult Top 40. In more that 20 albums from 1989, Ani DiFranco carried her political and social commentary heart on her sleeve. She opposed the Gulf War and joined that great veteran social commentator Pete Seeger at his Clearwater Festival in 1993. She contributed the track "My Name Is Lisa Kalvelage" to the tribute album "Where Have All The Flowers Gone? - The Songs of Pete Seeger".

9. Which comedian did ani tour with in late 2004?

From Quiz Ani Difranco - Not Another Lyric Quiz

Answer: Margaret Cho

For a limited number of shows, ani's "Vote Dammit" tour met up with Margaret Cho's "State of Emergency" tour in several of the swing states before the 2004 election.

10. Which Ani song is this lyric from: "I never avert my eyes, I never compromise, so never mind the poetry"?

From Quiz Ani Difranco: Name That Song!

Answer: Shameless

"We're in a room without a door and I am sure without a doubt, they're gonna wanna know how we got in here and they're gonna wanna know how we plan to get out" From the album "Dilate".

11. The song "Letter to a John" is about the experiences of who?

From Quiz Test Your Knowledge of Ani Lyrics!

Answer: an exotic dancer

In "Letter to a John" Ani sings about a woman who says "I want you to pay me for my beauty, I think it's only right, 'cause I have been paying for it all of my life." This song can be found on the "Out of Range" album, released in 1994.

12. From "Fuel": "And they say that alchoholics are always alchoholics even when they're as dry as my lips for years. Even when they're stranded on a _______ _______ _______ with no place in two thousand miles to buy beer."

From Quiz Ani DiFranco Lyric Quiz

Answer: small desert island

"Fuel" appears on Ani's album, "Little Plastic Castle." Much like "Tiptoe," this song is occasionally referred to as one of Ani's pieces of poetry, despite its distinct rhythm scheme, because it is primarily a spoken piece.

13. What are these lyrics from, "Fading with the wash cycle and the rinse cycle"?

From Quiz Long Ani Difranco Lyrics

Answer: "The Slant"

This is a song that is almost not a song off of the first album.

14. Finish these lyrics: 'I am up again against the skin of my guitar, in the window of my life... '

From Quiz Another Ani Quiz

Answer: looking out through the bars

This is from the song 'The Story' from Ani's self titled album.

15. What song is this from: 'I want to hear you call my name. It's too easy just to say it soft. I don't like my language watered down. I don't like my edges rounded off'?

From Quiz For Fans of Ani!

Answer: Make Me Stay

16. In which song by Ani DiFranco do these lyrics appear: "I search your profile for a translation - I study the conversation like a map..."?

From Quiz The Songs Of Ani DiFranco

Answer: Overlap

"Search your profile For a translation I study the conversation Like a map 'cause I know there is strength In the differences between us And I know there is comfort Where we overlap..." Nominated nine times for a Grammy in her first 20 years, DiFranco won once. "Overlap" was on her 1995 album, "Out Of Range". Raised in Buffalo, New York State, Angela Maria DiFranco's mother was Canadian and her father Italian - they met at MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At the age of nine, DiFranco had started busking - singing Beatles songs - and by 14 was writing her own. At the age of 19 she had graduated to the folk clubs of Greenwich Village.

17. In the song, "Little Plastic Castle", ani talks about a "shaved head". Who is she describing?

From Quiz Ani Difranco - Not Another Lyric Quiz

Answer: Heidi, the Mistress of Merch

This song was dedicated to Heidi in several of her early shows. I personally know of this after an excited letter from Heidi herself!

18. Which Ani song is this lyric from: "This little girl breaks furniture, this little girl breaks laws"?

From Quiz Ani Difranco: Name That Song!

Answer: Two Little Girls

"Two girls together, just a little less alone, this little girl cried wee wee wee all the way home" From the album "Little Plastic Castle".

19. Finish this lyric: "I am not a pretty girl/That is not what I do/ I ain't no damsel in distress/And I don't need..."

From Quiz Test Your Knowledge of Ani Lyrics!

Answer: to be rescued

These lyrics come from song "Not a Pretty Girl", off of the album by the same name. Released in 1995. Ani once teamed up with The Indigo Girls and did a great rendition of this song.

20. From "Hello Birmingham": "So they went and stuffed ______ down the barrel of a gun and after him they stuffed his only son."

From Quiz Ani DiFranco Lyric Quiz

Answer: God

I love Ani's use of metaphor in this song. She writes "Hello Birmingham" (from her album, "To The Teeth") in the true spirit of the Folk Songs of 1960s tying the assasination of Dr. King to the bombing of an abortion clinic. Through the powerful lyrics of "Hello Birmingham," Ani compares the 1960s civil rights movement to the pro-choice movement of contemporary America. From describing the distance to Birmingham as "Two miles as the crow flies" [an allusion to Jim Crow], to "the blood poured off the pulpit, yeah the blood poured down the picket lines" [relating to both Dr. King's role as a religious figure/social activist and to the religious right's harsh anti-choice stance], Ani's lyrics in this song are truely inspirational.

21. Name the song that includes this lyric. "The air was smoking and the streets were dry. And I wasn't joking when I said good-bye."

From Quiz Long Ani Difranco Lyrics

Answer: "Firedoor"

This song is off of two albums, from the first album and then "Living in Clip" as a live version.

22. Finish the lyric: 'I know that you feel my resistance, I know that you heard what I said, otherwise you wouldn't need the ...'

From Quiz Another Ani Quiz

Answer: excuse & Excuse

This is from the song 'Gratitude' from Ani's album 'Not so Soft'.

23. What song is this from: 'I want you to pay me for my beauty. I think it's only right, cause I have been paying for it all of my life'?

From Quiz For Fans of Ani!

Answer: Letter To A John

24. In which song did Buffalo, New York, songstress Ani DiFranco sing: "The list of names flips by and stops - she closes her eyes and smiles..."?

From Quiz The Songs Of Ani DiFranco

Answer: Jukebox

"In the jukebox of her memory The list of names flips by and stops She closes her eyes And smiles as the record drops..." "Jukebox" was a track on Ani DiFranco's 1999 album "Up Up Up Up Up Up". It reached number 29 on the Billboard 200. DiFranco wrote all of the tracks and, as she did for most of her early long players, was the producer. DiFranco refused to sign with any major record label and started her own: "It's not enough to write your own songs. What if you're in control of the way they go into the world? I harnessed a lot of authenticity along the way. Not a lot of perfection. But freaking real as real could be," she said in a 2019 interview with Eve Barlow of 'The Guardian'.

25. Which two songs are about the same person?

From Quiz Ani Difranco - Not Another Lyric Quiz

Answer: Both Hands and Two Little Girls

Ani mentions that these two songs are about the same former lover during several of her shows between 1999-2000. This fact is also stated on the very well circulated recording of a show during her Australian tour in 1999.

26. Which Ani song is this lyric from: "You try not to let your emotions show but it ain't a balloon you can just let go"?

From Quiz Ani Difranco: Name That Song!

Answer: Heartbreak Even

"It's an ice cream cone dripping in the sun: sticky hands, sticky arms, sticky situation" From the album "Revelling", the first disc of Ani's double album "Revelling/Reckoning".

27. In which Ani song can one find the lyrics: "and life is a sleazy stranger who looks vaguely familiar, flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar"?

From Quiz Test Your Knowledge of Ani Lyrics!

Answer: Million you Never Made

This song is also on Ani's seventh album, "Not a Pretty Girl." 1995.

28. Which song is this lyric from? "...to take swings at each other on talk show tv, why don't you just go ahead and turn off the sun 'cause we'll never live long enough to undo everything they've done to you."

From Quiz Ani DiFranco Lyric Quiz

Answer: 'Tis of Thee

"'Tis of Thee" is off of Ani's album, "Up up up up up up." In light of the near-manifesto I wrote about the last song in the quiz, I will allow you all to glean your own meanings from this one.

29. Finish this lyric from the song above. "I make such a good statistic someone should _____"

From Quiz Long Ani Difranco Lyrics

Answer: study me now

"...Someone's gotta be interested in how I feel just 'cause I'm here and I'm real..." Lyrics from "Firedoor" off the first album.

30. Complete this lyric: 'she's looking in the mirror, she's fixing her hair and I touch my head to feel...'

From Quiz Another Ani Quiz

Answer: what isn't there

This is from the song 'Fixing Her Hair' from Ani's album 'Imperfectly'.

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