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  Dead Milkmen Songs   popular trivia quiz  
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This fifteen-question quiz is for fans everywhere of the always amusing, though never-improving Dead Milkmen. Everyone knows the song, 'Punk Rock Girl', but the true Milkmen fan will recognize the lyrics and facts referenced below. Test your knowledge!
Tough, 15 Qns, magpie8, Aug 23 02
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  Punk Rock Girl    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Not a big fan of the band, but I love the 1980s song, "Punk Rock Girl".
Average, 10 Qns, eke173, May 15 06
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  Dead Milkmen songs!    
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Here's a quiz about the kings of 'snot rock'. One of my favorite bands of all time!
Average, 10 Qns, bsquared, Aug 25 01
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  The Dead Milkmen    
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This Philadelphia-based alternative rock group were known for their bizarre sense of humor and garnered a loyal fan base in the 1980s and 1990s. Here is a quiz on the band. Thanks, hope you enjoy.
Difficult, 10 Qns, neon000, Oct 21 08
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trivia question Quick Question
According to the title of a song, what is the band's favourite dish?

From Quiz "Dead Milkmen Songs"





Dead Milkmen Trivia Questions
1. During live versions of the song "Smoking Banana Peels," the group liked to make fun of public figures. A common subject of the jabs was former Philadelphia mayor Frank Rizzo. After he died in 1991, someone replaced him in the jokes. Who was it?

From Quiz The Dead Milkmen

Answer: Pennsylvania state legislator Steven Friend

Steven Friend was a staunch opponent of abortion rights. He was the target of jokes in the songs "Swordfish" and "Smokin' Banana Peels" on the live album "Chaos Rules: Live at the Trocadero."

2. According to the title of a song, what is the band's favourite dish?

From Quiz Dead Milkmen Songs

Answer: 'Filet of Sole'

'You know I lose control.....when you serve fil-et of sole!' The song is from 1985's 'Big Lizard in my Backyard'.

3. What day of the week did the guy in the song and the punk rock girl meet?

From Quiz Punk Rock Girl

Answer: Saturday & Sat & Sat.

The beginning of the song goes, 'One Saturday I took a walk to Zipperhead. I met a girl there and she almost knocked me dead.'

4. According to the Dead Milkmen, what type of car is 'Bitchin'?

From Quiz Dead Milkmen songs!

Answer: Camaro

There classic hit! Off of 'Big Lizard in my Backyard'.

5. In the song "I Tripped Over the Ottoman," who is 'tonight's special guest star'?

From Quiz The Dead Milkmen

Answer: Death

"Tonight's special guest star is death!" The song is about a character from "The Dick Van Dyke Show" who goes insane. It can be found on the album "Metaphysical Graffiti."

6. On that same album, the Milkmen have a song named after another type of seafood. What is it?

From Quiz Dead Milkmen Songs

Answer: 'Swordfish'

Although the band sings of their love for filet of sole, swordfish is what they 'believe in'.

7. How did the guy get the girls attention?

From Quiz Punk Rock Girl

Answer: Tapped her on the shoulder

8. In a song from the album "Soul Rotation," the Milkmen imagined that the movie character Shaft visited a new destination. Where was it?

From Quiz The Dead Milkmen

Answer: Greenland

"Soul Rotation" was released in 1992. "Shaft in Greenland" is the last track on the album.

9. One of the band's more recent songs refers to the popular movie cop 'Shaft' and his adventures in what country?

From Quiz Dead Milkmen Songs

Answer: Greenland & Green Land

The song is from the 1992 CD, 'Soul Rotation'.

10. What beverage did they order at the Philly Pizza Company?

From Quiz Punk Rock Girl

Answer: Hot tea

Just some more info from the lyrics.

11. Punk rock girl, you look so wild. Let's have a child, we'll name her __________?

From Quiz Dead Milkmen songs!

Answer: Minnie Pearl & minnie pearl & minny pearl & Minny Pearl & Mini Pearl & mini pearl

From the album 'Beezulbubba'

12. In the song "The Fez," what is "botherin' my mind"?

From Quiz The Dead Milkmen

Answer: The periodic table of the elements

The song features a long screed about the handful of elements which, according to the lyrics, are "non-naturally-occurring." The track opens with the announcement, "Hello, Colin, it's the Fez!" We are never told who Colin is, or for that matter, who the Fez is.

13. On the song 'The Thing That Only Eats Hippies', what famous musician did the thing chew on, but it spit him out!?

From Quiz Dead Milkmen songs!

Answer: David Crosby

All the punks are gonna scream yippee!

14. What Mamas and Papas song did someone play on the jukebox?

From Quiz Punk Rock Girl

Answer: 'California Dreamin'

'And someone played a Beach Boys song on the jukebox. It was California Dreamin', so we started screamin' on such a winter's day.'

15. On the album 'Metaphysical Graffiti', which band did the Dead Milkmen praise?

From Quiz Dead Milkmen songs!

Answer: Sha Na Na

If you have ever listened to the Dead Milkmen, you know there is no way it's Depeche Comode.

16. According to a song from the 1985 album "Big Lizard in My Backyard," what type of creature came from outer space?

From Quiz The Dead Milkmen

Answer: Right Wing Pigeons

The album was released on Restless Records. It featured 21 songs.

17. Who actually recorded 'California Dreamin'?

From Quiz Punk Rock Girl

Answer: The Mamas and The Papas

18. It's a boring day, I got nothing to do, 'cept get a load of retards and drive them to ___________?

From Quiz Dead Milkmen songs!

Answer: the zoo

from the Album 'Big Lizard in my Backyard'

19. On the album "Now We Are 20," the Dead Milkmen covered which song by the Specials?

From Quiz The Dead Milkmen

Answer: A Message to You Rudy

"Now We Are 20" was a compilation album. Most of its tracks were recorded live for the Philadelphia radio station WXPN. "A Message to You Rudy" is one of the exceptions-- it was recorded in-studio and unreleased on CD until "Now We Are 20" came out in 2003.

20. Fill in the rest of this song lyric: 'You know what Stuart, I like you. You're not like the other people here in the.....

From Quiz Dead Milkmen Songs

Answer: trailer park & 'trailer park' & trailer park. & 'trailer park.' & 'trailer park'. & trailerpark & 'trailerpark' & "trailerpark" & trailerpark. & 'trailerpark.' & 'trailerpark'. & "trailerpark" & "trailer park" & "trailerpark". & "trailerpark." & "trailer

That, of course, is from 'Stuart', the wonderfully funny gem from 1988's 'Beelzebubba'.

21. What is the girl's father's job?

From Quiz Punk Rock Girl

Answer: Vice President

From the chorus the 2nd time: 'It makes no sense, your dad is a vice president, rich as the Duke of Earl. Yeah, you're for me, punk rock girl.'

22. In the song 'The Fez', the Dead Milkmen intentionally mess up lyrics to other songs. How do they mess up Jimi Hendrix?

From Quiz Dead Milkmen songs!

Answer: Excuse me while I puke and die

Off of 'Eat Your Paisley'

23. In the song "Now Everybody's Me," the 'whole planet' is full of what kind of people?

From Quiz The Dead Milkmen

Answer: TV addicts

"Just a whole planet of TV addicts!" the singer yells, towards the end of the song. The track appeared on the album "Metaphysical Graffiti."

24. What band is NOT mentioned in the Milkmen's song, 'Instant Club Hit' (aka 'You'll Dance to anything')?

From Quiz Dead Milkmen Songs

Answer: Erasure

Also included in the bands that 'you'll dance to anything by...' are Naked Truth and Book of Love. Send me a message if you've heard of either.

25. Who did not work at the record store at the mall?

From Quiz Punk Rock Girl

Answer: Mojo Nixon

'We asked for Mojo Nixon. They said, 'He don't work here.'

26. 'No one's ever wrote a song about', what?

From Quiz Dead Milkmen songs!

Answer: Nitro Burning Funny Cars

Although all may be true, Nitro Burning Funny Cars appears on 'Bucky Fellini'

27. In the song "Bad Party," what television show do the guests talk about?

From Quiz The Dead Milkmen

Answer: East Enders

"Gonna shoot somebody if they don't stop talking about 'East Enders,'" the singer warns. He also threatens to "shoot the stereo if they don't start playing my kind of music!" "Bad Party" was on the album "Beelzebubba."

28. From that same song, whom does the woman say she met at a 'really chic party'?

From Quiz Dead Milkmen Songs

Answer: Andy Warhol

'Blow it out your hairdo, cause you work at Hardee's!' That classic is both an EP and a cut from 1987's 'Bucky Fellini'.

29. How much did the girl pay for her car?

From Quiz Punk Rock Girl

Answer: 0 & $0 & zero & nothing & nil & $0.00 & nothing man

'We got into her car, away we started rollin'. I said, 'How much you pay for this?' She said, 'Nothing man, it's stolen.'

30. On the cd 'Metaphysical Graffiti', what religious coloring book does the singer have?

From Quiz Dead Milkmen songs!

Answer: Methodist

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