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Sisters Of Mercy Trivia

Sisters Of Mercy Trivia Quizzes

3 quizzes and 45 trivia questions.

For Ultimate Sisters Of Mercy Fans popular trivia quiz

Multiple Choice

20 Qns

As a long time fan of this magnificent band, I couldn't resist the temptation to make a quiz about them. I hope people who know them briefly will learn a lot from this. For the real fans there might be some things they've already forgotten. Enjoy.

Tough, 20 Qns, wimm, Mar 15 06

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wimm
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For Sisters Of Mercy Diehards

Multiple Choice

10 Qns

This is a short quiz about my all-time favourite band. For the diehard fans, this should be a piece of cake! Enjoy.

Tough, 10 Qns, wimm, Mar 15 06

Tough
wimm
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The Sisters Of Mercy

Multiple Choice

15 Qns

A quiz on one of my favourite bands, there are a few trivia questions and some lyric ones too, I give you the lyric, you give me the song !!!, enjoy.

Average, 15 Qns, Muskrat, Nov 03 01

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Sisters Of Mercy Trivia Questions

1. In which city was the band formed ?

From Quiz The Sisters Of Mercy

Answer: Leeds

Also the birth place of The Mission.

2. Tour names - Can you give me the name of the Sisters of Mercy Tour from 2000?

From Quiz For Sisters Of Mercy Diehards

Answer: 'Trip the Light Fantastic'

All these are Tour names. 'Tune in, ...' is from 1985, 'Distance...' is from 1997 and 'To the Planet...' is from 1999.

3. Just before the first big split of the Sisters of Mercy, they were busy recording a new record as a follow-up to the album 'First and Last and Always'. Can you give me the name of this album (the working title) that was never finished and released ?

From Quiz For Ultimate Sisters Of Mercy Fans

Answer: Left On Mission and Revenge

Sources believe that is where Wayne Hussey got the name of his new band the Mission ...

4. Who is the lead singer of The Sisters Of Mercy ?

From Quiz The Sisters Of Mercy

Answer: Andrew Eldritch

'Singing drummers I hate them.'

5. Lyrics anyone? We'll start of with an easy one: 'In a sea of faces, in a sea of doubt. In this cruel place your voice above the maelstrom...' is the opening line from which song?

From Quiz For Sisters Of Mercy Diehards

Answer: 'Marian'

In this song, singer Andrew Eldritch shows he's a polyglot by singing part of the song in German. Who is this girl anyway, she has made a huge impact on him, that's for sure...

6. From which song is 'I don't sleep, so I don't dream, so I don't wake up frightened' a fragment?

From Quiz For Ultimate Sisters Of Mercy Fans

Answer: On the Wire

7. What was the name of The Sisters Of Mercy's First album ?

From Quiz The Sisters Of Mercy

Answer: 'First And last And Always'

Originally titled 'Black October'

8. Lyrics: a bit tougher. From which song is this chorus: 'See them shimmy see them go. See their painted faces glow. Slow slow quick quick slow. See those pagans go go go '?

From Quiz For Sisters Of Mercy Diehards

Answer: 'Floorshow'

I love the little dance instruction, seems someone is waltzing away here :-)

9. From which band did Wayne Hussey join The Sisters Of Mercy ?

From Quiz The Sisters Of Mercy

Answer: Dead Or Alive

'You spin me right round baby, right round. like a record baby !!!'

10. Cover versions. On the 'Temple Of Love' 12-inch appeared 'Gimme Shelter'. Who were the original performers of this song?

From Quiz For Sisters Of Mercy Diehards

Answer: The Rolling Stones & Rolling Stones

Allthough they changed the lyrics very slightly. In the original sentence 'love's just a kiss away and war is just a shot away' the position of the words 'love' and 'war' are changed.

11. On the 'Exxile on Euphoria' tour through Europe they used metal band Paradise Lost as a support act. This band has made a cover version of a Sisters song - do you know which song?

From Quiz For Ultimate Sisters Of Mercy Fans

Answer: Walk Away

It appeared in 1995 on the 'The Last Time' single, but I found it on A Limited Edition Commemorative Tour Pack (CD 'Draconian Times' and a bonus CD)...

12. Cover versions, but a bit tougher. The tour of 1997 saw the birth of a new cover version. This time a song from Kylie Minogue was brilliantly sung by the Sisters Of Mercy, much to the delight of the audiences. Name of the song?

From Quiz For Sisters Of Mercy Diehards

Answer: 'Confide in Me'

Maybe you guessed 'The Wild Rose'? This was a duet of Kylie with Nick Cave and also a quite nice song...

13. 'She got red eyes, She wear dust, I went over, over, over, I went bust.'

From Quiz The Sisters Of Mercy

Answer: 'Kiss The Carpet'

'Next time I'll look before I, Kiss the carpet.'

14. In 1985 they split at the end of the 'Tune in, Turn on, Burn out' tour. Their last concert was in London on 18 June 1985, do you know where ?

From Quiz For Sisters Of Mercy Diehards

Answer: The Royal Albert Hall

Actually all these places are in London and they've played them all. The last concert appeared also on a video named 'Wake' and is brilliant.

15. 'With the fire from the fireworks up above, With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain at hand.'

From Quiz The Sisters Of Mercy

Answer: 'Temple Of Love'

My favorite, an all time classic !!!

16. Another lyric anyone? 'You say stay and never leave, you say meant for ever. I could believe you but I don't' is the opening of which song?

From Quiz For Sisters Of Mercy Diehards

Answer: 'I Was Wrong'

17. Which Hot Chocolate song was recorded on 'The John Peel Radio Session' in 1984?

From Quiz For Ultimate Sisters Of Mercy Fans

Answer: Emma

Brilliant version! It became eventually a bonus track on the 'Dominion' 12 inch single.

18. 'A long train held up by page on page, a hard reign held up by rage.'

From Quiz The Sisters Of Mercy

Answer: 'Lucretia My Reflection'

'I hear the sons of the city and dispossesed.'

19. When they were recording the 'Vision Thing' album, Andrew lived in Hamburg, Germany. It must have been in 'the reeperbahn', a well known street due to the prostitutes. How many of them lived in the house next door to him?

From Quiz For Sisters Of Mercy Diehards

Answer: 25 & twenty-five & twenty five

The opening line from the song 'Vision Thing' reads: 'Twenty-five whores in the room next door'...

20. From which song is 'all of my words are secondhand and useless in the face of this. Rationale and rhyme and reason pale beside a single kiss' an extract?

From Quiz For Ultimate Sisters Of Mercy Fans

Answer: Some Kind Of Stranger

Undoubtably their most epic song to date...

21. 'See a body and dream of the dead days, following lost and blind.'

From Quiz The Sisters Of Mercy

Answer: 'First And Last And Always'

22. Which was the first single taken from the album 'Vision Thing'?

From Quiz For Sisters Of Mercy Diehards

Answer: 'More'

A very nice video was shot, the backing vocals were very cute with their masks on :-)

23. 'Call it superstition, followed and fell, under the falling, under the spell.'

From Quiz The Sisters Of Mercy

Answer: 'Bury Me Deep'

Such a happy little tune !!!

24. Back to 1985, when the 'big divorce' was done. Which song is the only song that wasn't originally written for the Sisters of Mercy by Wayne Hussey - all these songs appeared on later albums of the Mission?

From Quiz For Ultimate Sisters Of Mercy Fans

Answer: Wasteland

The three other songs can be found on various Sisters' bootlegs.

25. 'In a sea of faces, In a sea of doubt, In this cruel place, Your voice above the maelstrom.'

From Quiz The Sisters Of Mercy

Answer: 'Marian'

Another Fav !!!

26. Prior to the 'Hussey-incident', guitarist Gary Marx left and founded a new band together with singer Anne-Marie. The name of the band?

From Quiz For Ultimate Sisters Of Mercy Fans

Answer: Ghostdance

I know of one full CD 'Stop the World', which actually is not bad at all.

27. 'I tried to tell her about Marx and Engels, God and Angels, I don't really know what for.'

From Quiz The Sisters Of Mercy

Answer: 'Ribbons'

'Incoming !!!!'

28. 'Gimme siren child and do you hear me call, Sing child of right and wrong, Gimme things that don't last long.'

From Quiz The Sisters Of Mercy

Answer: 'This Corrosion'

29. The name of the tour from 1998 was, as usual, one with a deeper meaning. This time it meant the same as the position in a black hole from which light cannot escape anymore. Do you know the name?

From Quiz For Ultimate Sisters Of Mercy Fans

Answer: Event Horizon

The singularity constitutes the centre of a black hole and is hidden by the object's 'surface,' the event horizon. Inside the event horizon the escape velocity (i.e., the velocity required for matter to escape from the gravitational field of a cosmic object) exceeds the speed of light, so that not even rays of light can escape into space.

30. 'Living as a angel in the place that I was born, Living on air, Living in heaven.'

From Quiz The Sisters Of Mercy

Answer: '1959'

'It feels like meat again !!!!'

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