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1. Sting loves the mythical and metaphysical (if you took my BtL V quiz, you would know that!). In "Wrapped Around Your Finger," the Police sing, "Mephistopheles is not your name/ But I know what you're up to just the same." Mephistopheles is another name for Satan (though some say he is one of Satan's demons). Who wrote the quintessential play about Mephistopheles?
2. Frank Zappa spoofed California living in the 80's with his hit "Valley Girl," but who played the male lead in the 1983 movie of the same name?
3. Bananarama sings, "Goddess on the mountaintop/ Burning like a silver flame/ The summit of beauty and love/ And Venus was her name." Well, Venus was her Roman name, but what was her Greek name?
4. The Church sang, "I got no time for private consultation/Under the Milky Way tonight." Yet if they were to consult an astronomer, they would know that the galaxy nearest the Milky Way is ____________________.
5. Eddie Money (the former policeman turned rocker) sings, "Take me home tonight/ Listen honey/ Just like Ronnie says/ Be my little baby." Who is Ronnie's famous ex-husband?
6. The Clash mentions a country song in their "Train in Vain." Who sang the country classic alluded to in the lyrics, "Say you stand by your man/ Tell me something I don't understand/ You said you love me and that's a fact/ Then you left me, said you felt trapped."
7. John Parr rode the coattails of the Brat Pack and had a hit with "St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)" from the movie of the same name. "Gonna be your man in motion, all I need is a pair of wheels/ Take me where my future's lyin', St. Elmo's Fire." Of whom is St. Elmo the patron saint?
8. John Lennon, the master of allusion, sang in a 1982 hit, "Everybody's runnin' and no one makes a move/ Everyone's a winner and nothing left to lose/ There's a little yellow idol to the north of Katmandu." Who wrote the poem about the little yellow idol?
9. Bob Seger's "Shame on the Moon" contains the lyrics, "But once inside a woman's heart/ A man must keep his head/ Heaven opens up the door/ Where angels fear to tread." Who wrote the original line about angels fearing to tread?
10. The Clash sings, "Esta undecision me molesta/ Si no me quieres, librame." Of course, that's not in English. What do these lines mean in The Clash's native tongue?
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