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A Buffet of Buffett Songs Trivia Quiz

"It's not nice to beat Jimmy to the words of his own songs"- Jimmy Buffett. For all of you who like to beat him anyway, see if you can name the songs to which these lyrics belong.

A multiple-choice quiz by Limelover. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
Limelover

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
135,708

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
25

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
14 / 25

Plays
1828

Awards
Top 20% Quiz

Last 3 plays: Guest 174 (22/25), Guest 162 (16/25), Guest 23 (12/25).

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Question 1 of 25

1. "Nothing can tear you apart if you keep living straight from the heart." Hint

Bring Back the Magic

Love and Luck

Knees of My Heart

Little Miss Magic

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Question 2 of 25

2. "My twain of thought is loosely bound." Hint

Railroad Lady

Boat Drinks

Where's the Party

That's What Living is to Me

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Question 3 of 25

3. "They only see the islands from a tacky cruise ship." Hint

Steamer

Dreamsicle

Fins

Morris' Nightmare

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Question 4 of 25

4. "Girl of a thousand faces from a long line of basket cases." Hint

Desdemona's Building a Rocket Ship

Changing Channels

They Don't Dance Like Carmen No More

Little Miss Magic

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Question 5 of 25

5. "It was a pleasure and a hell of an evening." Hint

Tampico Trauma

Flesh and Bone

Stories We Could Tell

African Friend

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Question 6 of 25

6. "Running up and down the aisles of the mini-mart sticking food in our jeans." Hint

Cheeseburger in Paradise

Last Mango in Paris

I Will Play for Gumbo

Peanut Butter Conspiracy

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Question 7 of 25

7. "Twenty two years in societies plan was canceled with a swing of her dear mother's hand." Hint

In the Shelter

We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us About

West Nashville Grand Ballroom Gown

California Promises

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Question 8 of 25

8. "Sliding and gliding cross hardwood waxed floors." Hint

Nautical Wheelers

Gypsies in the Palace

They Don't Dance Like Carmen No More

La Vie Dansante

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Question 9 of 25

9. "Sometimes I kind of get real ill when I receive my monthly telephone bill." Hint

Survive

Coconut Telegraph

Meet Me in Memphis

The Last Line

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Question 10 of 25

10. "Feels like we're the only ones to see the morning come." Hint

King of Somewhere Hot

Ragtop Day

First Look

Migration

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Question 11 of 25

11. "It's time to see the world, time to kiss some girls." Hint

The Weather is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful

Pascagoula Run

Fruitcakes

Frank and Lola

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Question 12 of 25

12. "Sun, sea and stars and warm breezes all year." Hint

One Particular Harbor

Banana Republics

Up on the Hill

Island

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Question 13 of 25

13. "Oh the life of a sailor steers a wondering course." Hint

Mermaid in the Night

Jolly Mon Sing

False Echos

A Pirate Looks at Forty

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Question 14 of 25

14. "Let's all take our clothes off and form a conga line." Hint

Why Don't We Get Drunk

Fruitcakes

Gypsies in the Palace

Everlasting Moon

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Question 15 of 25

15. "I'm a one man band with no immediate plans." Hint

Twelve Volt Man

Ballad of Spider John

Strange Bird

Tonight I Just Need My Guitar

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Question 16 of 25

16. "I never wanted to be a man of mystery." Hint

Son of a Son of a Sailor

Burn that Bridge

Cowboy in the Jungle

If It All Falls Down

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Question 17 of 25

17. "The beautiful people in the magazines got the normal ones living beyond their means." Hint

Who's the Blonde Stranger

Treat Her Like a Lady

The City

Lip Service

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Question 18 of 25

18. "I need protection from the things in my head." Hint

Vampires, Mummies and the Holy Ghost

Homemade Music

Please Bypass This Heart

Landfall

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Question 19 of 25

19. "Santa's stressed out as the holiday season draws near." Hint

Christmas in the Caribbean

Ho Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum

Christmas Island

A Sailor's Christmas

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Question 20 of 25

20. "It was too much tequila or not quite enough." Hint

Semi-true Story

Boat Drinks

Margaritaville

God's Own Drunk

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Question 21 of 25

21. "Spilling wine and sharing good times." Hint

The Wino and I Know

Havana Daydreaming

Love in Decline

When the Wild Life Betrays Me

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Question 22 of 25

22. "He'd race for his true love and easily win it in an old spinach can with a mast stuck in it." Hint

Remittance Man

He Went to Paris

Take it Back

Distantly in Love

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Question 23 of 25

23. "I went down to Captain Tony's to get out of the heat." Hint

Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes

Last Mango in Paris

It's Midnight and I'm Not Famous Yet

Holiday

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Question 24 of 25

24. "A frog in a coconut tree." Hint

Chanson Pour Le Petits Enfants

Coconut Telegraph

Caribbean Amphibian

Barefoot Children in the Rain

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Question 25 of 25

25. "You know that you cannot trust them, cause they know they can't trust you." Hint

Sunny Afternoon

Gypsies in the Palace

Treetop Flyer

Banana Republics

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. "Nothing can tear you apart if you keep living straight from the heart."

Answer: Bring Back the Magic

"Bring Back the Magic" is a duet with Rita Coolidge from the album "Hot Water."

2. "My twain of thought is loosely bound."

Answer: That's What Living is to Me

This line is a reference to Mark Twain. In the introduction to this song Buffett says, "Back toward the turn of the century Mark Twain took a trip around the world on a steam ship and he wrote a book called 'Following the Equator' and the opening page has a dedication that says, 'Be good and you will be lonesome,' which for me still seems to work in the fabulous eighties."

3. "They only see the islands from a tacky cruise ship."

Answer: Morris' Nightmare

Deborah McColl plays the annoying wife in this picture of tourist life in Florida. "This is an island? This is a resort? It's a swamp! It's full of mesquitos. Why couldn't we go someplace nice like Sea World? Tony Orlando's playing in Miami. Morris are you listening to me?"

4. "Girl of a thousand faces from a long line of basket cases."

Answer: Changing Channels

This song was inspired by a character in Buffett's short story called "I Wish Lunch Could Last Forever", which is found in the book "Tales from Margaritaville."

5. "It was a pleasure and a hell of an evening."

Answer: African Friend

"African Friend" was written after Buffett spent a wild night in the casinos of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

6. "Running up and down the aisles of the mini-mart sticking food in our jeans."

Answer: Peanut Butter Conspiracy

Buffett says he never did pay the mini-mart back like he said he would in the lyrics to this song.

7. "Twenty two years in societies plan was canceled with a swing of her dear mother's hand."

Answer: West Nashville Grand Ballroom Gown

"West Nashville Grand Ballroom Gown" is the only song on the album "Living and Dying in 3/4 Time" that is actually written in 3/4 time.

8. "Sliding and gliding cross hardwood waxed floors."

Answer: They Don't Dance Like Carmen No More

Carmen Miranda was a Brazilian musician who came to the United States in the early 1940's. She was most famous for dancing and singing while wearing a hat piled high with tropical fruit.

9. "Sometimes I kind of get real ill when I receive my monthly telephone bill."

Answer: Survive

Buffett knows a little bit about survival, including a seaplane crash in 1994.

10. "Feels like we're the only ones to see the morning come."

Answer: Ragtop Day

"I just don't think cars look right with tops on them," Jimmy Buffett.

11. "It's time to see the world, time to kiss some girls."

Answer: Pascagoula Run

"Pascagoula Run" was written about a trip to New Orleans with Uncle Billy Buffett.

12. "Sun, sea and stars and warm breezes all year."

Answer: Up on the Hill

"Up on the Hill" is part of the musical version of Herman Wouk's novel, "Don't Stop the Carnival."

13. "Oh the life of a sailor steers a wondering course."

Answer: False Echos

The song "False Echos" was written as a tribute to Buffett's father, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1995 and passed away in 2003.

14. "Let's all take our clothes off and form a conga line."

Answer: Gypsies in the Palace

Buffett says the inspiration for this song came after coming home from being on tour and finding that his house had been trashed by the people he hired to take care of the place while he was gone.

15. "I'm a one man band with no immediate plans."

Answer: Tonight I Just Need My Guitar

The Martin Guitar Company has produced three special edition guitars in collaboration with Buffett.

16. "I never wanted to be a man of mystery."

Answer: If It All Falls Down

This line goes on to mention James Joyce and Agatha Christie, two well-known mystery writers.

17. "The beautiful people in the magazines got the normal ones living beyond their means."

Answer: The City

This song by Mac McAnally is found on the live album "Feeding Frenzy" and is also used in a music video featuring some of Buffett's favorite places to stop on tour in the video "Tales from Margaritavision."

18. "I need protection from the things in my head."

Answer: Vampires, Mummies and the Holy Ghost

"Vampires, Mummies, and the Holy Ghost" was released on the album "Fruitcakes" as a somewhat tongue-in-cheek reference to his Catholic upbringing.

19. "Santa's stressed out as the holiday season draws near."

Answer: Ho Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum

Buffett was born on December 25th, 1946, so he decided to make a Christmas album in 1996 to mark the occasion of his fiftieth birthday.

20. "It was too much tequila or not quite enough."

Answer: Semi-true Story

Music isn't all Jimmy's into these days. He also has a chain of Margaritaville restaurants, Margaritaville Tequila, and even Margaritaville frozen shrimp.

21. "Spilling wine and sharing good times."

Answer: Havana Daydreaming

Buffett says his inspiration for this song came from reading "Far Tortuga" by Peter Mathissen.

22. "He'd race for his true love and easily win it in an old spinach can with a mast stuck in it."

Answer: Take it Back

Buffett wrote this song for the 1987 America's Cup sailing competition. That year the American boat "Stars and Stripes" took back the cup from the Australian boat ""Kookaburra III".

23. "I went down to Captain Tony's to get out of the heat."

Answer: Last Mango in Paris

This song refers to Capt. Tony's Saloon in Key West, Florida.

24. "A frog in a coconut tree."

Answer: Caribbean Amphibian

"Caribbean Amphibian" was a duet with Kermit the Frog on the 1998 release "Elmopalooza", which featured popular musicians singing with popular characters from Sesame Street and the Muppet Show.

25. "You know that you cannot trust them, cause they know they can't trust you."

Answer: Banana Republics

"Banana Republics" was written by singer/songwriter Steve Goodman, who Buffett befriended in his early days playing at the Quiet Night in Chicago.

Source: Author Limelover

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