Climb Every Mountain Trivia Quiz

Answer: Mel Torme

The song was written by Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart for the second of three revues called 'The Garrick Gaieties'. The first of these revues was in 1925 and included the song 'Manhattan'. 'Mountain Greenery' appeared in 1926.

Mel Torme was nicknamed 'The Velvet Fog', and was primarily a jazz singer. He also co-wrote 'The Christmas Song' (also known as 'Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire') with Bob Wells, which was originally recorded by Nat King Cole.

Answer: Whenever, Wherever

Shakira is from Colombia and had some success on the US Latin charts with recordings in Spanish. In 2001, she released the album 'Laundry Service', her first to include songs in English. 'Whenever, Wherever' reached number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the USA and number one on the US Latin charts.

It reached number 2 on the UK singles chart and number one in several countries, including Germany, Italy and Spain. The lyrics also include another reference to mountains, but the ones quoted are more suitable for a family site.

Answer: The Kingston Trio

The Kingston Trio formed in San Francisco in the late 1950s and had their biggest hit with 'Tom Dooley', which reached number one on the Hot 100 Billboard chart in the USA and number 5 on the UK Singles chart in 1958. The lyrics to 'The Mountains of Mourne' were written in 1896 by Percy French and take the form of an Irishman in London writing to his sweetheart back home.

He refers to the mountains 'sweeping down to the sea'. The mountains themselves are situated in County Down, in Northern Ireland.

Answer: Tammi Terrell

Tammi Terrell duetted on three albums with Marvin Gaye, 'United' in 1967, 'You're All I Need' from 1967 and 'Easy' in 1969. Two compilation albums have also been released. Sadly, Tammi died from a malignant brain tumour in 1970 at the age of only twenty-four. 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough' was written by husband and wife team Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, and Simpson did some vocals on the 'Easy' album when Tammi was too ill to continue. Marvin Gaye sang with Mary Wells on a 1964 single 'Once Upon a Time' which was a minor hit in the UK and USA and with Kim Weston on 'It Takes Two' in 1965.

Answer: Kilimanjaro

The song was 'Africa' but to include that would have been a complete giveaway. It was from their 1982 album 'Toto IV' and reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number three on the UK Singles chart. It was written by two of the band members, David Paich and Jeff Porcaro and includes the words 'as sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti'. Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa, McKinley is the highest in North America, Kosciusko is the highest in Australia and Mont Blanc the highest in Western Europe.

Answer: Neil Young

The song was written by Young in 1964 and laments being too old to join his younger friends in a club. According to Wikipedia, Joni Mitchell described it as 'a lament for lost youth' - Young was all of nineteen at the time. Fortunately, he decided that life did still have something to offer and he went on to form Buffalo Springfield, become part of the supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, and have a successful solo career.

Answer: Pete Seeger

Pete Seeger and the other members of The Weavers were among many of the people to suffer blacklisting during the McCarthy years, when anti-communist fears were at their height. Seeger survived this period and came back to prominence in the early 1960s.

He wrote, or co-authored, 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone?', 'Turn, Turn, Turn' and 'If I Had a Hammer' among others. 'On Top of Old Smoky' reached number two on the Billboard charts in 1951, but did not chart in the UK. The song is a traditional folk song, which Seeger arranged, although the mountain it refers to cannot be identified with any certainty.

Answer: Elvis Presley

The song reached number four on the UK Singles chart, as well as reaching the charts of several European countries including Finland and Italy. The song is addressed to Elvis Presley, and includes the lyrics 'Elvis are you out there somewhere; looking like a happy man?; in the snow with Rosebud; and king of the mountain'. The title probably gave this one away!

Answer: Love

This was 'Love on a Mountain Top', which includes the lyrics 'Making love on a mountain; drinking love from a fountain'. Robert Knight's version reached number 10 in the UK, but does not appear to have made the charts in the USA. He did rather better in the US with 'Everlasting Love', which reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1967.

The song was covered in the UK by Love Affair, who reached number one with it in 1968. Sinitta's version of 'Love on a Mountain Top' reached number 20.

Answer: U2

These are the opening lines of 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For', which was on U2's album 'The Joshua Tree'. The single reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in the USA and number six on the UK Singles chart. The band is one of the most successful bands of all time. The other options are also bands from Ireland.