Computers and Related Parts in Songs Quiz

Answer: Silicon Chip

The first verse of the song "I Don't Like Mondays" begins with the lyric, "The Silicon Chip inside her head was switched to overload." The single reached the number one position on the UK singles chart in 1979, but only reached a lowly position of 73 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was written by Bob Geldof and was the bands second number one hit in the UK.

Answer: Drive

"Drive" was released in 1984. The single reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and peaked at number five on the UK singles chart (1985). The Cars were an American rock band, formed in the mid 70s. Members of the band at that time were, Ric Ocasek, Benjamin Orr, Elliot Easton, Greg Hawkes and David Robinson.

Answer: Modest Mouse

Founding members of Modest Mouse are Isaac Brock, Jeremiah Green and Eric Judy. The bands first full debut album was called "This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About" released in 1996. The bands fifth album "We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank" has so far been the most successful for the band, reaching number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 and stalling at number 47 on the UK Album Charts.

A new face in the band was the ex Smiths guitarist, Johnny Marr.

Answer: Connection

"The Trinity" is the third album by Sean Paul, released on September 27, 2005 (U.S.) The album reached number seven on the U.S. Billboard 200. The first single released from the album was "We Be Burnin'"; the song peaked in at number six on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and stalled at number two on the UK singles chart.

The Pussycat Dolls single "Don't Cha" stopped "We Be Burnin'" stopped the single from being a number one hit for Sean Paul.

Answer: Spider's Web

Katie Melua is a Georgian-British singer, songwriter and musician. Katie was born in Georgian SSR, and moved to Northern Ireland when she was a young girl. At the age of fourteen she then moved to England. Katie Melua released her first album in 2003, titled "Call off the Search." The album was number one on the UK Album Chart and only reached number 161 on the U.S. Billboard 200, although it did reach the number seven position on the U.S. Billboard Top Heatseekers (U.S.)

Answer: Memory

Other tracks from the album include "I Wanna Do It With You", "Here Comes The Night", "Let's Get On With It" and "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter".

Answer: Apple

Apple Records were formed in 1968 by The Beatles as a division of Apple Corps Ltd. The distributors were EMI/Capitol Records until 1975. Apple Inc, formerly Apple Computer, Inc, Is an American manufacturing consumer electronics company. The Macintosh, iPod and iPhone are all made by Apple. Apple's software includes the Mac OS X operating system and the iTunes media browser. Between 1978 and 2006 there were a number of legal disputes over the trademark rights.

The dispute came to an end on 5 February, 2007.

Answer: Yes

Scanner was formed in 1986. The first album by the band was "Hypertrace" released in 1988. "Hypertrace" is a science fiction story on vinyl, rather than a book; with great music tracks.
Their second album was "Terminal Earth" (1989) followed by "Mental Reservation" (1995), "Ball of The Damned" (1997) and Scantropolis (2002) Axel A.J. Julius is the only original band member left.

Answer: Notebook

Members of the band are as follows, Ella Hooper, Jesse Hooper, Adam Pedretti and
Warren Jenkin.

Answer: Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk are a German band formed in 1970, by Florian Schneider and Ralf Hütter.
The album "Computer World" was released in 1981. It was the bands eighth album. Tracks from the album include "Computer World", "Computer Love" and "Home Computer." The whole album is about the rise of computers within society. In 1981 MS-DOS 1.0 was released in August. IBM joins the computer race by introducing IBM Personal Computer, which runs the new MS-DOS operating system. Logitech is founded in Apples, Switzerland. And one for the record, in 1982 Peter Norton creates Norton Utilities.

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