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Quiz about Hard Rock First Verses 1960s80s

Hard Rock First Verses (1960s-80s) Quiz

I'm KingAdaQuotes, your DJ here at K-RAQ with the first verse from ten classic hard rock songs in a row - with no commercial interruptions. See if you can tell me the line-up. From the only station that really rocks...K-RAQ!

A multiple-choice quiz by KingAdaQuotes. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
KingAdaQuotes

Time
5 mins

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Multiple Choice

Quiz #
187,486

Updated
Dec 03 21

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10

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Question 1 of 10

1. What 1960s-era song are the following lyrics from?
"The desert couldn't hold all the love that I have in my heart for you
If I could spread it out across the sea you know my love would cover it all up" Hint

Taj Mahal - "Ain't That A Lot Of Love"

Cream - "Sunshine Of Your Love"

Jimi Hendrix - "Voodoo Child"

Rolling Stones - "Monkey Man"

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Question 2 of 10

2. What 1980s-era song are the following lyrics from?
"Somewhere a clock strikes midnight
And there's a full moon in the sky
You hear a dog bark in the distance
You hear someone's baby cry" Hint

Judas Priest - "The Green Manalishi (With A Two-Pronged Crown)"

AC/DC - "Night Prowler"

Deep Purple - "Sweet Child In Time"

Iron Butterfly - "Inna Gadda Da Vida"

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Question 3 of 10

3. What 1970s-era song are the following lyrics from?
"Feelin' down and dirty
Feelin' kind of mean
I've been from one to another extreme" Hint

Foreigner - 'Double Vision"

Bad Company - "Bad Company"

Free - "I'm All Right"

Aerosmith - "Dream On"

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Question 4 of 10

4. What 1970s-era song are the following lyrics from?
"He was a hard-headed man
He was brutally handsome
She was terminally pretty
She held him up and he held her for ransom
In the heart of the cold, cold city" Hint

Bachman-Turner-Overdrive - "Takin' Care of Business"

AC/DC - "Whole Lotta Rosie"

Billy Joel - "The Stranger"

The Eagles - "Life In The Fast Lane"

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Question 5 of 10

5. What 1980s-era song are the following lyrics from?
"People of the earth can you hear me?
Came a voice from the sky on that magical night
And in the colors of a thousand sunsets
They travelled to the world on a silverly light" Hint

Styx - "Come Sail Away"

David Bowie - "Ziggy Stardust"

Billy Squier - "The Stroke"

Billy Thorpe - "Children Of The Sun"

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Question 6 of 10

6. What 1980s-era song are the following lyrics from?
"Raindrops falling
Winter feels so gloomy
Hear a knock upon my door
Familiar stranger
Eyes that look like mine
Says you know I called before" Hint

Jefferson Starship - "Stranger"

Billy Joel - "The Stranger"

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - "Refugee"

Whitesnake - "Love Ain't No Stranger"

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Question 7 of 10

7. What 1970s-era song are the following lyrics from?
"Met a girl called Lola
And I took her back to my place
Feelin' guilty
Feelin' scared
Hidden cameras everywhere" Hint

Rod Stewart - "You're My Girl (That's The Way It Is)"

The Kinks - "Lola"

The Kinks - "Destroyer"

The Who - "Baba O' Reilly"

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Question 8 of 10

8. What 1970s-era song are the following lyrics from?
"Heartbreaker
Soul shaker
I've been told about you
Seeker of a midnight shoulder
What they been sayin' must be true" Hint

Nazareth - "Hair of the Dog"

AC/DC - "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"

Led Zeppelin - "Heartbreaker"

ZZ Top - "Tubesnake Boogie"

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Question 9 of 10

9. What 1980s-era song are the following lyrics from?
"You love her
But she loves him
And he loves somebody else
You just can't win" Hint

J. Geils Band - "Love Stinks"

Billy Squier - "Emotions In Motion"

AC/DC - "Shot Down In Flames"

Iron Maiden - "Run To The Hills"

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Question 10 of 10

10. What 1980s-era song are the following lyrics from?
"Step right up
And don't be shy
'Cause you will not believe your eyes
She's right here
Behind the glass
You're gonna like her
'Cause she's got class" Hint

Cheap Trick - "Surrender"

Ted Nugent - "Cat Scratch Fever"

Santana - "Black Magic Woman"

The Tubes - "She's A Beauty"

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What 1960s-era song are the following lyrics from? "The desert couldn't hold all the love that I have in my heart for you If I could spread it out across the sea you know my love would cover it all up"

Answer: Taj Mahal - "Ain't That A Lot Of Love"

Taj Mahal performs a blistering live version of this song on "The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus", a show filmed in a huge tent with real circus performers for the BBC in 1968. Apparently, Mick and the Stones didn't like their performance (which is, along with those of all the other groups performing -- The Who, Jethro Tull, John Lennon's The Dirty Mac Band -- flawless) so they shelved it for 25 years!

2. What 1980s-era song are the following lyrics from? "Somewhere a clock strikes midnight And there's a full moon in the sky You hear a dog bark in the distance You hear someone's baby cry"

Answer: AC/DC - "Night Prowler"

This song, which inspired serial killer Richard Ramirez, appears on "Highway to Hell", the last album with singer Bon Scott before his untimely death.

3. What 1970s-era song are the following lyrics from? "Feelin' down and dirty Feelin' kind of mean I've been from one to another extreme"

Answer: Foreigner - 'Double Vision"

From the best-selling album of 1978 of the same name, Foreigner also scored with high-octane "Hot Blooded" and the melodic "Blue Morning, Blue Day".

4. What 1970s-era song are the following lyrics from? "He was a hard-headed man He was brutally handsome She was terminally pretty She held him up and he held her for ransom In the heart of the cold, cold city"

Answer: The Eagles - "Life In The Fast Lane"

This "driving" rocker from "Hotel California" chronicles the excesses of a hard-partying young couple caught in the "fast lane" of the Hollywood scene (and not two people who were always driving, as I thought when I was growing up).

5. What 1980s-era song are the following lyrics from? "People of the earth can you hear me? Came a voice from the sky on that magical night And in the colors of a thousand sunsets They travelled to the world on a silverly light"

Answer: Billy Thorpe - "Children Of The Sun"

The wonderful one-hit from Aussie Billy Thorpe who, according to singer-songwriter Thorpe, conceived the entire album as a sort of space opera.

6. What 1980s-era song are the following lyrics from? "Raindrops falling Winter feels so gloomy Hear a knock upon my door Familiar stranger Eyes that look like mine Says you know I called before"

Answer: Jefferson Starship - "Stranger"

Jefferson Airplane soared to new heights with "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit". As its members and famous name dwindled away they plunged to, arguably, new lows under the name Starship, recorded the likes of "We Built This City (On Rock and Roll)" and the soundtrack for "Manneqiun 2". Returning in the mid-eighties Grace Slick joined singer Mickey Thomas, along with founding members Paul Kantner and Marty Balin, to sing on their triumphant come-back record, "Modern Times".

7. What 1970s-era song are the following lyrics from? "Met a girl called Lola And I took her back to my place Feelin' guilty Feelin' scared Hidden cameras everywhere"

Answer: The Kinks - "Destroyer"

The Kinks followed their tongue-in-cheek classic song about the "walked like a woman but talked like a man...Lola", with an even funkier and tongue-further-in-cheek "Destroyer", where paranoia becomes Ray Davies' "deep destroyer".

8. What 1970s-era song are the following lyrics from? "Heartbreaker Soul shaker I've been told about you Seeker of a midnight shoulder What they been sayin' must be true"

Answer: Nazareth - "Hair of the Dog"

One of the classic songs of the hard rock '70s, this, Nazareth's best known song, is often called by it's rousing off-color chorus.

9. What 1980s-era song are the following lyrics from? "You love her But she loves him And he loves somebody else You just can't win"

Answer: J. Geils Band - "Love Stinks"

Peter Wolfe, singer for the J. Geils Band, reportedly wrote this song about his bitter break-up with actress Faye Dunaway!

10. What 1980s-era song are the following lyrics from? "Step right up And don't be shy 'Cause you will not believe your eyes She's right here Behind the glass You're gonna like her 'Cause she's got class"

Answer: The Tubes - "She's A Beauty"

The Tubes began their career in the seventies as a punk/new wave-type band but found their first radio hit in the early eighties with this song from their album "Outside/Inside". They found further notoriety when censors at MTV nearly banned their racy video for "She's A Beauty", airing it only after some strategic digital blurring concealed the objectionable content.

Source: Author KingAdaQuotes

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