Holy Smokes It's Gin Wigmore Online Quiz | Music

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1. "I've had _____ years in heaven but ____ weeks in hell. Where do I go now" What are the words in the blanks from Gin Wigmore's "Oh My" single off her debut full length album "Holy Smoke"?

Answer: two, five

Virginia Claire Wigmore was born in Auckland, New Zealand on June 6, 1986 and has two siblings. One is a brother Olly. The other is her sister Lucy Wigmore who is an actress known for her work on New Zealand soap opera "Shortland Street" as Dr. Justine Jones. Lucy Wigmore was also in the Australian series "Underbelly: Razor" as one of Australia's first policewomen Lillian May Armfield.

2. Gin Wigmore's 2003 song "Hallelujah" is in praise of her then recently passed father. Which word fills in the blank from these lyrics? "I wont let you ___ from no minds"?

Answer: fade

Gin Wigmore's sister Lucy submitted her 2003 song "Hallelujah" into the 2004 International Song Writing Competition which Ms. Wigmore won beating out eleven thousand people from seventy-seven countries. This song was in praise of her father who had recently died of cancer. Gin Wigmore had wanted to keep the song a private family celebration of Lucy, older brother Olly, and Gin's father, but Lucy wanted to share it with others as well.

The song "Hellelujah" is featured in the sixth Season finale of the American show "One Tree Hill."

3. Gin Wigmore plays what instrument on rocks near the sea while singing her song "I Do" under an archway reading "Holy Smoke?"

Answer: ukulele

The 1999 Rugrats episode "I Do" is referenced by Gin Wigmore's video of her song "I Do" in which a merman seems lulled by Gin Wigmore's ukulele playing. "I Do" is from the Wigmore full length album debut "Holy Smoke" which came out on September 25, 2009 in New Zealand and was produced by Mike Elizondo.

4. In a special advertising segment in the ABC show "Revenge," Gin Wigmore sings which song from her sophomore album "Gravel & Wine"?

Answer: Black Sheep

"Black Sheep" is from Gin Wigmore's sophomore album "Gravel & Wine" which came out on September 26, 2011 in New Zealand. It is featured in an advertising segment for the ABC show "Revenge" in which some of the characters from that show attend a concert with Wigmore singing "Black Sheep".

Some of the show's characters wear clothing from Neiman Marcus and Target which had been advertised during that episode of "Revenge". Gin Wigmore's singing figures prominently in other ad campaigns.

5. Gin Wigmore was nominated for what award from the New Zealand Music Awards in 2010 which was won by "Australian Idol" winner Stan Walker?

Answer: People's Choice Award

The year 2010 was a very good year for Gin Wigmore in New Zealand. She won the 2010 New Zealand Music Awards Breakthrough Artist of the Year, Best Pop Album, Album of the Year, as well as having the Highest Selling Album of the Year in New Zealand. She had been nominated in six categories in 2010.

6. Gin Wigmore's song "Don't Stop" shows up in a Lowe's ad. What is the lyric after "Don't stop doing what you do"?

Answer: Have I paid my dues just to be with you?

Gin Wigmore's song "Don't Stop" is off her 2009 "Holy Smoke" Album which was released in Australia on September 25, 2009. "Holy Smoke" won her the 2010 New Zealand Breakthrough Artist of the Year as well as the Album of the Year and the Highest Selling Album in New Zealand for 2010.

7. Gin Wigmore's "Black Sheep" song has the line-- "Making my own road out of ___ and some _____. Fill in the blanks.

Answer: gravel, wine

Gin Wigmore's sophomore album "Gravel & Wine" debuted in New Zealand on November 7, 2011 and came to the US on April 2, 2013. "Black Sheep" is on that Album. This song appeared in the US TV series "Grey's Anatomy", "Teen Wolf" and on the US talk show "Ellen". Wigmore sang it on "Gift of Revenge", a segment of ABC's television show "Revenge".

The "Gravel & Wine" song "Kill of the Night" comes up in the TV series "666 Park Avenue" as well as the AMC 2012 Halloween FearFest Promo. Her "Gravel & Wine" song "Man Like That" is in the James Bond "Skyfall" tie-in spot from Heineken with Wigmore singing in this beer ad near its end.

8. Gin Wigmore's "Kill of the Night" song has this refrain-- "This is a(n) ___ town for such a(n) _____ face." Fill in the blanks.

Answer: bad, pretty

Gin Wigmore's song "Kill of the Night" appears in the US TV series "666 Park Avenue" as well as the Promo for the 2012 AMC Halloween Fearfest. This song is also in the 2013 Summer Fourth Season Premiere of "Pretty Little Liars" a US series.

9. Fill in the blanks for Gin Wigmore's "Hey Ho" lyrics --"It didn't have to be this way. Playing games and lost one day. Have _____ on my ____ soul. It wasn't me, it was you, you know."

Answer: mercy, lonely

"Hey Ho" was the third single off of Gin Wigmore's 2009 "Holy Smoke" album. It came out in January 2010 and Gin Wigmore and Butch Walker wrote it in Minneapolis, Minnesota. "Hey Ho" is in the US Showtime series "Weeds" Season Six finale.

10. One of Gin Wigmore's "Holy Smoke" album songs is called what?

Answer: Too Late for Lovers

Gin Wigmore had the help of some of the members of the Cardinals on her debut album "Holy Smoke". The Cardinals before that were associated with Ryan Adams.
The false answers are off Wigmore's sophomore Album "Gravel & Wine" or off her "Extended Play" extended play debut.

Source: Author Taltarzac

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Virginia Claire Wigmore has had amazing success in her native New Zealand with her debut album "Holy Smoke" and with her 2013 tour with "American Idol" winner Phillip Phillips.

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