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1. What Lennon classic does this lyric come from? "Every body's talking about Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism, this-ism, that-ism, isn't it the most?"
2. "My feet are so heavy, and so is my head. I wish I was a baby. I wish I was dead." What song is this lyric from?
3. Which one of John's more obviously political songs contains the lyric "There's room at the top, they're telling you still. But first you must learn how to smile as you kill, if you want to be like all the folks on the Hill"?
4. One of my personal favourite quotes, "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans", is included in the lyrics of this song.
5. "I've had enough of reading things from neurotic, psychotic, pigheaded politicians..." is from which song?
6. "You may say that I'm a dreamer, but I am not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us and the world will live as one." This has to be Lennon's most well-known song; what is the title?
7. Which song do the following lyrics come from? "Say you want a revolution, we better get on right away. Well, you get on your feet and get out on the street, singing..."
8. "Better get yourself together, darling. Join the human race. How in the world you gonna see, laughing at fools like me? Who on Earth you think you are? A superstar? Well, right you are. And we all shine on..." Lennon once said that this was the song that he "wrote it for breakfast, recorded it for lunch, and we're putting it out for dinner"; which song is it?
9. "For black and for white, for yellow and red ones, let's stop all the fight." This is one of many Lennon tunes that spoke out against the Vietnam War; which one is it?
10. What song are these lyrics from? "It's been too long since we took the time. No one's to blame, I know time flies so quickly. But when I see you darling, it's like we both are falling in love again."
11. "Out of blue or out of sight, it's alright, it's alright. Don't need no gun to blow your mind, oh no, oh no." What song is this?
12. "I was shivering inside, I was trying to catch your eyes. Thought that you were trying to hide, I was swallowing my pain" are a couple of lines from this song.
13. "You had me but I never had you. I wanted you but you didn't want me. So I got to tell you, goodbye. Goodbye." This song was written for two people who should have been close to John but weren't; what is the title?
14. "So long ago, was it in a dream? Was it just a dream? I know, yes I know, seemed so very real. Seemed so real to me." This is one normal lyric, from a song that contains a very weird, nonsensical repeated phrase; which song?
15. Yoko Ono supported this Amnesty International campaign.
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