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Musical Guns Trivia Quiz

All of these songs feature a gun or guns. How many of them do you know?

A multiple-choice quiz by Rowena8482. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
Rowena8482

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
332,355

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
384

Question 1 of 10

1. Def Leppard and Aerosmith have both sung about individuals with a gun. Which boy and girl's names go with "____'s Got a Gun" to give us the titles of the two songs? Hint

Joey and Nadine

Billy and Janie

Tommy and Sara

Johnny and Julie

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Question 2 of 10

2. Which famous song, which features a gun, was written by Mac Davis and originally titled "A Vicious Circle"? Hint

Pride (In the Name of Love)

The Gunner's Dream

In the Ghetto

Mack the Knife

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Question 3 of 10

3. What type of gun did the Beatles equate with happiness? Hint

Warm

Machine

Cold

Silver

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Question 4 of 10

4. Who was "the Headless Thompson Gunner" in the title of a song by Warren Zevon? Hint

Roland

Sebastian

Tarquin

Quentin

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Question 5 of 10

5. "You can crush us,
You can bruise us,
But you'll have to answer to,
Oh oh Guns of ______"
Which English place name completes the lyrics (and title) of this song by The Clash? Hint

Brixton

Lambeth

Tooting

Hastings

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Question 6 of 10

6. Which song, from the "Blaze of Glory" album by Jon Bon Jovi, has these lyrics?
"They try to say,
It's too late for me,
Tell my guns I'm coming home" Hint

Santa Fe

Blaze of Glory

Billy Get Your Guns

Blood Money

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Question 7 of 10

7. Which album by Pink Floyd features the track "The Gunner's Dream"? Hint

Dark Side of the Moon

The Final Cut

Ummagumma

Piper at the Gates of Dawn

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Question 8 of 10

8. Who sang these lyrics, on his 1986 album "Strong Persuader"?
"I put two and one together
And you know that's not an even sum
And I know just where to find you with
A still hot, smokin gun" Hint

Robert Cray

Robert Palmer

Robert Plant

Robert Smith

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Question 9 of 10

9. Which band released an album called "Love Gun" in 1977? Hint

Kiss

Rush

Twisted Sister

ELO

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Question 10 of 10

10. In the title of Julie Brown's 1984 song, who had a gun? Hint

The Homecoming Queen

Juliet

Daddy's Little Princess

Lolita

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Def Leppard and Aerosmith have both sung about individuals with a gun. Which boy and girl's names go with "____'s Got a Gun" to give us the titles of the two songs?

Answer: Billy and Janie

"Billy's Got a Gun" was first released on Def Leppard's "Pyromania" album, in 1983. Although released as a B Side in the US, it still reached the Top 30 in the Mainstream Rock Chart.
"Janie's Got a Gun" was Aerosmith's first ever number one single on the Australian Chart, and featured on the "Pump" album, released in 1989.

2. Which famous song, which features a gun, was written by Mac Davis and originally titled "A Vicious Circle"?

Answer: In the Ghetto

Elvis Presley made these lyrics famous -
"As a crowd gathers round an angry young man
face down on the street with a gun in his hand"
in his hit version of "In the Ghetto". It was released as a single in 1969, and reached the Top Ten in both the US Billboard Top 100 and the UK Singles Charts.

3. What type of gun did the Beatles equate with happiness?

Answer: Warm

"Happiness is a Warm Gun" features on the Beatles eponymous "White Album". It was the band's ninth studio album, and was released in 1968. It was the band's third album to enter the UK Album Chart at number one.

4. Who was "the Headless Thompson Gunner" in the title of a song by Warren Zevon?

Answer: Roland

"Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" featured on Zevon's 1978 album "Excitable Boy". The song was written by Zevon and David Lindell.

5. "You can crush us, You can bruise us, But you'll have to answer to, Oh oh Guns of ______" Which English place name completes the lyrics (and title) of this song by The Clash?

Answer: Brixton

Brixton is in South London, and is where band member Paul Simonon was born and raised. The song "Guns of Brixton" was first released on the "London Calling" album, in 1979 in the UK, and 1980 in the US.

6. Which song, from the "Blaze of Glory" album by Jon Bon Jovi, has these lyrics? "They try to say, It's too late for me, Tell my guns I'm coming home"

Answer: Santa Fe

"Blaze of Glory" was Jon Bon Jovi's first solo album. It was released in 1990. The title track was used as the theme tune for the film "Young Guns II", also released in 1990, and many of the songs feature the story of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett.

7. Which album by Pink Floyd features the track "The Gunner's Dream"?

Answer: The Final Cut

"The Final Cut" was released in 1983. The song "The Gunner's Dream" contains a reference to the IRA bombing in Hyde Park, which occurred in 1982. There are also references on the album to the Falklands Conflict.

8. Who sang these lyrics, on his 1986 album "Strong Persuader"? "I put two and one together And you know that's not an even sum And I know just where to find you with A still hot, smokin gun"

Answer: Robert Cray

"Strong Persuader" was Cray's fifth studio album. It was later listed at number forty two on "Rolling Stone" magazine's "Top 100 Albums of All Time".

9. Which band released an album called "Love Gun" in 1977?

Answer: Kiss

"Love Gun" was Kiss's sixth studio album, and it reached number four on the US Billboard Album Chart.

10. In the title of Julie Brown's 1984 song, who had a gun?

Answer: The Homecoming Queen

"The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun" is a parody song, based on the 1950s and 60s "teen tragedy" type songs like "Leader of the Pack" (1964) and "Teen Angel" (1960). The song was originally a B side, but got more airplay, and proved more memorable than its A side "I Like 'em Big and Stupid".

Source: Author Rowena8482

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