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Quiz about Rock Lyrics
Quiz about Rock Lyrics

Rock Lyrics Trivia Quiz

Some old and some new Rock Music lyrics for you to correctly select.

A multiple-choice quiz by Studio345. Estimated time: 6 mins.
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Author
Studio345
Time
6 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
366,334
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Difficult
Avg Score
4 / 10
Plays
498
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Question 1 of 10
1. In Joni Mitchell's song, "Big Yellow Taxi", she explains that "they took all the trees and put them in a tree museum." How much were the people charged to see them? Hint


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Question 2 of 10
2. In Bob Dylan's song, "Idiot Wind", he can't do what to the "...books you've read"? Hint


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Question 3 of 10
3. From the movie version of the rock opera "Tommy", what song features Eric Clapton playing guitar? Hint


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Question 4 of 10
4. Which Pete Townshend song includes the lyrics "No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned; from all this you'd imagine that there must be something learned."? Hint


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Question 5 of 10
5. Name the artist and song title for these lyrics: "She don't care about my big screen, or my collection of DVDs. Things like that just never mattered much to her, plus she don't watch too much TV". Hint


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Question 6 of 10
6. Who wrote the song with these lyrics: "So don't bother me 'cause I got no time. I'm on my way to see that girl of mine. Nothin' else matters in this whole wide world, when you're in love with a Jersey Girl. Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la."? Hint


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Question 7 of 10
7. Which rock band has a song containing the lyrics "People dressed in plastic bags, directing traffic. Uh, shadoobee, shattered, shattered."? Hint


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Question 8 of 10
8. Who wrote the song "Downtown Train", with these lyrics: "Those downtown trains full, full of all those Brooklyn girls, they try so hard to break out of their little worlds."? Hint


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Question 9 of 10
9. Who is the band and what is the title of the song with the lyrics "Jane goes to the store at eight. She walks up on St. Andrew's, she waits, and gets her dinner there. She pulls her dinner from her pocket. Jane says she's never been in love, no. She don't know what it is. She only knows when someone wants her."? Hint


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Question 10 of 10
10. Whose version of Bob Dylan's 1963 song "Girl from the North Country" includes the lyrics "See for me that her coat's pulled up close, and her beret frames her sweet pretty face. See that she's warm and drink her a toast, for I'm exiled in a lonely place." Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. In Joni Mitchell's song, "Big Yellow Taxi", she explains that "they took all the trees and put them in a tree museum." How much were the people charged to see them?

Answer: a dollar and half

 Canadian Joni Mitchell wrote this song in 1970.
2. In Bob Dylan's song, "Idiot Wind", he can't do what to the "...books you've read"?

Answer: He can't even touch them

 "Idiot Wind" is from the 1975 "Blood on the Tracks" album.
3. From the movie version of the rock opera "Tommy", what song features Eric Clapton playing guitar?

Answer: Eyesight to the Blind

 "Eyesight to the Blind" was written by Sonny Boy Williamson. B.B. King, Placebo, and Aerosmith have also covered this song.
4. Which Pete Townshend song includes the lyrics "No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned; from all this you'd imagine that there must be something learned."?

Answer: Slit Skirts

 "Empty Glass" is the title track from Pete's "Empty Glass" album; "Face Dances" is also a title track, but from a Who album; "Don't Let Go the Coat" is a song from the "Face Dances" album.

Jeannie doesn't wear slit skirts, or knee pants, and Pete never wears no ripped shirts.
5. Name the artist and song title for these lyrics: "She don't care about my big screen, or my collection of DVDs. Things like that just never mattered much to her, plus she don't watch too much TV".

Answer: Blessid Union of Souls, "Hey Leonardo"

 Not sure why they spell their band name wrong, "Blessid", instead of "Blessed" but maybe they were writing it out phonetically.
6. Who wrote the song with these lyrics: "So don't bother me 'cause I got no time. I'm on my way to see that girl of mine. Nothin' else matters in this whole wide world, when you're in love with a Jersey Girl. Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la."?

Answer: Tom Waits

 "Jersey Girl" is from Tom Waits' 1980 album, "Heartattack and Vine". It has become the quintessential Bruce Springsteen/Jersey Shore anthem. Bruce and Tom performed the song together on stage once, on August 24, 1981. Tom penned the song for his wife-to-be, Kathleen Brennan.
7. Which rock band has a song containing the lyrics "People dressed in plastic bags, directing traffic. Uh, shadoobee, shattered, shattered."?

Answer: The Rolling Stones

 "Rats on the West Side, bed bugs Uptown, what a mess, this town's in tatters, I'm shattered." From the 1978 Stone's album "Some Girls".
8. Who wrote the song "Downtown Train", with these lyrics: "Those downtown trains full, full of all those Brooklyn girls, they try so hard to break out of their little worlds."?

Answer: Tom Waits

 "Downtown Train" was released in 1985 on Tom Waits' "Rain Dogs" album. Rod Stewart's 1989 cover version reached number three on the Billboard 100 chart.
9. Who is the band and what is the title of the song with the lyrics "Jane goes to the store at eight. She walks up on St. Andrew's, she waits, and gets her dinner there. She pulls her dinner from her pocket. Jane says she's never been in love, no. She don't know what it is. She only knows when someone wants her."?

Answer: Jane's Addiction, "Jane Says"

 First released on the group's self-titled 1987 album, the re-recorded studio version in 1988 (from the "Nothing's Shocking" album) replaced the bongos with steel drums.
10. Whose version of Bob Dylan's 1963 song "Girl from the North Country" includes the lyrics "See for me that her coat's pulled up close, and her beret frames her sweet pretty face. See that she's warm and drink her a toast, for I'm exiled in a lonely place."

Answer: Pete Townshend

 Pete Townshend's cover, titled "North Country Girl" is from the 1982 album of his, "All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes".
Source: Author Studio345

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