Songs in the Key of Statehood Trivia Quiz

Answer: Georgia

"Midnight Train to Georgia" was a hit in 1973 for Gladys Knight and the Pips. "Georgia on My Mind" is another great song about this state.

Answer: Kansas

Although Kansas City is in Missouri, this is a song from the 1943 musical "Oklahoma". It praises the seven-storey skyscrapers and the risqué burlesque shows in the teeming metropolis.

Answer: California

This song was a hit for the Mamas and the Papas in 1965. It has been covered by numerous artists and used in such films and TV shows as "American Pop", "Californication" and "South Park".

Answer: Oklahoma

Now the state song of Oklahoma, this song was originally written for the 1943 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Oklahoma". Hugh Jackman sang it in a 1998 production of the musical by the Royal National Theatre.

Answer: Indiana

The 1970 hit by R. Dean Taylor is sung from the point of view of a man running from the police. Although he recorded numerous other songs, Taylor, a Canadian, never achieved the same prominence with any of his other work.

Answer: Pennsylvania

The song title is a telephone number under the old US system that predated three-digit area codes. It was a hit for Glenn Miller in 1940; the band members would call out the number every time it came up in the lyrics.

Answer: Alabama

"Sweet Home Alabama" was a 1974 hit for Lynyrd Skynyrd. The lyrics challenge singer Neil Young, in response to his songs "Southern Man" and "Alabama", which criticize the South ("Well, I hope Neil Young will remember A Southern man don't need him around anyhow").

Answer: Kentucky

"My Old Kentucky Home" is a traditional standard written in the 1850s by Stephen Foster, who also wrote "Oh! Susanna," "Camptown Races," "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" and "Beautiful Dreamer", among many other well known songs. However the lyrics, which mention "darkies" several times, would no longer be considered acceptable to contemporary audiences.

Answer: Texas

"Deep in the Heart of Texas" sounds like an old traditional folk song, but in fact it was written in 1941 by June Hershey and Don Swander. It was a hit for both Perry Como and Bing Crosby, and it can be heard at University of Texas football games, played by the University's Longhorn Band.

Answer: Arizona

This is of course a line from The Beatles' "Get Back", released as a single in 1969 and included on the album "Let It Be" in 1970, where it ends with John Lennon's quip "I'd like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves, and I hope we passed the audition." We don't know much about Jojo, except that he was "a man who thought he was a loner".