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Quiz about Those Active Young Women of Song

Those Active Young Women of Song Quiz

These women have songs named for them, and each is involved in some action. A couple songs are a century old; all are 1970's and earlier. If you think a 'Golden Oldie' is something from, say, last summer, you might want to skip this quiz.

A multiple-choice quiz by fritzer. Estimated time: 7 mins.

Author
fritzer

Time
7 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
171,059

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
15

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
7 / 15

Plays
1120

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 15

1. What young woman has an invitation to "go as far as you like with me, in my merry Oldsmobile?" Hint

Jane Steele

Claire Steele

Lucile

Camille

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Question 2 of 15

2. Who "takes the winter and makes it summer" (and, as a matter of fact, "summer could take some lessons from her")? Hint

Patricia

June

Nancy

Sunny

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Question 3 of 15

3. What woman "take me money and run Venezuela?"

Answer: (Maybe she ran all the way to Australia to learn to waltz?)

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Question 4 of 15

4. "Who's peekin' out from under a stairway?" Hint

Wendy

Wanda

Winona

Windy

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Question 5 of 15

5. "You picked a fine time to leave me ______, with four hungry children and a crop in the field" Hint

Michelle

Lucille

Elaine

Diane

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Question 6 of 15

6. Who spent all day and all night "down by the seaside siftin' sand?" Hint

Marianne

Minnie

Carol Ann

Chloe

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Question 7 of 15

7. "She wheeled her wheelbarrow through streets wide and narrow." Hint

Janie McBee

Monique LaFleur

Maisy McDermott

Molly Malone

8. A sweet wife and mother "comes a struttin' in her birthday clothes" with "rings on her fingers and bells on her toes." Her real name is Mary Jo (according to the song). What is her "stage name" at the burlesque show in New Orleans? Hint

Gypsy Rose

Angel Starr

Candy Kane

Honey Fame

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Question 9 of 15

9. "You fill up my senses, like a night in a forest." Hint

Angie

Allison

Amy

Annie

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Question 10 of 15

10. A 1965 movie was named named for her. According to Stubby and Nathaniel, she "fights like the devil!"

Answer: (She allegedly killed a man at Wolf City, Wyoming, in 1894.)

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Question 11 of 15

11. Who "brings her father, her mother, her sister and her brother" on every date? Hint

Molly

Mary

Martha

Maggie

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Question 12 of 15

12. This gal is so mean and so hard hearted! She was observed at the seashore with a great big pan, "pouring water on a drowning man!"

Answer: (A vamp from the Georgia coast, USA)

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Question 13 of 15

13. You are an amazing old-time music fan if you know this: she "walks like a sly little rogue" and "talks with a cute little brogue." Hint

Josie O'Shea

Molly McBride

Kitty Kelly

Peggy O'Neil

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Question 14 of 15

14. What young lady has "started back doing the things you used to do." Hint

Maybelline

Rhonda

Caledonia

Peggy Sue

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Question 15 of 15

15. She was a miner's daughter and "drove she ducklings to the water ev'ry morning just at nine?" Name her.

Answer: (You want her shoe size? Number 9.)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What young woman has an invitation to "go as far as you like with me, in my merry Oldsmobile?"

Answer: Lucile

"Come along with me, Lucile, in my merry Oldsmobile." From 1905. Now, ninety-nine years later, General Motors will stop producing cars with the Oldsmobile name. Kind of sad, huh?

2. Who "takes the winter and makes it summer" (and, as a matter of fact, "summer could take some lessons from her")?

Answer: Nancy

Specifically, she's "Nancy, with the Laughing Face," in a Frank Sinatra signature song. Nancy Barbato was Frank's first wife; she's the Nancy who inspired this Phil Silvers - Jimmy VanHeusen song in the 1940's.

3. What woman "take me money and run Venezuela?"

Answer: Matilda

A Harry Belafonte classic.

4. "Who's peekin' out from under a stairway?"

Answer: Windy

Oh, I'm sorry. Of course "everyone knows it's Windy." Number one on the USA charts, May 1967. Performed by The Association.

5. "You picked a fine time to leave me ______, with four hungry children and a crop in the field"

Answer: Lucille

Four children. Could this be that same woman who was in a merry Oldsmobile a while back? If so, it appears she went all the way!

6. Who spent all day and all night "down by the seaside siftin' sand?"

Answer: Marianne

Various artists had success with this song in the early 1960's: Terry Gilkyson and The Easy Riders, The Brothers Four and The Hilltoppers to name a few.

7. "She wheeled her wheelbarrow through streets wide and narrow."

Answer: Molly Malone

And why not? So did her father and mother before her--a whole family of fishmongers. You know: cockles and mussels alive, alive-o?

Answer: Gypsy Rose

Tony Orlando and Dawn (remember them?) from the early 1970's. Great stuff!

9. "You fill up my senses, like a night in a forest."

Answer: Annie

"Annie's Song" was John Denver's tribute to his first wife.

10. A 1965 movie was named named for her. According to Stubby and Nathaniel, she "fights like the devil!"

Answer: Cat Ballou

Jane Fonda as Catherine Ballou--sweet and pretty, and (allegedly) mean and evil, through and through. The title ballad was performed in the movie by minstrels Nat 'King' Cole and Stubby Kaye.

11. Who "brings her father, her mother, her sister and her brother" on every date?

Answer: Maggie

Oh, I never see Maggie alone. 1926.

12. This gal is so mean and so hard hearted! She was observed at the seashore with a great big pan, "pouring water on a drowning man!"

Answer: Hannah

Ray Charles treated Hannah about as well as anyone possibly could.

13. You are an amazing old-time music fan if you know this: she "walks like a sly little rogue" and "talks with a cute little brogue."

Answer: Peggy O'Neil

From 1921. Sweet personality . . . full of rascality. That's Peggy O'Neil.

14. What young lady has "started back doing the things you used to do."

Answer: Maybelline

"Maybellene, why can't you be true?"
This musical question was asked by both Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley in 1955, and then again by Gerry and The Pacemakers, by Johnny Rivers, and by The Syndicats, all in 1964.

15. She was a miner's daughter and "drove she ducklings to the water ev'ry morning just at nine?" Name her.

Answer: Clementine

The oldest of all these active young ladies: "Clementine" is from 1885. She drowned, poor girl; she's been "lost and gone forever" for a long, long time.

Source: Author fritzer

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