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1. "It's a lesson too late for the learning, made of sand". First line of which song?
2. Tom Paxton wrote some marvellous children's songs. What colour was "Jennifer's Rabbit"?
3. In "Jennifer's Rabbit", how many monkeys from the city zoo joined them?
4. Children from the UK will have heard "The Marvellous Toy" sung by Val Doonican, but it was written by Tom Paxton. Who gave the toy to the singer?
5. Where did Tom Paxton write "The Marvellous Toy"?
6. We're "Goin' To The Zoo" tomorrow - how long can we stay?
7. Tom has written some amazing songs about Vietnam. This is a very blackly comic one called "Talking Vietnam Pot-Luck Blues". When the singer first got to Vietnam what did he hardly get to see?
8. Where does the "Pot" in "Talking Vietnam Pot-Luck Blues" come from?
9. Another moving song about Vietnam concerns a man trying to wake up his room-mate. What's it called?
10. What was Tom Paxton's song written in response to Henry Kissinger getting the Nobel Peace Prize?
11. This Tom Paxton song about Vietnam shares its name with a Tom Cruise film - what is it?
12. Which Tom Paxton song is concerned with the discrepancies in women's wages before the ERA?
13. President Jimmy Carter was once photographed panicking over a rabbit 'attacking' him in a boat (Honest!) What Tom Paxton song commemorates this historic event?
14. When Russia invaded Afghanistan, the UN did not invade to free Afghanistan. They did take some action though, which prompted which Tom Paxton song?
15. Enough of the satire. Tom Paxton also wrote some of the most beautiful and tender love songs ever. One is great fun, and written about a little girl. "Take an angel with a devil" is who?
16. A hit for Pete Seeger, this Tom Paxton song is about someone with wanderlust - title?
17. Tom Paxton's "Lady" is what?
18. Back to satire - how long is Tom Paxton's song about Spiro Agnew?
19. Ecology and concern for the environment are the latest things, but Tom was singing about them a long time ago - what is his song about ruining the planet?
20. A group called Rednex had a one-hit wonder in the UK with a remix of an old American folk song. The group was Rednex - and the song title was the same as a Tom Paxton song, but wasn't the same song! What was it?
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