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Quiz about Tragedy in Songs Part 1 Fatal Car Wrecks

Tragedy in Songs, Part 1: Fatal Car Wrecks Quiz

Can you identify these songs where someone dies in a vehicle accident?

A multiple-choice quiz by Czolgolz. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
Czolgolz

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
186,261

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
6 / 10

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2982

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Question 1 of 10

1. In this song, the unfortunate singer's love is killed when he wrecks his car while avoiding a stalled vehicle. Hint

Last Kiss

Teen Angel

Where, oh Where Can My Baby Be?

Young Love

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Question 2 of 10

2. In this song, a teenage girl mourns her motorcycle-riding boyfriend who dies in a fatal bike accident right after she dumps him. Hint

Leader of the Pack

Dead Man's Curve

Born to be Wild

The Last Ride

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Question 3 of 10

3. In this 1964 song, a drag race between a Corvette and a Jag ends with the Jag's driver getting killed. Hint

Leader of the Pack

Dead Man's Curve

Surf City

Little GTO

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Question 4 of 10

4. Porter Wagoner sings about how his father's fatal car wreck revealed a dark secret. Hint

Three Wooden Crosses

The Carrol County Accident

The Night the Lights Went out in Georgia

Green, Green Grass of Home

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Question 5 of 10

5. In the Randy Travis song 'Three Wooden Crosses,' who is the only passenger who survives the bus accident? Hint

The Hooker

The Teacher

The Farmer

The Preacher

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Question 6 of 10

6. The singer tells us how his truck drivin' father runs down his cheatin' wife and her lover with his rig. Hint

Six Days on the Road

Roll On

Papa Loved Mama

Three Wooden Crosses

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Question 7 of 10

7. In this depressing country song, a man sings to the wife he killed in a drunk driving accident. Hint

Last Kiss

Field of Stone

Flowers

Don't Tell Mama I Was Drinkin'

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Question 8 of 10

8. The singer sings to his girl who was killed after being hit by a train. Hint

Teen Angel

Last Kiss

Leader of the Pack

Long Goodbye

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Question 9 of 10

9. Tommy leaves a message for his love right before he dies in a stock car wreck. Hint

The Last Race

Love That Never Dies

Tell Laura I Love Her

The Last Goodbye

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Question 10 of 10

10. Let's end on a happier note. In this song, the singer tells how his father walked away from a tractor truck accident. Hint

Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)

Six Days on the Road

Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses

Convoy

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. In this song, the unfortunate singer's love is killed when he wrecks his car while avoiding a stalled vehicle.

Answer: Last Kiss

No, the title is actually 'Last Kiss,' by J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers, 1962. Later recorded by Pearl Jam.

2. In this song, a teenage girl mourns her motorcycle-riding boyfriend who dies in a fatal bike accident right after she dumps him.

Answer: Leader of the Pack

Remember the motorcycle reving sound effects? By the Shangri-las, #1 hit in 1964.

3. In this 1964 song, a drag race between a Corvette and a Jag ends with the Jag's driver getting killed.

Answer: Dead Man's Curve

1964, by Jan & Dean. Interestingly, the song was to originally end in a tie. It was Jan Berry, who nearly died in a car wreck two years later, that insisted on the 'disaster' ending.

4. Porter Wagoner sings about how his father's fatal car wreck revealed a dark secret.

Answer: The Carrol County Accident

What was the secret? His father was cheating on his mother.

5. In the Randy Travis song 'Three Wooden Crosses,' who is the only passenger who survives the bus accident?

Answer: The Hooker

She takes the Bible from the dying preacher, and reads it to her son who later becomes a preacher himself.

6. The singer tells us how his truck drivin' father runs down his cheatin' wife and her lover with his rig.

Answer: Papa Loved Mama

By Garth Brooks. He runs them down while in bed at the local motel.

7. In this depressing country song, a man sings to the wife he killed in a drunk driving accident.

Answer: Flowers

By Billy Yates, 1997. "I'd take your place in this field of stone if I only had the power/ look what it took for me to finally bring you flowers." Now that's a country song!

8. The singer sings to his girl who was killed after being hit by a train.

Answer: Teen Angel

He had the bad luck to stall on the railroad tracks. She ran back to the car to get the ring he gave her. Sung by Mark Dinning, topped in 1960.

9. Tommy leaves a message for his love right before he dies in a stock car wreck.

Answer: Tell Laura I Love Her

By Ray Peterson.

10. Let's end on a happier note. In this song, the singer tells how his father walked away from a tractor truck accident.

Answer: Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)

Roll on eighteen wheeler, roll on!

Source: Author Czolgolz

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