(unanswered/unsolved quizzes from Quiz Corner)
1. Todd Pence: I just noticed that no one's yet answered my old question from the other board . . . which album contains the following songs?

"Fresh Garbage"
"Girl In Your Eye"
"Gramaphone Man"
"Grand Canyon Fire In General"
Answer #1: Miko Iko - Hmmm...just noticed Todd's stumper. I remember Spirit doing "Fresh Garbage" on their self titled album. Can't vouch for the rest of them, but that's my guess.

Miko Iko: BTW, the last time I was here I posted one that got no reply, so I'll give a clue:
And, speaking of White Castle:

2. Does anybody know who included the song "White Castle Blues" as a bonus track on the CD version of their debut album?

(This is probably one where it's hard without a hint, but too easy with one. Let's see...)

Clue:"Blood and Roses"

3. Todd Pence: Okay, next round . . . name the band whose classic debut record spawned these numbers:

1. Dancing Madly Backwards (On A Sea Of Air)
2. Armworth
3. Raging River Of Fear
4. As The Moon Speaks To The Waves Of The Sea

4. Benn: What do these three songs have in common?

"Tombstone Blues" - Bob Dylan
"Let It All Hang Out" - The Hombres
"Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen

I've already answered #2, Derf. It's the Smithereens.

I wasn't sure, Benn ... so I figured INCLUSION was the better part of valor ...
Folk in General ... consider #2 ANSWERED!!

And as an aside ... (Todd in particular)
HOW long will you let a question go unanaswered before supplying the rest of an adoring public the correct answer? (or at LEAST another clue)
It's been VIRTUAL YEARS since you asked question #1 ...

I DID confirm that Mike Iko guessed correctly on #1, way back on 10/11. I'll post the answer to #3 late Sunday evening . . . so that gives you guys the rest of the weekend to try to guess that one.

An "easy quiz" (if you're up on nostalgia) ...

Fill in the blank (title of song)

Well, there's a tight little unit, you know that I boast
They're famous all over from coast to coast
Really laying down the sounds, as much as you can stand
(yeah, yeah)

They got three outfits - red, yellow and blue
Volksvagen station wagon, luggage carrier too
Got their name painted on the side, you know it looks so grand
Talking 'bout
__________________________________________

Don't know the answer to your quiz, Derf, but here's the answer to mine:

"Tomstone Blues" - "The geometry of innocent flesh on the bone
Causes Galileo's math book to get thrown
At Delilah who sits worthlessly alone
But the tears on her cheeks are from laughter."

"Let It All Hang Out" - "Makes Galileo look like a Boy Scout."

"Bohemian Rhapsody" - "Galileo! Galileo! Galileo figuro magnifico!"

Yup. They all mention Galileo.

The earlier ANSWERED "Ray Stevens" quiz (in Quiz Corner) is a BIG clue ...

The answer to #3 is the first Captain Beyond album

Well, that was beyond me. (Heh. I couldn't resist.)

Who sang:
Bimbo (For those who've never heard it it's not about what you may think it is.)
Yonder Comes a Sucker
The Blizzard
Blue Boy
I'm Gettin' Better

"Bimbo" (if its the song I'm thinking of) was sung by a "Hank Williams" sound-alike. (can't recall his name) but the chorus verse of "Bimbo" goes ...

Bimbo, Bimbo, where ya gonna go-li-oh?
Bimbo, Bimbo, what ya gonna do-li-oh?
Bimbo, Bimbo, does yer Mommy knooooooooow ...
Yer goin' down the road to see yer litlle girlie-oh.

I believe the first verse goes:

Bimbo is a little boy who's got a million friends
And every time he passes by, they all invite him in
He'll jump and prance, and sing and dance
And talk his baby talk
With a hole in his pants, and his knees stickin' out
He's just big enough to walk

If that is the song you're refering to, Mark, you have to tell me who did it! This is important to me. The reason I need to know is private, but it does explain something about my childhood!

Benn ... I HAVE this song on cassette tape. My mother had it on 45, and I transferred it to cassette a few years ago. The 45 has since died, (hence the reason I can't remember who sang it) but I still have the tape. I'll make you a copy, if you so desire, and deliver it at our next regularly scheduled "North Texas Nitpickers Meeting".

Sure. I'll send you an email to let you know the importance of it. If Mark'll provide the name of the artist I can see if it exists on CD. I suppose I can do that anyway... Yeah. Soon as I'm done here, I will look it up. (Don't worry. I'm not gonna use the information to answer Mark's quiz. This is personal.)

Wow. Someone else does know that song. Anyway, it was sung by Jim Reeves, hardly a Hank Williams soundalike, even though they were comtemparies. He died in a plane crash in 1964, the year after Patsy Cline did. He was just minutes away from the airport he was headed for.

The grainy, ratty, "bacon-frying" 45 version of Bimbo of my Mom's was sung by a Hank Williams soundalike. It's nice to know that the song started out NOT to be lumped in with kid's songs.

My guess is that that's the Rod Morris version of the song. Morris wrote the song. My research turned up the fact that there was a ragtime/dixieland/jazz song called "Bimbo", written by Clarence Williams (watch the Mod Squad jokes people). It was most predominately cover by King Oliver, a great jazz artist.

By the way, Mark, shouldn't you have waited a little longer before giving the answer to your quiz? You could have told me the answer on ICQ last night, giving others more time to answer it.

Hey Benn, you have ICQ? You one of the three Benn Allens I see there, or do you have another handle?

I'm one of the three. My ICQ number is 127603170, if you're interested Snick. (Or anyone else for that matter.)

(posted Oct. 28, 1:19pm)
Fill in the blank (title of song)

Well, there's a tight little unit, you know that I boast
They're famous all over from coast to coast
Really laying down the sounds, as much as you can stand (yeah, yeah)

They got three outfits - red, yellow and blue
Volksvagen station wagon, luggage carrier too
Got their name painted on the side, you know it looks so grand
Talking 'bout
__________________________________________

(posted Oct. 28, 7:55pm)
The earlier ANSWERED "Ray Stevens" quiz (in Quiz Corner) is a BIG clue ...

Hint #2: Perhaps the "clutch verse" will help ...
They got a drummer named Yum-Yum, he can really go some
Blows real cool, makes all the girls drool
They got a cat named Ace, he blows the bass
They got a fella named Tyrone, he plays trombone
A cat named Percy (have mercy), plays piano in the treble cleff
And the trumpet man, he's the leader of the band
Here's (_________________) it's set!

Okay ... next quiz:
Name the song from this - the first verse ...
Three nights ago, I was at a disco
Man, I wanted to bump ... I was rarin' to go
And this big, fat woman caught me on the floor
She was rarin' to go ... that chick was rarin' to go
Then she did a dip, almost broke my hip
She was gettin' down, that chick was gettin' down
She wanted to bump some more, but I told her "No ...
You done knocked me down once, you done knocked me down once"
I said, "If you wanna dance find you a big, fat man
Doggone and get on down, doggone and get on down"

1. extra points if you can name the artist who sings it
2. bonus points if you can name the other BIGGER hit song this artist had
3. super-bonus points if you can name the hit song that M.C. Hammer sang with the dance called the "bump" referred to in it.

It wouldn't by any chance be "Bertha Butt Boogie" by Jimmy Castor, more famous for "Troglodyte (Cave Man)", would it? Unless you're talking about Hammer's "Can't Touch This", I have no idea whatthe super point answer is.

You Can't Touch This is correct ...
(super-bonus point is awarded to Benn)
However, Jimmy Castor/Bertha Butt Boogie is not correct.
This artist had his "big hit" in the top five the week of April 15, 1972 along with:
1. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Roberta Flack
2. A Horse With No Name - America
3. (song/artist extra-bonus questions)
4. Rockin' Robin - Michael Jackson
5. Heart of Gold - Neil Young

The "regular question" song was released in 1976 ...

Van McCoy and "The Hustle"?

Jim Croce? Jim Stafford? Ray Stevens again?

BJ Thomas? Elton John? Sammy Davis, Jr? Elvis?

MIchael Jackson?!? The '76 song then would be a Jackson 5 song.

Don Mclean!

No, no, no, no (but Ray Stevens sang the other quiz question I asked), no, no, no, no and no.

I'll give the title of the "regular question" song, since it may appear obvious ...
I Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman).
(the extra-bonus questions seem more interesting, anyway)

"I Ain't Gonna Bump No More" was by Joe Tex. I remember him doing it on the Grammy Awards that year.

Joe Tex is the correct answer ...
(the extra-point question goes to Butch)
Now, all that remains is the bonus question ...
What other BIGGER hit song was by Joe Tex?
(the one in 1972)

That would be "I Gotcha"

Well, I guess it's up to me to post the next question. Here goes.

This song is about the embryonic form of an animal that feeds on the creatures that the band that sings it is named for.
Name the song and the band.

Protozoa? There's an Aussie band by that name.

Nope, that ain't it Mark. Thanks for trying.

Drat! Missed it by that much!

Well, it's been a week and no correct answer. I'm gonna give the answer rather than just a clue and then someone else can post a new question.


The answer is "Little Black Egg" by The Nightcrawlers.

By popular demand, here is my next "easy" quiz:

From these two words, name the song and the artist ...
Serious Moonlight

Hint #1: An extra two words ... red shoes

Hint #2: The artist's surname is identical to the inventer of a famous knife used at the Alamo.

David Bowie. "Lets Dance"

Excellent job, ScottN ... that is ABSOLUTELY correct!! Now, can you complete the quiz I updated and posed on Nov. 8? (ref: Derf quiz Nov. 8, 2001 ... NOT the Joe Tex part) ... I KNOW you can!!

(posted Oct. 28, 1:19pm)
Fill in the blank (title of song)

Well, there's a tight little unit, you know that I boast
They're famous all over from coast to coast
Really laying down the sounds, as much as you can stand (yeah, yeah)

They got three outfits - red, yellow and blue
Volksvagen station wagon, luggage carrier too
Got their name painted on the side, you know it looks so grand
Talking 'bout
__________________________________________

(posted Oct. 28, 7:55pm)
The earlier ANSWERED "Ray Stevens" quiz (in Quiz Corner) is a BIG clue ...

Hint #2: Perhaps the "clutch verse" will help ...
They got a drummer named Yum-Yum, he can really go some
Blows real cool, makes all the girls drool
They got a cat named Ace, he blows the bass
They got a fella named Tyrone, he plays trombone
A cat named Percy (have mercy), plays piano in the treble cleff
And the trumpet man, he's the leader of the band
Here's (_________________) it's set!

ANSWER: Freddie Feel Good (and His Funky Little Five-Piece Band)

Next quiz ...
How many times does Sir Mix-A-Lot ACTUALLY say the title words "Baby Got Back" as opposed to saying the word "Butt" in the tune?
(Actual count-vs.-count or a ratio will be accepted as a correct answer)

Next quiz ...
How many times does Sir Mix-A-Lot ACTUALLY say the title words "Baby Got Back" as opposed to saying the word "Butt" in the tune?
(Actual count-vs.-count or a ratio will be accepted as a correct answer)

NO GUESSES?? ...
(geez! the video WAS an eyefull!!!!)

Now, on to Tenacious D ...
This CD has 21 tracks, but only 14 of them are actual music:
1. Kielbasa
3. Tribute
4. Wonder Boy
6. F**k Her Gently
7. Explosivo
8. Dio
10. Kyle Quit The Band
11. The Road
13. Lee
15. Friendship
17. Karate
18. Rock Your Socks
20. Double Team
21. City Hall
Of these tracks only 4 does not use the f*word (or any form thereof)

The other 7 tracks are spoken/vocal interludes:
2. One Note Song
5. Hard F**king
9. Inward Singing
12. C*ck Pushups
14. Friendship Test
16. Karate Schnitzel
19. Drive-Thru
Of these tracks only 1 does NOT use the f*word (or any form thereof)

Now, the question is, of the tracks listed which ones are the ones that DO NOT include an f*word in the lyrics? (spoken or otherwise)

(You MUST admit, the CD IS a COMEDY album, no??)

Oh, books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder
For filth (I'm glad to say) is in the mind of the beholder
When correctly viewed, everything is lewd
I could tell you things about Peter Pan
And the Wizard of Oz as a dirty old man!

Name the song and artist
extra points for naming the album
(I'm expecting ScottN to nail this one!!)

Tom Lehrer, "Smut", "That was the year that was".

Smut!
Give me Smut! and nothing but
A dirty novel I can't shut
if it's uncut
and un-subt... tle

I've never quibbled if it was ribald
I would devour where others merely nibble
As the judge remarked the day that he acquitted my Aunt Hortense
"To be smut it must be ut … terly without redeeming social importence"
Por … nographic pictures I adore
Indecent magazines galore, I like them more
If they're hardcore

(bring on the obscene movies, murals, postcards, neckties,
Samplers, stained glass windows, tattoos, anything! …
More, more, I'm still not satisfied!)

Stories of tortures
Used by debauchers
Lurid, licentious, and vile...
Make me smile...

Novels that pander
To my taste for candor
Give me a pleasure sublime!
(Let's face it, I love slime!)

Cut back to original lyrics posted as the quiz.

P.S. Do I get my cookies/points?

Sure ... a year's subscription to Hustler AND and blow-up doll!
(batteries not included)

(I'll bet he had to use the spell-check for licentious)

(I'll bet he had to use the spell-check for licentious)

Nope.

When I first started the Quiz Corner thread, I asked a question concerning the song All Night Long performed by Lionel Richie, adding extra points if the recent movie that the song was refered to in was named. That movie was Rush Hour, and Chris Tucker used a snippet of the song early in the movie.

HOWEVER, Chris Tucker used the SAME snippet in an movie approximately a year earlier.
Can you name it?

1. How many times does Sir Mix-A-Lot ACTUALLY say the title words "Baby Got Back" as opposed to saying the word "Butt" in the tune?

ANSWER: Sir Mix-A-Lot says "Baby Got Back" 3 times, and the word "Butt(s)" 9 times! (plus 2 more spoken by the "girls" at the beginning)

2. Tenacious D has has 21 tracks, but only 14 of them are actual music:
1. Kielbasa
3. Tribute
4. Wonder Boy
6. F**k Her Gently
7. Explosivo
8. Dio
10. Kyle Quit The Band
11. The Road
13. Lee
15. Friendship
17. Karate
18. Rock Your Socks
20. Double Team
21. City Hall
Of these tracks only 3 does not use the f*word (or any form thereof)
The other 7 tracks are spoken/vocal interludes:
2. One Note Song
5. Hard F**king
9. Inward Singing
12. C*ck Pushups
14. Friendship Test
16. Karate Schnitzel
19. Drive-Thru
Of these tracks ALL of them use the f*word (or a form thereof)

Of the musical tracks listed which ones are the ones that DO NOT include an f*word in the lyrics?

ANSWER: Wonderboy, Dio, Friendship

3. In the Quiz Corner thread, I asked a question concerning the song All Night Long performed by Lionel Richie, adding extra points if the recent movie that the song was refered to in was named. That movie was Rush Hour, and Chris Tucker used a snippet of the song early in the movie.
HOWEVER, Chris Tucker used the SAME snippet in an movie approximately a year earlier.
Can you name it?

HINT: This movie starred a previously unknown model/actress in the title role.

Well it can't be "Jackie Brown", because Pam Grier certainly wasn't "previously unknown", and (at least according to IMDB) none of the other movies he was in had what might be called a "title role".

Correction to the above hint!: After some web searching, the model/actress is NOT previously unknown. (sorry) However, it is her first title role.

Hint #2: This movie also starred Bruce Willis.

The Fifth Element.

You mean starring, not title role.

I stand corrected. I just checked IMDB, and in addition to being "Leeloo", Ms. Jojovich is also referred to as "the Fifth Element".

Since I haven't yet seen Rush Hour 2, I'm wondering if Chris Tucker used All Night Long in that flick ...

Your prize, ScottN, is an 8-hour no-holds-barred spree in the Chocolate Room of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, with an option to make it a 4-hour spree plus one Oopa-Loompa!

Your prize, ScottN, is an 8-hour no-holds-barred spree in the Chocolate Room of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, with an option to make it a 4-hour spree plus one Oopa-Loompa!

D*mn. I'm diabetic.

Tuff nuggies, dude! Maybe you can trade it for a 5 liter box of Franzia and a box of BC powder.

Next quiz ...
Name the song/group from this snippet of lyrics:

Lost in the Milky Way
Smile at the empty sky and wait for
The moment a million chances may all collide

I'll be the guiding light
Swim to me through stars that shine down
And call to the sleeping world as they fall to Earth

extra points if you can name the album the song appeared on.

Hint: Perhaps the refrain/chorus will spark some memory ...

So here's your life
We'll find our way
We're sailing blind
But it's certain nothing's certain

I don't mind
I get the feeling
You'll be fine
I still believe
That in this world
We've got to find the time
For [__ __ __ __] (song title)

Hint #2: The album this song appeared on was released in 1992 and contained other songs such as:

Blowing Bubbles
A Cool Place
Where Flowers Fade
A Small Slice of Heaven

The artists are also a group from the U.K. ...

While struggling with the above quiz, here's an easy one to keep you sharp ...

Match the song with the artist/group

Green Tambourine_____________Bread
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood___Foreigner
Dismal Day___________________The Lemon Pipers
Juke Box Hero________________Santa Esmeralda

Green Tambourine The Lemon Pipers
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood The Animals, er Santa Esmeralda featuring Leroy Gomez
Dismal Day Bread
Juke Box Hero Foreigner

My buddy Benn gets the prize ... a free pass over the Bridge of Death. (you don't even have to answer the 5 questions. (three questions!) ... er, three questions.

My favorite color is... Plaid!

I believe I have found the VERY FIRST recorded session of the Nitpicker's Central ...

(King Arthur and his servant Patsy approach a castle. Patsy is using coconut shells to imitate hoofbeats)
Arthur (holding up hand) Whoa, there.
Guard #1 Halt! Who goes there?
Arthur It is I, Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon from the castle of Camelot. King of the Britons, Defeater of the Saxons, Sovereign of all England!
Guard #1 Pull the other one.
Arthur I am, and this is my trusty servant Patsy. We have ridden the length and breadth of the land in search of knights who will join me in my court at Camelot. I must speak with your lord and master.
Guard #1 What, ridden on a horse?
Arthur Yes.
Guard #1 You're using coconuts!
Arthur What?
Guard #1 You've got two empty halves of coconut, and you're banging them together.
Arthur So? … we have ridden since the snows of winter covered this land. Through the kingdom of Mercia, through …
Guard #1 Where'd you get the coconuts?
Arthur We found them.
Guard #1 Found them?! … in Mercia? The coconut's tropical!
Arthur What do you mean?
Guard #1 Well, this is a temperate zone.
Arthur The swallow may fly south with the sun, or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land.
Guard #1 Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
Arthur Not at all. They could be carried.
Guard #1 What?! … a swallow carrying a coconut?
Arthur It could grip it by the husk.
Guard #1 It's not a question of where he grips it … it's a simple question of weight ratios. A five-ounce bird cannot carry a one-pound coconut!
Arthur Well, it doesn't matter. Will you go and tell your master that Arthur from the Court of Camelot is here.
Guard #1 Listen, in order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings 43 times every second, right?
Arthur Please!!
Guard #1 Am I right?
Arthur I'm not interested!
Guard #2 It could be carried by an African swallow.
Guard #1 Oh yeah, an African swallow, maybe. But not a European swallow, that's my point.
Guard #2 Oh yeah, I agree with that.
Arthur Will you ask your master if he wants to join my court at Camelot?
Guard #1 But then, of course, the African swallows are non-migratory.
Guard #2 Oh, yeah.
Guard #1 So they couldn't bring a coconut back, anyway.
(Arthur and Patsy ride off in disgust)
Guard #3 Wait a minute … supposing two swallows carried it together?
Guard #1 No, they'd have to have it on a line.
Guard #3 Well, simple … they just use a strand of creeper.
Guard #1 What, held under the dorsal guiding feathers?
Guard #3 Well, why not?

Next quiz ...
Name the song/group from this snippet of lyrics:

Lost in the Milky Way
Smile at the empty sky and wait for
The moment a million chances may all collide

I'll be the guiding light
Swim to me through stars that shine down
And call to the sleeping world as they fall to Earth

extra points if you can name the album the song appeared on.

Hint: Perhaps the refrain/chorus will spark some memory ...
So here's your life
We'll find our way
We're sailing blind
But it's certain nothing's certain

I don't mind
I get the feeling
You'll be fine
I still believe
That in this world
We've got to find the time
For [__ __ __ __] (song title)

Hint #2: The album this song appeared on was released in 1992 and contained other songs such as:
Blowing Bubbles
A Cool Place
Where Flowers Fade
A Small Slice of Heaven
The artists are also a group from the U.K. ...

Hint #3: I'll go ahead and give the name of the band ...
The Lightning Seeds

I believe I can safely say that "time's up" with this quiz question ...

The name of the group (as stated above) is The Lightning Seeds and the name of the song (which rose to [I think] number 9 or 10 in the charts) is The Life of Riley ...
Does ANYONE remember it?

I don't. I was only dimly aware of the Lightning Seeds. And that was because of a video I saw on MTV's 120 Minutes. The song wasn't too bad. I just don't remember it - beyond thinking it wasn't too bad.

Put on yer thinkin' caps! This next quiz question refers to the 1964 movie Baby, The Rain Must Fall starring Steve McQueen as a brawling, guitar-pickin' ex-con who tries to start over with his wife and daughter, but runs into one roadblock after another.

The quiz question is, name the artist who sang the theme song for that movie. (listed below)
Extra points if you can name the trio he sang with before becoming a solo artist.

Baby, The Rain Must Fall
Some men climb a mountain
Some men swim the sea
Some men fly above the sky
They are what they must be
Chorus:
But Baby, the rain must fall
Baby, the wind must blow
Wherever my heart leads me
Baby, I must go
Baby, I must go
I do not love for silver
I do not love for gold
My heart is mine to give away
It never will be sold
Chorus
I am not rich or famous
But who can ever tell
I don't know now what waits for me
Maybe heaven, maybe hell
Chorus

Glen Yarbrough, formerly the lead singer of The Limeliters.

Nailed it!! Congomulations! I now put forward the prize box for you to make your choosing, O smart one.

OOOOOOHHHHHHH, let me see what I get.
Oh
Oh
Oh
Ohmigosh!
It's just what I wanted.
A lifetime supply of nitpicking courtesy of Nitcentral. (sobs joyfully)
I'm so lucky!

Now here's the next question.
Who was the only Beatles guest musician to get credited on the record label when the single was released?

Billy Preston.

And Benn slam dunks that one! Congrats! Unfortunately the only thing left in the prize box is this piece of used chewing gum. I think it's spearmint. (sound of jaws working) Yes, spearmint.
Ptooey!
Here you go.

Gee, thanks, Butch.

I think.

Well, if West Virginia is place where he belongs, maybe he was a bit inbred...

No offense intended to real West Virginians!

Wrong board, Scott.

Whoops!

You're very welcome.

Name the song/artist/group from this snippet of lyrics:

Oh-ay oh-ay (Oh-ay oh-ay)
Oh-ay ooh-wah (Oh-ay ooh-wah)

Hint #1: another snippet
At night ...
When you turn off all the lights
There's no place that you can hide
No, no ...

Hint #2: next verse
In bed ...
Throw the covers on your head
And pretend like you are dead
But I know it ...

Gloria Estefan and The Miami Sound Machine's Rhythm Is Gonna Get You.

What do I win? What do I win? I hope it's something good!

Kewl, MarkN ... I thought I was gonna hafta figger out howta spell (Yah-yeah-go-o-oh and nah-Nah-NAH-NAH-nah ... nah-Nah-nah)!
Yer prize is a FREE course in "Urban Klingon, Formal Introductions and Shakespeare Catch-Phrases" ... just in case you're ever invited to a Klingon Murder trial.

As the Suspect of Honor.

Far out! Right on! Outta site! I can't wait to see that! People's Court, eat yer heart out!

Next quiz:
Match the song with the artist/group

Stumblin' In__________Walter Murphy
Rocky_______________Lighthouse
A Fifth of Beethoven___Al Wilson
Show & Tell__________Austin Roberts
Sunny Days__________Suzi Quantro w/Chris Norman

(extra points if BENN can guess who Mortimer Moolah is)
(DOUBLE EXTRA POINTS if anyone else can!!)

Stumblin' In......................Suzy Quatro w. Chris Norman
Rocky..............................Austin Roberts
A Fifth of Beethoven..........Walter Murphy
Show & Tell......................Al Wilson
Sunny Days......................Lighthouse

Wild guess on Mortimer Moolah......Johnny Cash

All correct on the matching game!

Very VERY good guess on Mortimer! Even though it is incorrect, I'll give ya the double extra points!

Why IS it that male country singers take names like that? Johhny Cash, Johnny Money, Johnny Dollar, Johhny Bill, Johnny Paycheck ...?

Mortimer Moolah was a character on a series of old North Texas TV commercials for a consumer finance company. Benn knows this person from the VHS I "loaned" him.

Next quiz:
Name the song/artist from this single line of lyric:
Oh baby, just you shut your mouth

Can anyone help me?

I'm trying to figure out the name of a certain piece of classical music, quite a famous one, I believe. Since it has no lyrics (as well it shouldn't), and I can't very well whistle or hum it for you, the best I can do is give the first few notes in what I think turns out to be the key of F Major. Just consider it a very unorthodox quiz...

C (dotted quarter note)
G (eighth note) below the C
C (dotted quarter) back up
G (eighth) below the C again
C (eighth)
G (eighth) below the, you know...
C (eighth)
E (eighth) ABOVE the C!
G (half) also above the C

F (dotted-quarter) right below that last G
D (eighth) below the F, you get the drill...
F (dotted-quarter)
D (eighth)
F (eighth)
D (eighth)
Bflat (eighth) below that D
D (eighth)
G (half) below the D again

OK, this goes to show why the musical staff was invented. Please forgive my sloppy format. If it's too confusing to make out, here's a hint. The IRS is currently putting people on hold to this piece...

Does anyone know the name of this tune?

Eine Kleine Nachtsmusik. It's a piece for strings by Mozart.

Duke, I commend you on the "quiz" ... it is a very (as you said) unorthodoxed quiz, but one that immediately set me to thinkin'.
I also commend ScottN for coming up with (what I HOPE is) the correct answer in less than 2 hours!!

KUDOS to you both!!

Thanks ScottN, for the answer, and Derf, for the Kudos (those are those chocolate-covered granola bars, right? )

I normally wouldn't have thought to post that kind of quiz, but the IRS had me on hold today for a half hour or so, and the whole time this was playing. I'd heard it a million times, but I can't ever seem to remember the titles of classical music. It was driving me crazy. Thanks again.

Only Kudos bars? I was kind of hoping to rummage around in the grabbag!

Oh yeah. Mortimer Moolah. I kinda do remember those commercials (or rather the character). I noticed the title of the tape was "Bill Camfield and KVTV The Early Years". I wonder if that means there'll be more. Considering all the clips are in black and white, I think they're all before my time. Still, I'd forgotten about Icky Twerp, Ajax and Delphina dancing in fron of the sign that said, "Slam Bang Theater featuring The Three Stooges". I wonder if Mortimer was an influence on Westway's Joe Greed?

Oh, the answer to your quiz:

"My little China Girl
You shouldn't mess with me.
I'll ruin everything you are.
You know, I'll give you television.
I'll give you eyes of blue.
I'll give you a man who wants to rule the world.

"And when I get excited,
My little China girl says,
'Oh baby, just you shut your mouth."

Stevie Ray Vaughan plays some great guitar on that David Bowie song. But, really Derf, I have no idea what the answer is. :-T

The answer is just what you posted, my friend!
My "hint" was going to be the verse about swastikas.

Next quiz: name the song/group from this snippet of lyric:
umma-zoom-zoom-zoom

Mazda?

The theme from the kid's show, Zoom?

Nope, nope ...
How about the whole line of lyric

All I wanna do
Is umma-zoom-zoom-zoom
Anda Boom-BOOM ...

Sheryl Crow's "All I Wanna Do"? (I am not being serious.)

Hint #1:
This "song" is from a group that only had its musical output in what might be labeled as "syncopated poetry" ... (i.e., NO actual "singing").

Hint #2: I'll give the name of the rap group ... this will leave just the name of the song to pin down ...

WRECKX-N-Effect

I'll toss in a bonus if you can name the album the song appeared on.

The answer to the quiz is ...
Rump Shaker
The album name is Hard or Smooth ...

Next quiz ...
Match the song with the artist/group

South City Midnight Lady____Jackson Browne
A$$hole__________________Dr. Hook
Tender Is The Night________Chicago
Anxiety's Moment__________Denis Leary
A Couple More Years_______Doobie Brothers

While yer cogitatin' 'bout the above quiz ...
Take a gander at dis'un ...

Name the song/group from these verses of lyrics:
She's sweet on Wagner,
I think she'd die for Beethoven,
She loves the way Puccini lays down a tune,
And Verdi's always creeping from her room

"Rockaria!" - Electric Light Orchestra from A New World Record. Their song, "Rock & Roll Is King" from Secret Messages seems to be the sequel to "Rockaria!" (I've never known Jeff Lynne to outright say so, but lyrically, it seems to be.)

For the quiz above it:

"A-hole" is Dennis Leary and "Tender Is the Night" is Jackson Browne working his F. Scott Fitzgerald mojo. The other three, I have no idear. I'm not too familiar with the repertoire of Chicago, The Brothers Doob or Dr. Hook to really even hazard a guess. I could cheat...

Since Benn's two above correct answers, that leaves the following three to decipher ...

South City Midnight Lady____Dr. Hook
A Couple More Years_______Chicago
Anxiety's Moment__________Doobie Brothers

Benn correctly identified the group as Electric light Orchestra and the song as Rockaria! ... but the verse I posted as the clue has got me thinkin':

She's sweet on Wagner,
I think she'd die for Beethoven,
She loves the way Puccini lays down a tune,
And Verdi's always creeping from her room

I wonder just exactly which works of these masters would be wafting from her room, if it were up to you to write a verse refering to them ... opinions?

Just for closure's sake ... here are the last three answers:
South City Midnight Lady____Doobie Brothers
A Couple More Years_______Dr. Hook
Anxiety's Moment__________Chicago

And as for which classical pieces would be "wafting" from her room ...

1. Wagner ... would HAVE to be "Ride of the Valkyries"
2. Beethoven ... my guess is his Symphony No. 6, "The Pastoral"
3. Puccini ... his opera "La Bohème" would be a good choice
4. Verdi ... I would swoon if "La Forza del Destino" was eminating from her room

Here's a quick quiz ... name the comedy team that produced this routine.

Montague For Governor
Montague: Good evening, my name is Montague D'alKemper and I'd like to thank you for coming tonight. As you know, I'm your candidate for governor on the Red, White and Blue ticket.
Heckler: Anybody that'll vote for you is nuts!
Montague: Don't forget, when you get to the polls, the name is Montague D'alKemper.
Heckler: They know you better by your nickname … Slick!
Montague: Friends, I stand for America.
Heckler: Who are you kidding? Your son's a draft dodger in Vancouver!
Montague: I'll have you know I'm a war veteran … I'm full of shrapnel.
Heckler: You can talk plainer than that!
Montague: I'm a red-blooded veteran with a green beret and a purple heart.
Heckler: And a yellow streak down your back!
Montague: I contacted malaria in Burma and typhoid in the Philippines.
Heckler: And God-knows-what in that hotel in Morocco!
Montague: I was wounded 13 times on an aircraft carrier.
Heckler: He kept walking into the propellers!
Montague: I fought the Battle of the Bulge.
Heckler: Some contest … right, Fatso?
Montague: I flew 30 seconds over Tokyo.
Heckler: He got there from the Opium Den in Hong Kong!
Montague: When you elect me governor, I'll bring the prostitutes to their knees! … and I'll STOP child molesting.
Heckler: You better, next time, you'll be a three-time loser!
Montague: I'll close topless bars.
Heckler: Yeah … tell 'em about the one you closed last night!
Montague: When I'm elected, I'll pass new tax bills and new welfare bills.
Heckler: The last new bills you passed got you one-to-five in San Quentin!
Montague: I'll make it safe for women to walk the streets at night.
Heckler: And if the price is right, you'll do business with them!
Montague: I'll provide better homes for illegitimate children.
Heckler: Big deal! Most of them are yours!
Montague: I'll make improvements in our State prisons and penitentiaries.
Heckler: You better, you'll be living there!
Montague: Will somebody throw the Governor out!?

Extra points if you can name the album it appears on.

Hudson and Landry

I've got it on "The Best of..."
I've got no idea what it was on originally.

p. s. this thread is up to 106k.

Well ... that's all I have it on too, so I guess you WIN! (besides, if anyone is THAT curious, the net awaits)

My FAVORITE skit from this CD is one that cannot be printed ... the "Obscene Phone Bust" skit! (just 'cause of the sound effects) - the next fav is "The Heaven Game".

PS - I'll create a "Quiz Corner III in the next day or two.

Oh, I didn't know there was a CD out. I've got the old vinyl LP which doesn't have either of the routines you mention on it.

Butch,
This CD has every Hudson and Landry routine I remember as a kid on it!

Here is the playlist:
1. I Couldn't Live Like That
(The Prospectors - featuring 'Floyd' the Snake)
2. AJAX Liquor Store
3. Monatgue for Governor
4. Fredrickism
(a new religion created by Freddie Shultz)
5. AJAX Mortuary
(the Boris Karloff-like mortician has a cold)
6. Bruiser Laue, Football Player
7. Bruiser Meets Dracula
8. AJAX Airlines
9. Conelius Vanderbuilt
(a hick arrives in New York)
10. The Heaven Game
(Groucho proclaims there's no prejudice in heaven)
11. Sir Basil
12. Obscene Phone Bust
(naughty words playfully 'bleeped' out)
13. AJAX Travel Bureau
(W.C. Fields books tahiti-bound traveler to Bogata)
14. Frontier Christmas

here's an exerpt from track #1 - I Couldn't Live Like That ...

Rafe: You better never steal frum me, Zeke ... better never git into my bags. You know what it says in the bible ...
Zeke: What does it say?
Rafe: "Thou shalt not steal".
Zeke: I ain't gonna steal.
Rafe: By the way, where is the bible?
Zeke: You know where the bible is well as I do.
Rafe: Where?
Zeke: We smoked it.
Rafe: You know Zeke, yer gittin' powerful gamey. How long's it been since you've been down to the crick and took yerself a good bath?
Zeke: Yer gittin' to sound like 'Ole Farley! He was a fiend fer that. 'Twern't nuthin' fer him to got out and take two, three baths a year!
Rafe: Yeah, 'Ole Farley ... almost fergot about him.
Zeke: We're gonna havta bury him.
Rafe: Yeah, we keep puttin' it off.
Zeke: Ever occur to you, might be 'Ole Farley who's gittin' gamey?
Rafe: Boy, you'll do anything to get outa that bath, won'tcha?

Ah yes, I always liked the Floyd the snake sound effect in that sketch. I think it was somebody shaking a nearly empty pill bottle.

There was another sketch I've heard only once. It was supposed to be an interview with an old baseball player who had been in the Negro League.