ANSWER 10 QUESTIONS
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Simon and Garfunkel SONG Quiz - 1
Question 1 |
Breaking up or being separated is another common theme/action in S&G songs. But who leaves who? One song differs from the other, which one?
Overs | |
Cecilia | |
Wednesday Morning, 3 a.m. | |
Somewhere They Can't Find Me |
Question 1 Explanation:
Cecilia is the only one who leaves the singer. In the other songs, the singer is the one who leaves or is thinking of leaving.
Question 2 |
Which title does not belong here?
Bridge Over Troubled Water | |
A Simple Desultory Philippic | |
Wednesday Morning, 3 a.m. | |
Punkys Dilemma |
Question 2 Explanation:
"Bridge Over Troubled Water" is the chorus of the song. The other titles are not part of the lyrics.
Question 3 |
Weather is the common denominator in three of these songs. Which song has a different type of weather from the others?
Bleecker Street | |
Kathy's Song | |
The Sun is Burning in the Sky | |
Cloudy |
Question 3 Explanation:
This is all about the weather; the foggy "Bleecker Street", the cloudy "Cloudy" and the rainy "Kathys Song", is not at all like the sunny "The Sun is Burning", though the burning sun isn't always positive.
Question 4 |
The narrator in the song is what differs one song from the other? Which song?
A Hazy Shade of Winter | |
Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall | |
Punkys Dilemma | |
Big, Bright, Green Pleasure Machine |
Question 4 Explanation:
The "I" person is present in the other songs.
Question 5 |
An action combines three of these, which one is not among those three?
A Most Peculiar Man | |
Overs | |
Save the Life of My Child | |
Richard Cory |
Question 5 Explanation:
The other songs revolve around a person who commits suicide. "Overs" is about a failing marriage.
Question 6 |
Religious elements are often found in Paul Simon songs. Which song does not contain any such elements?
Sounds of Silence | |
Why Don't You Write Me | |
Blessed | |
Bleecker Street |
Question 6 Explanation:
Some examples:
"Holy, holy is his sacrament" (Bleecker Street)
"Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit" (Blessed)
"And the people bowed and prayed/ to the neon god they made" (Sounds of Silence)
Question 7 |
Another popular theme is of course death. But which of these songs does not mention the word?
He Was My Brother | |
Patterns | |
Save The Life Of My Child | |
Bye, Bye Love |
Question 7 Explanation:
Though it is about death, "Save the Life of My Child" does not mention the word death, dead or die, like the other three.
Question 8 |
Motion, in any form combines three songs. Which song is not among these?
America | |
Keep the Customers Satisfied | |
Old Friends | |
The Only Living Boy in New York |
Question 8 Explanation:
The old friends on the park bench isn't moving, but in the other songs someone is travelling. In "America" they take the Greyhound bus, in "The Only living boy" Tom takes a plane, and in "Keep The Customer Satisfied" he is always moving.
Question 9 |
Another motion question. Walking, wandering, basically moving with your feet, which song does not contain this?
For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her | |
Sounds of Silence | |
59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) | |
Bridge Over Troubled Water |
Question 9 Explanation:
Whereas the narrator in the other songs are walking (or wandering/kicking down), the narrator in "Bridge Over Troubled Water" offers himself to lay down.
Question 10 |
Paul Simon seems to like sitting by the window. In which song doesn't the word "window" appear?
Kathys Song | |
I am a Rock | |
Overs | |
The Dangling Conversation |
Question 10 Explanation:
"gazing from my window to the streets below" - (I am a Rock)
"sitting on the window sill" - (Overs)
"through the window of my eyes" - (Kathys Song)
There are 10 questions to complete.
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