SONGS AND SINGERS QUIZ
Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 5:35 pmQuestion 1: In 1979 a song said to be about myxomatosis sold over a million copies in the United Kingdom. What was it called? ART GARFUNKAL
Question 2: In 1972 Slim Dusty released a song celebrating an Australian landscape which had "gum trees by the roadway", and what "by the creek"?WILLOWS
Question 3: In the 1970s and 1980s Lynda Nutter was the lead singer of a successful Western Australian band named after a common reptile found in South Western WA. What was the band called?THE DUGITES
Question 4: What 1953 Australian folk song recounts a supposedly true incident in which a cane grower on Queensland's Barron River had his trousers torn off by a marauding feral pig? BOLD TOMMY PAYNE..(BY JACK CROSSLAND)
Question 5: What 1980s hit single by New Zealand band Split Enz compared a love affair with a woman to a fatal encounter with an elasmobranch?SHARK ATTACK
Question 6: Best known for a song about a Vietnam veteran, what 1980s Adelaide folk band took its name from a wide-spread species of water-loving eucalyptus? REDGUM
Question 7: What 1987 hit song by Midnight Oil describes the ecology of Australia's western desert, which it says "lives and breathes in 45 degrees"? BEDS ARE BURNING
Question 8: What Australian grunge band sprang to international fame in 1995 with a debut album that featured an amphibian on the cover, and included a track named after an insect?SILVERCHAIR..FROGSTOMP...CICADA
Question 9: What Australian vocal artist began her career in 1971 with an album that included a traditional song about a crime of passion on the banks of a US River?OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN....ON THE BANKS OF THE OHIO
Question 10: And what Australian vocal artist began her career in 2004 with an album that included a song about a 10-year old girl drowning herself in a river to escape an abusive family?MISSY HIGGINS....THE SOUND OF WHITE...THE RIVER
Question 2: In 1972 Slim Dusty released a song celebrating an Australian landscape which had "gum trees by the roadway", and what "by the creek"?WILLOWS
Question 3: In the 1970s and 1980s Lynda Nutter was the lead singer of a successful Western Australian band named after a common reptile found in South Western WA. What was the band called?THE DUGITES
Question 4: What 1953 Australian folk song recounts a supposedly true incident in which a cane grower on Queensland's Barron River had his trousers torn off by a marauding feral pig? BOLD TOMMY PAYNE..(BY JACK CROSSLAND)
Question 5: What 1980s hit single by New Zealand band Split Enz compared a love affair with a woman to a fatal encounter with an elasmobranch?SHARK ATTACK
Question 6: Best known for a song about a Vietnam veteran, what 1980s Adelaide folk band took its name from a wide-spread species of water-loving eucalyptus? REDGUM
Question 7: What 1987 hit song by Midnight Oil describes the ecology of Australia's western desert, which it says "lives and breathes in 45 degrees"? BEDS ARE BURNING
Question 8: What Australian grunge band sprang to international fame in 1995 with a debut album that featured an amphibian on the cover, and included a track named after an insect?SILVERCHAIR..FROGSTOMP...CICADA
Question 9: What Australian vocal artist began her career in 1971 with an album that included a traditional song about a crime of passion on the banks of a US River?OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN....ON THE BANKS OF THE OHIO
Question 10: And what Australian vocal artist began her career in 2004 with an album that included a song about a 10-year old girl drowning herself in a river to escape an abusive family?MISSY HIGGINS....THE SOUND OF WHITE...THE RIVER
