80s Behind the Lyrics V

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1. Run-DMC, in their fun and farcical "You Be Illin'" sing "(To)day you won a ticket to see Doctor J/ Front row seat (in free!) no pay." We all know that Doctor J is the remarkable Julius Erving, but do you know the mascot of his college team? Minutemen Redmen Orangemen Bonnies

2. "You're a loaded gun/ There's nowhere to run/ No one can save me, the damage is done/ Shot through the heart, and you're to blame/ You give love a bad name." Bon Jovi compares his hurtful lover to a gun. What rhetorical device does he employ here? simile synechdoche metonymy metaphor

3. When Hall and Oates sang "I'm down on my daydream/ All that sleepwalk should be over by now/ I know" in their hit "You Make My Dreams," I wonder if they knew that the scientific term for sleepwalking is ________________. Pathophysiology Somnambulism Nocturnambulation Nocturnalation

4. Dead or Alive had one hit in "You Spin Me 'Round." The lyrics went like this: "You spin me right round, baby/ Right round like a record, baby/ Right Round round round." The question is this: How many revolutions per minute does a properly tuned long playing record make? 45 rpm 33 1/3 rpm 78 rpm 96 rpm

5. The Bangles had a hit with the weird "Walk Like an Egyptian." One of the lines runs, "All the Japanese with their Yen/ The party boys call the Kremlin." What is the bricked expanse just outside the eastern wall of the Kremlin? Answer: (Two Words)

6. Dire Straits tries to trick us when they sing, "Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies/ Be-Bop-A-Lula, Baby What I Say/ Here comes Johnny singing I Gotta Woman/ Down in the tunnels, trying to make it pay." Johnny didn't record these songs, but who had a smash hit with "Be-Bop-a-Lula"? Dion and the Belmonts Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps Art Adams Rusty Draper

7. Eddie Money asked his romantic interest, "If I could walk on water/ Would believe in me?" Whom did Jesus ask to walk on water with him? Judas John Peter James

8. Was, Not Was had a little fun with their only hit "Walk the Dinosaur." One line runs, "The sun was spitting fire, the sky was blue as ice/ I felt a little tired, so I watched Miami Vice." Who actually wrote the theme song for the popular detective show? Jan Hammer Henry Mancini Harold Faltermeyer Chuck Mangione

9. In their hit "Wind of Change," the Scorpions sing, "I follow the Moskva/ Down to Gorky Park/ Listening to the wind of change." Who was this Gorky guy that they named a park after him? Leader of a band A Soviet film director A Russian Politician who worked for Stalin A Russian writer

10. Finally, Sting likes the mythical and metaphysical in his lyrics, and this little piece from The Police's "Wrapped Around Your Finger" is no exception: "You consider me the young apprentice/ Caught between Scylla and Charybdis." Just who are Scylla and Charybdis? The gods of "Love" and "Hate" The godesses of "Light" and the god of "Darkness" Goddesses whose songs destroyed ships as they sailed past Two sea monsters