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Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?

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"If we look at a random sampling of popular song titles,we might be led to believe that we are terribly preoccupied with thoughts of time and its passage. Let's take a closer look at some of the music that addresses this popular theme. "

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1. Jim Croce's album "You Don't Mess Around with Jim" reached #1 on the charts, due in part to the popular song "Time in a Bottle." Tragically, Croce was killed in a small plane crash in 1973, just a year after recording this album. In 1985, Croce's widow Ingrid Croce opened a business in San Diego, CA, partly in tribute to her late husband. What was the name of this business?
    Croce's Coffeehouse & Record Shop
    Croce's Food & Blues
    Croce's Italian Restaurant
    Croce's Restaurant & Jazz Bar


2. This 1970 release by Chicago Transit Authority asks the age-old question, "Does Anybody Really Know What Time it Is?" I often wonder this myself when daylight saving time (DST) begins and ends. In which part of the world is daylight savings time the least likely to be implemented?
    Eastern Asia
    Northern Europe
    Equatorial regions
    Southern hemisphere


3. "Time After Time" was Cyndi Lauper's second #1 hit in the US; it made the charts in 1984, a year after her anthem song, "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun." Cyndi enjoyed a great deal of popularity in the 1980s and continued to perform well into the 21st century, achieving success in both music and film work. She was even honored in an unusual way by a popular game show of the Eighties; what was this game show?
    Press Your Luck
    Wheel of Fortune
    Jeopardy
    $25,000 Pyramid


4. The movie "Casablanca" starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Berman brought us Dooley Wilson's unforgettable classic "As Time Goes By." In fact, it was so unforgettable that the American Film Industry voted it as the #2 top movie song of all time. What equally memorable tune made the #1 spot on the AFI list of top movie songs?
    Singin' in the Rain
    Over the Rainbow
    Moon River
    White Christmas


5. "One Day At a Time" was written by Nashville songwriter Marijohn Wilkin. What well-known singer/songwriter, who later recorded the song, did she call on for help while writing it?
    Joni Mitchell
    James Taylor
    Kris Kristofferson
    Gordon Lightfoot


6. "If you got the money, honey, I got the time; we'll go honky-tonkin' and we'll have a time." Singer and songwriter Lefty Frizzell gave us these memorable lyrics in 1950. What kind of car did Lefty encourage his well-heeled date to bring, while he left his old wreck behind?
    Cadillac
    Buick
    Lincoln
    V-8 Ford


7. Chicago Transit Authority seemed to be a little obsessed with time; after their 1970 hit "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?", they gave us yet another song about time, "25 or 6 to 4." If you needed to know exactly what time it was, even down to fractions of a second, which of these is NOT a time standard you might refer to?
    TAI
    GPS
    UTC
    GMT


8. The song "No Time" was recorded by The Guess Who and released early in 1970. The band followed up shortly after with another song, "American Woman," that would reach #1 on the American music charts. This was a first for a rock group from their country, but what country was this?
    Scotland
    South Africa
    Australia
    Canada


9. The song "A Time for Us" was recorded as both a lyric version, sung by Johnny Mathis, and an instrumental version which was performed by Henry Mancini. It was the love theme from a movie portraying a very popular and unforgettable love story - but which movie?
    Dr. Zhivago
    The Way We Were
    Love Story
    Romeo and Juliet


10. "In the Year 2525" hit the charts in the summer of 1969. One verse of this song predicts that in the year 3535, "Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies; Everything you think do and say, Is in the pill you took today." Which of these drugs has already been employed as a "truth serum" during interrogations?
    Hydrochlorothiazide
    Pantothenic acid
    Acetylsalicylic acid
    Sodium pentothal


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Compiled Jun 28 12