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  Images of Mortality from the Indigo Girls   best quiz  
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Many of the Indigo Girls' songs involve mortality. Some of these songs are heartbreaking, but many confirm the power and permanence of the cycle of life.
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  People in Indigo Girls Lyrics   popular trivia quiz  
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Can you identify these people mentioned in song lyrics by the Indigo Girls? A couple of these are also from Amy Ray's solo album "Stag."
Tough, 10 Qns, crisw, Mar 10 06
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  Opening Lyrics of the Indigo Girls    
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Here's a quiz about the lyrics of Amy and Emily's songs. I'll give you the first line, and you need to choose what song it comes from. Have fun matching them up!
Average, 20 Qns, BrassMonkey89, Aug 25 06
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  Animals in Indigo Girls Songs    
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Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, the Indigo Girls, have been active in a variety of animal, environmental and vegetarian causes. Not surprisingly, animals are often mentioned in their songs.
Tough, 10 Qns, crisw, Jun 07 07
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  Despite our Differences    
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"Despite Our Differences," the first album from the Girls since they left Epic Records, contains everything from gentle love songs to hard-rocking ballads. Come sample Emily Saliers and Amy Ray's work!
Average, 10 Qns, crisw, Oct 05 06
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  The Indigo Girls    
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Questions on the popular band The Indigo Girls.
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  1200 Curfews    
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Hey, this is a quiz about the live album "1200 Curfews". It's mainly about the people in their songs. I hope you like it!
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  Fractured Indigo Girls Songs    
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Test your knowledge of Indigo Girls songs with this fractured words quiz.
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trivia question Quick Question
What song are the following lyrics from- 'I am an only child, born of the wild. riddled to spend my time defending my land.'?

From Quiz "The Indigo Girls"





Indigo Girls Trivia Questions

1. From which song does the album title "Despite our Differences" come?

From Quiz
Despite our Differences

Answer: I Believe in Love

"I Believe in Love" is a typical Emily ballad about the redemptive power of love. "I want to say that underneath it all you are my friend And the way that I fell for you I'll never fall that way again I still believe despite our differences that what we have's enough And I believe in you and I believe in love."

2. "You can go the East to find your inner hemisphere" What Indigo Girls song am I?

From Quiz Opening Lyrics of the Indigo Girls

Answer: Land of Canaan

"Land of Canaan" was first seen in 1985 on a six song independent release called "Indigo Girls". It was also put on their independent release of "Strange Fire" in 1987. Both are out of print, so on October 3, 2004, "Land of Canaan" was put on the Epic Records release of "Strange Fire". The style of the song changed and it was put twice on their hit album, "Indigo Girls" (February 28, 1989). And just one more time, a live version was put on "1200 curfews" in October of 1995. "Go" was first seen on September 28, 1999 on "Come on Now Social". It was also re-released on October 3, 2000 on a compilaton album, "Retrospective". "Dairy Queen" is a great song on "All That We Let In" (February 17, 2004). "Get Out the Map" first came out on April 29. 1997 on "Shaming of the Sun". It was also re-released on "Retrospective".

3. When was the "1200 Curfews" CD released?

From Quiz 1200 Curfews

Answer: 1995

The CD is a great mix of live songs, studio versions and awesome remakes. It was recorded between April 18, 1993 and May 27, 1995 with a release date of October 24, 1995.

4. According to the lyrics of this, one of the Indigo Girls' most popular songs, whose "head was on the block- the crime was looking up for truth"?

From Quiz People in Indigo Girls Lyrics

Answer: Galileo & Galileo Galilei

Galileo, of course, was the astronomer whose wide-ranging discoveries were the foundations of much of today's science. His arguments that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the solar system, which contradicted Biblical teachings, led to his trial by the Inquisition in 1633. He actually was not executed- a common misconception. Instead, he lived the next 8 years under house arrest, before dying at the age of 77. "Galileo" first appeared on the album "Rites of Passage."

5. An early experience in Amy Ray's life was traumatic, but shaped her future sensitivities. The song "Dead Man's Hill" records her impressions of this event. What was it?

From Quiz Images of Mortality from the Indigo Girls

Answer: Amy witnessing older children setting cats on fire

Some of the lyrics of the song are: I remember cats on fire gasoline a burning spiral standing underneath the night fighting back with all my might empty cans and charred remains find them in the heat of day on the top of Dead Man's Hill this is what I know of shame forever Amy's father sung background vocals with her on this song.

6. Clothes Are Tooth Find

From Quiz Fractured Indigo Girls Songs

Answer: Closer to Fine

"There's more than one answer to these questions." From the 1989 self titled album.

7. The song 'Secure Yourself' is really about...

From Quiz The Indigo Girls

Answer: The death of Amy's cat

Both of the Indigo Girls are vegetarians and are sensitive to animal issues.

8. Amy waxes political on several songs on this album. Which two songs decry the conversion of rural land into housing developments?

From Quiz Despite our Differences

Answer: "Dirt and Dead Ends" and "They Won't Have Me"

As a resident of rural Georgia as well as an activist for indigenous peoples, Amy feels an obligation to defend rural lifestyles and protect wild lands. Both songs capture this passion. In "Dirt and Dead Ends," Amy sings: "It's been you and me on this frontier trying not to be suburban pioneers. Fightin' off the pavers and the associations, and the covenants against the trailers." In "They Won't Have Me" she questions "Who's gonna keep the farmland from the sub-division man?"

9. Who wrote the song "Thin Line"?

From Quiz 1200 Curfews

Answer: Gerard McHugh

The recording of this song is not in front of an audience. It was recorded in a dressing room in Santa Monica, California on May 27, 1995.

10. "Point Hope, F.O.I.A." on "Rarities" is a song about the dangers of nuclear contamination. According to the song, what animals were contaminated in Point Hope, Alaska?

From Quiz Animals in Indigo Girls Songs

Answer: Caribou

"Point Hope, F.O.I.A." mentions an experiment, kept secret for many years, in which the US government buried nuclear waste near Point Hope in order to see how it spread into the ecosystem. It was absorbed by lichen, then by the caribou that fed on the lichen. The lyrics state, "I hear the lichen bought it, now it's running through the caribou."

11. Along with "Closer to Fine," this song is one of the Indigo Girls' "signatures." It is a musing on reincarnation; as Emily Saliers said, "It's meant to be light-hearted, like 'If this is really true, I've got a lot of baggage from my past lives!'"

From Quiz Images of Mortality from the Indigo Girls

Answer: Galileo

The song is amusing (as well as a musing!), in a wry sense, as Emily tries to explain her fear of flying by theorizing that one past life must have ended in an airplane crash, and hopes that the world cannot end in nuclear war because she hasn't "gotten it right" yet.

12. Why is the band called the 'Indigo Girls'?

From Quiz The Indigo Girls

Answer: Amy picked the word out of a dictionary because it sounded 'cool'

Several songs and albums also have the same origin- for example, "Swamp Ophelia" was named after a flower they saw on a trip to Florida.

13. Emily rarely rocks, but when she does, she does it well. The first track on this album, "Pendulum Swinger," has a toe-tapping beat and a powerful message. What is the best description of who the "pendulum swingers" are?

From Quiz Despite our Differences

Answer: Strong women

This song describes the power of strong women, and the rediscovery of the feminine power of change- "Pushed under by the main press, buried under a code of dress, Relegated by the Vatican, But you can't keep a spirit down that wants to get up again" I normally prefer Amy's songs to Emily's, but the songs of hers that I like, I like very much! This toe-tapping, anti-Bush, pro-feminist paean is one of her best, and has even inspired a "Pendulum Swinger" dance at IG concerts!

14. "I went all the way to Paris to forget your face" Which Indigo Girls song is this in?

From Quiz Opening Lyrics of the Indigo Girls

Answer: History of Us

This solo by Emily was seen with "Land of Canaan" on their 1985 independent release. It was re-released on "Indigo Girls". "Fare Thee Well" is another solo of hers that is on the album, "Swamp Ophelia" (May 10, 1994). "Leaving" is from "Retrospective", one of only two new songs that were on this 2000 album. "Gone Again" is from 1999, on "Come on Now Social".

15. What two states are mentioned in the beginning of "Jonas and Ezekial"?

From Quiz 1200 Curfews

Answer: New Hampshire and Vermont

"I left my anger in a river running Highway 5. New Hampshire, Vermont..." Written by Amy Ray, this song came out in 1992 on the album "Rites of Passage".

16. Which song involves vivid imagery comparing the breakup of a relationship to Pentecostal snake worship?

From Quiz Animals in Indigo Girls Songs

Answer: Shed Your Skin

The lyrics of "Shed Your Skin," by Amy Ray on the album "Shaming of the Sun," describe the rituals of snake worshippers, who feel that their faith will protect them from the bites of serpents: "I'm speaking in tongues handling you and I got religion now look at it the days grow longer as we grow stronger so shed your skin baby let it rip"

17. The song "Go" is an anthem to young activists. During the song, some poetry is read, and the activist author of the poetry was the inspiration for the song. Who was she?

From Quiz People in Indigo Girls Lyrics

Answer: Meridel Le Sueur

Iowan Meridel Le Seur's parents were socialists in turn-of-the-century America. She wrote detailed accounts of injustices in the US- bread lines, unemployment, government indifference. She was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. She was also an author of historical books for children. She died in 1996 at the age of 96. "Go" is on the album "Come On Now Social." Her lyrics in the song are: "The truth is I was afraid I felt inferior I felt I excelled in competing with others and I knew instantly that these people were not competing at all, that they were acting in a strange, powerful trance of movement together and I was filled with longing to act with them and with the fear that I could not"

18. Amy Ray wrote this song after learning of a custom that Appalachian men used to honor and memorialize their wives that had passed away.

From Quiz Images of Mortality from the Indigo Girls

Answer: Cedar Tree

She visited a farmstead from the 1800s and noted the cedar trees planted there. Friends told her that each one was for a departed wife.

19. Lane Guage Order Kids

From Quiz Fractured Indigo Girls Songs

Answer: Language or the Kiss

"I don't know if it was real or in a dream lately waking up I'm not sure where I've been." From the 1994 album "Swamp Ophelia".

20. This is the Indigo Girls' signature song, played at the end of almost every concert. Some of its lyrics are 'I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind,got my paper and I was free'

From Quiz The Indigo Girls

Answer: Closer to Fine

It's a song about believing in oneself.

21. One of Emily's recurring themes in her songs is that of vehicle crashes. Which song on this album contains this theme?

From Quiz Despite our Differences

Answer: All the Way

"All the Way" contains imagery about a truck crash. The theme has surfaced in songs such as "Watershed" ("Twisted guard rails on the highway, broken glass on the cement...) "Galileo ("And then I think about my fear of motion, which I never could explain, some other fool across the ocean years ago must have crashed his little airplane...") and "All That We Let In" " when all that guards us is a single centerline..."

22. "From the Bowery to the brimstone, I tried to find your heart" Name that Indigo Girls song!

From Quiz Opening Lyrics of the Indigo Girls

Answer: 1 2 3

"1 2 3" is track number five on the popular "Nomads Indians Saints". "Hope Alone" is on "Become You". "Strange Fire" is from, well..."Strange Fire". A live version appeared on 1200 Curfews, and the studio version is the first track on "Retrospective". "Everything in its Own Time" was released on "Shaming of the Sun".

23. Indigo Girls did a remake of a Bob Dylan song that they performed at THIS concert. Which song was it?

From Quiz 1200 Curfews

Answer: Tangled Up in Blue

They also did "All Along the Watchtower", but it was on another live album titled "Back on the Bus Y'All", from 1991.

24. In the song "Deconstruction," what animals does Emily see as a possible portent of "tragic events"?

From Quiz Animals in Indigo Girls Songs

Answer: Foxes

This song, from "Become You," details the breakup of a relationship along with the everyday events that mirror it. "A family of foxes came to my yard and dug in so I looked in a book to see what this could possibly mean yeah 'cause there's fate in the breeze signs in the trees and possible tragic events when forces collide with the damage strewn wide and holes blasted straight through the fence"

25. The song "Three Hits" contains these lyrics: "Three hits to the heart son and it's poetry in motion one could send you down the river three's a strange way to be delivered" What poet is being referenced in this song?

From Quiz People in Indigo Girls Lyrics

Answer: Frank Stanford

Stanford, born in Mississippi, was a fellow Southerner. The lyrics "one could send you down the river" refer to the fact that he was adopted. He wrote poetry filled with darkness and angst. In 1978, he committed suicide by shooting himself three times in the heart. "Three Hits" is from the album "Rites of Passage."

26. Emily penned this song about the balance of loss in life versus the joy of experience. The song is perhaps most notable for Amy's haunting background vocals.

From Quiz Images of Mortality from the Indigo Girls

Answer: All That We Let In

Some lyrics: Emily sings: I pass the cemetery, walk my dog down there I read the names in stone and I say a silent prayer when I get home you're cooking supper on the stove and the greatest gift of life is to know love And then Amy chimes in with: Well I don't know where it all begins and I don't know where it all will end We're better off for all that we let in

27. The album 'Swamp Ophelia' was named after

From Quiz The Indigo Girls

Answer: A flower

However, exactly what flower it was is a matter of conjecture- probably they misheard "psammophilia."

28. Which song on this album explores Amy's connections to her large Southern family?

From Quiz Despite our Differences

Answer: Little Perennials

In a radio interview, Amy explained that the song was titled "Little Perennials" because she has relatives that, like seedlings, just keep popping up everywhere!

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