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2 Postal Service quizzes and 20 Postal Service trivia questions.
1.
  Postal Service    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
A quiz on the band Postal Service. I only hope that after this quiz, you give them a chance, and listen to some of their songs.
Average, 10 Qns, milky54, Jul 24 08
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  The Postal Service - Lyrics    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Just match the lyrics with the name of the song! Have fun!
Average, 10 Qns, sweetfreek91, Jul 24 08
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Postal Service Trivia Questions
1. What singer, who also appears in Death Cab for Cutie, is a member of Postal Service?

From Quiz Postal Service

Answer: Ben Gibbard

Jimmy Tamborello is the other member of Postal Service, who appears in other bands such as Dntel, Headset and Figurine. Jenny Lewis appears in the band We Will Become Silhouettes' music video, and Chris Walla plays piano in the band's song, as well as having much of his guitar playing inserted into the Postal Service's songs.

2. Which song features the following lyric: "I need you to pretend that we are in love again and you agreed to"?

From Quiz The Postal Service - Lyrics

Answer: Clark Gable

The song "Clark Gable" has to do with a man making a movie about love.

3. Which song features the following lyric: "Will someone please call a surgeon who can crack my ribs and repair this broken heart..."?

From Quiz The Postal Service - Lyrics

Answer: Nothing Better

"Nothing Better" features a girl singing in the background with the band.

4. Which song by the Postal Service is actually about a nuclear fallout?

From Quiz Postal Service

Answer: We Will Become Silhouettes

This song includes lyrics such as "I've got a cupboard with cans of food, filtered water and pictures of you, and I'm not coming out until this is all over." Also, the lyrics "I wanted to walk through the empty streets, and feel something constant under my feet, but all the newspapers recommended that I stay indoors, because the air outside will make, our cells divide at an alarming rate, until our skin simply cannot hold, all our insides in, and that's when we'll explode" describe the effects nuclear radiation have on our body.

5. Which song features the following lyric: "I'll be your winter coat buttoned and zipped straight to the throat with the collar up so you won't catch a cold"?

From Quiz The Postal Service - Lyrics

Answer: The Brand New Colony

This song is about how well this man would treat his woman right.

6. Which song contains the lyrics "Inhaling thrills, through 20-dollar bills and the tumblers are drained and then flooded again and again"?

From Quiz Postal Service

Answer: This Place is a Prison

"This Place is a Prison" is believed to be about a man struggling with alcoholism. The lines "what does it take, to get a drink in this place?" help determine this.

7. Which song features the following lyric: "Last week I had the strangest dream, where everything was exactly how it seemed and there was never any mystery, of who shot John F. Kennedy"?

From Quiz The Postal Service - Lyrics

Answer: Sleeping In

"Sleeping In" is a song about how the world is perfect in his dreams. This song is so touching to me.

8. Which song features the following lyric: "I'm looking through the glass where the light bends at the cracks, and I'm screaming at the top of my lungs"?

From Quiz The Postal Service - Lyrics

Answer: We Will Become Silhouettes

This song is about someone who's going through a break up or a fight and they don't want to deal with it and just want it all to blow over. Or, possibly, it is about the aftermath of nuclear holocaust....

9. Which song features the following lyric: "You seem so out of context, in this gaudy apartment complex, a stranger with your door key, explaining that I'm just visiting"?

From Quiz The Postal Service - Lyrics

Answer: The District Sleeps Alone Tonight

In this song, he's talking about visiting an old friend in DC. Someone he used to be very close to, but now the friend has new friends and they've grown apart and he doesn't feel apart of things anymore with the new friends and the apartment and etc.

10. What company has an commercial that strikingly resembles the music video for "Such Great Heights"?

From Quiz Postal Service

Answer: Apple

The video is of workers in white suits, going about work with complex machines, depicting computer chips among other bits of technology. In both videos, there is a zoom out of a computer chip, along with many other resemblences.

11. Which song features the following lyric: "and I know that it's not a party if it happens every night"?

From Quiz The Postal Service - Lyrics

Answer: This Place is A Prison

This song is a bout him talking to a friend or loved one or he's just commenting on people who become enthralled in a scene that is only harmful to them in the end. "Inhaling thrills through 20 dollar bills" compares the party scene to a quick cocaine fix... "I know that it's not a party when it happens every night"...

12. Which song features the lyric: "And I have to speculate that God himself did make us into corresponding shapes like puzzle pieces from clay"?

From Quiz The Postal Service - Lyrics

Answer: Such Great Heights

"Such Great Heights" is a song that KROQ USUALLY puts on the radio.

13. Which song features the lyric: "I watch the patchwork farms', slow fade into the ocean's arms And from here they can't see me stare"?

From Quiz The Postal Service - Lyrics

Answer: Recycled Air

This song is about him on an airplane and looking down one earth He's "feeling green"... feeling sick. He's tasting recycled air which is exactly how the air in airplanes is.

14. Which song features the lyric: "I'll write you a song and it won't be hard to sing"?

From Quiz The Postal Service - Lyrics

Answer: The Natural Anthem

This song is about him writing a song that will be familiar to everyone and everyone will sing it. It will be an anthem for those who sing it.

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