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1 trivia quiz  Tom Waits in Other Places icon
Tom Waits has done a little of everything in the entertainment industry, but he still resides in the margins, a genius only to those weird enough to recognize a true original.
Difficult 10Q
171 plays
Jun 20 07
JoeSmow
2 trivia quiz  The Great Tom Waits icon
Ten questions about one of the greatest singer/songwriters ever.
Average 10Q
375 plays
Feb 23 04
jjalan
3 trivia quiz  Tom Waits Trivia
This is a trivia quiz on my very favourite musician - Tom Waits.
Tough 10Q
582 plays
Jul 23 02
pia_fraus
4 trivia quiz  Tom Waits' Lyrics icon
No one writes songs the way Tom Waits does. Let's see how close you've been listening... Try to identify which song the following lyrics are from.
Tough 10Q
408 plays
Feb 18 02
kmria
5 trivia quiz  Ten Tom Waits Songs icon
My father first got me interested in Tom Waits now he is one of my favorites. Here are some lyrics from my favorite Tom Waits songs, can you guess which song they're from?
Average 10Q
552 plays
Mar 08 03
MollyGrue
6 trivia quiz  Tom Waits Lyrics icon
Here's a quiz on the lyrics of that globe-trotting, whiskey-soaked, jaded gutter poet, Tom Waits. Have fun!
Tough 10Q
324 plays
Apr 09 02
ensiform

Some sample questions from this category:

* 'Well, go ahead and call the cops; You don't meet nice girls in coffee shops.'
* 'Wasted and wounded it ain't what the moon did; I got what I paid for now.'
* 'Never could stand that dog.'
* 'It's hard to say grace and to sit in the place; Of someone missing at the table.'
* 'Schiffer broke a bottle on Morgan's head; And I've been stepping on the Devil's tail; Across the stripes of a full moon's head; Through the bars of a Cuban jail.'
* 'Running through the graveyard; We laughed my friends and I; We swore we'd be together; Until the day we died.'
* 'I been a cabby and a stock clerk; And a soda fountain jock jerk; And a manic mechanic on cars.'
* 'I guess you heard about Nash he was killed in a crash; Hell that must have been two or three years ago now; Yea he spun out and he rolled; He hit a telephone pole.'
* 'Now don't be a cry baby; When there's wood in the shed; There's a bird in the chimney; And a stone in my bed.'
* 'I don't know how long it has been but I was born in Brennan's Glenn.'
* 'It's cold back in Chicago but in Los Angeles it's worse'
* 'I can hear him rolling on down the lane / I said Hollywood be thy name'
* 'In a Hong Kong drizzle on Cuban heels I rowed down the gutter to the Blood Bank.'
* 'I'll start talking from the brim of a thimble full of whiskey on a train through the Bronx that will take you just as far as the empty of a bottle to the highway of a scar.'
* 'And then push came to shove, shove came to biff / Girls like that just lay you out stiff / Maybe I'll go to Cleveland or get me a tattoo or somethin'.'
* 'Portland threw a shot glass and a Buffalo squeeze'
* 'Better off in Iowa against your scrambled eggs / than crawling down Cahuenga on a broken pair of legs.'
* 'A Cincinatti jacket and a sad-luck dame hanging out the window with a bottle full of rain.'
* 'Get me to Reno, got to bring it in low.'
* Which of these instruments does Tom Waits NOT play?

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