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Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? Quiz


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.

A multiple-choice quiz by peachy_1. Estimated time: 6 mins.
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Author
peachy_1
Time
6 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
253,301
Updated
Jul 23 22
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Tough
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Question 1 of 10
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? Hint


Question 2 of 10
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? Hint


Question 3 of 10
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? Hint


Question 4 of 10
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?
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Question 5 of 10
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? Hint


Question 6 of 10
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?
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Question 7 of 10
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?
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Question 8 of 10
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?
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Question 9 of 10
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? Hint


Question 10 of 10
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?
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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
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?

Answer: Croce's Restaurant & Jazz Bar

Jim Croce's first musical experience was with playing "Lady of Spain" on the accordion at age 5. He described himself as the original underachiever; some may disagree in light of his musical success, but he took a rather long and circuitous route to reach that success. From a foreign-exchange musician in Africa and the Middle East, to construction and welding during his college years, to a stint in the army and even an attempt at teaching special education, Croce finally achieved commercial success with the release of his first album, "You Don't Mess Around with Jim."
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?

Answer: Equatorial regions

Near the equator there is little variation in the length of days and nights, so DST would have a minimal impact. Daylight saving time has been the cause of controversy from the first inception of DST in Germany during World War I. Many countries throughout the world have adopted it for some time, only to decide it was more trouble than it was worth.

Other countries continue to implement it, and even continue to change the start and end dates. No wonder the song became so popular! Does anyone really know what time it is?
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?

Answer: Press Your Luck

Cyndi Lauper was given the dubious honor of having her own personal Whammy on the popular game show, "Press Your Luck." Well, maybe it didn't literally belong to her, but it was inspired by her wild-haired, jewelry-bedecked persona, and it does bear a certain uncanny similarity...
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?

Answer: Over the Rainbow

Dooley Wilson played the role of Sam, the musician, and it was he and the song "As Time Goes By" that gave rise to what may be one of the most misquoted movie lines of all time. Who among us has not, at some point, heard a bad impression of Humphrey Bogart saying, "Play it again, Sam."? In fact, the line was "Play it once, Sam, for old times' sake," and it wasn't Bogie's line at all, but Ingrid Bergman's.
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?

Answer: Kris Kristofferson

Marijohn Wilkin was a very successful country music writer, and she also owned a music publishing company in Nashville; she rubbed shoulders with many of the stars of the country music scene, and enjoyed a great deal of professional and material success.

Her spiritual life stood in stark contrast; though she had spent many Sundays during her earlier years singing and playing music in church, she had left that part of her life behind. She turned to alcohol, and even attempted suicide. This song, "One Day At a Time," arose from one of the lowest points of her life and was a personal plea from her to God for the strength to live her life as she needed to.
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?

Answer: Cadillac

"You bring your Cadillac, leave my old wreck behind. If you got the money, honey, I got the time!" Lefty's son, Crockett Frizzell, has carried on his father's (and mother's) musical tradition. After a successful career in orthopedic medicine, Crockett moved to Nashville, TN in 1999, formed a music publishing company, and began working on recording his own music.
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?

Answer: GPS

GPS stands for Global Positioning System, which depends on accurate time, but is not itself a time standard.

TAI stands for International Atomic Time, GMT is Greenwich Mean Time, and UTC is the abbreviation for Coordinated Universal Time.
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?

Answer: Canada

Band member Randy Bachman left the group to form the highly successful Bachman Turner Overdrive. In 1999, the band reunited in Winnipeg to perform at the closing ceremonies of the Pan Am games, at the personal request of the Premier of Manitoba.
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?

Answer: Romeo and Juliet

The principal actors in this 1968 Franco Zefirelli production were 15-year-old Olivia Hussey playing Juliet opposite 17-year-old Leonard Whiting's Romeo. This was the first film rendition of this classic Shakespeare play to show Romeo and Juliet in the nude.
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?

Answer: Sodium pentothal

"In the Year 2525" was the only chart single for the recording duo of Zager and Evans. It was written in 1964 by Rick Evans and released by the duo under a small local record label in 1967. Two years later, after an Odessa, TX radio station gave the song some air time, it was picked up by RCA Records and subsequently spent six weeks at the top of the Billboard Top 100 charts in the summer of 1969.
Source: Author peachy_1

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