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Coffee or Tea Trivia Quiz

A wide time span I hereby decree, Quizzing you about Coffee or Tea, In tunes quite eclectic, From Bach to electric, A quiz with no time penalty. All bar one question gives you a touch of lyric as a hint to the song.

A multiple-choice quiz by casey317. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
casey317

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
328,639

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

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Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

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Top 35% Quiz

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Question 1 of 10

1. This Bob Dylan tune appeared on his album 'Desire'. Clue? 'A drink 'fore I go to the valley below.' Hint

Cafe Au Lait

Cough, Coffee

One More Cup of Coffee

Black Coffee

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Question 2 of 10

2. 'You are precisely my cup of tea', is a line sung by the female lead (and others) from the popular '50s musical, 'The King and I'. Select the title of the song that contained this line. Hint

Hello Young Lovers

I Have Dreamed

Getting To Know You

I Whistle a Happy Tune

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Question 3 of 10

3. Ray Charles wrote and recorded a song that included the lines, 'Every morning 'fore the sun comes up, she brings me coffee in my favourite cup'. What song are we talking about? Hint

Hit The Road Jack

I Can't Stop Loving You

Georgia

Hallelujah I Love Her So

4. When I was a lad tea was tea. Sure there were different brand names but it was just tea. Nowadays there are flavours, blends, herbal infusions, etc. A Nirvana song includes the line 'Sit and drink ________ tea'.

Hint

Pennyroyal

Earl Grey

Oolong

Green

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Question 5 of 10

5. Paul Francis Webster was a prolific writer of 'pop' lyrics, co-writing three Academy Award winning 'Best Songs'. Which of Paul's tunes, starting with 'I'm feeling mighty lonesome, haven't slept a wink', did NOT win a 'Best Song' Oscar? Hint

Secret Love

Black Coffee

The Shadow of Your Smile

Love is a Many-Splendored Thing

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Question 6 of 10

6. A rather famous English 'eccentric' inspired Sting to write and record a song with the first lyric line being 'I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear'. Please select the title Sting gave this tune.

Hint

Fragile

Be Still My Beating Heart

Englishman in New York

They Dance Alone

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Question 7 of 10

7. J S Bach wrote a piece that in English is called 'Be Still (or Quiet), Stop Chattering' (in Google translate = Be Quiet Chats Do Not). In the Bach Works Catalogue (BWV) it is numbered BWV211. However, there is a more popular title to this work. In English it is more commonly referred to as which of these?

Hint

Stop Wriggling and No Applause

The Drawing Room Tea

The Coffee Cantata

Coffee is Sweet

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Question 8 of 10

8. 'That's when that little love of mine dips a donut in my tea', an incident that occurred in Lake George, Louisiana (USA), as I interpret the lyrics. But geographically, the song's title was?
Hint

Look Out Cleveland

Across the Great Divide

Up on Cripple Creek

Rockin' Chair

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Question 9 of 10

9. This popular song, written in the 1940s, was called 'The Coffee Song', followed by a bracketed subtitle mentioning a South American country that had an 'Awful Lot of Coffee'. Can you recall which country that was?

Hint

Columbia

Brazil

Venezuela

Surinam

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Question 10 of 10

10. Name the traffic warden that The Beatles tried to entice by asking 'When are you free to take some tea with me?' Hint

Sexy Sadie

Dear Prudence

Lovely Rita

Lady Madonna

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. This Bob Dylan tune appeared on his album 'Desire'. Clue? 'A drink 'fore I go to the valley below.'

Answer: One More Cup of Coffee

On 'One more Cup of Coffee' Emmylou Harris helps out on the vocals. Bob wrote this song alone, but seven of the other nine songs on 'Desire' he co-wrote with Jacques Levy.

2. 'You are precisely my cup of tea', is a line sung by the female lead (and others) from the popular '50s musical, 'The King and I'. Select the title of the song that contained this line.

Answer: Getting To Know You

Originally, the award winning songwriters, Rodgers and Hammerstein, were keen to have Rex Harrison in the role of the King. He was committed elsewhere so it went to Yul Brynner, who also got the role in the film version.

3. Ray Charles wrote and recorded a song that included the lines, 'Every morning 'fore the sun comes up, she brings me coffee in my favourite cup'. What song are we talking about?

Answer: Hallelujah I Love Her So

'Hallelujah' was just one of Ray's self-penned tunes. In his biography, musician/producer etc., Quincy Jones, recollects how he met and befriended Ray, age 16, in Seattle in 1957 and they actually did gigs together. Quincy was 14 at the time. What a world.

Answer: Pennyroyal

The album 'In Utero' included 'Pennyroyal Tea', written by Kurt Cobain in 1990. An interesting insight into the recording of this album is found in the Gillian G. Gaar book '33 1/3 - Nirvana's In Utero'.

Answer: Black Coffee

Paul co-wrote 'Black Coffee' with Sonny Burke. Among many great singers Sarah Vaughan, Peggy Lee and Ella Fitzgerald recorded versions. The other three choices earned Paul Oscars. He also wrote the lyrics for such disparate tunes as 'The Deadwood Stage (Whip Crack Away)' and 'Lara's Theme' amongst many others.

Answer: Englishman in New York

Sting met Englishman Quentin Crisp (nee Denis Charles Pratt, 25 Dec 1908-21 Nov 1999) on the set of the film 'The Bride'. Part one of Quentin's autobiography, called 'The Naked Civil Servant', was published in 1968. After a television play based on the book was shown on BBC Quentin became a gay icon. Over the next 30 years he continued writing as well as acting in films and giving one-man shows. He even lived in New York for a time.

Answer: The Coffee Cantata

"Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht" is the German title, with the text by Christian Friedrich Henrici. Although a cantata by name, this piece can be staged as a 'mini opera'. One line that the heroine sings to her father about her need for coffee translates as 'If I can't drink my bowl of coffee three times daily, then in my torment I will shrivel up like a piece of roast goat'. I know how the girl feels.

8. 'That's when that little love of mine dips a donut in my tea', an incident that occurred in Lake George, Louisiana (USA), as I interpret the lyrics. But geographically, the song's title was?

Answer: Up on Cripple Creek

All the choices are songs from the self titled album 'The Band'. 'Up on Cripple Creek' was written by their guitarist Robbie Robertson. Levon Helm, my favourite singing drummer, took the vocal lead. Desert island disc for me is this album plus 'The Big Pink' on a CD.
(Levon sings 'That's how that little sweet thing of mine puts a donut in my tea' in 'The Last Waltz' film version).

Answer: Brazil

That's 'An Awful Lot of Coffee', not 'A Lot of Awful Coffee'. Written by Bob Hilliard and Dick Miles, Frank Sinatra was the first to make it popular. My favourite verse is,
'A politician's daughter,
Was accused of drinking water,
And was fined a great big 50 dollar bill,
They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil'

Cream also recorded a tune called 'The Coffee Song' (no relation) which appeared solely on the Swedish version of 'Fresh Cream'. Go figure.

This question is dedicated to my fellow team member 'gloriabrazil'.

10. Name the traffic warden that The Beatles tried to entice by asking 'When are you free to take some tea with me?'

Answer: Lovely Rita

From 'Sgt Peppers' album. According to the 'Lovely Rita' entry in the Craig Cross book, 'The Beatles: Day-by-Day, Song-by-Song, Record-by-Record' this song is about, 'a shy office worker, who seduces the warden in an attempt to get him off the fine'.

Source: Author casey317

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