Hot Hits and Near Myths Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Ark

The song "The Unicorn" was original written by Shel Silverstein in 1962 but The Irish Rovers made the song popular six years later. In the song God asks Noah to build a "floating zoo" and not to forget about the unicorns. However the unicorns are not very obliging and mess about too much until the inevitable happens. According to the song this is what befell them;

"The Ark started movin', it drifted with the tide,
Them unicorns looked up from the rock and they cried,
And the waters came down and sorta floated them away,
That's why you'll never see a unicorn, to this very day."

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Answer: Odin

Odin's name features on the songs titled "Odin," "Overture to Odin," "The Blood of Odin" and "The Sons of Odin". Loki is the only other Norse god who scores a mention for the track titled "Loki God of Fire". The album "Gods of War" was released in 2007 and contained a bonus track "Die for Metal", which was used in the 2009 video game "Brutal Legend".

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Answer: Tori Amos

One of Tori Amos' well known songs is "Cornflake Girl". "Hey Jupiter" was a single released from her album "Boys for Pele" in 1996. Her fifth album was called "To Venus and Back" and was released in 1999. Both Jupiter and Venus are gods from Roman mythology.

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Answer: Pele

The band Pele was a five piece unit fronted by Ian Prowse and "Megalomania" was a song that featured on their debut album "Fireworks". Their third single, "Fair Blows the Wind for France", from the same album, was their highest charting single in the UK peaking at number 62. Mount Kilauea is a volcano in Hawaii and, according to Hawaiian mythology, is the home of Pele the goddess of fire, volcanoes, wind and lightning.

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Answer: Alabina

Ishtar's real name is Eti Zach and she was born and raised in Israel. She joined up with the group Los Ninos de Sara to form the group Alabina. The band has a wide range of musical styles and uses a number of different languages on their albums ranging from Arabic, Hebrew, Gypsy, French, Spanish and other Middle Eastern cultures. (An albino, which sounds similar to alabina, is a person or animal without pigmentation which gives their skin a milky appearance).

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Answer: Mars

The song "Orgasmatron" is also the title track of the album and was recorded in 1986. It has proven to be popular with a number of other bands recording cover versions of the song. The Brazilian band Sepultura, who recorded a version for their album "Arise", is possibly the most noteworthy of these. Juno was the goddess of Roman Empire and Rome. Vesta is the goddess of family, home and hearth. Neptune is the god of sea and water.

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Answer: Zeus

Though Planet of Zeus formed in Athens in 2000 it wasn't until 2008 that they released their first album "Eleven the Hard Way". Their follow up album, "Macho Libre" was released in 2011. Their lyrics centre on the themes of women and alcohol and their music draws elements of psychedelia, acid rock and doom into their core metal sound.

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Answer: Song to the Siren

For a song that deals with the giving of love that may not be returned the use of the sirens in the title is rather apt. These were the nymphs from Greek mythology that lured sailors to their deaths with their songs.
Buckley first performed the song on the very last episode of the television series "The Monkees" in 1968. Pat Boone became the first person to release an official version of the song marking it as a filler track on his 1969 album "Departure". One of the best versions that you will hear of the track is by the band The Mortal Coil who charted in the UK with the song in 1983.

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Answer: Led Zeppelin

The song was written by the band in 1970 while they were on their tour of Iceland. They envisioned themselves as Vikings heading west in search of new conquest. It appears on their album "Led Zeppelin III".
In Norse myth Valhalla is the hall for the fallen warriors in Asgard. Their spirits are collected and ferried there by the Valkyries. Another line from this song "the hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands" would prove to be the inspiration that writer Stephen Davis would use to name the book "The Hammer of the Gods", which is a biography of the band.

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Answer: Lakini's Juice

Released in 1997 the track is the first single from the band's third album "Secret Samadhi", the follow up to their hugely successful 1994 release "Throwing Copper". Though the track was never released as a single in the US market it still managed to reach number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart and number one on their Modern Rock Tracks chart. The lyrics deal with the darker aspects of love, namely obsession and excess, which makes the use of Lakini in the title rather appropriate.

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