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Quiz about Simon and Garfunkel Lyrics

Quiz about Simon and Garfunkel Lyrics

The Ultimate Simon and Garfunkel Lyrics Quiz | Music

I love Simon and Garfunkel so much. This quiz shouldn't be tough for fans of their music. I'll just give you the lyric and you tell me what song it is from. Some of the songs are Paul Simon songs, from after the split.

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

Author
pepperdrinks

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
66,345

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
15

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
10 / 15

Plays
5551

Awards
Top 35% Quiz

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 15

1. 'Look around you, all you see are sympathetic eyes' Hint

'The Boxer'

'Old Friends'

'American Tune'

'Mrs. Robinson'

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Question 2 of 15

2. 'I'll repeat myself at the risk of being crude.' Hint

'Old Friends'

'April Come She Will'

'Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover'

'Late in the Evening'

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Question 3 of 15

3. 'Tomorrow's going to be another working day.' Hint

'American Tune'

'Slip Slidin' Away'

'America'

'Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard'

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Question 4 of 15

4. 'I'll play the game and pretend.' Hint

'The Boxer'

'Kodachrome'

'Homeward Bound'

'American Tune'

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Question 5 of 15

5. 'Sail on silvergirl, sail on by.'

Answer: (Four Words)

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Question 6 of 15

6. 'A love once new has now grown old' Hint

'April Come She Will'

'Old Friends'

'The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)'

'Kodachrome'

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Question 7 of 15

7. 'A man hears what he wants to hear.' Hint

'Old Friends'

'America'

'Slip Slidin' Away'

'The Boxer'

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Question 8 of 15

8. 'Oy, if I get that boy I'm gonna stick him in the house of detention.' Hint

'Mrs. Robinson'

'Late in the Evening'

'Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover'

'Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard'

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Question 9 of 15

9. 'I'm not the kind of man who tends to socialize.' Hint

'Still Crazy After All These Years'

'Old Friends'

'American Tune'

'Late in the Evening'

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Question 10 of 15

10. 'Silence like a cancer grows'

Answer: (Four Words-shhh!)

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Question 11 of 15

11. 'I can read the writing on the wall.' Hint

'Old Friends'

'America'

'Kodachrome'

'The Sound of Silence'

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Question 12 of 15

12. 'His bowtie is really a camera' Hint

'American Tune'

'Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover'

'Homeward Bound'

'America'

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Question 13 of 15

13. 'The information's unavailable to the mortal man.' Hint

'Slip Slidin' Away'

'American Tune'

'Late in the Evening'

'Bridge Over Troubled Water'

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Question 14 of 15

14. 'I got no deeds to do.' Hint

'The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)'

'The Sound of Silence'

'The Boxer'

'Slip Slidin' Away'

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Question 15 of 15

15. 'The old men lost in their overcoats' Hint

'Kodachrome'

'Slip Slidin' Away'

'Homeward Bound'

'Old Friends'

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. 'Look around you, all you see are sympathetic eyes'

Answer: 'Mrs. Robinson'

'We'd like to know a little bit about you for our files. We'd like to help you learn to help yourself. Look around you, all you see are sympathetic eyes. Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home.'

2. 'I'll repeat myself at the risk of being crude.'

Answer: 'Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover'

'She said it's really not my habit to intrude. Furthermore I hope my meaning won't be lost or misconstrued, so I'll repeat myself, at the risk of being crude. There must be fifty ways to leave your lover.'

3. 'Tomorrow's going to be another working day.'

Answer: 'American Tune'

'It's all right, it's all right. You can't be forever blessed. Still, tomorrow's going to be another working day, and I'm trying to get some rest.'

4. 'I'll play the game and pretend.'

Answer: 'Homeward Bound'

'Tonight I'll sing my songs again, I'll play the game and pretend. But all my words come back to me in shades of mediocrity. Like emptiness in harmony I need someone to comfort me.'

5. 'Sail on silvergirl, sail on by.'

Answer: Bridge Over Troubled Water

'Sail on silvergirl, sail on by. Your time has come to shine. All your dreams are on their way.'

6. 'A love once new has now grown old'

Answer: 'April Come She Will'

'September I'll remember, A love once new has now grown old.'

7. 'A man hears what he wants to hear.'

Answer: 'The Boxer'

'I am just a poor boy. Though my story's seldom told, I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles, such are promises. All lies and jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest.'

8. 'Oy, if I get that boy I'm gonna stick him in the house of detention.'

Answer: 'Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard'

'The mama looked down and spit on the ground ev'ry time my name gets mentioned. The papa said 'Oy, if I get that boy, I'm gonna stick him in the house of detention.'

9. 'I'm not the kind of man who tends to socialize.'

Answer: 'Still Crazy After All These Years'

'I'm not the kind of man who tends to socialize. I seem to lean on old familiar ways, and I ain't no fool for love songs that whisper in my ears. Still crazy after all these years.'

10. 'Silence like a cancer grows'

Answer: The Sound of Silence

'Fools said I, you do not know, silence like a cancer grows.'

11. 'I can read the writing on the wall.'

Answer: 'Kodachrome'

'When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all. And though my lack of education hasn't hurt me none, I can read the writing on the wall.'

12. 'His bowtie is really a camera'

Answer: 'America'

MY FAVORITE SONG! 'Laughing on the bus, playing games with the faces. She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy. I said be careful, his bowtie is really a camera.'

13. 'The information's unavailable to the mortal man.'

Answer: 'Slip Slidin' Away'

'God only knows. God makes his plan. The informations unavailable to the mortal man. We work our jobs, collect our pay. Believe we're gliding down the highway, when in fact we're slip slidin'away.'

14. 'I got no deeds to do.'

Answer: 'The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)'

'I got no deeds to do, no promises to keep. I'm dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep.'

15. 'The old men lost in their overcoats'

Answer: 'Old Friends'

'Long ago it must be, I have a photograph, Preserve your memories, they're all that's left'

Source: Author pepperdrinks

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