The Go-Go's Lingo 10 Trivia Quiz

Answer: House of Schock

While The Go-Go's were disbanded, Gina Schock teamed with Chrissy Shefts, Steven Fisher and Vance DeGeneres (Ellen DeGeneres' brother) to release her self-titled album "House of Schock" on 1 Mar 1988.

The soundtracks of two movies included three songs from "House of Schock" in 1988. The movie "The Accused" (starring Jodie Foster and Kelly McGillis) has "Love in Return," "Middle of Nowhere" and "Walk in My Sleep" and "Bull Durham" (starring Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins) has "Middle of Nowhere."

Answer: I Think It's Me

Belinda Carlisle and Charlotte Caffey co-wrote the song "I Think It's Me" on the album "Vacation" in 1982.

Methinks! "I Think It's Me" and "Throw Me a Curve" are the only two Go-Go's songs with "me" in the title, and "I Think It's Me" and "I Think I Need Sleep" are the only two Go-Go's songs with "think" in the title. In addition to these three song titles, The Go-Go's wrote "me" 137 times in the lyrics of 36 songs and "think" 47 times in the lyrics of 20 songs.

Answer: Kathy Valentine

Kathy Valentine is The Go-Go's second bass player, but The Go-Go's fired Kathy in March 2013.

In December 1980, The Go-Go's original bass player Margot Olavarria needed to recuperate after getting hepatitis A. Kathy was hired to stand in for only a few shows; however, on 4 Jan 1981, The Go-Go's fired Margot for creative differences.

In August 2012, The Go-Go's second bass player Kathy Valentine needed to recuperate after wrist surgery. Abby Travis was hired to stand in for only a few shows; however, on 8 Mar 2013, The Go-Go's fired Kathy for irreconcilable differences.

Two months later on 24 May 2013, Kathy sued The Go-Go's for "breach of fiduciary duty and constructive trust, breach of contract, breach of good faith and fair dealing and tortuous interference."

Five years, five months and 84 shows later, Kathy reunited with The Go-Go's on 31 Jan 2018 in New York City to launch their Broadway musical "Head Over Heels" at the Bowery Ballroom.

Of The Go-Go's 61 original songs on seven albums and 16 singles, Kathy solely wrote two and co-wrote 18 for 15% of the lyrics for The Go-Go's. In addition to Kathy's two sole-writing credits, Kathy teamed with four outside writers on three more songs to be the only Go-Go with lyrical credit on a total of five songs.

In 1995, Kathy co-founded The Delphines and released a self-titled album in 1996 followed by "Cosmic Speed" in 2001. In 2005, Kathy released her debut solo album, "Light Years" with help from a few notable artists, such as Abby Travis, Ace Frehley (KISS), Clem Burke (Blondie), Craig Ross (Lenny Kravitz), Dominique Davalos, Gilby Clarke (Guns N' Roses), Mark Dutton (L.A. Guns) and Pete Thomas (Elvis Costello). In 2007, Kathy re-formed her garage-rock band The Bluebonnets and released the albums "Boom Boom Boom Boom" (2010), "Play Loud" (2014) and "Tonewrecker" (2017).

Answer: Kissing Asphalt

Charlotte Caffey wrote the song "Kissing Asphalt" on the album "God Bless The Go-Go's" in 2001.

Muah! Although "Kissing Asphalt" is the only Go-Go's song with "kissing" in the title, The Go-Go's did write "kiss" eight times in the lyrics of six songs: "Beneath the Blue Sky," "Forget That Day," "Girl of 100 Lists," "I Think I Need Sleep," "Insincere" and "Skidmarks on My Heart."

Answer: Rather Go Naked

The Go-Go's posed for a pioneering poster to support PETA's new "Rather Go Naked" campaign.

According to PETA's website, "The 30-year campaign began in 1990 when rock icons The Go-Go's posed in the buff for a 'We'd Rather Go-Go Naked Than Wear Fur' poster, which they sold at concerts to raise money for PETA."

After The Go-Go's dared to go bare, PETA launched another 27 risqué campaigns with 33 other celebrities to either shock-vertise, sensual food-vertise or tattoo-vertise for animal rights. PETA finally declared victory over the fur trade and ended its campaign on 4 Feb 2020, which is National Sweater Day.

Answer: Stuck in My Car

Jane Wiedlin, Charlotte Caffey and Peter Stuart co-wrote the song "Stuck in My Car" on the album "God Bless The Go-Go's" in 2001.

Zoom-Zoom! Although "Stuck in My Car" is the only song with "car" in the title, The Go-Go's did write "car" in the lyrics of three other songs: "discarded stars like worn out cars" in "This Town," "the car to push on through the night" in "Speeding" and "your heart, your will, your car, they've all been broken" in "Can't Stop the World." The Go-Go's also wrote "Pontiac GTO" in "Skidmarks on My Heart."

Answer: Totally Go-Go's

The Go-Go's released their first video album "Totally Go-Go's!" on 1 Sep 1982 with a runtime of one hour and 18 minutes.

The video album "Totally Go-Go's!" features The Go-Go's performing 19 songs during a concert at Palos Verdes High School in Los Angeles, California, on 4 Dec 1981, as well as personal interviews with the sophomoric Go-Go's.

According to Discogs, The Go-Go's released "Totally Go-Go's!" on three formats in 1982: Betamax, SelectaVision and VHS.

Fun video formats! Sony introduced Betamax in 1975 and its 1/2" magnetic tape contained within a plastic cassette provides an analog video resolution of 250 TV lines or the digital equivalent of 333 × 486i. After increasing the luminance bandwidth of Betamax, Sony introduced ED-Beta (Extended Definition) in 1988 with 500 TV lines (+ 250) or the digital equivalent of 667 × 576i. After 40 years, nine months and 20 days, companies stopped manufacturing Betamax cassettes in 2016.

RCA introduced SelectaVision in 1981 and its 12" Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED) contained within a plastic caddy provides an analog video resolution of 240 TV lines or the digital equivalent of 320 × 486i. Similar to a record player, a CED player uses a stylus to read data within the high-density spiral groove on the disc. Because the discs are more susceptible to dust than vinyl records, the disc is always stored either inside its caddy or the player but never exposed. To begin playback, the user would insert the caddy into the player, the player would extract the disc and the user would remove the empty caddy. To remove a disc, the user would insert the empty caddy into the player. After three years and 13 days, RCA discontinued SelectaVision in 1986.

JVC introduced VHS in 1976 and its 1/2" magnetic tape contained within a plastic cassette provides an analog video resolution of 240 TV lines or the digital equivalent of 320 × 486i. After increasing the luminance bandwidth of VHS, JVC introduced Super VHS in 1987 with 420 TV lines (+ 180) or the digital equivalent of 560 × 486i. After 32 years, two months and 22 days, companies discontinued manufacturing VHS cassettes in 2011.

Answer: Vicious Circles

According to the ASCAP Repertory database, Jane Wiedlin and Charlotte Caffey co-wrote "Vicious Circles" but The Go-Go's did not release this song on any album or single.

According to Setlist.fm, The Go-Go's only performed "Vicious Circles" four times during 1980 and 1981.

Answer: We Got the Beat

Charlotte Caffey wrote "We Got the Beat" and The Go-Go's released this song as a non-album single backed with "How Much More" on 9 May 1980.

The Go-Go's "We Got the Beat" ranked on ten music charts in three countries for 45 weeks from 9 Aug to 13 Dec 1980 and from 23 Jan to 19 Jul 1982 peaking at number two on two charts: Australia, Canada (2) and the United States (7).

Music Canada certified "We Got the Beat" as Gold (50,000 units) on 1 May 1982; RIAA certified "We Got the Beat" as Gold (1,000,000 units) on 25 May 1982 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame included "We Got the Beat" as one of 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll on 3 Sep 2004.

Of their 61 original songs, The Go-Go's released "We Got the Beat" the most times at 12: one demo tape, three singles, one studio album, three compilation albums and four video albums. The Go-Go's second most-released songs are both "Our Lips Are Sealed" and "Vacation" at nine times.

Answer: Belinda Carlisle

Belinda Carlisle is one of the four original members of The Go-Go's and sings lead vocals.

According to Belinda's autobiography "Lips Unsealed: A Memoir," "I'd wanted to play bass, but since Margot [Olavarria] had already claimed that role, I was left with one option...the lead singer" (Carlisle, 2010).

During live performances, Belinda plays tambourine, maracas and claves. While The Go-Go's were performing their chart hit "Yes or No" on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on 7 Aug 1984, Belinda was rhythmically pressing keys while standing behind a synthesizer. According to Discogs, Belinda is also credited with playing "Air Guitar" on her solo album "Heaven on Earth" in 1987.

As a solo artist, Belinda released nine studio albums, 12 compilation albums, six video albums and 44 singles. Seven of Belinda's nine studio albums (78%) ranked on 39 music charts in nine countries, and 25 of her 44 singles (57%) ranked on 88 music charts in 28 countries peaking at number one on 13 charts.

Blimey! Thirty-three of the 151 charts (22%) ranking Belinda's albums and singles are in the United Kingdom.

Belinda released her second album "Heaven on Earth" on 5 Oct 1987 and two months later on 7 Dec 1987, RIAA certified her album as Gold (500,000 units) and then Platinum (1,000,000 units) one month later on 15 Jan 1988. RIAA also certified her debut album "Belinda" and third album "Runaway Horses" as Gold on 24 Nov 1986 and 5 Dec 1989, respectively.

As a solo artist, Belinda performed on the TV show American Bandstand two times, Solid Gold ten times and Top of the Pops 13 times. Belinda portrayed the Jamboree Singer in the movie "Swing Shift" in 1984 as well as making an uncredited appearance in the movie "She's Having a Baby" in 1988.