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Heart is a Drum Trivia Quiz


We'll start with some heart, and see where it ends. Come along for the ride!

A photo quiz by looney_tunes. Estimated time: 7 mins.
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Author
looney_tunes
Time
7 mins
Type
Photo Quiz
Quiz #
375,709
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Easy
Avg Score
9 / 10
Plays
995
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
Last 3 plays: sabbaticalfire (10/10), Trivia_Fan54 (10/10), RobertaSmith (10/10).
Question 1 of 10
1. I gave my heart to the Beatles back in 1964, but when I grew up, I developed a more realistic appreciation of them and their music.

According to an idiom, I came back down to something which is an anagram of the word HEART. What word completes the saying?

Answer: (One Word, Five Letters)
Question 2 of 10
2. Teenage debates with my friends over the relative merits of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones often developed into arguments with raised voices.

If you remove one letter from your previous answer and rearrange their order, you can produce a word to describe a typical such conversation - it contained a bit of what characteristic?

Answer: (One Word, Four Letters)
Question 3 of 10
3. After an argument was abandoned, we often joined in making and imbibing a drink which we considered typically British, and therefore appropriate for the moment.

Dropping a letter from your last answer, and rearranging the letters as necessary, you can find out what we drank in our peace ceremony.

Answer: (One Word, Three Letters)
Question 4 of 10
4. Along with our drinks, we often partook of some food.

If you rearrange the letters of your previous answer, you will find a short word that describes the fact that we ingested the comestibles. What did we do to them?

Answer: (One Word, Three Letters )
Question 5 of 10
5. If one of the group brought some special treat along for the rest of us to share, we would, of course, indicate our gratitude.

If you drop a letter from your previous answer and rearrange the letters as necessary, you will find a word we might have used to indicate our appreciation. What is it?

Answer: (One Word, Two Letters)
Question 6 of 10
6. When listening to my local AM radio station to try and catch the latest release from the Beatles (or one of my other favorite bands), I used to be annoyed by the commercial breaks.

If you change one letter in your previous answer, and rearrange the letters as necessary, you will find a short word often used to refer to this unwanted intrusion.

Answer: (One Word, Two Letters)
Question 7 of 10
7. I will admit that I sometimes got more than a little irritated by the commercial breaks while listening to the Sunday morning Top 100 countdown, eagerly waiting to see if the Beatles were, yet again, at Number One. (It was 1964, and the answer was usually yes.)

If you add a letter to your previous answer, and rearrange the letters as necessary, you will find a word that describes my angry emotional state when being frustrated in my quest.

Answer: (One Word, Three Letters)
Question 8 of 10
8. On the weekends, we took our trannies with us as we traipsed the woods, singing along to our favorite songs.

Rearrange the letters of your previous answer to find a term that describes this beaver-constructed river blockage, such as we occasionally encountered.

Answer: (One Word, Three Letters)
Question 9 of 10
9. We kids drank cola or ginger ale when our parents were enjoying an evening cocktail, and tried to get our records played for the family to listen to as we relaxed and discussed the day's events. My father used to love creating complex cocktails, while my mother used to favor single malt whisky.

Add a letter to your previous answer and rearrange as necessary to find a word used to describe a small serving of whisky.

Answer: (One Word, Four Letters)
Question 10 of 10
10. As we sat around chatting before dinner, one of us youngsters would often turn the conversation to the topic of (no prizes for anticipating this one) the Beatles. My father usually just muttered about long hair, but my mother thought they are enchanting, with a refreshing sound. Her favorite was Ringo.

Change one letter of your previous answer and rearrange the letters as necessary to find out what instrument he played.

Answer: (One Word, Four Letters)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. I gave my heart to the Beatles back in 1964, but when I grew up, I developed a more realistic appreciation of them and their music. According to an idiom, I came back down to something which is an anagram of the word HEART. What word completes the saying?

Answer: Earth

EARTH is an anagram of HEART, because it uses the same letters in a different order. The phrase "to come back down to earth" means to develop a realistic and mature approach to something, rather than maintaining an overenthusiastic and unrealistic attitude.

As a twelve year old, I thought the Beatles were the ultimate in perfection. As an adult, I became aware of their human imperfections as people, and can even concede that some of their music was less than perfect. But not most of it, and not by much!
2. Teenage debates with my friends over the relative merits of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones often developed into arguments with raised voices. If you remove one letter from your previous answer and rearrange their order, you can produce a word to describe a typical such conversation - it contained a bit of what characteristic?

Answer: Heat

They certainly could become heated arguments - teenage passions run high! Of course, ours didn't lead to serious strains on our friendship, an outcome that is possible when heated arguments occur over more essential topics than one's favorite band.
3. After an argument was abandoned, we often joined in making and imbibing a drink which we considered typically British, and therefore appropriate for the moment. Dropping a letter from your last answer, and rearranging the letters as necessary, you can find out what we drank in our peace ceremony.

Answer: Tea

The image for this question shows four different styles of tea, which basically differ according to how long the tea was fermented during processing. The lightest one, and the least fermented, is Bancha, a Japanese green tea; then comes Kekacha, a Chinese yellow tea; third is Kwai flower, an Oolong style tea from China; finally, the darkest of all is the Assam, a black tea from India.
4. Along with our drinks, we often partook of some food. If you rearrange the letters of your previous answer, you will find a short word that describes the fact that we ingested the comestibles. What did we do to them?

Answer: Ate

The verb "eat" is usually applied to the act of ingesting food, an act which is considered basic to the development of community relations in many cultures. Certainly, sharing an icy pole such as the one in the picture, and watching each other try to keep it from melting and dripping on the ground, used to provide a strong sense of camaraderie!

The verb can also be applied to physical processes (the rust ate away at the metal gate) and in a metaphorical sense (an uninsured car driver has to eat the cost of their repairs after an accident).
5. If one of the group brought some special treat along for the rest of us to share, we would, of course, indicate our gratitude. If you drop a letter from your previous answer and rearrange the letters as necessary, you will find a word we might have used to indicate our appreciation. What is it?

Answer: Ta

Being thoroughly hooked on all things British at that age, we liked to use the slang term, "Ta", which we heard our idols using. Pronounced with a long a, ta is also the way of writing, in English, the 16th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
6. When listening to my local AM radio station to try and catch the latest release from the Beatles (or one of my other favorite bands), I used to be annoyed by the commercial breaks. If you change one letter in your previous answer, and rearrange the letters as necessary, you will find a short word often used to refer to this unwanted intrusion.

Answer: Ad

Commercials are also called advertisements, which is frequently shortened to ad. Ad breaks on commercial radio drove me to listening to the ABC (a government-funded broadcaster) when I moved to Australia, but even there you get promotional interruptions!

The picture used in the question was apparently an outdoor advertisement for a New Orleans removalist firm. It's a cute cat, but I'm not sure that I want one of them moving my fragile stuff.
7. I will admit that I sometimes got more than a little irritated by the commercial breaks while listening to the Sunday morning Top 100 countdown, eagerly waiting to see if the Beatles were, yet again, at Number One. (It was 1964, and the answer was usually yes.) If you add a letter to your previous answer, and rearrange the letters as necessary, you will find a word that describes my angry emotional state when being frustrated in my quest.

Answer: Mad

'Mad' magazine was another regular part of those years, and it didn't make us mad at all. In fact, the folding back cover was a monthly highlight. The term can be used to describe someone who has lost the power of normal reasoning, which is its linguistic origin. Using it to describe someone who is enraged suggests that they have lost control of their emotions, and are not fully responsible for their actions. Now it is usually applied to a much less aroused state, closer to annoyance than to fury.
8. On the weekends, we took our trannies with us as we traipsed the woods, singing along to our favorite songs. Rearrange the letters of your previous answer to find a term that describes this beaver-constructed river blockage, such as we occasionally encountered.

Answer: Dam

Actually, the beaver dam in the picture was taken in Tierra del Fuego, at the far south of South America, not in our New England backyard. It does, however, show the damage that beavers can cause in the area as they chew down small trees and branches to create their dams.

In most cases, the environment adapts to the newly-created pool. Beavers build dams when they are needed to provide an underwater entrance to their lodge which is far enough below water level to remain free of ice all winter long.

The dam is made by moving large pieces of tree into the mud, then adding smaller branches, bark, rocks, leaves, mud - whatever there is on hand to create the structure.
9. We kids drank cola or ginger ale when our parents were enjoying an evening cocktail, and tried to get our records played for the family to listen to as we relaxed and discussed the day's events. My father used to love creating complex cocktails, while my mother used to favor single malt whisky. Add a letter to your previous answer and rearrange as necessary to find a word used to describe a small serving of whisky.

Answer: Dram

The coins in the picture are drams (also spelled drachms), one of the other uses of the word that can describe a unit of mass (equal to one-sixteenth of an avoirdupois ounce, or approximately 1.8 grams) or a unit of volume (one-eighth of a fluid ounce).

Informally, it is used to refer to a small serving of any spirit, especially whisky. According to the Monty Python team, in their routine 'The Bruces' Philosophers Song', "Hobbes was fond of his dram". That is one of the mildest accusations the song makes about the personal behavior of a series of eminent philosophers. If you haven't heard it, check it out on YouTube.
10. As we sat around chatting before dinner, one of us youngsters would often turn the conversation to the topic of (no prizes for anticipating this one) the Beatles. My father usually just muttered about long hair, but my mother thought they are enchanting, with a refreshing sound. Her favorite was Ringo. Change one letter of your previous answer and rearrange the letters as necessary to find out what instrument he played.

Answer: Drum

Actually, Ringo played a drum kit, with multiple drums, not a single drum. The drum in the picture is a darbouka (also called a goblet drum or tablah), used in eastern Europe, northern Africa and southern Asia. The body of the drum is held under one arm, and the other hand produces a variety of sounds as it taps or rubs or slaps various portions of the drumhead.
Source: Author looney_tunes

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