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Morning Trivia Quiz

An Anatomy of a Song quiz

Written by Brendan Graham, "Morning" was a hit for Val Doonican in 1971. How well do you remember this wistful song about the end of a one-night stand?

A multiple-choice quiz by Catreona. Estimated time: 3 mins.

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Author
Catreona

Time
3 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
398,765

Updated
Apr 30 23

# Qns
15

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
12 / 15

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259

Last 3 plays: camhammer (15/15), Gumby1967 (7/15), crossesq (14/15).

Author's Note: Note that this quiz uses the lyrics as sung by Val Doonican on the original single.

1. Complete the lyric:

"Here in this room, this _____ room where life began when we were young Last night"
Hint

Narrow

Familiar

Spacious

Unfamiliar

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2. What does the speaker hear as "I feel your back pressed close to me"? Hint

The monotonous tick of a clock

Your steady breathing

The sounds of the waking street below

The barking of a distant dog

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3. True or false: The second line of the lyric ends with the phrase "as you sleep".

True

False

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4. Complete the lyric:

"Then I look for the soft glow of _____ " what?
Hint

Morning

Daybreak

Dawn

First light

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5. What lies faint along the wall? Hint

A faint shadow

A golden glow

A silver ray

A cold blue-grey line

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6. What happens when "I touch your hand"? Hint

I see your troubled eyes and know it's over

I feel the ring and know this night is all we'll ever have

I yawn and stretch and prepare to get up

I wake you with a kiss

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7. "Suddenly I look _____" where? Hint

Into the empty days without you

Away across the room

Out the window and see the mocking sunlight

Into your sleepy eyes

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8. "Suddenly I look..." How does the other person respond to that look? Hint

You raise your hand to touch my face

You look away

You follow my gaze

You breathe my name

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9. Complete the lyric:

"Then I feel your _____ running through my _____"
Hint

Laughter, mind

Fingers, hair

Fingers, mind

Hand, hair

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10. Complete the lyric:

"Jumbling up my _____ to leave them jangled there"
Hint

Thoughts

Emotions

Feelings

Ideas

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11. Complete the lyric:

"I know so well that this is _____"

The way it is

All there is

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12. Complete the lyric:

"And when we leave this room it's _____"
Hint

Finished

Over

Gone

Done with

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13. How is the speaker's mind as we walk down the crooked little steps to the front door? Hint

Despairing

Bored

Jolly

Confused

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14. What "lights our stumbling way"? Hint

The flat light from the stairway window

A ray of sun that ricochets from off the roof

A florescent light made dim by the morning

A stray sunbeam

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15. "I touch your hand and feel_____" What does the speaker feel?

Answer: (Two words, 3 and 4 letters OR two words, 4 letters each)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Complete the lyric: "Here in this room, this _____ room where life began when we were young Last night"

Answer: Narrow

Waking on the morning after the night before, the speaker feels confined in the narrow room, so unlike the world that 'began when we were young Last night'.

2. What does the speaker hear as "I feel your back pressed close to me"?

Answer: Your steady breathing

The speaker's awareness starts out narrowly focused, confined: 'I feel your back pressed close to me'. And yet, the nearness is not comforting in this strange, new morning world.

3. True or false: The second line of the lyric ends with the phrase "as you sleep".

Answer: True

The second line ends with the phrase, "as you sleep".

The speaker is alone, cut off from his lover as she sleeps with her back to him, despite the physical closeness.

4. Complete the lyric: "Then I look for the soft glow of _____ " what?

Answer: Dawn

The speaker makes an effort to expand his focus, consciously looking beyond the confines of the bed and the room.

5. What lies faint along the wall?

Answer: A silver ray

Seeking the comfort of a soft glow, all the speaker finds is a cold silver ray, not outside, but on the wall, emphasizing the narrowness of the room, the bed, this moment.

6. What happens when "I touch your hand"?

Answer: I feel the ring and know this night is all we'll ever have

Through the accident of a touch, the speaker is forced to confront the truth.

7. "Suddenly I look _____" where?

Answer: Into your sleepy eyes

Having confronted the truth, the speaker now has to confront the other person in the light of that truth.

8. "Suddenly I look..." How does the other person respond to that look?

Answer: You breathe my name

The speaker's lover breathes his name, but the action is empty. "It just seems to dangle there."

9. Complete the lyric: "Then I feel your _____ running through my _____"

Answer: Fingers, mind

In a curious confusion of sensations, the speaker feels his lover's fingers running through his mind, emphasizing the unreality and wrongness of the moment.

10. Complete the lyric: "Jumbling up my _____ to leave them jangled there"

Answer: Thoughts

The speaker's thoughts are unsettled, and no wonder. The situation is unsettling.

11. Complete the lyric: "I know so well that this is _____"

Answer: All there is

All there is, the speaker's whole reality consists of 'this', the room, the bed, the woman beside him.

12. Complete the lyric: "And when we leave this room it's _____"

Answer: Gone

There's a world of finality in that one word, 'gone'.

13. How is the speaker's mind as we walk down the crooked little steps to the front door?

Answer: Despairing

Despite the speaker's unsettled feelings inside the room, his mind becomes clear, if sad, as he and his erstwhile lover leave its confines to return to the real world.

14. What "lights our stumbling way"?

Answer: A ray of sun that ricochets from off the roof

"A ray of sun that ricochets..." This is a striking turn of phrase. Customarily, we think of bullets ricocheting, not rays of sunlight. It seems to me this image expresses better than any other in the lyric the bleakness in the speaker's mind.

15. "I touch your hand and feel_____" What does the speaker feel?

Answer: the ring

"I touch your hand and feel the ring and know this night is all we'll ever have"

Whether it be an engagement ring or a wedding band, the ring is mute testament that whatever happened the night before is all that can ever happen between these two.

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Michael Valentine Doonican was an Irish crooner with an easy, relaxed style. He achieved stardom in both his native Ireland and Great Britain, where he had chart success with albums as well as singles in the mid to late 1960s. His only British number one album, "Val Doonican Rocks, But Gently", that spent three weeks at the top of the British album chart between December 31 1967 and January 20 1968, displaced The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", which had been in the number one spot for twenty-three consecutive weeks. His 1971 single "Morning" reached number twelve in Britain and number five in Ireland.

Source: Author Catreona

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Most Recent Scores

Sep 21 2023 : camhammer: 15/15
Sep 20 2023 : Gumby1967: 7/15
Sep 18 2023 : crossesq: 14/15
Sep 18 2023 : trialballoons: 5/15
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Sep 16 2023 : paper_aero: 6/15
Sep 11 2023 : Nealzineatser: 14/15
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