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Hit Songs with Geology Terms Trivia Quiz

Fellow Baby Boomers: Here are hit songs, mainly from the 60's and 70's, with geologic terms in them. Find the missing geology word in the lyrics.

A multiple-choice quiz by severnriver. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
severnriver

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
279,334

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

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Average

Avg Score
8 / 10

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Top 35% Quiz

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Question 1 of 10

1. What geologic feature is in the top ten song sung by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell:

"Ain't no______________high enough". Hint

planet

mountain

river

landslide

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Question 2 of 10

2. In the song "Ramblin Man", the Allman Brothers sang,

"They're always having a good time down on the bayou, Lord,
and them ________women think the world of me."

There is a geologic term missing in the lyrics- which one is it? Hint

river

valley

levee

delta

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Question 3 of 10

3. What type of mass movement of earth is in this Fleetwood Mac song:

"I took my love, I took it down
Climbed a mountain and I turned around
And I saw my reflection in the snow covered hill
'Til the _________ brought it down".

Answer: (a nine letter word)

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Question 4 of 10

4. In the song " All Shook Up", the great Elvis Presley sang about a girl he met:

"She touched my hand
What a chill I got
Her lips are like a ___________that's hot".

What geologic feature did he use in this simile? Hint

volcano

lava

mountain

artesian

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Question 5 of 10

5. In "American Pie", Don McLean sang that he

"Drove my Chevy to the ______________, but the ____________ was dry".

What geological feature is in his song?
Hint

levee

lakebed

river

mountain

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Question 6 of 10

6. What is the missing word in the lyrics of this Al Green song:

"Push me in the water, drop me in the __________________
Washing me down
Washing me down"? Hint

ocean

river

bayou

bay

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Question 7 of 10

7. In their album Steel Wheels, released in 1989, the Rolling Stones included a song whose name has an unusual title- it is actually a geologic process. The Stones used this song as an introductory song to several concerts and also to the album Flashpoint. What is the name of the song? Hint

Continental Drift

Mountain Uplift

Plate Tectonics

Subduction

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Question 8 of 10

8. Here is a country music question: Although Loretta Lynn became a famous music star, she never forgot her humble beginnings, as she wrote in this song:

"I am just a _______________ miner's daughter".

What geologic term is missing in the blank?

Answer: (One Word, four letters)

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Question 9 of 10

9. Here is another country song, this one from 1990 and songwriter Randy Travis. In this song, he says that:

"I feel like a ____________
You have picked up and thrown
To the hard rock bottom of your heart"

What is the missing word in these lyrics? Hint

stone

boulder

gem

rock

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Question 10 of 10

10. A beautiful song by the Band, "Acadian Driftwood" goes like this:

"Trying to raise a family
End up an enemy
Over what went down
On the __________ of Abraham".

What geological term is missing in these lyrics? Hint

Plateau

Valley

Plains

Mountain

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What geologic feature is in the top ten song sung by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell: "Ain't no______________high enough".

Answer: mountain

The original song was released in 1967, and then Diana Ross of the Supremes released a second version in 1971. The lyrics go, "Ain't no mountain high enough, ain't no valley low enough, ain't no river wide enough, to keep me from getting to you."

2. In the song "Ramblin Man", the Allman Brothers sang, "They're always having a good time down on the bayou, Lord, and them ________women think the world of me." There is a geologic term missing in the lyrics- which one is it?

Answer: delta

The Allman Brothers were singing about the delta of the Mississippi River in the New Orleans area of Louisiana.

3. What type of mass movement of earth is in this Fleetwood Mac song: "I took my love, I took it down Climbed a mountain and I turned around And I saw my reflection in the snow covered hill 'Til the _________ brought it down".

Answer: landslide

Stevie Nicks wrote the song "Landslide" for the Fleetwood Mac album released in 1975. The song was supposedly a tribute to her father.

4. In the song " All Shook Up", the great Elvis Presley sang about a girl he met: "She touched my hand What a chill I got Her lips are like a ___________that's hot". What geologic feature did he use in this simile?

Answer: volcano

Otis Blackwell wrote this 1957 hit, with possible additions by Elvis himself.

5. In "American Pie", Don McLean sang that he "Drove my Chevy to the ______________, but the ____________ was dry". What geological feature is in his song?

Answer: levee

A levee is a natural or man-made barrier on the side of a river, but McLean may have been writing about a bar with the name Levee. Anyway, the song was a hit in 1971 when it appeared on the "American Pie" album. Madonna and Garth Brooks have also done covers of this amazing song.

6. What is the missing word in the lyrics of this Al Green song: "Push me in the water, drop me in the __________________ Washing me down Washing me down"?

Answer: river

This R&B song, mixing religious and secular references, was released in 1974. It was also covered by the Talking Heads and the Grateful Dead.

Answer: Continental Drift

Continental drift, once proposed as a geologic theory, is a process by which our present continents were once joined together but have since "drifted" apart. Now that theory has been supplanted by the theory of plate tectonics. This "world beat" song by the Rolling Stones included musicians from Morocco and Tangier.

8. Here is a country music question: Although Loretta Lynn became a famous music star, she never forgot her humble beginnings, as she wrote in this song: "I am just a _______________ miner's daughter". What geologic term is missing in the blank?

Answer: coal

"Coal Miner's Daughter" is the name of both a song and a book by country music star Loretta Lynn. The book was also made into a movie starring Sissy Spacek. Lynn was writing of her childhood in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, where her father mined coal.

9. Here is another country song, this one from 1990 and songwriter Randy Travis. In this song, he says that: "I feel like a ____________ You have picked up and thrown To the hard rock bottom of your heart" What is the missing word in these lyrics?

Answer: stone

A song about infidelity, it was a number one song on Billboard's Country Singles Hits in 1990. It is off of Travis' "No Holding Back" album.

10. A beautiful song by the Band, "Acadian Driftwood" goes like this: "Trying to raise a family End up an enemy Over what went down On the __________ of Abraham". What geological term is missing in these lyrics?

Answer: Plains

This song, by Robbie Robertson, evokes the pain of the French-speaking Acadians, who were expelled from their homes in Canada after a treaty ceded their lands to the British in the 1700's.

Source: Author severnriver

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