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Quiz about Iron Maiden Song Lyrics
Quiz about Iron Maiden Song Lyrics

Iron Maiden Song Lyrics Trivia Quiz

I'll give you a lyric extracted from an Iron Maiden song and you give me the title of that song; easy!

A multiple-choice quiz by enwrigpd. Estimated time: 3 mins.
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Author
enwrigpd
Time
3 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
227,284
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
8 / 10
Plays
1346
Last 3 plays: Guest 99 (9/10), Guest 98 (10/10), Guest 170 (10/10).
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Scroll down to the bottom for the answer key.
1. Which Iron Maiden song opens with this line: 'O god of earth and altar, bow down and hear our cry'? Hint

Another Life
Still Life
Revelations
Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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2. Name the track that concludes with the line: 'When I'm walking a dark road, I am a man who walks alone'? Hint

From Here to Eternity
The Number of the Beast
Fear of the Dark
Running Free

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3. From which Iron Maiden classic would you hear the following lyric: 'Iron Maiden's gonna get you, no matter how far'? Hint

Infinate Dreams
Iron Maiden
Drifter
killers

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4. Which track has (in its verse) the lyric: 'Blood on the stones of the citadel'? Hint

Paschendale
Where Eagles Dare
Sign of the Cross
Montsegur

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5. Find the well known song containing the line: 'The bugle sounds and the charge begins, but on this battlefield no one wins'? Hint

Invaders
The Trooper
Run to the Hills
Die With Your Boots On

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6. From which epic Maiden track did I get this line:
'Four times fifty living men
(and I heard nor sigh nor groan)
With heavy thump, a lifeless lump
They dropped down one by one'? Hint

Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Powerslave
The Trooper
No Prayer for the Dying

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7. Guess the song that includes the lyric: 'He killed our tribes, he killed our creed. He took our game for his own need.'?
 Hint

The Nomad
Flash of the Blade
Only the Good Die Young
Run to the Hills

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8. What song about fighter planes has the line:
'Ascending and turning our spitfires to face them
Heading straight for them I press down my guns'? Hint

From Here to Eternity
Where eagles Dare
Tailgunner
Aces High

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9. Can you tell me in which controversial song is this lyric:
'Just what I saw in my own dreams were the
Reflections of my warped mind staring back at me'?
 Hint

Number Of The Beast
2 Minutes to Midnight
Killers
Revelations

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10. You are a hardcore fan indeed if you know where this line comes from: 'The ferryman wants his money, you ain't going to give it back'?
 Hint

Infinate Dreams
no Prayer for the Dying
Wildest Dreams
The Wicker Man


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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Which Iron Maiden song opens with this line: 'O god of earth and altar, bow down and hear our cry'?

Answer: Revelations

 Taken from the hymn written by G. K. Chesterton.
2. Name the track that concludes with the line: 'When I'm walking a dark road, I am a man who walks alone'?

Answer: Fear of the Dark

 From the album of the same name. Bruce took a break after this album to do some solo work; and Blaze Bayley kept Maiden rocking till Bruce returned in 1999.
3. From which Iron Maiden classic would you hear the following lyric: 'Iron Maiden's gonna get you, no matter how far'?

Answer: Iron Maiden

 This is the bands signature song from their first album called....
you guessed it; 'Iron Maiden'!
4. Which track has (in its verse) the lyric: 'Blood on the stones of the citadel'?

Answer: Montsegur

 Bit more up to date now, from Maiden's 2003 album named 'Dance of Death'. This song is about the 220ish Cathars who where burned at the stake by French troops when they refused to convert to Catholicism in 1244.
5. Find the well known song containing the line: 'The bugle sounds and the charge begins, but on this battlefield no one wins'?

Answer: The Trooper

 This famous song is about the Battle of Balaclava (1854) during the Crimean War, and is at least partially based upon Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade".
6. From which epic Maiden track did I get this line: 'Four times fifty living men (and I heard nor sigh nor groan) With heavy thump, a lifeless lump They dropped down one by one'?

Answer: Rime of the Ancient Mariner

 This song is the bands longest at 14 minutes, and re-tells Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem about bird related events experienced by a mariner on a long sea voyage. 'Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink' should ring a bell.
7. Guess the song that includes the lyric: 'He killed our tribes, he killed our creed. He took our game for his own need.'?

Answer: Run to the Hills

 Poignant song about the 'white man' and his exploits in the 'new world' - say no more.
8. What song about fighter planes has the line: 'Ascending and turning our spitfires to face them Heading straight for them I press down my guns'?

Answer: Aces High

 Steve Harris wrote this about our splendid boys in the Royal Flying Corps of which Churchill said: 'never was so much owed by so many to so few'.
9. Can you tell me in which controversial song is this lyric: 'Just what I saw in my own dreams were the Reflections of my warped mind staring back at me'?

Answer: Number Of The Beast

 Maidens most controversial song which has been labelled as Satanic. The song is really about nightmares, but it's easy to see why people have attacked it.
10. You are a hardcore fan indeed if you know where this line comes from: 'The ferryman wants his money, you ain't going to give it back'?

Answer: The Wicker Man

 Tough one to finish. Song about cult film 'The Wicker Man' (1973) starring Edward Woodward about a policeman who gets sacrificed in a pagan ritual. Woodward makes the film work with some fantastic acting.
Source: Author enwrigpd

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