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Quiz about Its Not Easy Being Green
Quiz about Its Not Easy Being Green

It's Not Easy Being Green Trivia Quiz


Singers and songs related by the colour green. The link may not be immediately obvious, but stay with me, it really wasn't easy being green.

A multiple-choice quiz by smpdit. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
smpdit
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
381,361
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
6 / 10
Plays
466
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Question 1 of 10
1. Crazy Frog struck pay dirt in 2005 with a remix of "Axel F" that originally appeared in what movie? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Tomato vines are green, which leads us to "The Ketchup Song" recorded by which Spanish band? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Green is the colour of the Great British Racing team which brings to mind images of cars "Racing in the Streets". Which artist penned this remarkable song in 1978? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. The Bill Wyman single "Si Si" appears on the soundtrack to the 1981 film "Green Ice". It is better known by which of the following names? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Green thumbs. Thumbing a lift. "Hitchin' a Ride" was big in 1969 for whom? (William Makepeace Thackeray would blanch at their name). Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Which of these green grass songs was sung by English singer Petula Clark?
Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. How did the Canadian rock group Nickelback get their name? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder, or so thought Kasabian when they recorded the track "La Fée Verte" on which album in 2011? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Which Australian X-Factor Artist had a hit with her debut single "What You've Done To Me"? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Which of the following represents a 1997 Green Day track that has a titular link with a green Sesame Street character? Hint



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1. Crazy Frog struck pay dirt in 2005 with a remix of "Axel F" that originally appeared in what movie?

Answer: Beverly Hills Cop

Frogs are green. "Axel F" is an instrumental piece from "Beverly Hills Cop", a movie that was screened in 1984. It was originally performed by Harold Faltermeyer, a German musician, and named after the main character in the movie, Axel Foley.

Crazy Frog, a computer-animated character, recorded "Axel F" as a remix in 2005 and it was a worldwide hit. This version is also known as the "Crazy Frog" song.
2. Tomato vines are green, which leads us to "The Ketchup Song" recorded by which Spanish band?

Answer: Las Ketchup

"The Ketchup Song" was an international hit for the Spanish group in 2002. They'd released the song with three versions: one in Spanish, one in Spanish and English, and the last in Portuguese. The song was originally given the Spanish title "Aserejé". Las Ketchup is made up of three sisters: Pilar, Lola and Lucia Munoz.

It appears they may have inherited their talent from their father, a well known flamenco guitarist who, coincidently, performed under the name "El Tomate".
3. Green is the colour of the Great British Racing team which brings to mind images of cars "Racing in the Streets". Which artist penned this remarkable song in 1978?

Answer: Bruce Springsteen

There are many writers and music critics that hail this track as Springsteen's greatest work. As Roy Bittan's elegant piano introduction draws you in Springsteen steps forward and unveils a gritty tale of a young man in a dead-end job who lives for those moments when he's behind the wheel of his '69 Chevy.

It is a metaphor of the average guy chasing the dream and how that chase has the power to "burn" him. Springsteen manages to imbue the song with a gentle tenderness that doesn't stoop to mawkish sentimentality.

The track appears on Bruce's 1978 album "Darkness on the Edge of Town".
4. The Bill Wyman single "Si Si" appears on the soundtrack to the 1981 film "Green Ice". It is better known by which of the following names?

Answer: Je Suis un Rock Star

This is the stand out track on former Rolling Stones' bass player Bill Wyman's self titled 1981 album. Deliriously strange, the song embroiders Wyman's inbuilt sense of humour with a disco beat and a string of Spanish guitars. Lyrically there are lines of fashionable venues and pop culture references that are delivered with a deadpan voice and an accent that Wyman describes as Cockney French.

The single would spend nine weeks in the UK Top Forty charts and peak at number fourteen.
5. Green thumbs. Thumbing a lift. "Hitchin' a Ride" was big in 1969 for whom? (William Makepeace Thackeray would blanch at their name).

Answer: Vanity Fare

The humble recorder, hardly an instrument that you'd associate with a rock and roll number but Vanity Fare use it to great effect to provide their single with a quirky and original opening. It branches out to tell the story of a young man without money desperate to get home to his lady love who sounded lonely on the phone (good grief!). Formed in Kent in 1966, Vanity Fare had moderate success until "Hitchin' a Ride" became a hit worldwide.

The song went to number sixteen on the UK Singles charts in 1970 but it was in the US on Billboard's Hot 100 where it did best, peaking at number five.
6. Which of these green grass songs was sung by English singer Petula Clark?

Answer: The Other Man's Grass is Always Greener

This was written by Tony Hatch, a long time collaborator with Petula, and Jackie Trent. The song, which has a philosophical bent and advises the listener to be thankful for what they have got, reached number twenty for Petula on the UK singles charts in 1967 and number thirty one on Billboard's Hot 100 in the US.

"Green, Green Grass of Home" is a popular 1966 cover by Tom Jones. "Where the Green Grass Grows" is a Tim McGraw song and "The Green Grass Grew All Around" is a popular children's song, often featured on the children's television programme "Barney & Friends".
7. How did the Canadian rock group Nickelback get their name?

Answer: At Starbucks, most products ended in five cents, when giving change, staff would say "Here's your Nickel back"

The Starbucks' logo is green. Before they became famous bass player Mike Kroeger, worked in a Canadian Starbucks where coffee prices ended in five cents multiples. When change was given, Mike would say "Here's your nickel back."
Often criticised for producing formulaic music, Nickelback nevertheless have sold over fifty million records. In the decade between 2000 and 2010, the only group that sold more records in the US than Nickelback were The Beatles.
Their hit song "How You Remind Me" was the best selling rock record of the decade.
8. Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder, or so thought Kasabian when they recorded the track "La Fée Verte" on which album in 2011?

Answer: Velociraptor

This was a track on Kasabian's album Velociraptor. La Fée Verte translates to "The Green Fairy" a reference to the drink absinthe. Absinthe is a beautiful, bright green French spirit that contains extracts of wormwood and reportedly causes seizures due to the presence of thujone. The track is about getting high and chasing oblivion in the alcohol. Kylie Minogue played The Green Fairy in Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge- a place inextricably linked with absinthe at a time of its immense popularity in 19th Century Paris.
La Fée Verte is also an absinthe house in Paris.
9. Which Australian X-Factor Artist had a hit with her debut single "What You've Done To Me"?

Answer: Samantha Jade

Jade is a green semi-precious stone. Samantha Jade won the Australian X-Factor in 2012. Since then she has headlined the X-Factor Live Tour in 2013, and was a supporting act for English X-Factor runners up One Direction, when they toured in 2015. She has also branched out into acting; appearing as Kylie Minogue in a mini series entitled "INXS- Never Tear Us Apart" and she joined the cast of "Home and Away" in 2016.
10. Which of the following represents a 1997 Green Day track that has a titular link with a green Sesame Street character?

Answer: Oscar the Grouch

"The Grouch" appears on Green Day's fifth album "Nimrod", released in 1997, their double platinum album that produced their hit single "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)". "The Grouch" sees the narrator complaining about a life of wasted opportunities ("I drank a six pack of apathy") and that it was not his doing ("The world owes me").
Source: Author smpdit

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