Misquoted STYX Trivia Quiz

Have you been singing your favorite songs wrong all these years? STYX has some very well known lyrics. Infact, some very popular STYX lyrics, aren't STYX lyrics at all. Choose between the right lyric and the misquote. Fairly easy...Maybe.

A multiple-choice quiz by Chadler. Estimated time: 4 mins.

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Chadler

Time
4 mins

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Multiple Choice

Quiz #
206,697

Updated
Dec 03 21

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1. Which line completes this often misquoted lyric: "I'm sailing away..."? Hint

Set an open course for the birds and sea

Set an open course for the virgin sea

Set an open course for the birds at sea

Set up open doors for emergencies

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2. Which line completes this often misquoted lyric: "Tonight's the night we'll make history..." Hint

As sure as dogs can fly

As sure as stars can fly

As sure as doves can fly

It sure is you and I

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3. What is the correct lyric from "Mr. Roboto"? Hint

I am a Mormon man

I am the modern man

I am the modren man

I am the mouldren man

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4. Which line completes this often misquoted lyric: "I see it in your eyes..." Hint

The love beneath your tears

The love beneath your fears

You've had too many beers

The love, the need, your tears

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5. Which line completes this often misquoted lyric: "I'll take those long nights..." Hint

Impossible odds

Inplausible lies

Impossible lies

Impossible dreams

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6. Which line completes this often misquoted lyric: "Keepin' my back..." Hint

to the wall

to the girl

to the world

against the shower wall

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7. Which line completes this often misquoted lyric: "I feel so..." Hint

helpless. like a baby in the sky

hopeless, like a boat against the tide

helpless, like a boat against the tide

hopeless, like a baby in the sky

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8. Which line completes this often misquoted lyric: "My God, I'm..." Hint

happy and live

hardly in life

hardy and live

hardly alive

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9. Which line completes this often misquoted lyric: "I've given up hope for the afternoon..." Hint

soak and a bottle of cold brew

soaps and a bottle of cold brew

soak in a bottle of cold brew

smokes and a bottle of cold brew

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10. Which line completes this often misquoted lyric: "But somehow we missed out..." Hint

on the pot of gold

on the part we wrote

on the parted road

on the part we rode

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Which line completes this often misquoted lyric: "I'm sailing away..."?

Answer: Set an open course for the virgin sea

"...birds and sea" is a common misquote of "Come Sail Away", off the 1977 "Grand Illusion" album.

2. Which line completes this often misquoted lyric: "Tonight's the night we'll make history..."

Answer: As sure as dogs can fly

Doesn't make sense? This is from the intro track, "AD 1928" which leads into the song "Rockin' The Paradise". The "Paradise Theatre" album the song appears on has a picture of a theater with several posters on it advertising various attractions. One of the posters boasts Sparky The Flying Dog. This is where the oddball lyric comes from. The lyric sounds so ridiculous, and its origin is so obscure, that many assume it says "doves" rather than "dogs", which would make a lot more sense.

NOTE: If you thought the proper lyric was "Honey, you and I", please don't send a correction. You are thinking of the song "The Best Of Times" which has the exact same music, and VERY similar lyrics.

P.S. "Honey, you and I", is not listed as one of the possible correct answers to this quiz, nor are any other "Best Of Times" lyrics. Sorry, this had caused some unnecessary confusion. There really is only one correct answer listed on the quiz.

3. What is the correct lyric from "Mr. Roboto"?

Answer: I am the modren man

The lyrics actually say "modren" with a backwards "R". It has caused many people to misquote the lyric, or give up trying to figure out what it says.

4. Which line completes this often misquoted lyric: "I see it in your eyes..."

Answer: The love, the need, your tears

From The #1 hit, "Babe". I sang this one wrong for YEARS! (Still do actually.)

5. Which line completes this often misquoted lyric: "I'll take those long nights..."

Answer: Impossible odds

"Blue Collar Man" is famous for misquotes in the chorus.

6. Which line completes this often misquoted lyric: "Keepin' my back..."

Answer: to the wall

As you can see, many folks just mangle "Blue Collar Man"'s entire chorus.

7. Which line completes this often misquoted lyric: "I feel so..."

Answer: helpless, like a boat against the tide

From "The Best Of Times", from the "Kilroy" album.

8. Which line completes this often misquoted lyric: "My God, I'm..."

Answer: hardly alive

Just keep rackin 'em up for "Blue Collar Man"

9. Which line completes this often misquoted lyric: "I've given up hope for the afternoon..."

Answer: soaps and a bottle of cold brew

This lyric is from the song "Too Much Time On My Hands". Yeah, baby!

10. Which line completes this often misquoted lyric: "But somehow we missed out..."

Answer: on the pot of gold

Bring it full-circle back to "Come Sail Away", another of the more misquoted songs to finish it up.

As you took the test did you find yourself saying "Oh, that's what that said all these years"?

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Source: Author Chadler

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