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Tom Waits Trivia Trivia Quiz

This is a trivia quiz on my very favourite musician - Tom Waits.

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

Author
pia_fraus

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
85,619

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

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804

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Question 1 of 10

1. Which of these instruments does Tom Waits NOT play? Hint

Harmonium

Cello

Organ

Guitar

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Question 2 of 10

2. Which album was his first one? Hint

Closing Time

Swordfishtrombones

Foreign Affairs

Beautiful Maladies

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Question 3 of 10

3. Tom Waits earned an Academy Award nomination for writing the music for which movie? Hint

One from the Heart

Edward Scissorhands

Birdy

Twelve Monkeys

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which song contains these lines: 'Strangle all the Christmas carols, scratch out all your prayers, tie em up with barbed wire, and push them down the stairs.'? Hint

Romeo is Bleeding

A Sweet Little Bullet from a Pretty Blue Gun

Whistlin Past the Graveyard

Wrong Side of the Road

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Question 5 of 10

5. In 1992 his album 'Bone Machine' won Grammy Award for best album in which musical genre? Hint

Contemporary blues

Pop and rock

Alternative

Musical show

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Question 6 of 10

6. Which of these is one of two albums Waits released on May 7, 2002? Hint

Beautiful Maladies

Blood Money

Mule Variations

Big Time

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Question 7 of 10

7. According to Waits's own words, what does he hate? Hint

Michael Jackson

School

Music

Disneyland

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Question 8 of 10

8. Which of these things was used as a musical instrument in 'Black Rider', the recording of a musical that Waits had co-written with William Burroughs? Hint

Ladle

Egg beater

Saw

Pan

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Question 9 of 10

9. Tom Waits recorded the song 'I Never Talk to Strangers' with which actress? Hint

Bette Midler

Isabella Rossellini

Beverly D'Angelo

Barbra Streisand

10. And finally, I give you the words of the refrain and you name the song. Here goes: 'And all over the world strangers talk only about the weather. All over the world it's the same, it's the same!'

Answer: (Two Words)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Which of these instruments does Tom Waits NOT play?

Answer: Cello

He also plays piano, marimba, whistle, and some other instruments.

2. Which album was his first one?

Answer: Closing Time

It was released in 1973.

3. Tom Waits earned an Academy Award nomination for writing the music for which movie?

Answer: One from the Heart

A Francis Ford Coppola film. Waits has also played in many of Coppola's movies, including "Bram Stoker's Dracula".

4. Which song contains these lines: 'Strangle all the Christmas carols, scratch out all your prayers, tie em up with barbed wire, and push them down the stairs.'?

Answer: Wrong Side of the Road

It appeared on the 1978 album 'Blue Valentines' and is one of my favourite songs.

5. In 1992 his album 'Bone Machine' won Grammy Award for best album in which musical genre?

Answer: Alternative

It was an easy one, I hope.

6. Which of these is one of two albums Waits released on May 7, 2002?

Answer: Blood Money

The other album released on May 7, 2002 by Waits was 'Alice'.

7. According to Waits's own words, what does he hate?

Answer: Disneyland

He says that Disneyland primes kids for Las Vegas.

8. Which of these things was used as a musical instrument in 'Black Rider', the recording of a musical that Waits had co-written with William Burroughs?

Answer: Saw

9. Tom Waits recorded the song 'I Never Talk to Strangers' with which actress?

Answer: Bette Midler

The song first appeared on the album 'Foreign Affairs' (1977). It's about two lonely people who meet in a bar and start talking to each other.

Answer: Strange Weather

Another beautiful song. Waits and his wife Kathleen Brennan wrote it to Marianne Faithfull (a rock singer) in 1987. Waits himself recorded it the next year, in 1988.

Source: Author pia_fraus

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