Okay kids, it’s Quiz Time. Philadelphia author and librarian Roz Warren has come up with an irresistible test of your credentials. It’s a Boomer Tunes Pop Quiz.
If you’re a Boomer, your brain is teaming with decades-old Pop tunes that you just can’t forget. Which is the real reason you can never remember where you put your keys: too many brain cells clinging to every last lyric to “Fire and Rain,” “Free Bird,” and “Sweet Home Alabama.” Don’t believe me? Just take this simple test. I guarantee you’re going to ace it.
I saw a werewolf drinking a Pina Colada at Trader Vic’s. And his hair was
- gone
- heavily moussed
- perfect
Rikki don’t lose that number, it’s the only one you own, you might use it if you feel better
- after a trip to the disco
- when you get home
- once you lose the mullet
Floatin’ like the heavens above. Looks like
- Richard Nixon
- muskrat love
- the eagle flies with the dove
Your mama don’t dance and your daddy don’t
- watch Dick Cavett
- rock and roll
- understand the lyrics to “American Pie.”
Help! I need ___
- a Quaalude
- a new leisure suit
- somebody
Play me a song you’re the
- piano man
- rocket man
- rock lobster
The wind was in from Africa and last night I couldn’t
- party like it’s 1999
- sleep
- fear the reaper
The answer my friend, is
- 42
- behind door number 3
- blowing in the wind
Only the good die
- on a bad acid trip
- young
- comfortably numb
LA is a great big freeway. Put a hundred down and buy
- a brand new nose
- a heart of glass
- a car
Oh baby baby it’s a wild world. It’s hard to get by just upon a
- couple of Quaaludes and a hot dog
- bustle in your hedgerow
- smile
I’ve been cheated. Been mistreated. When will I be
- old enough to vote
- living for the city
- loved
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store
- in Ohio
- in Tupelo
- on the Wild Side
In the desert you can remember your name, cause there ain’t no one for to give you no
- pain
- rain
- blame
“I am” I said. To no one there. And no one heard at all not even the
- bear
- chair
- au pair
One toke over the line. Sittin’ downtown in a
- railway station
- Mercedes limo
- tanning parlor
Oo-ooh Child, things are gonna get
- weird
- easier
- a lot more expensive
Roz Warren, writer and literary critic.
If you didn’t get every one of these right, you’re not a Boomer. Either that or you’re a Boomer but you’re getting senile. The only upside to dementia? You’ll finally forget the words to “Dancing Queen.”
(Roz Warren is the author of OUR BODIES, OUR SHELVES: A COLLECTION OF LIBRARY HUMOR. This piece first appeared on Zestnow.com)
Enjoyed it!
..to steal a phrase from Sirius/XM. “this is Classic Vinyl”!
Thanks!
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Personally, I believe I have the lyrics to at least 10 thousand songs in my head–and I am still collecting them. Fun post!
A terrific and VERY engaging quiz, Roz! In fact, it might be one of the “top 40” quizzes ever. 🙂
Now I’ve got “Dancing Queen” stuck in my head! ?
You’re welcome.
Yikes! There were lines there I’d forgotten I knew!
Wonderful!
Amazingly, I could get these. Not because of my well-established boomer status, but because I can’t ever remember the lines to any song if I try to sing along. Thanks for this!
Having the lyrics of “Dancing Queen” stuck in your head is more properly known as an earworm…nice quiz, tho!
Damn, I knew all the answers. And I always considered myself a “young” Boomer, 1964.
Nice! Although I did miss two of them. But now I have Dancing Queen stuck in my head. “Friday nights and the nights are low . . .” Damnit.