The Mick and Dave Load of Bollock Music Quiz American Theme

American-themed music quiz packed with classic tunes, laughs, and the usual Mick & Dave chaos. The quiz format has become a regular favourite with listeners, mixing music knowledge, banter, and plenty of shouting answers at the speaker from the van or workshop. 

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I would like to welcome you to the McIntyre of Law of the Bullet Show. Stand by for action. Five, four, three, two, one. Anything can happen in the next half hour. So straight away, I'm gonna I'm going to hand you over to our quizmaster, the man with all the knowledge, Mick. Off you go, Mick, over to you. It's that time of the week again. It's quiz time. This week we have got a theme to the quiz, but I'm not going to tell you what the theme is. I'm going to let you listen to the piece of music, and then you'll know what the theme is. Come to America. Come to America. Which traveling like today? The Isle of Storm The Isle of Storm So let's kick it off. Question one Which nineteen seventy one hit by Don McLean is named after a famous American dessert? Question two Which Motown group had a nineteen seventy and number one hit with ABC? Question three Which singer had a nineteen eighty five hit with the summer of sixty nine? Question four Which American rock band recorded the hit Born to Run in nineteen seventy five? Question five is a music clip for you. We want to know the name of the artist and the title six Which nineteen sixty nine song by Credence Clearwater Revival refers to a boat journey on a famous US river. Question seven Which American duo had a nineteen seventy hit with bridge over troubled water? Question eight Hotel California was a major hit for which American band? Question nine Which American state is mentioned in the title of a Tony Christie's song? Question ten Walking in Memphis was a nineteen ninety one hit for which singer? Question eleven, which singer had a hit with Take Me Home Country Roads. Question thirteen Which American singer had a nineteen sixty nine hit with Galveston? Question fourteen is another music clip for you? The name of the artist and the title. Question sixteen Which singer had a hit with I am I said Question seventeen, another music clip for you. Again, we want to know the name of the artist and the title. Question eighteen Midnight Train to Georgia was recorded by which group? Question nineteen which American singer at a nineteen seventy hit with Rose Garden. Question twenty Which film featured the song Mrs. Robinson by Simon and Garfunkel? Question twenty-one another music clip for you. Again, the name of the artist and the title. Question twenty-two. Which American group had a hit with dancing in the street in nineteen sixty-four? Question twenty-three is another music clip for you. Again, we need to know the name of the artist and the title. Which American singer had a nineteen seventy-seven hit with new kid in town? Question twenty five. Which American city is known as the motor city. And the bonus route bonus question tonight is a music clip for you. And we want to know the name of the artist and the title of the song. Just below is the cabin home of old little girl of mine. She'll belong to me. For I know she's waiting there for me neat that long pine tree. Brilliant, then mix some really good questions in there, some odd ones, but some really good ones. Right. Some nasty ones in there, I think. Oh, some bloody nasty ones in there, big style. Right. How would you go through them? Yeah, why not? Alright, you you rig as usual, you read them out and I'll balls up answers as normal. But again, it wouldn't be normal. It won't be Mick and Dave showing it bowls them up, would it? Well, it's all good for it's all in good. Excuse me a second. Go on. Okay. Have you got you thinking? I have indeed. Good. So question one Which 1971 hit by Don McLean is named after a famous American dessert? Yeah, that's American pie. John McLean wrote it as a like a tribute to Buddy Ollie who died in car crash, uh sorry, plane crash in 19. Yeah, balls up straight away on first question. Quality. Quality. Question two. Which MOT MOT, you've got me at it now. Oh fuck's sake. We'll try it again. Try it again. Question two. Which Motown group had a 1970 number one hit with ABC? That was the Jackson 5. In 1970 he got to number one in the USA. Question three, which singer had a 1985 hit with Summer of 69? Summer of 69 was sung by Brian Adams. He was only nine year old in 1969. So that means he was born in 1960. So we couldn't even he's knowing about his own life, is it? He did well then. He did well, yeah, yeah. So question four, which American rock band recorded the hit Born to Run in 1975? Yeah, Bruce Spring Bruce Springsteen, but we need the E Street band as well. That's harsh even by my standards. It is, but if you're a Bruce Springsteen fan, you'll know that. Well yeah. Question five was a music clip. We needed to know the name of the artist and the title. Question six. Which nineteen sixty-nine song by Creedence Clearwater Revival revert refers to a riverboat journey on a famous US River. Also sung by Tina I can Tina Turner. It's called Proud Mary. Question seven. Which American duo had a 1970 hit with Bridge Over Troubled Water? Bridge Over Troubled Waters was sung by Simon and Garth Uncle. Question eight. Hotel California was a major hit for which American band? That American band with Eagles, and that was in 1977. Question nine. Which American state is mentioned in the title of Tony Christie's hit song? Yeah, it's is that the word I'm already Amarello? Question ten. Walking in Memphis was a 1991 hit for which singer? The singer was called Mark Cohen. Question eleven. Which singer had a hit with Take Me Home Country Roads? Country Roads, Take Me Home? Yeah, I'd be John Denver in 1971. Question 13. Which American singer had a 1969 hit with Galveston? True classic. I would have picked another one for that one. You probably would. I would indeed. Which one would you have picked? I'd have picked Rhinestone Cowboy. Oh Rhinestone Cowboy, yeah, very cool. Yeah. Very cool. So question 14. Another music clip for you. We need to know the name of the artist and the title. Yeah, the artist was Elton John and it's Philadelphia Freedom. Have you ever seen the film Rocket Man? Yeah, there's a great version of it in that film, The Rocky Man. Absolutely superb. Question 15. Do you know the way to San Jose was a hit for which singer? The lady singer was called Diane Warwick, and it was in 1968. Question 16. Which singer had a hit with I Am I Said? This is one of my old-time classics, and it was Neil Diamond in 1971. Wow, I was four. How old were you? How old were you? Four. I just left school. No, correction. I've been correct. I've just been kicked out of school. I was gonna say that sounds more feasible. Truthful as well. Question 70 was another music clip. We want to know the name of the artist and the title. Yeah, with the doobie brothers, and it was called Listen to the Music. Good tune, that it's a very good tune, that. Yeah, absolutely. I'm surprised you like that. Question Well, you know. Question 18, Midnight Train to Georgia was recorded by which group? That was Gladys Night and the Pips, and it became one of the features that like their anthem song, isn't it? Midnight Train to Georgia. Brilliant. Question 19, which American singer had a 1970 hit with Rose Garden? We're going back a bit now, 1970. It was a lady called Lynn Anderson that got to number one in the UK and the USA. Question 20, which film featured the song Mrs. Robinson by Simon and Garf Uncle? That film was called The Graduate and it was out in 1968. Question 21 was another music clip. Again, we want to know the name of the artist and the title. Question 22 Which American group had a hit with dancing in the street in 1964? That American group was Martha Reeves and the Vandelas. Question 23. Another music clip for you. We need to know the name of the artist and the title. The artist was called Albert Amond, and the record the title is called The Free Electric Band. Question 24. Which American singer had a 1977 hit with New Kid in Town? Well, it's not the singer of the band, it's the Eagles and Dod Henley. So loud of them too, isn't it? 25. Which American city is known as the motor city? The motor city is Detroit. And the bonus question which is unusual for us to do this, is a music clip. And we want to know the name of the artist and the title of the song. Just below is the cabin home of a little girl of mine. Her name is June, and very, very soon she'll belong to me. For I know she's waiting there for me, meet that long pine tree. Yeah, seeing it was a yeah, a very hard one. We played 30 seconds instead of number 15. It was called The Blue Ridge Bounties of Virginia by Laurel and Hardy. It reached number two in December of 1975, kept off the number one spot by Queen with Bohemian Rhapsody. It also spent 10 weeks in the UK charts. So that's the end of the quiz. And thanks for listening. And have you enjoyed that, Mick? Anyone anyone you want to go back on? No, I don't think so. Yeah, do you know what's quite scary though? Even for my age, I know most of these. Well, that is scary, saying you're supposed to put them together. You're the quizmaster by ND. Well, the Quizmaster can have a little rest every now and then and pass the book. Yeah, yeah, you've got your your producer. We hope you've enjoyed it. You've got your producer to write them for you. Yeah, I just thought I'd just you know let somebody else have a go at writing them for us. Well, you're the quizmaster and I'm the producer, and that seems to work pretty well, doesn't it? Yeah, I hope everybody's going to be, doesn't it? It seems to be going well. Yeah, we get hundreds of downloads on these music quizzes. We're going to be bringing out coming to enlighten people, what we're going to bring out. Yeah, go on. Or should we keep it a secret? No, let's just tell them about it some more listeners. Yeah, go for it. The feedback we seem to get is yeah, we we like questions, but we prefer it when you two kind of take the piss out of each other and have a laugh. So with that in mind, I thought, well, why not go to the pub and have like a just a you know, a chatting, get a couple of mates together and sit round and chew the fat and talk about football and politics or whatever else and have a laugh and have the bounter. So we're bringing out a another podcast called Mick and Dave go to the pub. So watch out for it. You know, it'll be cross all media platforms, Spotify, Amazon, they'll be on all of them, and it'll be launched pretty soon. So watch out for that. And it'll be a laugh. Guarantee it'll be a piss take. It will be. No, we wouldn't do a thing like that, would we? It won't go and write a banner if it were normal, would it? Seriously, Mick. I'm not saying nothing. We're not meant to be normal. Oh, brilliant. Different brain, mate. Different braid, innit? Yeah, definitely a different breed. Definitely a different braid. So yeah, well, brilliant. So that's end of the music quids till next week. I hope you enjoyed it. And we'll catch you next week with another one. And keep your eye open for the podcast. Mick and Dave go to the pub. Go on out, you want to say. And if there's uh any themes you want us to cover, let us know. Well, yeah, yeah, you can come up with ideas, but we'll probably kick them in bin and come up with some of our own anyway. Or we'll just make an absolute arse of them. Is what it is. That's what we normally do anyway. So, right, I'll be enjoying quiz. It's bye from me, Dave, and and a bye from me, Mick. Always look on the bright side of life. Always look on the light side of life.