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Can you name the song titles and the books they reference (clips)?
created by
joel
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Song Title / Book Title
Band / Author
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Coldplay
0:09-0:18
Five for Fighting
0:19-0:32
The Police
0:33-0:50
Kenny Loggins and Messina
0:51-0:56
The Reflections
0:57-1:06
Bob Dylan
1:07-1:21
Incubus
1:22-1:30
The Byrds
1:31-1:38
America
1:39-1:59
Led Zeppelin
2:00-2:16
Green Day
2:17-2:25
Toad the Wet Sprocket
2:26-2:34
Bruce Springsteen
2:35-2:42
Jefferson Airplane
2:43-2:55
Led Zeppelin
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Song Title / Book Title
Band / Author
0:00-0:08
Friedrich Schiller
0:09-0:18
Various
0:19-0:32
Homer
0:33-0:50
A. A. Milne
0:51-0:56
William Shakespeare
0:57-1:06
Dante Alighieri
1:07-1:21
Philip K. Dick
1:22-1:30
Various
1:31-1:38
L. Frank Baum
1:39-1:59
J. R. R. Tolkien
2:00-2:16
J. D. Salinger
2:17-2:25
Miguel Cervantes
2:26-2:34
John Steinbeck
2:35-2:42
Lewis Carroll
2:43-2:55
Herman Melville
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dxman
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May 15th, 2010 at 18:25 GMT
3 points
Really interesting idea. 5 stars.
celestialaly12
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May 15th, 2010 at 20:57 GMT
2 points
i like the inclusion of philip k dick...please do more like this.
joeyjoeyjoey
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May 18th, 2010 at 20:01 GMT
2 points
great game!
dmwolfe14
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May 18th, 2010 at 21:50 GMT
6 points
Absolutely genius! I love it! And I never considered Green Day's reference to 'The Catcher in the Rye'! Awesome!
Saulmeister
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May 19th, 2010 at 00:18 GMT
3 points
Just thought I let you know that if you want to make it so that the playbar only is showing, not the video, look in the embed code for all the places where it mentions "height" (it's twice, once at the beginning and once at the end), and change the "height=" to 25. Nice quiz and really cool idea, although I didn't fare to well with naming books (except for Lord of the Rings, that's an obvious one). I will say that I thought Superman and Moby Dick were rather lazy choices compared to the others though.
joel
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May 19th, 2010 at 00:26 GMT
3 points
Saulmeister, Thanks so much for letting me know about the playbar! I've been wondering about that, but wasn't really concerned about that aesthetic issue so much as the quiz content. And, I figured there should be some gimmes in the quiz, like Superman, and I have to give props to anyone who even knows Moby Dick, so double points to him or her must be in order.
jbruin152
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May 19th, 2010 at 04:50 GMT
0 points
moby dick is a good choice because you have to know the song--it's not like it's given away by lyrics (as some of the others are)
rockgolf
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May 19th, 2010 at 11:03 GMT
5 points
Wonderful quiz and definite Editor's Choice! Please apply Saulmeister's fix to the screen height, though.
Another possible inclusion, the Police's line "Just like that old man in that book by Nabakov."
Rifsun
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May 19th, 2010 at 18:14 GMT
3 points
Blue Oyster Cult's "Black Blade" references Elric of Melnibore, and also have the song "Joan Crawford" which references Mommie Dearest. Rush has a thousand or so literary allusions in their songs, with "Tom Sawyer" and "Anthem" probably being the two most obvious, though "Xanadu" is probably the most in depth (to Kubla Khan.) Mark Knopfler's "Boom, Like That" is based on Ray Kroc's autobiography "Grinding It Out." Great idea for a quiz.
cassavetes
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May 19th, 2010 at 20:57 GMT
1 point
nirvana's "scentless apprentice" is based on the novel "perfume" by patrick suskind. and the stones' "sympathy for the devil" is based on "the master and margarita" by bulgakov. this was awesome! sequel please!
Emperor_Ziggy
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May 20th, 2010 at 21:03 GMT
3 points
Kind of expecting The Police - Don't Stand So Close To Me, what with its referencing Lolita as "that book by Nabokov."
cheekachu
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May 22nd, 2010 at 05:49 GMT
2 points
"Moby Dick" was great. And I agree about "Don't Stand So Close to Me," I actually tried it first thing.
johnlk
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May 22nd, 2010 at 13:47 GMT
1 point
I believe the "book of poems in the 13th century" is more of a reference to Dante's sonnet cycle, "La Vita Nuova" than to the Divine Comedy, which is one poem, not a book of poems.
soldamerican
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May 23rd, 2010 at 13:02 GMT
1 point
Great quiz, but "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" is the title of the Lewis Caroll novel. I know it was accepted but it should be the title that shows up as the answer.
t567f
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May 25th, 2010 at 03:07 GMT
1 point
the doors song "the end" has a reference to oedipus rex too. great quiz!
30sarah
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May 29th, 2010 at 02:24 GMT
1 point
Green Day also has a song called "Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?"
elasticpretzel
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Jun 1st, 2010 at 01:59 GMT
2 points
Darn! Cassavetes beat me to "Scentless Apprentice"! And here I thought I might have finally found a half decent reason for suffering through that book! Anyway, there's also a song called "Breakfast at Tiffany's" that I'm assuming is referencing either the book of the same name or the movie based off the book. The Beatles song "Tomorrow Never Knows" was inspired by a book written by Timothy Leary (i think it was called the Psychadelic Experience) which was based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Also, I think George Harrison wrote "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" after reading I Ching. There's actually a whole list of songs about books on http://www.songfacts.com/category:songs_inspired_by_books.php
missyk
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Jun 9th, 2010 at 13:40 GMT
1 point
5 sporcles for this one. Really cool concept. I like that you have to get both the song and book.
Squiffy
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Jun 19th, 2010 at 09:21 GMT
4 points
Great idea! But these people need to stop mumbling and learn to enunciate. I got frustrated because someone was clearly talking about Tom Jones by Henry Fielding. And I couldn't remember any book in which Harlow was going to be destroyed by a tragedy...
Game published: Jul 28th, 2010 at 20:55 GMT
bean:
Jul 28th, 2010 at 22:02 GMT
5 points
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janeite1813
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Jul 28th, 2010 at 22:09 GMT
4 points
No wizard rock? Just kidding, great quiz!
ZeAwesome
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Jul 28th, 2010 at 23:10 GMT
5 points
I was sooo expecting "Don't stand so close to me" by The Police as well. And just a little "Love Story" by Taylor Swift XD but man if there was wizard rock I would have completely owned that quiz haha
jtmaxwell
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Jul 28th, 2010 at 23:29 GMT
2 points
yeah, i was expecting Don't Stand So Close to Me too, but when i heard the beginning of the Police clip, i went "ooh, i know this! i know this!" lol. also took me a while to recognize the Reflections tune, in part because i was expecting Dire Straits to pop up at some point referencing that one. thank you for including the Toad the Wet Sprocket song! it's one of my favorites! and for including Superman as a literary reference. ;)
Sarahbelle
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Jul 28th, 2010 at 23:45 GMT
8 points
Combine my two favourite things and you've got a winner with me! If you are taking suggestions for a possible sequel maybe Wuthering Heights/Kate Bush if it isn't too obvious. Otherwise Exit Music(For A Film)/Radiohead or Killing An Arab/The Cure.
KansasJayhawk
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Jul 28th, 2010 at 23:52 GMT
4 points
I recommend accepting "Dante's Inferno" for "The Divine Comedy".
jgraider
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Jul 29th, 2010 at 01:19 GMT
4 points
Thought of "Ramble On" as soon as I read the title of the quiz
DonnyB
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Jul 29th, 2010 at 01:20 GMT
2 points
You could practically make an entire quiz of Zeppelin songs that reference Lord of the Rings.
Mosheva
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Jul 29th, 2010 at 01:30 GMT
0 points
Sympathy for the Devil by the Rolling stones uses a direct quote from the book: Master and Margerhita
TL333s
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Jul 29th, 2010 at 01:43 GMT
7 points
I could not hear quite a few of those. Also, needs more Ballad of Bilbo Baggins.
jaymc
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Jul 29th, 2010 at 01:58 GMT
3 points
Huh, I got 14 of the books but only 6 of the songs.
L102
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Jul 29th, 2010 at 04:56 GMT
1 point
I did not know some of these songs referenced books. You learn something new every day. Very cool quiz idea!
blitzkrieg460
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Jul 29th, 2010 at 06:30 GMT
0 points
was expecting battle of evermore over ramble on
Tronxic
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Jul 29th, 2010 at 06:57 GMT
0 points
The book is "The House at Pooh Corner," but the song is "Return to Pooh Corner." Otherwise good quiz.
PWT3
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Jul 29th, 2010 at 09:40 GMT
0 points
"Anonymous" and "various" don't mean the same thing. Ecclesiastes had a few upbeat, pious lines written in at the end by some editor at some point, but I believe the rest of the work is generally accepted as having been by one man.
Jimh
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Jul 29th, 2010 at 14:36 GMT
7 points
After all these years, I still can't understand a word Bob Dylan is saying.
pjromer
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Jul 29th, 2010 at 14:42 GMT
0 points
The quiz is correct. The song is House at Pooh Corner by Loggins & Messina. Kenny Loggins rerecorded it with Amy Grant, added a verse and called it Return to Pooh Corner.
Koltrane
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Jul 29th, 2010 at 16:47 GMT
3 points
In the vein of Moby Dick, you could include Frankenstein by Edgar Winter.
ezois
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Jul 29th, 2010 at 20:11 GMT
5 points
I'm glad you accepted The Bible for Turn, Turn, Turn because I'd be here all day trying to spell Ecclesiastes.
gsuhooligan
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Jul 30th, 2010 at 16:06 GMT
5 points
When I clicked on the quiz, I was hoping to hear Tom Sawyer by Rush...
bahhbara
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Jul 30th, 2010 at 17:14 GMT
3 points
Nice quiz! Was waiting for the Rime of the Ancient Mariner...
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