Songs About American Places Trivia Quiz

Songs With American Places in the Title: 1950s to 1980s
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Songs With American Places in the Title: 1950s to 1980s
Twenty-five questions crossing pop, country, rock, folk, soul, and vocal standards from four decades.
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Songs With American Places in the Title: 1950s to 1980s follows a musical route through state anthems, city standards, train journeys, Western ballads, factory towns, and coastal destinations. Match familiar performers with the places that shaped these classic recordings.
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Fresh 25 / 25 4:59
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Tom 23 / 25 3:36
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Jb 21 / 25 4:50
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Fresh 25 / 25 4:59
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Tom 23 / 25 3:36
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Mike 23 / 25 3:39
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Jb 21 / 25 4:50
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None 20 / 25 4:54
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What This Quiz Covers

The quiz covers a 1974 Southern-rock state anthem, a West Virginia road song, a Pennsylvania factory-town track, a Texas Gulf Coast ballad, and a famous passenger train linking Chicago and New Orleans.

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  1. Which band recorded the 1974 Southern-rock hit “Sweet Home Alabama”?
  2. Who recorded the best-known 1972 version of Steve Goodman’s train song “City of New Orleans”?
  3. Which pair recorded the hit 1988 duet version of “Streets of Bakersfield”?
  4. Who recorded the title song from the 1964 musical film Viva Las Vegas?
  5. Which group recorded the 1973 soul hit “Midnight Train to Georgia”?
  6. Which singer-songwriter recorded the 1970 fugitive story-song “Indiana Wants Me”?
  7. Which Elton John single was inspired partly by his friendship with tennis champion Billie Jean King?
  8. Which place-titled song became closely identified with Frank Sinatra after his 1979 recording?
  9. Who recorded the 1968 Bacharach-David hit “Do You Know the Way to San Jose”?
  10. Who took the country song “Abilene” to the top of the charts in 1963?
  11. Whose 1950 recording turned “The Tennessee Waltz” into a multimillion-selling pop hit?
  12. Which singer wrote and recorded the 1959 Western ballad “El Paso”?
  13. Which British group recorded the 1974 story-song “The Night Chicago Died”?
  14. Which singer made “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” his signature recording in 1962?
  15. Which singer-songwriter reached the charts in 1981 with the romantic movie-inspired song “Key Largo”?
  16. Who recorded the 1968 country-pop hit “Wichita Lineman”?
  17. Which Chuck Berry song follows a caller seeking a long-distance number for his daughter Marie?
  18. Which group recorded the 1960s folk-pop hit “California Dreamin’”?
  19. Who made “Take Me Home, Country Roads” a major hit in 1971?
  20. Who recorded Jimmy Webb’s 1969 song about a soldier longing for a Texas Gulf Coast city?
  21. Who recorded the 1970 single “Kentucky Rain”?
  22. Which Billy Joel song from The Nylon Curtain portrays a struggling Pennsylvania industrial community?
  23. Which place-titled standard did Ray Charles take to No. 1 in 1960?
  24. Which Bruce Springsteen song from Nebraska follows a desperate couple headed toward a New Jersey gambling town?
  25. Which singer popularized Jimmy Webb’s “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” in 1967?
Songs With American Places in the Title: 1950s to 1980s
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