To help while away a few minutes while self-isolating at home.
Q: What connects the second most populous city in the USA to a Robbie Williams single?
Q: What connects a city in northern Texas to a Coldplay single?
Q: What connects this city, a suburb of San Diego, to “Do The Standing Still”?
Q: What connects the name of a US state to the band who provided the theme tune to Weekend World?
Q: What connects a city in the far west of Texas to The Mission song ‘Bird of Passage’?
Q: What connects Sin City to a song on Laura Viers 2018 album ‘The Lookout’?
Angels?
Yes!
Violet Hill?
(is there a place in Texas called that)
No.
Amarillo the Spanish for yellow (Q2)
Si!
Theme to Weekend World was Nantucket Sleighride, Nantucket is in Massachusetts
I’ll give you that one because I should have said “the name of the band.” I was thinking Montana, which is Spanish for mountain.
Don’t know The Mission one, but I now feel an urge to listen to Grains Of Sand again
No.
Sorry, I just realized I failed to number the questions! And I don’t know how to edit it now. Oh well.
Do the Standing Still is by The Table
San Diego suburb La Mesa is Spanish for “the table”.
Correcto! Muy bien!
Have a big Up for a thoroughly entertaining quiz, Billybob!
Muchos gracias, mi amigo!
Just the last two to do.
The last one – Zozobra is the Laura Viers’ song and it’s also the name of a sort of wicker man giant puppet thing they burn each year in Santa Fe, New Mexico. But I assume ‘Sin City’ refers either to Las Vegas or the movie, so not sure what the link is.
Ahh, just dawned on me…Las Vegas means “The Meadows ” and there’s a track on her album called The Meadow.
That’s it!
That just leaves this one to answer:
What connects a city in the far west of Texas to The Mission song ‘Bird of Passage’?
I’ll give you a clue: Marty Robbins.
Well, Marty Robbins recorded “El Paso”, which is a city in the west of Texas. But I’ve got no idea what it’s got to do with “Bird of Passage”.
Trad. Peruvian(?) folk song “El Condor Pasa” as sung by Simon & Garfunkel?
I think “paso” translates as passage, so it’s pretty definitely El Paso ..but I can’t get the bird connection.
Anything to do with the Spanish “Missions”that were set up across Texas to Catholicize the Native Americans?
That’s it – El Paso means the passage.