Songs About American Places Trivia Quiz
Songs With American Places in the Title: 1950s to 1980s travels through famous recordings named for cities, states, roads, regions, and destinations. The questions connect familiar performers with story-songs, travel anthems, working towns, and romantic landmarks.
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Fresh | 25 / 25 | 4:59 |
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Linda | 25 / 25 | 6:33 |
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A
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Arjay | 25 / 25 | 7:38 |
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Hudikm | 25 / 25 | 11:58 |
| 5 |
B
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Bilvy | 24 / 25 | 7:35 |
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What This Quiz Covers
The quiz covers a Southern-rock state anthem, a West Virginia road song, California folk-pop, a West Texas ballad, a Pennsylvania factory town, a famous passenger train, and several city-centered pop and soul recordings.
Trivia Study Guide ›
- Which singer popularized Jimmy Webb’s “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” in 1967?
- Which place-titled standard did Ray Charles take to No. 1 in 1960?
- Which group recorded the 1960s folk-pop hit “California Dreamin’”?
- Who recorded the best-known 1972 version of Steve Goodman’s train song “City of New Orleans”?
- Who recorded the title song from the 1964 musical film Viva Las Vegas?
- Whose 1950 recording turned “The Tennessee Waltz” into a multimillion-selling pop hit?
- Which band recorded the 1974 Southern-rock hit “Sweet Home Alabama”?
- Which Bruce Springsteen song from Nebraska follows a desperate couple headed toward a New Jersey gambling town?
- Who made “Take Me Home, Country Roads” a major hit in 1971?
- Which British group recorded the 1974 story-song “The Night Chicago Died”?
- Which Chuck Berry song follows a caller seeking a long-distance number for his daughter Marie?
- Which group recorded the 1973 soul hit “Midnight Train to Georgia”?
- Which singer-songwriter reached the charts in 1981 with the romantic movie-inspired song “Key Largo”?
- Which singer wrote and recorded the 1959 Western ballad “El Paso”?
- Who recorded the 1968 country-pop hit “Wichita Lineman”?
- Who took the country song “Abilene” to the top of the charts in 1963?
- Which singer made “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” his signature recording in 1962?
- Who recorded Jimmy Webb’s 1969 song about a soldier longing for a Texas Gulf Coast city?
- Which pair recorded the hit 1988 duet version of “Streets of Bakersfield”?
- Which place-titled song became closely identified with Frank Sinatra after his 1979 recording?
- Which singer-songwriter recorded the 1970 fugitive story-song “Indiana Wants Me”?
- Who recorded the 1968 Bacharach-David hit “Do You Know the Way to San Jose”?
- Who recorded the 1970 single “Kentucky Rain”?
- Which Elton John single was inspired partly by his friendship with tennis champion Billie Jean King?
- Which Billy Joel song from The Nylon Curtain portrays a struggling Pennsylvania industrial community?
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