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 spanning pop, country, rock, folk, soul, and vocal standards from four memorable decades.
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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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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.

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