Sun, November 16, 2003
Pop Quiz, Hotshot
By Jim Slotek
Happy 65th to Gordon Lightfoot, Canada's unofficial poet laureate (yeah, we know, there's an official one named George Bowering, but where was he when the Edmund Fitzgerald sank?). We wish you nothing but pussywillows, cattails, soft winds and roses. In honour of the man whose muse wears a ribbon of darkness, try this round on for size:
THIS WEEK'S ROUND
1. What home town do Lightfoot and Stephen Leacock have in common?
2. Gord is said to have written Sundown about an ex-girlfriend and eventual convicted felon. Who she?
3. Which Lightfoot song commemorated the Detroit race riots of 1967?
4. How old was the go-go girl "just in from somewhere" in Go Go Round?
5. A billion people saw Elvis Presley play a Lightfoot song in his most famous live show, Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite. Which song was it?
6. Somewhat less than a billion people heard a disco version of a Gord hit in the movie 54 with Mike Myers. The song, as sung by Ultra Nate, Amber and Jocelyn Enriquez, actually became a hit again. Name it.
7. What was the other Lightfoot song that Elvis covered?
8. What kind of people always seem to know when you're feeling blue?
9. Marty Robbins took a Lightfoot song to the top of the Billboard country charts. Which one?
10. In Lightfoot's U.S. debut, he shared the bill at La Cave club in Cleveland with a visually impaired performer who became famous himself. Who he?
answers next week.....
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