WWTBAM Bored

History

Geography

1. Neil Young, Billy Joel, John Adams
Abigail?

2. Vincent Furnier, Elton John, Arlo Guthrie
Alice

5. Creedence Clearwater Revival, Marc Cohn, Johnny Rivers
Mary?

1. pass
2. Alice (Alice Cooper; "All the Girls Love Alice"; "Alice's Restaurant") -- Alice in Chains would be another musical example
3. Wayne (Lil' Wayne; Fountains of Wayne; "Wayne's World") -- Wayne Wonder was a one-hit wonder a couple of years ago
4. pass
5. Memphis? ("Travelin' Band" has the line "Won't you take me down to Memphis on a midnight ride?"; "Walking in Memphis"; "Memphis") -- Elvis' Graceland is in Memphis; rapper Memphis Bleek also fits; the members of Three 6 Mafia are from Memphis

Alice

I'm not sure I even understand the question, but these are all total WAGs anyway, so I'm not counting on any points.

1. Martha's Vineyard
(Comment: After replaying "We didn't start the Fire" about a million times in my head and finding none that made any sense with John Adams... altho I have probably missed something... and thanks for that as they will probably be stuck there for days... I decided to pick one of place-names from The Downeaster Alexa since they are all from Massachusetts. I can't think of any for Niel Young, but I don't know many of his songs before or after he was with Crosy, Stills and Nash).
2. Alice (Bonus: Jefferson Airplane)
3. Fiona
4. Judy (Bonus: Lesley Gore)
5. Maybelline

1. Neil Young, Billy Joel, John Adams

Spoiler

History

"History" leads me to "We Didn't Start the Fire," and the first thing that popped into my mind was "Richard Nixon back again". Since I have no idea who the musical John Adams is or was, and I can put Nixon into "Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming..." from Young's "Ohio", I'll go with Nixon


2. Vincent Furnier, Elton John, Arlo Guthrie

This one's easier. Alice Cooper, "All the Young Girls Love Alice" and "Alice's Restaurant".

3. Dwayne Michael Carter, “Stacy’s Mom,” Mike Myers

Again, no clue as to who Dwayne Michael Carter is/was, but Fountains of Wayne and "Wayne's World" seems likely.

4. Van Halen, Dodie Stevens, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Spoiler

Geography

I got nuthin' on this one.

5. Creedence Clearwater Revival, Marc Cohn, Johnny Rivers

Suzie? I'm thinkin' of "Suzie Q" mostly....That or "Mary" (as in "Proud Mary")....I can't think of anything else that might link them, except for "Memphis" (since "Walkin' in Memphis" is the only Marc Cohn song I know...)

1-Philadelphia? (If so, Elton John will also work ("Philadelphia Freedom"), as will Steve Miller Band ("I been to Phoenix Arizona, all the way to Tacoma, Philadelphia, Atlanta, L.A." from "Rock-n-Me")
2-Alice (also Jefferson Airplane-"go ask Alice when she's 10 feet tall", Little Feat from "I'm Willing"-"I see my pretty Alice in every headlight", Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart "you're still my favorite girlfriend Alice Long", Alice Cooper from "Be My Lover"-she asked me why the singer's name was Alice")
3-Wayne ("Game of Love" by Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders, "Tragedy" by Thomas Wayne)
4-Panama
5-Memphis (Chuck Berry also did "Memphis", John Fogerty "Big Train From Memphis", King Curtis "Memphis Soul Stew")

1. Neil Young, Billy Joel, John Adams

Nope (see comments under #2)

2. Vincent Furnier, Elton John, Arlo Guthrie

Alice Cooper and Alice's Restaurant. Don't know an "Alice" Elton John song.

In fact, when I first saw this this afternoon, I thought that Elton John was part of the first trio, which would make sense to me. Neil Young wrote Philadelphia, which lost the Oscar to Bruce Springsteen's Streets of Philadelphia.

Elton had Philadelphia Freedom, as did John Adams, albeit of a different sort.

But, as far as #1, I got nuttin.

3. Dwayne Michael Carter, “Stacy’s Mom,” Mike Myers

WAYNE. I don't know the first guy but Stacy's Mom is by Fountains of Wayne and Mike Myers was the driving force behind Wayne's World

4. Van Halen, Dodie Stevens, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

PANAMA. Songs by Van Halen and CSN&Y.

Dodie Steven's beau wore tan shoes with pink shoelaces, a polka dot vest and a big PANAMA with a purple hat band.

I'm sure David Lee Roth wore all of that at one point, too. With tight Spandex pants.

5. Creedence Clearwater Revival, Marc Cohn, Johnny Rivers

Must be Memphis - for Walking through Memphis and Johnny Rivers' remake of Chuck Berry's Memphis.

Don't know the CCR connection, though. Only thing I can think of off the time of my head is Lodi and that doesn't work.

DUH! I just realized - too late, no doubt - what the CCR connection was. Proud Mary lyrics - washed a lot of plates in Memphis.

1 - Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, we're finally on our own. This summer I hear the drummin....

Even Richard Nixon has got soul.

Something in "We didn't start the fire"

Nixon in China.

Richard Nixon.

2 - Alice

3 - --

4 -- ????Panama.

5 - Susie Q

The musical "John Adams" is the minimalist opera composer. I did use the title of his best known opera "Nixon in China" in a TBOTS question a few years ago.

Of curse, I wish I had an encyclopedic recollection of everyone ELSE's old game questions.....

Number 2 is the fact that none of those is the person's real name. Other than that - nope.

“But we have so much in common!”

Each of the musical sets below has one thing in common. In today’s game the theme is “one or two word names.” Identify the name that each set has in common for full points.

1. Neil Young, Billy Joel, John Adams
Fire, because Mr. Billy had a song about who started it, Mr. President John had to fight a fire at the White House, and Mr. Neil probably lives in a house with a fireplace.

2. Vincent Furnier, Elton John, Arlo Guthrie
Alice, because Mr. Vincent calls himself Mr. Alice, Mr. Arlo ate at Alice's Restaurant, and maybe Mr. Elton buys his funny glasses from a clerk by that name at the optical department of Harrod's.

3. Dwayne Michael Carter, “Stacy’s Mom,” Mike Myers
Wayne, because Mr. Mike played a character named Wayne on MTV last night, "Stacy's Mom" was a song by Fountains of Wayne, and Mr. Dwayne would be called Mr. Wayne if he lived in Djibouti.

4. Van Halen, Dodie Stevens, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Salzberg, Austria, because that's the birthplace of Mr. Mozart, and the new guy in Van Halen is named Wolfgang. Maybe the other people sang about the place or went there on vacation or something. I sort of don't know.

5. Creedence Clearwater Revival, Marc Cohn, Johnny Rivers[/quote]
River, because clear water is free-flowing, Mr. Johnny is at least two of them, and there's bound to be a Cohn River somewhere.

2. Alice?

1. Quincy?

2. Alice

3. Wayne?

4. Panama?

5. Memphis

1. Neil Young, Billy Joel, John Adams

Spoiler

History

Crap, I didn't look at the spoiler and spent all last night trying to fit Billy Joel into Massachusetts or John Adams into New York (damn Buffalo Springfield for going either way, ha!).

But now I see it's history? Since John Adams isn't a musician, it has to be for the 1776 musical (which is why I decided on New York, since it was a Broadway show). I have never seen 1776, so I'm kind of screwed on that.

Hell with it, I'm going for NEW YORK! BUFFALO Springfield, Mulberry Street, 1776 on BROADWAY.

2. Vincent Furnier, Elton John, Arlo Guthrie

YAY ALICE!

ALICE Cooper, EJ could have an Alice song, but the closest I can think of is Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters for ALICE in Wonderland, ALICE'S Restaurant

An easy example would be Jefferson Airplane for Go Ask Alice, a more esoteric one along the John lines would be Tom Petty with his Alice in Wonderland themed videos.

3. Dwayne Michael Carter, “Stacy’s Mom,” Mike Myers

WAYNE

I love epiphanies!

I was looking over preview before I posted and now I have to come back and change this (I have no idea who Dwayne Michael Carter is) because it just hit me: that's LIL WAYNE!, but Stacy's Mom is Fountains of WAYNE and Mike Myers is WAYNE Campbell.

I wish I could remember who did that John Wayne Gacy song. I thought of another Wayne example last night, but I've forgotten it now.

4. Van Halen, Dodie Stevens, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Spoiler

Geography

PANAMA

Can't figure out anything for CSNY, but it has to be PANAMA for Van Halen's Panama and Panama with a purple hatband for Dodie Stevens.

Another example would be Bobby Bare for Panama Red.

5. Creedence Clearwater Revival, Marc Cohn, Johnny Rivers

MEMPHIS

CCR cleaned a lot of plates there, Cohn was Walkin' there and Rivers was trying to get the long distance operator to connect him there.

My favourite example would, of course, be Mott the Hoople and All the Way from Memphis. I don't think Chuck Berry would be allowed since it's the same song as Rivers. A more involved one could be Count Basie for Beale Street Blues.

I was going to say that John Adams must be a trick, since I didn't know any musician John Adams. Then I thought of 1776 last night and figured that you weren't being tricky. Ha!

Also, wow, I've never heard of the Elton John song and I thought I knew just about all of them. Unless it was a more recent one, since I've not paid much attention to his later stuff. But I like my example better.

Each of the musical sets below has one thing in common. In today’s game the theme is “one or two word names.” Identify the name that each set has in common for full points. Each set is worth 10 points, and bonus points are available if you can give an additional appropriate example for any common theme. As usual for weekday QoDs, no Googling or other computer-assisted help. Some of the sets have spoiler boxes by them – the spoiler box contains a clue to the answer, and it’s perfectly legitimate to use it – I just wanted to spoilerize it in case any of you are like me and want to challenge yourself first.

1. Neil Young, Billy Joel, John Adams

2. Vincent Furnier, Elton John, Arlo Guthrie

3. Dwayne Michael Carter, “Stacy’s Mom,” Mike Myers - Wayne

4. Van Halen, Dodie Stevens, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Panama?

5. Creedence Clearwater Revival, Marc Cohn, Johnny Rivers - Memphis

1. Can't come up with anything.
2. Alice. Another example: that famous crooner Linda Lavin
3. Wayne. Another example: Game of Love
4. Nothing
5. Memphis. Another example: Graceland