Music Quiz featuring songs about places from all over the world
We're going on a journey - you might call it a Magical Mystery Tour! We're going Around The World In 80 Lyrics!
This music quiz features 80 lyric questions, each taken from a song about a place: a country, city or other well-known area of the world. You just need to name the song and artist in each question. Some places feature more than once!
Ready to go around the world in 80 lyrics? Off you go - Bon Voyage!
1
They knock me out when I'm down there...
Beach Boys - California Girls
2
The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in, meltdown expected, the wheat is growing thin...
The Clash - London Calling
3
Blonde waitresses take their trays, they spin around and they cross the floor ...
The Bangles - Walk Like An Egyptian
4
You scratch just like a monkey, yeah you do, real cool...
The Rolling Stones - Harlem Shuffle
5
The warmth of your hand and a cold grey sky, it fades to the distance...
Ultravox - Vienna
6
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous...
Men At Work - Land Down Under
7
I seek to cure what's deep inside, frightened of this thing that I've become...
Toto - Africa
8
Vernon'll meet me when the BOAC lands, keys to the MG will be in his hands...
Bobby Bloom - Montego Bay
9
Yeah it's a mighty long way down rock n roll, from the liverpool docks to the Hollywood bowl...
Mott The Hoople - All The Way From Memphis
10
I'll give you television, I'll give you eyes of blue...
David Bowie - China Girl
11
Fame and fortune is a magnet, it can pull you far away from home...
Dionne Warwick - Do You Know The Way To San Jose
12
Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way...
The Eagles - Hotel California
13
You know that you came and you changed my world, just like in the movies,...
Michael Jackson - Liberian Girl
14
Leave it till tomorrow to unpack my case, honey disconnect the phone ...
The Beatles - Back In The USSR
15
If I had the whole world, I would give it away, just to see, the girls at play...
UB40 - Kingston Town
16
I'll be your clown or your puppet or your April Fool...
Jimmy Osmond - Long Haired Lover From Liverpool
17
The morning fog may chill the air, I don't care!...
Tony Bennett - I Left My Heart In San Francisco
18
I don't take coffee I take tea my dear...
Sting - Englishman In New York
19
The moment that you stepped into the room you took my breath away...
Freddie Mercury and Monserrat Cabelle - Barcelona
20
When the wicked carried us away in captivity, required from us a song...
Boney M - Rivers Of Babylon
21
When there's no destination - that's too far, and somewhere on the way, you might find out who you are...
James Brown - Living In America
22
Shine a light, shine a light, shine a light, won't you shine a light...
Elton John - Philadelphia Freedom
23
Remember me to one who lives there, she once was a true love of mine...
Simon and Garfunkel - Scarborough Fair
24
You can be be there by four thirty, cause I made your reservation, don't be slow, oh, no, no, no, oh, no, no, no...
The Monkees - Last Train To Clarksville
25
I am a traveller of both time and space, to be where I have been...
Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
26
I can see a better time when all our dreams come true...
The Pogues & Kirsty McColl - Fairytale Of New York
27
You'll be pulling out your hair, drowning in despair, with a whole lot of nothing, on your way to nowhere...
Four Tops - Going Loco Down In Acapulco
28
Far have I travelled, and much have I seen, dark distant mountains with valleys of green...
Paul McCartney - Mull Of Kintyre
29
Bright light city gonna set my soul, gonna set my soul on fire...
Elvis Presley - Viva Las Vegas
30
Cherry ice cream smile, I suppose it's very nice...
Duran Duran - Rio
31
Don't know what I want but I know how to get it...
Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The UK
32
I walked the avenue till my legs felt like stone...
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Philadelphia
33
Hey now, where you going with that load of nothing in your hand...
The Bangles - Going Down To Liverpool
34
A church house gin house, a school house outhouse...
Tina Turner - Nutbush City Limits
35
Foot on the pedal - never ever false metal, engine running hotter than a boiling kettle...
Beastie Boys - No Sleep Til Brooklyn
36
She asked me to stay and she told me to sit anywhere...
The Beatles - Norwegian Wood
37
Gotta get a message through, cause I think I'm losing you, am I too late...
Rainbow - Lost In Hollywood
38
I'm so glad I found this, I'm so glad I did...
Editors - Munich
39
And who will have won, when the soldiers have gone...
Human League - The Lebanon
40
The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free, you'll find a god in every golden cloister, a little flesh, a little history...
Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok
41
Down below the cars in the city go rushing by, I sit here alone and I wonder why...
Kim Wilde - Kids In America
42
Meet me down by the gallow tree, for it's sad news I bring...
Simple Minds - Belfast Child
43
Well, I just got into town about an hour ago, took a look around, see which way the wind blow...
The Doors - LA Woman
44
Take me on a roller coaster, take me for an airplane ride...
Roxy Music - Virginia Plain
45
She dashed by me in painted on jeans, and all heads turned 'cause she was the dream...
Billy Ocean - Caribbean Queen
46
His name was Rico, he wore a diamond...
Barry Manilow - Copa Cabana
47
I'd rather live in his world, than live without him in mine....
Gladys Knight & The Pips - Midnight Train To Georgia
48
Some folks like to get away, take a holiday from the neighborhood...
Billy Joel - New York State Of Mind
49
Jump back, whats that sound? Here she comes, full blast and top down....
Van Halen - Panama
50
It was a flight on the wings of a young girls dreams that flew too far away...
T'Pau - China In Your Hand
51
Well get there fast and then well take it slow, that's where we wanna go...
Beach Boys - Kokomo
52
Summertime think it was June, yeah think it was June...
Stereophonics - Dakota
53
Spent my days with a woman unkind, smoked my stuff and drank all my wine...
Led Zeppelin - Going To California
54
I saw a welcoming light and stopped to rest for the night...
Gene Pitney - 24 Hours From Tulsa
55
Tried to hitch a ride to San Francisco, Gotta do the things I wanna do...
Bee Gees - Massachusetts
56
Touched down in the land of the delta blues, in the middle of the pouring rain...
Cher - Walking In Memphis
57
Big wheels keep on turning, carry me home to see my kin ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
58
Take a look at my girlfriend, she's the only one I got...
Supertramp - Breakfast In America
59
But nothing impressed me at all, I never expected it to...
Madonna - Don't Cry For Me Argentina
60
It is the special one, it never sees the sun, it only comes up when the moon is on the run ...
Aretha Franklin - Spanish Harlem
61
I don't know if I'm tired and I don't know if I'm ill, my cheeks are turning yellow, I think I'll take another pill...
Manic Street Preachers - Australia
62
And as the nights passed by she tried to trace the past, the way he used to look, the way he used to laugh...
Kim Wilde - Cambodia
63
My heart was going boom boom, boom, son, he said, grab your things, I've come to take you home....
Genesis - Solsbury Hill
64
I was there in the back stage, when the first light came around, I grew up like a changeling, to win the first time around...
Joy Division - Warsaw
65
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about...
The Beatles - Strawberry Fields
66
Oh yeah, and I have met my destiny in quite a similar way...
ABBA - Waterloo
67
Looking back at the photographs, those summer days spent outside corner cafes...
Gary Moore - Parisienne Walkways
68
Well, she ain't the kind make heads turn at the drop of her name, but something inside that she's got turns you on just the same...
Neil Diamond - Kentucky Woman
69
We decide to get away and have some fun, book a room and catch a flight for two weeks in the sun ...
Barry Manilow - Bermuda Triangle
70
Fly into the rising sun, faces, smiling everyone...
Deep Purple - Woman From Tokyo
71
I loved the words you wrote to me but that was bloody yesterday...
Kirsty McColl - A New England
72
Tried hard to imagine the way you felt the day you sailed from Wester Ross to Nova Scotia...
Proclaimers - Letter From America
73
I feel uptight on a Saturday night, nine o'clock, the radio's the only light...
Kiss - Detroit Rock City
74
I came upon a child of god, he was walking along the road...
Joni Mitchell - Woodstock
75
She cared so much she offered up her body to the grave...
OMD - Maid Of Orleans
76
Well how me love how she shock, watch how she rock, model it a swing, like mi grandfather clock ...
Shaggy - Oh Carolina
77
Don't come knocking around my door, I don't want to see your shadow no more...
Lenny Kravitz - American Woman
78
These little town blues are melting away...
Frank Sinatra - New York, New York
79
Walking down the sidewalk on a purple afternoon, I was accosted by a barker playing a simple tune...
Paul McCartney & Wings - London Town
80
You did what you did to me, now it's history I see, here's my comeback on the road again ...
Alphaville - Big In Japan