I've got a quiz -- it has to do with names (this time, only girls' names)
The name should appear in the title, or first line of the song.

1. Who had a promise to be brought back to where she came from?

2. Who almost knocked someone off the trolley?

3. Who was asked to wait for the weather to change?

4. Who was offered a bicycle ride on her wedding day?

5. Who was considered difficult to cling to?

6. Who was likened to a soft drink?

7. Who had hair that someone often dreamed about?

8. Who had a place down near the river?

9. Who had someone pining for her at night?

10. What name will never be the same?

That's it! 

#7..I dreamed of Jeannie with the light brown hair

#4..Daisy

#3: Nellie? >> "Wait Till the Sun Shines Nellie"

#8: Suzanne?

Chia correct on 4 and 7

Marilyne on 3 (Nelly) and 8 (Suzanne - Leonard Cohen's)

1. Who had a promise to be brought back to where she came from?

2. Who almost knocked someone off the trolley?

5. Who was considered difficult to cling to?

6. Who was likened to a soft drink?

9. Who had someone pining for her at night?



10. What name will never be the same?

Rutumi..I think I know one more...Is it o.k. to name it?

Chia - It's probably the same one I know!

Marilyne..I ain't talkin'

Do tell!

rutumi...You didn't answer my question...Is it o.k. for one more?..and how about a couple of hints?

Yes, OK to answer one more...

Hint: The name that will never be the same is sung by a love-struck New Yorker.

1 and 2 might bring you to Erin.

No 1.  Kathleen

1. (I'll take you home again)  KATHLEEN

correct, Junee.

That leaves:

2. Who almost knocked someone off the trolley?

5. Who was considered difficult to cling to?

6. Who was likened to a soft drink?

9. Who had someone pining for her at night?

10. What name will never be the same?

No. 9 often sung by barbershop quartet. (hint...)

10..Maria

10 correct, Chia -- Maria from Westside Story.

2. Who almost knocked someone off the trolley? [Look for the rhyme (hint,hint)]

5. Who was considered difficult to cling to?

6. Who was likened to a soft drink?  [Change that to fruit drink]

9. Who had someone pining for her at night?

#9: Sweet Adeline

#5 Rose

#6..Tangerine

#2: Who knocked someone off the trolley?
My first thought was Judy Garland.
But instead decided to go with
Molly - My Irish Molly?

Marilyne --- correct on

#2 My Irish Molly and
#9 Sweet Adeline

Also Chia, Ramblin' Rose correct.

# 6. Who was likened to a soft drink?  [fruit drink] is not tangerine.
   More hint:  It's a short name.   

#6..Trying again with shortest girls name I know...Sweet Sue

6.  Sweet as "..... ....." describes the person, who has a short, di-syllabic name.

Ida

Yay, Junee!  Ida, sweet as apple cider, the answer to # 6, correct.

Recap:

1. Kathleen (!’ll take you home again, Kathleen)   Junee
2. Molly  (My Irish Molly)     Marilyne
3. Nelly (Wait til the sun shines, Nelly)   Marilyne
4. Daisy (…give me your answer, do)   Chia
5. Rose (Ramblin’ Rose)           Chia
6. Ida (Sweet as apple cider)    Junee
7. Jeannie (with the light brown hair)   Chia
8. Suzanne (Leonard Cohen’s song)    Marilyne
9. Adeline (Sweet Adeline, for you I pine)   Marilyne
10. Maria (from Westside Story, Leonard Bernstein)   Chia

Thanks for participating. 

rutumi - Thank you for the song quiz.  Very clever idea! Difficult but fun! 

Rutumi..Thanks for the  song quiz...It was original and thought provoking..

 

Just put together this Trivia Quiz...and here it is:

1. What island in the Canary Islands was the scene of one of the worst air disasters in history with the collision of two jumbo jets?

2. What kind of aircraft was developed by Sigorsky in the United States in 1942?

3. What name is given to the methods for making an aircraft hard to detect?

4. What author had a best selling novel, Airport?

5. Who was the first woman to run a US airline?

6. What was the name of the German airship that crashed and burned in New Jersey in 1937?

7. What  late US Congressman had roles in Hairspray and Airplane II before winning his seat in congress?

8. An Israeli commando raid to rescue 103 hostages in 1976 took place at the airport in what Uganda airport?

9. Where on an airplane are its ailerons located?
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10.What is a paradiddle?

11. The back of a sock is called a what ?

12. What does the Latin phrase "Ex Mores" mean?

13. What is nacre more commonly known as?

14. Kensington Gore is what?