Things That Make You Go Hmmm: The '90s Music Party Game

By Martin Joseph Quinn

A trivia party game that tests the player's knowledge of the songs, albums, lyrics, and lifestyles of hundreds of '90s music acts. The 1000+ questions cover grunge, hip hop, boy bands, alternative country, techno, and Top 40 music using multiple choice, true/false, song lyric excerpts, complete the title, and other question formats. A sequel/companion to "Don't Dream It's Over: The '80s Music Party Game", the book is written and designed in the same bright, fun style. With ten, new '90s themed ways to play and questions ranked according to difficulty, anybody can join in the fun.

• Language: English
• Publisher: eBookIt.com
• Release date: Apr 26, 2016
• ISBN: 9781456626020

Book preview

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QUIZ 1 - QUESTION SET 1

1. In I'm Too Sexy which item is Right Said Fred not too sexy for? (1)

a) shirt

b) car

c) job

d) cat

2. What brazen Jane's Addiction lead singer founded the alternative music tour Lollapalooza? (1)

3. Whose breakthrough solo album was initially rejected by record execs because they claimed the girl and the piano thing wouldn't sell? (2)

4. Ice-T or Ice Cube: Which rapper starred in the films Anaconda, Higher Learning, and Friday? (2)

5. Whose second album Kerplunk was released on the independent label Lookout! before they signed with Reprise and became pop punk stars? (3)

6. What notoriously sexual performer married a woman named Mayte on Valentine's Day, 1996? (3)

7. What singer's set list sometimes includes songs titled Happy and Bleeding, Rub 'Til It's Bleeds, and 50 Ft. Queenie? (4)

8. What legendary MC appears in the song and video for Sonic Youth's Kool Thing? (4)

9. What 1996 album made the Guinness Book of World Records for being the First Completely Sampled Album? (5)

10. Whose solo album came out first -- Natalie Merchant (of 10,000 Maniacs), Annie Lennox (of Eurythmics), or Method Man (of Wu-Tang Clan)? (5)

QUIZ 1 - ANSWER SET 1

1. c) job

2. Perry Farrell

3. Tori Amos

4. Ice Cube

5. Green Day

6. Prince

7. PJ Harvey

8. Chuck D (of Public Enemy)

9. Entroducing by DJ Shadow

10. Annie Lennox, her Diva was release in 1992. Merchant's Tigerlily came out in '95 and Method Man's Tical in '94.

QUIZ 1 - QUESTION SET 2

11. Complete the title of Sheryl Crow's breakthrough 1994 album: Tuesday Night _____ ______

a) Study Group

b) Music Club

c) Pot Luck Dinner

12. In what video does Toni Braxton's beau die in a motorcycle accident? (1)

13. What rapper died from AIDS on March 26, 1995? (2)

14. What Prodigy video was banned by MTV in 1997, much to the relief of some feminist groups? (2)

15. What rapper, whose birth name is Terius Gray, commanded us to Back That Azz Up in 1999? (3)

16. What singer spilled Blood on the Dance Floor in 1997? (3)

17. What instrument does Primus' Les Claypool play, the sound of which dominates songs like Jerry Was a Race Car Driver and Wynona's Big Brown Beaver? (4)

18. Jarvis Cocker is the lead singer of what band that had international hits with Common People and Disco 2000? (4)

19. Name the legendary producing half of the rap group Gang Starr, who also produced songs for Notorious B.I.G.'s Ready To Die and Nas' It Was Written. (5)

20. What are the first names of the Backstreet Boys? (5)

QUIZ 1 - ANSWER SET 2

11. b) Music Club

12. Un-Break My Heart

13. Eazy-E

14. Smack My Bitch Up

15. Juvenile

16. Michael Jackson

17. bass guitar

18. Pulp

19. DJ Premier

20. Howie (Dorough), A.J. (McLean), Nick (Carter), Brian (Litrell), Kevin (Richardson)

QUIZ 1 - QUESTION SET 3

21. Name the band drummer Dave Grohl formed after the demise of Nirvana. (1)

Bonus: Name the band bassist Krist Novoselic formed. (2)

22. What Don't Cry singer has dark scars under his eyes caused by a bout with lupus? (1)

23. True or False: Mariah Carey's real name is Mary Katharine Sierra. (2)

24. What R&B group was comprised of Dawn Robinson, Terry Ellis, Cindy Herron, and Maxine Jones (3)

25. What horny lead singer once said …I'm single and miserable. I'm lonely. I'm experiencing the best things in my life, with no one there to share them with. (3)

a) Axl Rose (of Guns 'N' Roses)

b) Anthony Kiedis (of Red Hot Chili Peppers)

c) Mike Patton (of Faith No More)

d) Fred Durst (of Limp Bizkit)

26. What singer's Last Song is about a man dying of AIDS and reconciling with his father? (3)

27. Which Britney Spears music video features Melissa Joan Hart, star of Clarissa Explains It All and Sabrina The Teenage Witch? (4)

28. What pop group did Radiohead's Thom Yorke call soft porn and the Antichrist? (4)

29. Name the female rapper that asks how we gonna get around on your bus pass? on the Jay-Z single Can I Get A…. (5)

30. What are the first names of the three adorable Hanson brothers? (5)

QUIZ 1 - ANSWER SET 3

21. Foo Fighters

Bonus: Sweet 75

22. Seal

23. FALSE. It's Mariah Carey.

24. En Vogue

25. d) Fred Durst (of Limp Bizkit)

26. Elton John

27. (You Drive Me) Crazy

28. Spice Girls

29. Amil

30. Zac, Isaac, Taylor

QUIZ 1 - QUESTION SET 4

31. What country artist insisted that This Kiss is centrifugal motion and perpetual bliss? (1)

32. What rapper wore a condom over the left lens of her glasses when her group first hit the scene? (1)

33. By 1996, what rapper and producing mogul had already Been There, Done That? (2)

34. Whose #1 album I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got revealed The Emperor's New Clothes? (2)

35. What popular 1996 song contains the following words: bulletproof vest, Long Beach, dalmatian, riot, smokes pot? (3)

36. What crazy Detroit rap group recorded the songs Get Off Me, Dog!, Bugz on My Nugz, and Piggy Pie? (3)

37. Which alternative band was named by R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe? (4)

a) Gene Loves Jezebel

b) Stone Temple Pilots

c) Nine Inch Nails

d) Concrete Blonde

38. What one-hit wonder sang the synth-driven 1990 hit Don’t Wanna Fall In Love? (4)

39. The soundtrack to what David Lynch movie features The Perfect Drug by Nine Inch Nails and I Put A Spell On You by Marilyn Manson? (5)

40. Name the two R&B singers that starred in a televised version of Cinderella in 1997. (5)

QUIZ 1 - ANSWER SET 4

31. Faith Hill

32. Lisa Left Eye Lopes (of TLC)

33. Dr. Dre

34. Sinead O'Connor

35. What I Got by Sublime

36. Insane Clown Posse

37. d) Concrete Blonde

38. Jane Child

39. Lost Highway

40. Whitney Houston and Brandy

QUIZ 1 - QUESTION SET 5

41. What 1991 Alan Parker film was about an up-and-coming Irish garage band, and introduced a new generation to Mustang Sally? (1)

42. Name the animated cat that dances up a storm in Paula Abdul’s 1990 video Opposites Attract and later released his own solo album. (1)

43. Madonna's I'm Breathless album was inspired by what film? (2)

44. What rapper's posthumously released poetry book is titled The Rose That Grew From Concrete? (2)

45. What absorbent band paid tribute to John Hughes' teen movies with Molly (Sixteen Candles)? (3)

46. What Poison hit record reportedly got its title from lead singer Bret Michaels' increasing pudginess? (3)

47. Name the movie soundtrack that featured the songs It Must Have Been Love by Roxette and King Of Wishful Thinking by Go West. (4)

48. What brother of an Oscar-winning actor had a hit record in 1990 with No Myth? (4)

49. Which is not a song on Liz Phair's Exile In Guyville? (5)

a) Soap Star Joe

b) Dance of the Seven Veils

c) Don't Try This At Home

d) Divorce Song

50. Name the video director responsible for Madonna's Bedtime Story, Beck's Devil's Haircut, and Nine Inch Nails' Closer. (5)

QUIZ 1 - ANSWER SET 5

41. The Commitments

42. MC Skat Kat

43. Dick Tracy

44. Tupac Shakur

45. Sponge

46. Unskinny Bop

47. Pretty Woman

48. Michael Penn

49. c) Don't Try This At Home

50. Mark Romanek

QUIZ 1 - QUESTION SET 6

51. Name the 1991 Disney film soundtrack that features songs sung by Angela Lansbury, Robby Benson, Jerry Orbach, Céline Dion, and Peabo Bryson. (1)

52. What trio's debut album featured the #1 hits You're In Love and Hold On? (1)

53. What band performed Rockin' In The Free World with Neil