Songs About People by BruceM

Champion(s):

AdamKing


Runner(s)-Up:

IvixorB


Quiz Description

Full Results:

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1 AdamKing 435 98 15
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2 IvixorB 430 95 15
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3 Ekherndon 426 93 15
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4 MarcotteM 412 90 15
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5 MattK 376 87 15
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6 Matto 356 84 15
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7 SorensonG 315 81 00
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8 GarciaD 313 79 00
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9 gaufqwi 291 76 15
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10 HallR 274 73 15
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11 GoodmanDL 272 70 00
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12 jsparkyp 264 68 00
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14 HoH 261 62 15
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15 casketromance 252 59 15
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18 KCrest 240 48 00
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Questions:

Red (Taylor's Version) contains a ten-minute performance of "All Too Well," a song most likely about what actor who Taylor Swift dated in 2010? As to the scarf mentioned in the song, his sister said in 2017 "I am in the dark" but "I have been asked this before.”

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Jake Gyllenhaal

The R.E.M. song "Man on the Moon" pays tribute mainly to what comedic performance artist and Elvis impersonator?

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Andy Kaufman

According to songwriter Desmond Child, which Aerosmith song was inspired by a chance encounter between Steven Tyler and Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil? (Mötley Crüe will return later in this quiz.)

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Dude (Looks Like A Lady)

Which Full House actor has both acknowledged and denied being the subject of "You Oughtta Know"? He briefly dated Alanis Morissette after voicing Peter Venkman on The Real Ghostbusters.

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Dave Coulier

"Goddamn I'm glad y'all set it off
Used to be hard now you're just wet and soft"

What 1991 diss track begins with that couplet and savages Ice Cube's former N.W.A. bandmates? (The title lyric is an especially painful aspect of "bend[ing] over for the goddamn cracker")

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No Vaseline

The Amy Winehouse song "Me & Mr. Jones" is about a rapper with what stage name? (His real surname is "Jones" but we can't take that.)

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Nas

Which song did Elton John and Bernie Taupin write as a tribute to Marilyn Monroe, then rework in 1997 to honor Princess Diana?

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Candle in the Wind

What actress once dated Toto keyboardist Steve Porcaro but denies being the subject of the Toto song that bears her first name?

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Rosanna Arquette

The actress from the previous question also (supposedly) inspired what Peter Gabriel song featured in the boombox scene of "Say Anything"?

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In Your Eyes

Two answers required. The former released "Duppy Freestyle," dissing both the latter and Kanye West. The latter fired back with "The Story of Adidon." Name both rappers from that 2018 diss track beef.

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Drake, Pusha T

According to the Dr. Feelgood liner notes, the Mötley Crüe song "Without You" is about what Melrose Place actress, who has been married to both Tommy Lee and Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora?

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Heather Locklear

"You're where you should be all the time
And when you're not, you're with
some underworld spy
Or the wife of a close friend"

What song is (probably) not about you and at most partially about Waren Beatty? The identity of the real subject(s) is a secret known to a select few including Dick Ebersol (who won a charity auction), Howard Stern (who says it is a composite of three people), and (so she claims) Taylor Swift.

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You're So Vain