Trivia quiz

[brandon]

(Please guess without researching.)

In Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, what is the highest ranking song both written and performed by a female performer, and what is the rank of that song?

(You may just guess the rank if you wish.)


Hint: The performer is not Carole King, although her 1971 album Tapestry became the top-selling pop solo album ever, a position it held until the release of Michael Jackson's Thriller in 1982.

[MERRD]

Is it okay to research the RS list?

[Nude_not_rude]

o.k. no research...so I'll go with 300??

[Alex]

26th

When is the closing date? :P

[Stuart]

Given that I know the real answer I'm going to say Kylie Minogue with "I Should Be So Lucky".

At number 69.

[Nude_not_rude]

Given that I know the real answer I'm going to say Kylie Minogue with "I Should Be So Lucky".

At number 69.

sorry mate....The song was written and produced by Stock Aitken Waterman for Minogue's debut album Kylie (1988). therefore not eligible for the "highest ranking song both written and performed by a female performer"

[Stuart]

Given that I know the real answer I'm going to say Kylie Minogue with "I Should Be So Lucky".

At number 69.

sorry mate....The song was written and produced by Stock Aitken Waterman for Minogue's debut album Kylie (1988). therefore not eligible for the "highest ranking song both written and performed by a female performer"

Yoy mean Kylie doesn't write her own stuff?!?! 

[Nude_not_rude]

Given that I know the real answer I'm going to say Kylie Minogue with "I Should Be So Lucky".

At number 69.

sorry mate....The song was written and produced by Stock Aitken Waterman for Minogue's debut album Kylie (1988). therefore not eligible for the "highest ranking song both written and performed by a female performer"

Yoy mean Kylie doesn't write her own stuff?!?!  

[brandon]

Seems I forgot to answer this...

"Fast Car" by the American singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman.

Rolling Stone ranked the song Number 165 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It is Chapman's only song on the list (and the highest ranking song both written and performed by a female performer) and one of top ten songs of the 1980s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Car#Chart_performance

I think it is a good song, but I would not list it as one of top ten songs of the 1980s.

[mejor-desnudo]

Oh... that was easy... I even feel a little bad revealing it so soon... haha, but "The Graduate" hint made it clear: Simon&Garfunkel!!!
Keeping with music and movies... let's make it more complicated... or at least more confusing... haha.
Last friday night I saw an old (1984) but good movie about the war in Cambodia: "The killing fields". There were some very well selected pieces of music... later I read that Mike Olfield wrote the score. The movie finish with a song written by an english singer and composer... although in another movie, Forrest Gump, it seems that was Forrest the one who suggested the lyrics of this song to him... which song?
Come one... it's easy if you try...

[mejor-desnudo]

wow... you're right, I was wrong (and that was even more complicated that what I asked)
Sorry, there was a confusion and it was my fault... I was talking about the ending scene, right before the closing credits.
hint 1: "it's easy if you try..."
hint 2: "...and the world will live as one"

[brandon]

That sounds like Imagine by John Lennon.

[mejor-desnudo]

when you said "spectacular events linking music, light and environment" the only person that came to my mind was Jean Michel Jarre and the concerts at the pyramids of Egypt (actually I was not able to recall his name... the concert at the pyramids came right away... but not his name). Anyway, I certainly do not know if he did also those big concerts in Paris and Moscow.

[mejor-desnudo]

wow... amazing...
I really didn't know he gathered 3.5 million people in a concert, wow..

[brandon]

We do like our fireworks in Houston.

mejor-desnudo, you're welcome to come up with a question.

EDIT: Please answer in the OTHER TRIVIA THREAD in "For the FUN of it!"
In the meantime, I have a three-part question that Stuart and Karla should be able to answer:

1. What percent of the earth's non-frozen fresh water is groundwater? (I think this refers to actual underground rivers and reservoirs, not mere moisture in soil.)

2. How much (in mm, cm or m) is the water table is dropping per year in parts of India? (i.e. in parts of India where the water table is dropping the fastest)

3. How much is the net depletion of groundwater contributing to sea level increase per year? (in mm, cm or m, or in percent of total rise)