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Geography in song lyrics quiz

David Whitley, 15/11/202415/11/2024

This quiz is all about travel destinations – whether cities, islands, rivers or lakes – mentioned in the lyrics to famous songs. Can you use your music and geography knowledge to work out the answers?

Geography in song lyrics quiz

This quiz is all about travel destinations – whether cities, islands, rivers or lakes – mentioned in the lyrics to famous songs. Can you use your music and geography knowledge to work out the answers?

1 / 10

Which US state, described as “almost heaven” by John Denver in Take Me Home, Country Roads, is home to Harpers Ferry National Historical Park and New River Gorge National Park?

2 / 10

On the shoreline of which European lake, also home to the 140 metre-tall Jet d’Eau fountain, did Deep Purple see smoke on the water in Montreux?

3 / 10

The city of Marbella, a popular sunshine getaway for golfers and northern Europeans, is the only Spanish city mentioned in the lyrics to which infernally catchy song by Los Del Rio?

4 / 10

Which Canadian province, home to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic and Cape Breton Highlands National Park, does the target of Carly Simon’s You’re So Vain fly a Lear Jet to?

5 / 10

On which island – the largest in England and the location of Queen Victoria’s summer home, Osborne House – did the Beatles propose renting a cottage on every summer in When I’m 64?

6 / 10

If Nellie the Elephant continued along the road to Mandalay, which country would she eventually end up in?

7 / 10

In which musical US city, famously the home of Elvis Presley, did Creedence Clearwater Revival and Tina Turner clean a lot plates in Proud Mary and Mark Cohn go walking?

8 / 10

In Men At Work’s Down Under, in which European city does the singer receive a Vegemite sandwich from a muscular bread-seller?

9 / 10

What is the name of the river that forms much of the border between Texas and Mexico that ABBA crossed on a Frightful Night in the lyrics to Fernando?

10 / 10

Which of Sydney’s Northern Beaches, where South Creek enters into the ocean near the rockpool at the northern end, is the only Australian beach mentioned in Surfin’ USA by the Beach Boys?

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