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Test your knowledge of summer music

By Kevin J. Siu

Months from now, some will remember the record swelter, choking smog and ever-looming promise of rolling blackouts. For others, the summer of 2005 will summon entirely different flashbacks: Black Eyed Peas beseeching us not to phunk with their hearts; Amerie clarifying, na-na-na-na-na-na, the 1 Thing that’s got her trippin’; Gwen Stefani serving notice — with spelling-bee precision — that this, uh, excrement is indeed bananas. But are this season’s hot songs destined for the Good Vibrations Pantheon of Summer Anthems? Or are they on a one-way ticket to the Kokomo Memorial Hall of What-Were-We-Thinking? Ask us in a year.

1. Which Motown girl group sang the ’63 soul hit Heat Wave?
	The Supremes
	The Velvelettes
	The Marvelettes
	Martha and the Vandellas
	Destiny’s Child

2. Kim “I Am a Wild Party” Mitchell’s perennial barbeque anthem Patio Lanterns was revived last year in a ubiquitous commercial spot for what revered Canadian super-brand?
	Tim Horton’s
	Canadian Tire
	Loblaws
	Pizza Pizza
	Petro Canada

3. In an interview with The Globe and Mail, which artist said the following, and what song was he describing: “Well, there's two things really. First, it was the nostalgia, and secondly there was the sexual connotation”?
	Nelly, Hot in Herre
	Tom Cochrane, Life is a Highway
	Bryan Adams, Summer of ’69
	Harry Nilsson, Lime in the Coconut
	Shaggy, It Wasn’t Me

4. Though he later declared it “the bane of my existence,” what ’70s frontman — working under the pseudonym Buster Poindexter — inspired an eternity of congo lines with his 1989 rendition of the soca classic Hot Hot Hot?
	Tom Verlaine (Television)
	David Byrne (Talking Heads)
	Joey Ramone (The Ramones)
	Johnny Rotten (The Sex Pistols)
	David Johansen (New York Dolls)

5. George Gershwin’s Summertime, later covered by everyone from Louis Armstrong to the Brodsky Quartet to Randy Bachman, was originally composed for what popular musical?
	Porgy & Bess
	Guys & Dolls
	Hello, Dolly!
	Camelot
	Spamalot

6. Finish the opening couplet to the Lovin’ Spoonful’s 1966 chart-topper Summer In the City: “Hot town, summer in the city…”:
	“Such a lovely day, getting up is a pity”
	“Rockin’ some jean shorts, and it ain’t pretty”
	“Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty”
	“Dorothy Parker is deliciously witty”
	“Dad reps The Game, I prefer 50”

7. Toronto/Halifax’s Len, who scored a surprise summer hit in 1999 with Steal My Sunshine, was masterminded by sibling duo Sharon and Marc Costanza. What is brother Marc’s MC moniker?
	MC Bones
	The Burger Pimp
	Buck 65
	MC Miker G
	J-Roc

8. Who inspired Paul Vance to write 16-year-old Brian Hyland’s 1960 novelty bubblegum hit Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini?
	Annette Funicello
	Marilyn Monroe
	Gidget
	Vance’s babysitter
	Vance’s two-year-old daughter

9. Four of the following lyrics come from LFO’s 1999 boy band tune Summer Girls; which one belongs to REM’s It’s the End of the World As We Know It?
	“Macaulay Culkin was in Home Alone”
	“I like Kevin Bacon but I hate Footloose”
	“Billy Shakespeare wrote a whole bunch of sonnets”
	“Lenny Bruce is not afraid”
	“New Kids On The Block had a bunch of hits”

10. DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince’s Summertime was built around a sample of the song Summer Madness by what disco-funk band?
	The Commodores
	Kool and the Gang
	Earth, Wind and Fire
	The Ohio Players
	Daft Punk