It's Thankgiving so it's time to test your knowledge of Alice's Restaurant.

[progressoid]

Take the quiz: http://www.mentalfloss.com/quiz/quiz.php?q=1613

Don't worry, there aren't any pop up ads or crap like that.



You might need a refresher (I got a perfect score after listening to it again after a couple decades)

[Lochloosa]

1. Score: 75% (9 out of 12) without listening to it again. I play it every year.

[progressoid]

2. I only got 7 the first time around.

I swear Alice had a son the last time I heard it.

[RevStPatrick]

3. Unfortunately...

...I got all 12 answers right!
WITHOUT the refresher.

I REALLY need those brain cells for other things, but they're loaded up with stuff like this...


(I think I know what we'll be doing this year on Thanksgiving. It's been quite a while!)

[NightWatcher]

4. 92% 11 of 12

I didn't know what the 5 min version was called.

[surrealAmerican]

6. Same here.

I even got the same question wrong. I didn't know there was a five-minute version.

[annabanana]

8. How the bloody hell could there be a 5 MINUTE

version of this opus? So much must have been left out.

[progressoid]

10. It's mostly just the chorus. Here...

[Archae]

15. Same here.

[Shrek]

17. Same here

Missed the same question.

[MiddleFingerMom]

5. 67% without hearing it again. The very first time I heard/saw it was around 1971 or -72...

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... when a young student did the entire long version of the song with
perfect Arlo comedic timing for a school talent contest. It was, by far...
the indisputable winner. And this was a smalltown Michigan, fairly
conservative Catholic school.
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[bluedigger]

7. 67% without listening.

I don't think I've seen the movie and didn't know the radio title. Missed a couple others.

[Chan790]

9. Perfect.

I listen to it every Thanksgiving.

[hobbit709]

11. I know more about it than is on the record or in the movie

A good friend of mine and former housemate is Geoff Outlaw, who was busted with Arlo for littering.

[progressoid]

13. Cool!

[hibbing]

12. 75

Hi,
I love this song, used to listen to it when I was a kid. I did listen to it a few weeks ago. I missed one because I read it wrong, not too bad though. Fun song and fun quiz, thanks for posting this!



Peace

[LWolf]

14. I got 10 out of 12

without listening again; I could probably recite it fairly accurately without any help.

I missed the last 2, about the radio version and the movie. I don't remember a radio version, and I only saw the movie once. I should have answered that movie question correctly with a little common sense, lol, but by then I was listening to the song in my head.

[pokerfan]

16. 75% without listening nt

[mrmpa]

18. 12 out of 12..........

I even have a DVD of the film, watch it every year round Thanksgiving.

[VOX]

19. It's sad knowing that Arlo Guthrie is a registered Republican...

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/news/22981

NY Times: "Where are you politically these days?"

Arlo Guthrie: "I became a registered Republican about five or six years ago because to have a successful democracy you have to have at least two parties, and one of them was failing miserably. We had enough good Democrats. We needed a few more good Republicans. We needed a loyal opposition."

[progressoid]

20. Hmmm. I did not know that.

So he switched at the height of W's reign. Wonder if he's still is an R.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

22. probably, so he can vote in the primary and play the odds.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

21. It can be heard in its entirety

tomorrow (Thursday 11/22) around 2:00pm PST on www.kser.org or 90.7fm if you live near Everett, WA

[luv_mykatz]

23. Scored 75% right, without relistening.

Like most of you, I missed the question about the title for the short version. Obviously I wasn't that well acquainted with the short version.

Great song, and still relevant!