Confessions of a Swedish Super Groupie
It has now been 4 days since I saw Mamma Mia! with our Community Moderators and I still can’t get the soundtrack out of my head! Whether I’m in bed, in the shower, or on the treadmill, those catchy songs continue to delight (and haunt) me. I’m sure many of you are still feeling the same way.
This is not a new addiction – merely a relapse of one that has presented itself every few years since the tender age of 6, when I frequently danced around the living room singing “Money, Money, Money” at the top of my lungs. I blame my father for getting me hooked, as ABBA is the only part of his Swedish heritage that he fully embraces and we owned every 8-track to prove it. Yet I have no one to blame but myself for buying tickets to see ABBA tribute bands, watching countless biographies and putting the ABBA box set on my Christmas list.
So, to make use of my useless ABBA knowledge and to get these songs out of my head, I now present “The ABBA Quiz.” Give it a shot and pass it along to your friends, and enter by sending me a message through Connect. Yes, you will first have to become my Connect friend to enter, but I promise it will be worth it. The winner (chosen out of a silver platform boot if there is a tie) will get a CD of my favorite ABBA songs – if I can figure out how my CD burner works.
1. What are the names of ABBA’s four band members?
2. Which of the band members is not actually Swedish?
3. What is the name of the music contest that launched the band to stardom?
4. What country boasts the largest collection of ABBA fans in the world?
5. How many North American tours did the band undertake?
6. What 1994 Australian film featured an “ugly duckling” obsessed with ABBA?
7. What is the name of the fictional chat show hosted by ABBA-obsessed British TV character Alan Partridge? (Hint: it's the name of an ABBA song)
8. At the height of ABBA’s fame, they were the second largest corporation in Sweden. What corporation was more profitable?
9. What is the #1 reason given for why there will never be an ABBA reunion tour?
10. What is the name of the ABBA tribute band that is the next best thing to seeing them live?
11. What is the name of the first musical written by the male members of ABBA?
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music, concert, abba, swedish, pop
