Pulp quiz: how well do you know their lyrics?

Jarvis Cocker turns 50 today – why not celebrate with our Pulp quiz? Can you correctly complete the lyrics from these 15 songs?
  
  


  1. My Legendary Girlfriend: "He falls to sleep again…"

    1. Bloody typical

    2. No cheese tonight

    3. Then he wakes up again

    4. Dribbling a bit

  2. Love is Blind: "Oh, oh, oh hey butcher!"

    1. How much are your sausages?

    2. Leave them pigs alone

    3. What time is it?

    4. What's your name?

  3. Joyriders: "We can't help it, we're so thick we can't think / Can't think of anything but…"

    1. Beer, chips and gravy

    2. Robbing someone's car

    3. Shit, sleep and drink

    4. Cough, drag and fall over

  4. Babies: "She came home round four and she was with some kid called…"

    1. David

    2. Simon

    3. Nigel

    4. Terry

  5. Do you remember the first time?: "Do you remember the first time?"

    1. 'Cos I don't

    2. How about the second time?

    3. I can't remember a worse time

    4. It was brilliant, wasn't it?

  6. Mis-Shapes: "We won't use guns, we won't use bombs / We'll use the one thing we've got more of

    1. That's our tanks

    2. That's our friends

    3. That's our minds

    4. That's our skill dance moves

  7. Common People: "She came from Greece she had a thirst for knowledge / She studied sculpture…"

    1. At sixth-form college

    2. At St Martin's College

    3. While amassing knowledge

    4. And she ate some porridge

  8. Disco 2000: "Your house was very small…"

    1. And you listened to The Fall

    2. With wood chip on the wall

    3. With bikes parked in the hall

    4. My house was loads bigger

  9. Something Changed: "Do you believe…"

    1. In ghosts?

    2. In miracles, you sexy thing?

    3. In man-made climate change associated with carbon emissions?

    4. That there's someone up above?

  10. Sorted for E's and Wizz: "And you want to phone your mother and say…"

    1. Can we have chips for tea?

    2. I need a lift home

    3. Mother, I can never come home again

    4. Up yours mother, I'm on loads of drugs

  11. Help the Aged: "Help the aged / 'cos one day you'll be older too / you might need someone who can…"

    1. Look after you

    2. Find your shoes

    3. Clean up your poo

    4. Pull you through

  12. This Is Hardcore: "It seems I saw you in some…"

    1. Girly magazine

    2. Teenage wet dream

    3. Mucky video

    4. Chatline advert

  13. I Love Life: "I feel alright as long as I don't forget to…"

    1. Breathe

    2. Flush

    3. Indicate

    4. Sleep

  14. Seductive Barry: "So roll the soundtrack and dim the lights 'cos…"

    1. Seductive Barry's here - WAHEY!

    2. I'm not going home tonight

    3. You're not going home tonight

    4. We're not going home tonight

  15. Bad Cover Version: "I heard an old girlfriend has turned to…"

    1. The left

    2. The bottle

    3. The church

    4. The dark side

Solutions

1:B, 2:D, 3:C, 4:A, 5:C, 6:C, 7:B, 8:B, 9:D, 10:C, 11:D, 12:B, 13:A, 14:B, 15:C

Scores

  1. 6 and above.

    Not a great score – time to brush up on your Pulp listening perhaps?

  2. 8 and above.

    Pretty good score – perhaps time to dig our His 'n Hers for another listen?

  3. 10 and above.

    Great score, you clearly know your Pulp - but can you go for a perfect 15 out of 15?

  4. 15 and above.

    Perfect score! You are a true Pulp fan.

 

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