Here are 40 questions that broach the topics of drink and drugs: some with humour, some with regret, some with self-regard and braggadocio. Kids – don’t try this at home. The same format as before: 40 questions, single answers, and it’s more fun if you give yourself a time limit. Get your mum and dad to help – it may amuse you to find out how much they know about these particular topics . . .
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1 What did John Lee Hooker have along with his ‘One Bourbon’?
2 Which hallucinogenic paradise, accessed via the ‘bridge of sighs . . . under dreaming spires’, was ‘all too beautiful’?
3 Who released albums called Drunk Enough to Dance and A Hangover You Don’t Deserve in 2002 and 2004?
4 Who chronicled his battle against drugs in ‘A Junkie’s Lament’, which appears on his 1976 album In the Pocket?
5 Who admitted to a penchant for ‘Cigarettes and Alcohol’?
6 Which self-confessed heavy cannabis user sang about a ‘Bake Sale’ on his 2016 eponymous album?
7 ‘However Much I Booze’ is a confessional track on which Who album from 1975?
8 Who wrote ‘Cocaine’, the song Eric Clapton popularised on his Slowhand album?
9 Which Irish singer made famous the bleak song ‘Whiskey Didn’t Kill the Pain’?
10 ‘Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol. . . . C-c-c-c-cocaine!’ goes the refrain on ‘Feel Good Hit of the Summer’ by which band?
11 What did Dr Feelgood take with their alcohol?
12 ‘One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small . . .’ What do the ones that mother gives you do?
13 Apart from whisky and lager, which other two drinks are drunk in the verse to Chumbawumba’s ‘Tubthumping’?
14 Which number one hit by the Shamen received substantial airplay in 1992 despite clearly being an endorsement of recreational drugs?
15 Which cocktail was the subject of a Beastie Boys single in 1997?
16 The Byrds’ 1966 album Fifth Dimension includes which classic drug-trip track (denied at the time), one of the first great psychedelic rock songs?
17 What did Snoop Doggy Dogg like with his juice?
18 Hip hop bands are often happy to make overt drug references. In 2003, who took some ‘Hits from the Bong’?
19 A minor US hit for both Ray Stevens and Johnny Cash, ‘Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down’ is a day-after reflection that was written and recorded by which singer-songwriter?
20 Who released a track called ‘Ten Crack Commandments’ shortly after his death in 1997?
21 In 1998, Stereophonics sang about ‘The Bartender and . . .’ Who else?
22 What was the sugar on the pill that eighties Leicester band Gaye Bykers added to their name?
23 Who topped the indie chart in 1980 singing about ‘Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers’, a cover of a song by ZZ Top?
24 What was Roxy Music’s fix in 1975, ‘face to face’ and ‘toe to toe’?
25 Mark Lanegan’s second solo album advocated whiskey for which supernatural being?
26 Who ‘Traded in My Cigarettes’ on his 2010 debut album?
27 Which band enjoyed a ‘Marguerita Time’ in the UK Top 10 in 1983?
28 Who made ‘Rehab’ profitable in 2006?
29 Nina Simone, Elkie Brooks and Jeff Buckley all expressed a preference for which drink?
30 Which West Coast band sang about ‘Amphetamine Annie’ in 1968?
31 Who reached number two in 1976 with a ‘A Glass of Champagne’?
32 Who had an album called One Way Ticket to Hell and Back in 2005?
33 What were Cliff’s two key elements for a fine Christmas in 1988?
34 Who were ‘Sorted for E’s and Whizz’ in 1995?
35 Who had the ‘Liquor Store Blues’ on his 2010 debut album Doo-Wops and Hooligans?
36 ‘Mama (Loves a Crackhead)’ was a single from which British rapper’s first album, released before he hit paydirt with his second?
37 What were naughty boys Calvin Harris and Tinie Tempah doing in the British top 10 in early 2013?
38 Who sang about ‘Sweet Leaf’ (marijuana) in 1971 and ‘Snowblind’ (coke) in 1972?
39 Who had a ‘Liquid Lunch’ on her ‘Shocking’ 2013 album?
40 Which band sang about ‘Special K’ on their 2000 album Black Market Music?