Q 01/05

Foreigner took the title "Double Vision" from a TV report on an injured goalie in which sport?

A) Soccer

B) Lacrosse

C) Hockey

D) Water polo

Answer · why

C) Hockey

Hockey gave the song its name: Lou Gramm kept a small TV in his vocal booth and heard announcers say Rangers goalie John Davidson was seeing double af...

Q 02/05

A session keyboardist joined Foreigner's album 4 believing he had been called by Mick Jones of which punk band?

A) The Clash

B) Sex Pistols

C) The Damned

D) Buzzcocks

Answer · why

A) The Clash

The Clash had its own Mick Jones, so the young synth player assumed the London punks wanted him and only later learned the call came from the Englishm...

Q 03/05

Mick Jones has said Foreigner's 1979 single "Dirty White Boy" was written about which rock and roll pioneer?

A) Buddy Holly

B) Elvis Presley

C) Jerry Lee Lewis

D) Gene Vincent

Answer · why

B) Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley was, in Jones's words, the dirty white boy who changed the shape of music. The single reached number 12 in the US as the lead release fr...

Q 04/05

Which Olivia Newton-John hit kept Foreigner's "Waiting for a Girl Like You" at number two for nine straight weeks?

A) Suddenly

B) Heart Attack

C) Twist of Fate

D) Physical

Answer · why

D) Physical

Physical held the top spot for ten weeks, and when it finally slipped, Hall & Oates jumped over Foreigner, leaving the ballad a runner-up for a tenth ...

Q 05/05

Which singer's 2009 cover of Foreigner's "I Want to Know What Love Is" topped Brazil's airplay chart for 27 weeks?

A) Mariah Carey

B) Celine Dion

C) Whitney Houston

D) Christina Aguilera

Answer · why

A) Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey recorded it for her album Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, and a place on the soundtrack of a hit Brazilian telenovela kept it at number on...