Songs about Workin Hard or Hardly Workin
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Astrophysics
100

This 1980s song by Billy Joel follows the struggles of unemployed workers in a manufacturing town in Pennsylvania.

What is Allentown?

100

You gotta fight... for you right...

What is "to party?"

100

This smooth talking crooner was born with the name Dino Paul Crocetti.

Who is Dean Martin?

100

In 2006, Pluto was determined no longer to be one of these

What is a planet?

200

This is the reason Huey Lewis is taking what they're giving.

What is Workin' for a Living?

200

Life is a mystery; everyone must stand alone. I hear you call my name...

What is "And it feels like home."

200

This dish is made by cooking a starchy, short grain rice like arborio with stock until it becomes creamy

What is Risotto?

200

This is the greatest... The first and foremost... the cosmic event that started it all.

What is the big bang?

300

"I don't need no dolla bills to have fun tonight" says this Cheap Thrills singer.

Who is Sia?

300

At first I was afraid, I was petrified. Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side. But then I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong, and I grew strong, and I learned how to get along. And so you're back -- from this place.

What is outer space?

300

This 20th century dictator was a pal of Hitler.

Who is Mussolini?

300

This nearby rocky planet has two moons

What is Mars?

400

"It's five oclock somewhere" is a collaboration between country singer Alan Jackson and what famous Margaritaville restauranteur?

Who is Jimmy Buffet?

400

I will kill your friends and family to remind you of this.

What is my love?

400

The city of Rome contains parts of these two countries...

What are Italy and the Vatican?

400

This expanding cosmic threat is probably going to destroy the earth and everything on it - but not for a bit.

What is the sun?

500

This #1 song is written from the point of view of two regular working joes looking at the lifestyles of rock stars, and saying to each other, "That ain't workin. They get paid to do WHAT!?"

What is Money for Nothing by Dire Straits?

500

I was sick and tired of everything when I called you last night from this city

What is Glasgow?

500

If Sicily were a soccer ball, this region of Italy looks like the toe of a boot kicking it

What is Calabria? Or Reggio de Calabria.

500

This field of science is the study of very very very very small things that don't follow the rules of normal physics

What is quantum physics?

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