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June 25, 2026

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Carly Simon's birthday: singer-songwriters, classic 70s pop, and famous mystery feuds.

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hi, I'm Mark Ellison and today's theme

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is Carly Simon's birthday. Singer songwriter's classic seventies pop and

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famous mystery feuds. Question one. Carly Simon won the Academy

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Award for Best Original Song for Let the River Run?

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Which office set nineteen eighty eight film? Did she write

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it for? A movie about a Staten Island secretary with

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big ideas? Question two? Name the nineteen seventy two Carly

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Simon hit that opens with you walked into the party

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like you were walking onto a yacht and mentions an

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Apricot scarf, an era defining mystery laced anthem. Question three.

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In twenty fifteen, Carly Simon publicly revealed that one verse

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of Your so Vain refers to a particular Hollywood leading man.

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Which actor did she confirm? Question four? Which nineteen seventy

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one singer songwriter Landmark spent fifteen consecutive weeks at number

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one on the Billboard two hundred, helping to find the mellow,

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introspective sound of early seventies pop. Question five. A famous

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nineteen seventies song feud saw a Southern rock band answer

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Neil Young's critiques in Southern Man and Alabama. Which band

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fired back and with what nineteen seventy four hit We'll

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be right back with these answers after this break, welcome back.

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Question one? Which film featured Carly Simon's Oscar winning Let

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the River Run? Answer, Working Girl, Let the River Run

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was written for the nineteen eighty eight film Working Girl.

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Simon became the first artist to win the Oscar, Golden

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Globe and Grammy for the same song as its sole

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writer and performer. Question two, which Carly Simon song begins

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with a yacht and an apricot scarf? Answer, You're so Vain?

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You're So Vain topped the Billboard Hot one hundred in

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nineteen seventy three and became famous for its choy hints

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about a real life subject. Its sly lyrics and swaggering

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groove made it a classic of seventies pop. Question three,

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which actor did Carly Simon confirm is referenced in one

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verse of Yours so Vain? Answer Warren Batty. Simon said

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the second verse is about Warren Batty, while keeping other

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verses subjects undisclosed. The partial reveal kept the songs decades long.

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Guessing Game Alive. Question four, which nineteen seventy one album

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spent fifteen straight weeks at number one on the Billboard

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two hundred Answer Tapestry Carol King. Carol King's Tapestry dominated

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the charts in nineteen seventy one, powered by hits like

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It's Too Late and I Feel the Earth Move. Its

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intimate songwriting influenced an entire generation of artists. Question five,

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who answered Neil Young with Sweet Home Alabama in nineteen

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seventy four answer Lynyrd Skynyrd Sweet Home Alabama. Lynyrd Skynyrd's

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Sweet Home Alabama name checks Neil Young while pushing back

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on his portrayal of the South. Despite the musical sparring,

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both sides later expressed mutual respect. That concludes today's five

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daily trivia questions. I'm Mark Ellison, and today's questions were

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crafted with the help of AI technology. See you tomorrow.