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No, you're never gonna change! No you're never gonna change! No you're never going to get me to buy the damned CD by pumping it into emotional moments over and over again! Look, I enjoyed the Ric Flair moment on Raw, bringing out anyone and everyone they could to wish him goodbye. But the last thing I needed to hear was that pathetic goodbye song being shoved into my eardrums until they bleed. If anything, it should have ended on his theme music and left it at that. If anything that was just another poor example of WWE putting over a chance to sell over a memorable moment. And chances are down the road, they'll dub his theme over it anyway. So in tribute to the smack in the face I had to listen to at the end, this week's trivia is on music in wrestling. But first, we need to look over our leather-bound memory book of photos and answer the last round of WrestleMania questions.

1: Pat Patterson. Some said Shane McMahon, but no, Shane has openly admitted he hasn't been to all of them. Patterson is the only one to have been at all of them.

2: E. Crush. Thsis would have continued the minor feud they were having, but it never came to be.

3: B. Ryan Shamrock went to trip Road Dogg, but instead tripped Goldust, causing a distraction for Dogg to take advantage of for the win.

4. C. Believe it or not, it was The Honky Tonk Man. Honky was feuding with Savage all the way up into February 1988, which would have eventually led to a WrestleMania match and a title drop to Savage. But Honky fought against it with everyone and refused to give up the belt at a WrestleMania. But McMahon was determined to put a belt on Savage, so to piss off Honky, he gave him the next one up. Savage became champ, Honky was reduced to a second-rate star from that point on, DiBiase has been at odds with Honky ever since.

5: B. Gorilla Monsoon. Monsoon was at ringside giving commentary for the event with Ventura. When the fight started, Ventura sat back and laughed (probably wanting Downey to get clocked). But Monsoon knew Downey might sue the company and quickly jumped up to stop Roddy. Thankfully, he did.

Sadly, no winners this week. So I've got no one to give this book of fake memories to. So on the shelf it goes with my old brown-foam IC belt. Back into standard trivia we go. Answer the questions and email your answers to TorchTrivia@gmail.com. We’ll post the names of those who got ALL FIVE correct. Good luck to you all!

1. First, we're going to do a write-in. Anyone remember the Rock 'n' Wrestling Connection? If you're under the age of 20, probably not. To make it brief, Cyndi Lauper got involved with professional wrestling during the big '80s boom. She had Captain Lou Albano play her father in "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," and became a fixture of the WWF from late 1984 to mid 1985. Sadly, it didn't end with just the one video. Albano made more appearances in videos like 'She Bop', and then there was one prominent video (it went over 12 minutes no less) that featured everyone from Roddy Piper to Bobby Heenan. What was teh name of this song?

2. Hey, why not another write-in question. "Stone Cold" Steve Austin has been no stranger to good and bad music. We'll skip over the Ringmaster one and skip directly to his later versions of the broken glass theme. As Austin himself proclaimed, "When you hear the sound fo breaking glass, you know it's time to kick some ass." The theme they made for him during his rise through the company was, and still is his favorite. But WWF tried to push two themes onto him later down the line that were variations of his current one, trying to sell albums for those artists. Rumor was Austin thought they were both horrible, but took what he thought was the better of the two to appease those in charge, which would end up being the Disturbed version. Our question to you, name either the band or the 'official' name of the other song.

3. In 2002, WWE released a 3 CD pack called "WWE Anthology," a collection of the best music from 1985 until then. But the album received many complaints from fans. First and foremost, why they decided to include material like "Together" (the theme to Randy Savage & Elizabeth's wedding) as well as songs used for Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels tributes, rather than more themes from wrestlers that fans wanted. In fact, the Lex Express theme replaced a song that was actually advertised as being on the album, but then was replaced for unknown reasons. Which wrestler's them was removed?

A. Demolition
B. The British Bulldog
C. Mr. Perfect
D. Big Boss Man
E. 'Superfly' Jimmy Snuka

4. In 2004, WWE did a little something different and made a CD where the wrestlers sang called "WWE Originals." We're going to skip over the painful reliving of this album (as well as the "don't quit your day job" jokes) to point out that this wasn't exactly an original idea. WCW tried it out as well clear back in 1992. But many of the wrestlers who tried it gave up on it when they realized they couldn't sing all that well. (No, really?) But that didn't stop Sting, Dustin Rhodes, Lex Luger, and one more wrestler from doing it and making it their theme song. Who was the other wrestler?

A. Rick Rude
B. Cactus Jack
C. Ricky Steamboat
D. Big Van Vader
E. Ron Simmons

5. After two "Piledriver" albums, the WWF went on a six year stint of not releasing any music because it was viewed as one of the less marketable areas of the company. But that wasn't the end of giving music to fans. The WWF Fanclub included from time to time cassette tapes that had music from a number of their favorite wrestlers. Each track wouldn't last more than 1:30, but what else would you expect from a membership that cost you $8 a year. Our question to you, how many of these tapes were released between 1988 and 1995?

A. 5
B. 6
C. 7
D. 8
E. 9

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