Super Bowl, pop culture go together
By Chris Jordan
Gannett News Service
The Super Bowl is so much more than a game. It's a 3 1/2-hour commercial. Seriously, the Super Bowl tells us about ourselves and our culture, what we're feeling and what we're thinking about.
So while you're getting ready for the actual game — Super Bowl XLII, New York Giants versus New England Patriots, at 1 p.m. today on Fox — warm up with our Super Bowl pop culture quiz.
1) What song was Justin Timberlake performing with Janet Jackson when she experienced her infamous wardrobe malfunction during the 2004 halftime show?
2) Who was the first player to say the now-tiresome post-Super Bowl pitch phrase, "I'm going to Disney World!" and "I'm going to Disneyland!"?
3) What 1977 film featured a terrorist plot to bomb the Super Bowl?
4) What aspiring Super Bowl team does Warren Beatty play for in the 1978 movie "Heaven Can Wait"?
5) What was the name of the rap song the Chicago Bears recorded en route to their 1986 Super Bowl win?
6) What song with a mildly suggestive marijuana reference did Paul McCartney perform during the 2005 halftime show?
7) What year did a futuristic commercial promoting the then-neophyte Apple Macintosh computer debut? (Hint, the commercial's name is the same as the year it aired.)
8) The 2004 Super Bowl broadcast featured a blitz of products being offered to treat what condition?
9) Who was the first celebrity to perform during the halftime show and what year did he/she perform?
10) This New Jersey singer delivered a moving rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" on the eve of the Gulf War prior to the 1991 Super Bowl.
11) Joe Namath of the 1969 Super Bowl-winning New York Jets, takes his nickname from what famous New York City street?
12) This rock band performed while the names of Sept. 11 victims scrolled on a giant screen during the 2002 halftime show.
SUPER BOWL QUIZ ANSWERS
1) Timberlake's "Rock Your Body"
2) Giants quarterback Phil Simms in 1987
3) "Black Sunday"
4) Los Angeles Rams
5) "The Super Bowl Shuffle"
6) "Get Back"
7) 1984
8) Erectile dysfunction: Cialis, Levitra and Viagra all had ads
9) Carol Channing in a "Tribute to Mardi Gras" in 1970
10) Whitney Houston
11) Broadway, as in Broadway Joe
12) U2
SCORE BOARD
Rate your score to find out if you're an All-Pro or a bench warmer when it comes to Super Bowl pop culture trivia.
1-3 correct: Taxi squad
4-6 correct: Special-teams member
7-9 correct: Starter
10-11 correct: All-Pro
12 correct: Johnny Unitas