ONE FOR THE ROAD - QUIZ
Over the years this phrase has been used in many ways. Look it up in any
dictionary and you will find a definition similar to this:
One for the road" is one last thing you do before leaving some place.
Example: "Come on, let's play one more game of pool for the road."
However this phrase has been used in many other ways. See how many you can name:
1. "One for the Road"
Clue – a book by a Pulitzer prize winning author.
2. "One for the Road"
Clue – a play first produced in London in 1982
3. "One for the Road"
Clue – a title for the Group's 1980 album
There are also occasions when this phrase is linked with coffee
4. "One more cup of coffee for the road"
Clue – part of the chorus of a famous song
5. "Make that one for the road coffee"
Clue – an early advertising slogan
6. "Stay alert, stay alive, make it coffee when you drive"
Clue – follow up advertising slogan
7. "Drive alert- arrive alive"
Clue – Sleep related slogan
8. "Safer Driving - Give yourself a break"
Clue – latest Positively Coffee topic
ANSWERS
1. This book was written by Tony Horowitz, an American author and Pulitzer
prize-winner. It is about his 7,000 mile journey back packing around Australia in the
late 80's.
2. This drama was written by Harold Pinter and first produced in London in 1982.
It is a short but chilling study about power and political oppression in an
unnamed totalitarian state.
3. The pop group The Kinks produced a double album with this title in 1980. It is
claimed to be the band's most famous live record of hard rock and rhythm music.
4. Bob Dylan wrote the lyrics for this song in the mid 70's. The full chorus is
“One more cup of coffee for the Road, One more cup of coffee 'fore I go to the
valley below”
5 . In 1952 the Pan American Coffee Bureau used this slogan as part of its
campaign to promote coffee drinking outside the workplace
6. Because some ministers asserted that the above slogan encouraged drinking
alcohol and driving, the Pan American Coffee Bureau switched to this slogan
7. Used by the National Sleep Foundation as their slogan promoting safer driving
8. Latest Positively Coffee topic - ready to use materials are found on previous
pages in this section
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