Easy one-question history test

[micropolitan guy]

Even easier than state capitals.

The Edmund Fitzgerald sank 32 years ago this past Saturday. What was its destination?

 

[ondeadline]

Zug Island.

 

[Mayfly]

Never Never Land

 

[micropolitan guy]

Zug Island is correct. It's Detroit. Lightfoot got it wrong.

 

[playthrough]

Zug Island was the ultimate destination, but more accurately weren't they trying to get to Whitefish Bay to get out of the weather?

 

[writing irish]

I once knew a guy who thought the Gordon Lightfoot song was "The Wreck of the Ella Fitzgerald." That's what he said once, anyway.

 

[pallister]

That Lightfoot song is great; it's the first song I ever have a memory of; it seemed to come on the radio all the time when my mom would drive me around Chicago as a little kid in the 70s.

 

[old_tony]

Great song. You guys just inspired me to pick up the guitar and play it instead of sitting here on the Internet doing nothing productive.

 

[Dedo]

I once knew a guy who thought the Gordon Lightfoot song was "The Wreck of the Ella Fitzgerald." That's what he said once, anyway.

ELAINE: Andrea Doria? Isn't that the one they did the song about?

JERRY: (Correcting her) Edmund Fitzgerald.

ELANE: I love Edmund Fitzgerald's voice.

JERRY: (Gives Elaine a look) No, Gordon Lightfoot was the singer. Edmund Fitzgerald was the ship.

GEORGE: (Talking about his would-be apartment) You could fit 15 people in that bathroom..

ELAINE: I think Gordon Lightfoot was the boat.

JERRY: (Sarcastic) Yeah, and it was rammed by the Cat Stevens.