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Literal Schoolhouse Rocks

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Published March 1, 2019 at 10:52 AM CST
House musician Jonathan Coulton leads a parody game on Ask Me Another at the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York.
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House musician Jonathan Coulton leads a parody game on Ask Me Another at the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York.

Stone-cold trivia whiz or are your skills a bit rocky? In this music parody, we rewrote songs from educational children's cartoon Schoolhouse Rock to be about actual types of minerals and rocks.

As heard on Jim Gaffigan Brings The Laughs Again.

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