1. Put these drummers for the Who in chronological order concerning their tenure with the band.
A. Keith Moon
B. Simon Phillips
C. Kenney Jones
D. Zak Starkey
2. In Joni Mitchell's 1972 "You Turn Me On I'm a Radio," her lyric goes, "I know you don't like weak women, you get bored so quick/and you don't like strong women..." Complete the line.
A. "they say, 'Gimme Mick' "
B. " 'cause they're hip to your tricks"
C. "and that's your whole schtick"
D. "they say, 'don't get sick' "
3. Choose the performer whose first and last names are exactly as listed. The other three are represented by a shortened version of their first or middle name.
A. Kat Eggleston
B. Gram Parsons
C. J. Geils
D. Van Morrison
4. Put these songs that chart the evolution of ska/rocksteady/reggae's commercial success in America in chronological order. Start with which came first.
A. Desmond Dekker & the Aces, "Israelites"
B. Eric Clapton, "I Shot the Sheriff"
C. Millie Small, "My Boy Lollipop"
D. Johnny Nash, "Hold Me Tight"
5. The only tune here where "sock it me!" is used (the phrase was everywhere in the '60s and early '70s--eventually I'm doing a blog post on it).
A. The Kinks, "Everybody's Gonna Be Happy"
B. Martha & the Vandellas, "I'm Ready for Love"
C. Elvis Presley, "U.S. Male"
D. Jerry Lee Lewis, "Breathless"
6. Three of these reference Detroit. One does not. Name it.
A. The Pretenders, "Brass In Pocket"
B. Lee Dorsey, "Ride Your Pony"
C. Gil Scott-Heron, "We Almost Lost Detroit"
D. Jan & Dean, "Dead Man's Curve"
7. Which song in this bunch does not mention or reference the Beatles?
A. The Clash, "Four Horsemen"
B. The Temptations, "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)"
C. Sugarloaf/Jerry Corbetta, "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You"
D. Johnny Rivers, "Summer Rain"
8. In Bob Dylan's "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again," he says that, "grandpa died last week, and now he's buried..."
A. "down on Mainstreet"
B. "in the rocks"
C. "in Little Rock"
D. "at 442 Glenwood Avenue"
9. Aretha Franklin pays a visit to her doctor in the propulsive "Chain of Fools." What advice does Sister Re receive?
A. "take it easy"
B. "button up your overcoat"
C. "love needs a transfusion/let's shoot it full of wine"
D. "Rocky, you've met your match"
10. Graham Parker & the Rumour's "Protection" has the line, "____ ____ ____
said, 'I could have smacked his head'. " Name that person or character:
A. Rockin' Robin Roberts
B. Big Bad John
C. Sir Winston Churchill
D. Dizzy Miss Lizzy
11. When Nirvana's Kurt Cobain offed himself at age 27, his mother lumped him in a bunch who died at the same age (Jimi Hendrix, Robert Johnson, Janis Joplin, Pigpen, Jim Morrison--later, that would include Amy Winehouse). What did she name the collective performers?
A. The Association
B. Swingin' School
C. The Hall of the Mountain King
D. That Stupid Club
12. Three of these songs mention an act of fellatio that may happen, is happening or has happened. Which one does not?
A. Lou Reed, "Walk on the Wild Side"
B. The Guess Who, "Albert Flasher"
C. Bonnie Raitt, "Gnawin' on It"
D. The Killers, "Mr. Brightside"
13. I'll accept one or two answers here: Two of these have "Thirteen" in the song title but that number is not mentioned in the lyrics. Pick at least one:
A. Seatrain, "Thirteen Questions"
B. Big Star, "Thirteen"
C. Chuck Berry, "Thirteen Question Method"
D. Nick Lowe, "12 Step Program (to Quit You Babe)"
14. In the Music Machine's tough and succinct (1:59!) proto punk "Talk Talk" (1966), writer and lead singer Sean Bonniwell says his "social life's..."
A. "a dud"
B. "a gas"
C. "the bomb"
D. "a drug"
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1. A-C-B-D
2. B
3. A (The longer names are George Ivan Morrison, John Geils, Ingram Parsons)
4. C-D-A-B (Jamaican singer Millie Small recorded her #2 US hit in London, 1964; superb Houston vocalist Johnny Nash met Bob Marley & the Wailers at a party in Kingston and cut his #5 US smash there in 1968; Desmond Dekker cut his hit in Kingston--it made the UK charts in 1968 and reached #9 in 1969 in the US; Eric Clapton recorded his Marley & the Wailers cover in Miami, 1974. It topped the Billboard Singles Chart, reaching #1)
5. C
6. D (The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde said in an interview that she was singing, "Detroit Leaning," a slouchy way of driving a car, with the left hand on the steering wheel and the right hand on the car seat. Others have speculated that she sang an Italian word, graphic in meaning)
7. A
8. B
9. A
10. C
11. D (Kurt's mother labeled it "That Stupid Club," which became the moniker for an Olympia band almost immediately in 1994)
12. B
13. B (It's Big Star; there's no "thirteen" in the Lowe song either, but you're welcome to say there is, since it's such a cool nick of Berry's "Thirteen Question Method")
14. A
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