Quiz September 2004

[Carl]

Jennifer from Little Rock, AR wins the clean and comfortable Songfacts T-Shirt.

Here are the answers:

• What singer had a backup band called "The Pips"?
  - Gladys Knight
  
  
• What popular singer recently got engaged to one of her backup dancers?
  - Britney Spears
  
  
• What was the first double album in Rock?
  - Blonde On Blonde by Bob Dylan
  Popular guesses were The Beatles' White Album and Frank Zappa's Freak Out, which both came out later.
  
  
• What popular band has 2 albums named after Groucho Marx movies?
  - Queen
  A Night At The Opera, A Day At The Races
  
  
• What hit song contains a rap about a man from Mars who eats cars?
  - "Rapture" by Blondie
  
  
• Which UK band took their name from an eccentric character in a Pulitzer Prize winning novel?
  - The Boo Radleys
  The group is named after a character in Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning novel To Kill A Mockingbird.
  Uriah Heep was not a correct answer because Charles Dickens' novel, David Copperfield, did not win a Pulitzer Prize.
  
  
• What song contains the lyric, "A cat named Frankenstein"?
  - "Another Saturday Night" by Sam Cooke (also recorded by Cat Stevens)
  
  
• What singer or band released the album with the longest title among those that charted?
  - Fiona Apple
  The album known as When The Pawn... contains another 87 words.
  
  
• So far in 2004, what singer or band has played the concert with the largest audience?
  - Simon And Garfunkel
  On the last show on their tour, they played to 600,000 people at the Colosseum in Rome.
  
  
  
• What band has a drummer named Ringo who was not a member of The Beatles?
  - Los Lonely Boys
  Their drummer's name is Ringo Garza.
  
  Tiebreaker: How many CDs did the Songfacts staff buy in August?
  6
  
  

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