Music Intelligence Quiz

For the last three months The Music Intelligence Institute, along with eMusic, has sifted through hundreds of contributed questions from the finest minds in the music industry—musicians, critics and industry insiders. Locked in a darkened room with nothing more than an uncompromising attitude and a fully-loaded iPod, they have picked the very best of these probing queries into the musical arts. Their final selection has now become the basis for a new standard: The Music Intelligence Quiz.

The quiz covers a range of genres and eras and has been designed to evaluate everyone from the casual listener to the hippest music expert. Some of you will discover that years of carefully building your music collection have paid off and will feel the warm glow that comes from proving you know more about music than just about anyone else you know. Others will find that they have reached a musical midlife crisis and it's time to take action. Whatever your score, we hope you enjoy the ride.

1. Ike and Tina Turner had a 1971 hit with "Proud Mary." What band recorded it first?

The Grateful Dead
The Rolling Stones
Jefferson Airplane
Creedence Clearwater Revival

2. In the Kinks’ song, where did Terry meet Julie every Friday night?

Waterloo Station
By the gas works wall
By the fountain down the road
At the dark end of the street

3. Who once sang that he "shot a man in Reno just to watch him die?"

50 Cent
Johnny Cash
Waylon Jennings
Pat Boone

4. For their first five album covers, the White Stripes’ color scheme was:

Black, blue and white
Red, black and white
Red, green and white
Red, white and blue

5. What band closed the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival?

The Mamas and the Papas
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Who
The Grateful Dead

6. Which of these bands has the MOST members:

The Polyphonic Spree
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Broken Social Scene

7. Which of these bands is not from the place for which they were named?

Chicago
Boston
The New York Dolls
Mouse on Mars

8. Who was "Lady Day"?

Billie Holiday
Ella Fitzgerald
Big Mama Thornton
Bessie Smith

9. What was the inspiration for Coldplay's "Yellow"?

Yellow daffodils
Yellowstone National Park
Yellow submarines
The Yellow Pages

10. If the Beatles = Liverpool and the Smiths = Manchester, what do Belle and Sebastian =

Birmingham
Paris
Glasgow
Seattle

11. Which of these is not a project involving rapper MF Doom:

DangerDoom
KMD
Illinois Jones and the Temple of Doom
Monsta Island Czars

12. Factory Records was formed by Tony Wilson and associated with which famous nightclub?

Studio 54
The Hacienda
Shoom
The Knitting Factory

13. Which of these people is not a member of the Arcade Fire?

Win Butler
Regine Chassagne
Britt Daniel
Jerry Gara

14. Miles Davis primarily played what instrument?

trumpet
tenor saxophone
piano
upright bass

15. What is Ryan Adams’ real first name?

John
David
Luke
Matthew

16. Which British punk band were the first to release a single?

The Clash
The Sex Pistols
Subway Sect
The Damned

17. Who wrote "Blue Suede Shoes?"

Elvis Presley
Sam Phillips
Buddy Holly
Carl Perkins

18. How many symphonies did Beethoven compose?

5
7
9
10

19. Punk : Post-Punk :: Reggae :

Dreadlocks
Dub
Jamaica
Bob Marley

20. Which of these is not the name of a Bjork song?

Unravel
Human Behaviour
Little Sugar Droplets
Hunter

21. Louis Armstrong’s biggest hit was:

Hello Sally
Hello Molly
Hello Dolly
Hello Kelly

22. In 1979 Bauhaus released a record informing us that "Bela Lugosi’s Dead." But who was Bela Lugosi?

The Italian Prime Minister from 1974 - 1978.
A Finnish composer who found fame writing film scores in the 1940s and 1950s.
An American-Hungarian actor, best known for his portrayal of Count Dracula.
An 18th-century romantic poet who died after contracting syphilis.

23. Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe make up which duo?

The Chemical Brothers
Sonny and Cher
Basement Jaxx
Outkast

24. Fela Kuti hailed from which African nation:

South Africa
Egypt
Ethiopia
Nigeria

25. Which of these modern classical composers is NOT considered a minimalist?

Steve Reich
Terry Riley
Ingram Marshall
Philip Glass

26. In 1984, Liverpool group Frankie Goes to Hollywood instructed listeners to:

Chill out
Relax
Unwind
Take a holiday, you deserve one, go on.

27. Hardcore godfathers Bad Brains are named after a song by what band?

The Ramones
The Sex Pistols
The Clash
The Damned

28. Ronnie Scott played saxophone on which Beatles recording?

'A Day In The Life'
'Your Mother Should Know'
'Lady Madonna'
'Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite'

29. The drummer and the only one in ZZ Top without a beard is called?

Frank Zapper
Harry Whiskers
Frank Harry
Frank Beard

30. Finish this opening Otis Redding song lyric: "Oh she may be [BLANK]"

Lovely
Pretty
Weary
Teary

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