PORTZEBIE!!!Finally managed to post this quiz that have been promising since time eternal... Roll on...!!!
1.Which band's name is a slang term for a day spent smoking marijuana?
2.This band started performing under the name of
Polka Tulk Blues Band & then
Earth but hearing that it was of a more popular band,decided to adopt it's present name. Which band?(Think 70's!!!)
3.This band's name was changed to ___ _______ , after
The Who's drummer Keith Moon quipped that the band would go down faster than a "____ _____" delibrately mis-spelling the last first name to prevent a rather common mis-pronunciation.(One of the heavenliest...)
4. Fill in the Blank: This band's name was inspired by the Dylan song, "
The Ballad of Frankie Lee & ____ ______."
5. On the night of June the 4th of 1960, three teenagers were murdered by means of repeated stabbing with a knife while on a camping trip to the lake. There was a lone survivor named Nils Gustafsson, who was initially believed to be an innocent witness who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. This inspired the name of which band ?(Poor children...)
6."The
Hype stinks, at least as a name." Someone offered, "What about ___? It's the name of a spyplane and a submarine, and it's got an endearing inclusivity about it." Fill In the Blank.
7."
If the ____ __ _________ were cleansed,every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite." Fill in the Blanks in this William Blake line.
8. This progressive rock band is named after a demolished movie hall in Monterey, California. Which? (Easy to work out!!!)
9.This band started out as "
Atomic Mass" and then changed it to ____ _______ which was slightly modified to ___ _______ to avoid comparison to punk bands, and perhaps also as an indirect homage to
Led Zeppelin's similarly styled band name.
10.Joker's Wild --> Bullitt --> Flowers --> ____ ______
11. The name of this band was influenced by West Ham United F.C. - a club which members of the band support, and from their local area. The name was also a medieval torture device used in Germany. Identify the band.
12.
How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot; _____ ______ __ ___ _______ ____! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd. Fill in the blanks.
13.
BRING ME MY BOW OF BURNING GOLD, BRING ME MY ARROWS OF DESIRE, BRING ME MY SPEAR, O CLOUDS UNFOLD, BRING ME MY ______ ___ _____." Fill in the blanks.
14. While writing a screenplay, what phrase did William Burroughs coin to call "
a person who sells illegal surgical instruments"? (A cult classic...)
Some literature now....
15. And thus spake Miranda,
"
O wonder!How many goodly creatures are there here! How beautious mankind is! O _____ ___ ______, That has such people in't!"
16. "
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." Opening lines of which classic?
17. 2 authors made a deal. One would write a space travel story & other would write a time travel story.The space story eventually became C.S. Lewis'
Perelandra Triology. What did the time travel story end up as?
EyE- CAnDy!!!
18. Which twentieth-century phenomenon began with this?
19. Identify.
20. What does this map show?
21.Connect the 2 pics.
Answers Bacchon !!
1. Green-Day
2. Black Sabbath
3. Lead Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin. Lead was changed to led to prevent it from being pronounced as 'leed'.
4. Judas Priest
5. Children Of Bodom
6. U2
7. Doors Of Perception. These words were used by Aldous Huxley for his book of the same name which in turn inspired Jim Morrison to name his band as 'The Doors'.
8. Dream Theater
9. Deaf Leopard, Def Leppard
10. Pink Floyd. The other 3 are the names of bands Dave Gilmour played for before joining Floyd.
11. Iron Maiden. West ham is usually referred to as 'The Irons.'The band's bassist, Steve Harris, played for West Ham's youth team before becoming a musician.
12. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. The poem is By Alexander Pope.
13. Chariots Of Fire.
14. Blade-Runner
15. Brave New World
16.
Catcher In The Rye17. The Lord Of The Rings18. MAD (The Photo is the cover of the 1st issue)
19. Oskar Schindler
20. One of my favorites..(Tears glistening...). Map showing the countries' divisions in George Orwell's 1984. Light Pink= Oceania Purple= Eurasia Green=Eastasia Yellow= disputed.
21. Alfred E. Newman, The mascot of MAD. The name "Alfred E. Neuman" derived from the 1940s radio show of comedian Henry Morgan (2nd slide) which sometimes featured a running gag about Hollywood composer Alfred Newman(1st slide) who created the immortal 20- Century Fox theme. Later, Morgan was a contributor to Mad.
Keep On Quizzin In The Free World!!!
