Dylanology Quiz

Dylanology QUIZ

1. Girl From The North Country was written for:

a. Joan Baez

b. Suze Rotolo

c. Mimi Fariña

d. Echo Helstrom

2. Which of the following albums does not appear on Dylan's floor on the cover of Bringing It All Back Home?

a. Impressions/Keep On Pushing

b. The Immortal Dinah Washington

c. Folk Blues of Eric Anderson

d. Lotte Lenya

3. And on the same subject, the woman on that cover sitting behind Dylan is:

a. Albert Grossman's wife, Sally

b. Clive Davis' mistress, Trixie

c. John Hammond's daughter, Joanna

d. Bob Dylan's sister, Gertrude

4. Song to Woody is for Woody:

a. Strode

b. Woodpecker

c. Guthrie

d. Herman

5. Who of the following has never recorded a Dylan tune?

a. Four Seasons

b. Faces

c. Rita Coolidge

d. Steve Miller

6. Dylan stole his arrangement of Baby, Let Me Follow You Down (1962) from:

a. Ramblin' Jack Elliot

b. Woody Guthrie

c. Dave Von Ronk

d. Paul Stookey

7. The Concert for Bangladesh took place in:

a. Carnegie Hall, 1970.

b. Madison Square Garden, 1971.

c. Lincoln Center, 1969.

d. New York Coliseum, 1972.

8. Dylan's sometimes pseudonym is:

a. Patrick Sky

b. Dirty Rivers

c. Blind Boy Grunt

d. Eddie Arnold

9. Dylan plays harmonica behind Harry Belafonte on the album:

a. Calypso

b. Belafonte at Carnegie Hall

c. Belafonte Meets Odetta

d. The Midnight Special

10. Dylan didn't write:

a. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

b. Rainy Day Women #21 & 35

c. What Have They Done To The Rain?

d. Winterlude

11. Dylan first recorded with a rock band in:

a. 1965 (Bringing It All Back Home)

b. 1962 (Mixed Up Confusion/Corrina Corrina)

c. 1963 (Bob Dylan's Dream)

d. 1965 (Highway 61 Revisited)

12. In 1970, Dylan got an honorary degree from:

a. Harvard

b. Boston University

c. Yale

d. Princeton

13. Dylan was born:

a. May 24, 1941 -- Duluth, Minnesota

b. January 11, 1943 -- Hibbing, Minnesota

c. March 30, 1938 -- Taos, New Mexico

d. November 6, 1946 -- Brooklyn, New York

14. The first rock group to record Dylan was:

a. The Byrds

b. The Animals

c. The Blues Project

d. Levon and the Hawks

15. The first rock band to back Dylan was:

a. The Band

b. Paul Butterfield's Blues Band

c. Blues Project

d. Little Richard

Answers:

1. d. 2. b. 3. a. 4. c. 5. d. 6. c. 7. b. 8. c. 9. d. 10. c. 11. b. 12. d. 13. a. 14. a. 15. b.

This supplement paid for by Columbia Records.