Updated 10-21-01

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  What's the Connection?

How are these bands/artists related?

	Heart, Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana		Bachman Turner Overdrive, The Guess Who
	The Beatles, America		Aerosmith, Rolling Stones, Carly Simon
	King Crimson, Asia		Cream, ZZTop, Rush, Grand Funk Railroad
	Grateful Dead, Doobie Bros, Lynrd Skynrd		Journey, Jefferson Starship, Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, David Bowie
	Led Zeppelin, The Who		Queen, Cars, Journey, Be Bop Deluxe, Dokken, Ozzy Osbourne, Foreigner
	Steve Miller Band, Creedence Clearwater, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead		The Doors, Eagles, The Cars, Bread
	Santana, Journey		Tom Petty, George Harrison, Roy Orbison
	Missing Persons, UK, Frank Zappa		Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins
	Kiss, Donna Summers, Village People		Van Halen, Montrose
	Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Yes, King Crimson		Steely Dan, Doobie Brothers

The 60's

	Who had seven top ten hits (including four number twos, but no number ones) during 1969 - 1970?
	In order to avoid confusion with the Monkee's Davey Jones, what did David Jones change his name to?
	What group consisted of former members of Buffalo Springfield, The Hollies and The Byrds?
	Who opened for The Monkees and quit after one show?
	Who's first greatest hits album is "High Tides and Green Grass"?
	Who's first greatest hits album is "Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy"?
	What San Francisco band did Boz Scaggs play for in 1967?
	What was the inspiration for the name of Tommy James and the Shondell's (and later Billy Idol's) hit Mony Mony?
	What duo was originally known as Tom and Jerry?
	What duo was originally known as Caesar and Cleo?
	Who wrote "I'm a Believer" for the Monkees?

The 70's

	Which Aerosmith song was re-released three years later and became a top ten hit?
	Which member of Yes has been on every one of their albums?
	Dave Edmunds almost joined which popular band of the seventies?
	What seventies album remained on Billboard's album charts for a record 741 consecutive weeks?
	Who wrote Eric Clapton's #1 1974 hit "I Shot The Sheriff?
	Who wrote the 1974 hit "Tell Me Something Good" for Rufus?
	Which album came wrapped in a brown paper bag?
	All four members of which group released solo albums simultaneously?
	Which seventies band had the most success covering unknown songs of others and turning them into monster hits?
	What was the inspiration for the title of Aerosmith's "Walk This Way"?
	What are the Blues Brothers full names?
	What do the Yardbirds, Derek and the Dominoes, Cream and Blind Faith have in common?
	Who left the band Genesis in 1975?
	What was rumored to be the inspiration for the name of the song "American Pie"?
	Seals and Crofts (of "Summer Breeze" fame) were members of which band in the sixties?
	What was Led Zeppelin's original name?
	What was Creedence Clearwater Revival's original name?
	Who asked "Are we not men?" ?
	Who sang backup vocals on Carly Simon's "You're So Vain"?
	Which famous musician co-wrote and backed David Bowie on "Fame"?
	What groups' name means "a very cold night"?

The 80's

	The Dukes of the Stratosphear who released two very "sixties-sounding" albums were really which band in disguise?
	Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl" was an homage to what sixties group?
	Who played the lead guitar solo on Michael Jackson's "Beat it"?
	Who jumped on stage to dance with Bruce Springsteen at the end of his "Dancing in the Dark" video?
	What was Huey Lewis' cameo in the movie "Back to the Future"?
	What band was formed by Jimmy Page (of Led Zeppelin) and Paul Rodgers (of Bad Company and Free)?
	What was the first video played on MTV?
	What band did Robert Palmer create with a couple of the guys from Duran Duran?
	Speaking of Duran Duran, what movie provided the inspiration for their name?
	A bunch of ex-Yardbirds put out a couple of albums in the early eighties, what was the bands' name?
	What was the name of the conglomerate that put out "We are the World"?

Album Quiz

These albums all capture the artists at their peak.

Name that artist and the biggest hit from each album.

Book of Dreams	Breakfast In America
Grand Illusion	Damn the Torpedoes
The Roaring Silence	Brothers in Arms
Moving Pictures	Speaking in Tongues
A New World Record	Pet Sounds
Toys in the Attic	Get Lucky
Eliminator	News of the World
Synchronicity	H20
Fragile	Not Fragile
Days of Future Passed	Machine Head
Aftermath	War
Completion Backwards Principle	Pyromania
Kick	Agents of Fortune
Cosmo's Factory	Dark Side of the Moon

Album Quiz Continued: Live Albums

Live at Leeds	One More from the Road
Here and There	Live Rust
Stop Making Sense	Alive She Cried
Hot August Night	Four Way Street
Double Live Gonzo	Right Here, Right Now
Seconds Out	Under a Blood Red Sky
Delicate Sound of Thunder	Tripping the Live Fantastic
Hell Freezes Over	All the World's a Stage

Extra Credit:   How many live Rolling Stones albums have been released? click here to find out!

Two-Parters

I give you the artist and you give me the names of the two songs that are almost always played together.  You will rarely hear one without the other.  I'm not including medleys like the ones on Abbey Road or Pink Floyd albums.

Beatles	Queen
Elton John	ZZ Top
Journey	Bob Seger
INXS	Led Zeppelin

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