In Preparation for Salute Here's a Duluth Armory Trivia Quiz

It happens every spring.

The kickoff event for this year's eight-day North Country Dylan Celebration is producer Marc Percansky's A Salute to the Music of Bob Dylan. In addition to being a great night of music for those who attend (I hear people are snapping up tickets from the Twin Cities already) Salute is a fund raiser for the Armory Arts and Music Center.

As noted in Dylan's autobiography Chronicles: Volume One, it was here at the historic Duluth Armory that Dylan as 17-year-old saw Buddy Holly's second-to-last concert just before his untimely death in an Iowa cornfield along with Ritchie Valenz and The Big Bopper. Holly was only 22.

These were not the only famous folk to pass through the Armory's halls. For this reason, I thought I would offer up this quiz as a form of entertainment. I like games and most of us enjoy trivia to some extent. (It made the creators of Trivia Pursuit wealthy for sure.) So here it is.

SPRINGTIME ARMORY TRIVIA QUIZ

A major feature of the Historic Duluth Armory is what it reveals about American celebritydom in the past century. The Armory’s Great Hall has been a virtual who’s who parade that says much about our iconic connections to America-at-large. It’s an illustrious history worth preserving, not simply for its past but for the foundations it offers for the future.

The following is a list of people who may or may not have performed or appeared at the Armory. Take a sheet of paper and number it from 1 to 12. Your assignment: Identify which name in each set of four did NOT appear at the Duluth Armory in the past century? Once you have filled out your sheet, look for the answers at the very end. No peeking.

1.
A. Marian Anderson
B. Louis Armstrong
C. The Beach Boys
D. Ricardo Montlebon

2.
A. Leonard Bernstein
B. Boston Pops with Arthur Fiedler
C. Johnny Cash
D. Stonewall Jackson

3.
A. Dale Carnegie
B. Patsy Cline
C. Cher and Sonny Bono
D. Tyrone Power

4.
A. Doris Day
B. Jimmy Dean
C. Dion
D. Duke Ellington

5.
A. Roy Rogers
B. Jimmy Rodgers
C. Will Rogers
D. Oral Roberts

6.
A. Tommy Dorsey
B. Duke Ellington
C. Everly Brothers
D. Marty Robbins

7.
A. The Guess Who
B. Harlem Globetrotters
C. Buddy Holly
D. Hoosier Hot Shots

8.
A. Bob Hope
B. Liberace
C. Roy Orbison
D. Jack London

9.
A. The Osmonds
B. Floyd Patterson
C. John Phillip Sousa
D. Minnie Pearl

10.
A. Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels
B. Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs
C. Isaac Stern
D. Harry S. Truman

11.
A. Hank Williams Sr.
B. Harry Truman
C. Ritchie Valens
D. Frankie Yankovic and the Yanks

12.
A. Bobby Vee
B. Bobby Vinton
C. Lawrence Welk
D. Ritchie Valens

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Click here for more information on A Salute to the Music of Bob Dylan

Billy Hallquist (left) performed here as a lad long ago.

Hallquist (left) will be back for Salute in May.

Courtney Yasmineh will be back with the band in May as well.

ANSWER KEY: SPRINGTIME ARMORY TRIVIA QUIZ
Everyone on in every set of four has been here and done that. Hope you had fun and didn’t work too hard at it. Happy fools day.  Like baseball, it (April Fools Day) happens every spring.