The Official 2022 Duluth Dylan Fest Trivia Contest
For a number of years we included a trivia night as part of Duluth Dylan Fest. For those events we always created multiple choice tests so the general public would have at least a small chance of a getting batch of correct answers. Not so with this trivia contest. This a test for the diehards, and not an SAT.
For the record, I stumbled across this in my Dylan folder and realize I'd never shared it. In retrospect, it could have been a lot harder. I'm sure many of you will find most of this pretty easy. Have fun traipsing down memory lane.
ROUND ONE
2. What year did Robert Zimmerman graduate from Hibbing High School?
3. Who was the Duluth Disc Jockey that Bob Dylan mentions in his book Chronicles, Vol. 1?
4. Which Duluth hospital was Bob Dylan born in and on what date?
5. Which Dylan album featured Scarlet Rivera with her sizzling violin work?
6. What Dylan album was released on 9/11, the day the Twin Towers fell?
7. When the album Tempest came out, many people thought it would be his last studio album because its title was the same as what?
8. During the pandemic, Dylan released a 17-minute song about the assassination of JFK. What was the title of that song?
9. What Hibbing sweetheart is most likely the one Bob refers to in his song "Girl from the North Country."
10. Where did young Robert Zimmerman attend kindergarten?
ROUND TWO
11. According to a Fond-du-Luth security guard who used to play Monopoly with him at Louis Kemp's house, what was Bobby Zimmerman’s favorite Monopoly piece?
12. The line “But even the president of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked” is from what song?
13. Woody Guthrie was one of Bob Dylan’s early influences and a hero to him. What was the name of the Woodie Guthrie book Bob used to carry around with him when he first went to New York?
14. Bob Dylan lived in Woodstock for a while. What was he doing while the Woodstock music festival was taking place in 1969? [No, he was not watching the moon landing.]
15. Dylan originally signed with Columbia Records and produced most of his studio albums with this label. Two of his albums in the mid-70's, however, were with another label. What was that label?
16. Who was the New York Times music critic credited with giving Bob Dylan his first major career boost?
17. Which album was the first to have one of Dylan’s own paintings on the cover?
18. Mick Jagger once called this Dylan’s greatest song. The opening lines make reference to the lynchings that took place here in Duluth just over a century ago. Name the song.
19. The song "Only a Pawn in Their Game" is about the assassination of what civil rights leader in 1963?
20. In 2022 the BBC censored this great civil rights song because it has the N-word in it. What was the name of the song?
ROUND THREE
21. What childhood friend did Dylan ask to head up his unconventional 1970’s concert tour know as the Rolling Thunder Revue?
22. Dylan’s song "All Along the Watchtower" was made famous by Jimi Hendrix. What Dylan album did the song originally appear on?
23. For several years after his motorcycle accident in 1966, Dylan stopped touring or doing big concerts. In 1971, his friend George Harrison invited him to perform in a benefit concert for what country?
24. The Live Aid concert was one of the largest productions ever to use the influence of rock stars for fund raising purposes. The two guitarists who performed with Dylan were from what famous rock group?
25. In 1979 Bob Dylan announced that he had become a follower of Jesus. His first album as a Christian was titled what?
26. Dylan won an Oscar for this song. It was written for the movie Wonder Boys. What is the name of the song?
27. What year did Dylan win his Nobel Prize for literature?
28. Sometime Bob has been called a jokerman. The song "Jokerman" is the opening track on what 1980s album?
29. Half the tracks on this gold album were recorded in Minneapolis because Dylan didn’t like the results of some of the recordings in New York. What was the name of the album?
30. The Minnesota musicians were not credited on the album cover for their work on the record because the album sleeves had been printed already. It wasn’t till more than 40 years later they got recognized when the Bootleg outtakes of this album were released. What was the name of this Bootleg set?
ROUND FOUR
31. Who was the Grateful Dead songwriter whom Bob Dylan collaboratd with on Dylan’s 2009 album Together Through Life?
32. What is the name of the only Dylan song that begins with a V?
33. What song does the line, “I’m not the one you need” appear in?
34. This album is comprised of songs written and recorded during Dylan’s reclusive period in Woodstock. Member of The Band were invited there and over a period of time created/recorded seemingly countless songs, both whimsical and serious. What year was their double album The Basement Tapes officially released?
35. Levon Helm, drummer for The Band, wrote an autobiographical account of his life growing up and performing with the band. The title of his memoir was taken from the last track on disc 2 of the Basement Tapes. What was the name of that song and his book?
36. This album was Dylan’s first to hit #1 on the Billboard charts. What was the name of the album?
37. Bob Dylan is an artist and an author as well as singer/songwriter. What was the title of his first book?
38. What is the brand name for Bob Dylan’s whiskey company?
39. Bob Dylan’s uncles owned theaters in Hibbing. When he was growing up he enjoyed going to movies. What’s the name of the song that mentions Gregory Peck? The song appeared originally on Knocked Out Loaded and later appeared on his Greatest Hits, Volume 3.
40. The Answer, my friend, is what?
ANSWERS AT THE BOTTOM AFTER THESE DYLAN PAINTINGS
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| Blonde On Blonde (NFS) |
1. Tony Garnier, 1999. 2. 1959 3. Pat Cadigan 4. St. Mary’s – May 24, 1941 5. Desire 6. Love and Theft 7. Shakespeare’s last play 8. Murder Most Foul 9. Echo Helstrom 10. Nettleton School, Duluth 11. Scottish Terrier 12. It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) 13. Bound for Glory 14. Packing his bags to perform at the Isle of Wight concert the following week. 15. Asylum Records 16. Robert Shelton 17. Self Portrait 18. Desolation Row 19. Medgar Evers 20. Hurricane. 21. Louis Kemp 22. John Wesley Harding. 23. Bangladesh 24. The Rolling Stones. (Keith Richards, Ron Wood) 25. Slow Train Coming 26. Things Have Changed 27. 2016 28. Infidels 29. Blood on the Tracks 30. More Blood, More Tracks 31. Robert Hunter 32. Visions of Johanna 33. It Ain’t Me, Babe 34. 1975 35. This Wheel’s On Fire 36. Planet Waves. 37. Tarantula 38. Heaven’s Door 39. Brownsville Girl 40. Blowin’ in the Wind
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