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Becky's Island Music Trivia Quiz #139- 10/22/03

Big Ten: Hawkeyes, Gophers, and Badgers

Answers

1. Bob Dylan grew up in Hibbing, Minnesota, but what city was he actually born in?: Duluth
2. And what revisited highway runs through that city?
: Highway 61
3. The Violent Femmes are from what Wisconsin city?
: Milwaukee
4. What is Prince's real name?
: Prince Rogers Nelson
5. And what was his first chart hit?
: "I Wanna Be Your Lover"
6. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper played their last gigs in what Iowa city?
: Clear Lake
7. Janet Jackson yells "Minneapolis!" in which of her hits?
: "Escapade"
8. The Minneapolis club First Avenue and 7th Street Entry was featured in what 80s blockbuster movie?
: Purple Rain
9. What famous Jazz Age trumpet player was from Davenport, Iowa?
: Bix Beiderbecke
10. Where was the Edmund Fitzgerald coming back from?: "Some mill in Wisconsin"
11. The 1980 hit "Funkytown" was recorded by a group of Minneapolis session musicians. What name did they record under?
: Lipps, Inc.
12. Minneapolis-based producers Jimmy Jam Harris and Terry Lewis met while playing with what band?
: The Time
13. What was Bob Dylan's most successful hit, from 1965?
: "Like A Rolling Stone"
14. What 60s soul singer died when his plane crashed into a lake in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1967?
: Otis Redding
15. What 80s blues guitarist died when his helicopter crashed into a hillside near East Troy, Wisconsin, in 1990?
: Stevie Ray Vaughan
16. What is the name of the enormous music festival that takes place every year in Milwaukee around the Fourth of July?
: Summerfest
17. What Broadway musical is set in fictional River City, Iowa?
: The Music Man

Bonus: What Minneapolis-based TV show produced such musical moments as "Let's Have a Patrick Swayze Christmas," "Hike Up Your Pants," "Creepy Girl" and "Clown in the Sky?": Mystery Science Theater 3000

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