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Becky's Island Music Trivia Quiz #216 - 4/13/05

Asia

Answers

1. He taught George Harrison to play the sitar and thus introduced the rest of the world to Indian music.: Ravi Shankar
2. What song from 1982 was the first chart hit for the band Asia?
: "Heat of the Moment"
3. "China Girl" was a 1983 hit for who?
: David Bowie
4. Murray Head spent more than "One Night in" this Asian city in 1985.
: Bangkok
5. Billy Joel and Charlie Daniels both had hits with this Asian city in the title.
: Saigon
6. Bob Seger sang about getting away to this Himalayan city.
: "Katmandu"
7. "The King And I" is set in what Asian country?
: Thailand (then called Siam)
8. Pink Lady, Shonen Knife, and Yellow Magic Orchestra were groups from what Asian country?
: Japan
9."China Cat Sunflower" and "China Doll" were concert staples for years for what Becky's Island favorite band?
: Grateful Dead
10. This Steely Dan song discusses "Chinese music under banyan trees, here at the dude ranch above the sea."
: "Aja"
11. In 1971, George Harrison and friends held a benefit concert to help what Asian country?
: Bangladesh
12. Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado" takes place in what country?
: Japan
13. "I love coffee, I love tea" is the first line of what song that references an Indonesian island?
: "Java Jive"
14. This rock bassist was born Chaim Witz in Haifa, Israel. By what name do we know him?
: Gene Simmons
15. According to Country Joe and the Fish, "next stop is" where?
: Vietnam
16. Japanese singer Kyu Sakamoto had a Number One hit in 1963 with a song sung entirely in Japanese. What was it?
: "Sukiyaki"
17. Engelbert Humperdinck was born Arnold Dorsey in what Asian city famous for fabric?
: Madras, India

Bonus: What line in "Back in the USSR" now applies to an Asian country?: "And Georgia's always on my mmmmm-ind"

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