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Becky's Island Music Trivia Quiz #344 - 9/26/07

Bagpipes!

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1. In 1972, the Pipes and Drums and Military Band of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards had a Top 40 hit with a bagpipe version of this famous American hymn. "Amazing Grace"
2. Singer and bagpiper Jonathan Davis is a member of what nu-metal band?
L Korn
3. What is the name for the pipes that produce the buzzing sound in bagpipes?
: Drones
4. What is the name for the "melody pipe" that the piper fingers to change notes?
: The chanter
5. This Boston punk band's bagpipers have included Spicy McHaggis and James "Scruffy" Wallace.
: Dropkick Murphys. Never forget Chicken Man!
6. What Scottish-Australian rock band used bagpipes in their early song, "It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock and Roll)"?
: AC-DC
7. The Animals featured bagpipes in this 1968 anti-war song.
: "Sky Pilot"
8. What British singer used bagpipe-like effects on his song "Biko," from 1980?
: Peter Gabriel
9. This Scottish New Wave group used an E-bow to imitate bagpipes in their songs - I can't tell you their only hit in the U.S., because it includes the band name!
: Big Country
10.Uilleann pipes - played with the bellows under the arm - are characteristic of what country?
: Ireland
11. Which Paul McCartney and Wings song featured an appearance by the Campbeltown Pipe Band?
: "Mull of Kintyre"
12. Piper Paddy Moloney is associated with what Irish folk group?
: The Chieftains
13. Their 1987 hit "Under the Milky Way" featured bagpipes.
: The Church
14. Kathryn Tickell played Northumbrian Smallpipes on this folk-like Sting hit from 1993.
: "Fields of Gold"
15. What famous musical father used bagpipes in his "Peasant Wedding?"
: Leopold Mozart
16. This Scottish standard, played by pipe bands everywhere, opens the Boston Pops' "The Celtic Album."
: Scotland the Brave
17. In what city would you find the Shannon Rovers and the Stockyard Kilty bagpipe bands?
: Chicago

Bonus: What is Pìobaireachd?: Traditional Scottish bagpipe music

Super Bonus: What tartan is Keith Lockhart wearing on the cover of "The Celtic Album?"Lockhart tartan.

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