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Becky's Island Music Trivia Quiz #36 - 10/31/01

The Grateful Dead

Answers

1. What is a Grateful Dead fan called?: A Deadhead
2. With what city is the Grateful Dead associated?
: San Francisco
3. Who was the Grateful Dead's bass player?
: Phil Lesh
4. Did Robert Hunter generally write with Jerry Garcia or with Bob Weir?
: Jerry Garcia
5. What position in the Grateful Dead was the bad-luck slot - three of the band's four players of this instrument died young?: Keyboards
6. What was 710 Ashbury?
: The address of the house in which the members of the Dead lived in 1967
7. What Grateful Dead song told the story of the band's touring days, going from Dallas to Buffalo to New Orleans?
: "Truckin'"
8. Which Grateful Dead drummer - Mickey Hart or Bill Kreutzmann - was not in the band from the beginning?
: Bill Kreutzmann
9. Which Grateful Dead album was named after a reptile?
: Terrapin Station
10. Of the following - dancing bears, dancing skeletons, dancing fish, and skulls - which was not an unofficial Grateful Dead symbol?
: Dancing fish
11. In what country did the Grateful Dead play a much-publicized concert in 1978?
: Egypt
12. What "used to be the heart of town?"
: Shakedown Street
13. Who is the only woman to officially be a member of the Grateful Dead?
: Donna Jean Godchaux
14. What was the Grateful Dead's only Top Ten hit?
: "Touch of Grey"
15. Whose "head's all empty and I don't care?"
: Sugar Magnolia
16. What happened on August 9, 1995?
: Jerry Garcia died
17. What is Ratdog?
: Bob Weir's new band

Bonus: What was the name of the bluegrass band that featured Jerry Garcia on banjo?: Old and In The Way

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