Artist of the Week – Quiz #25

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Artists of the week (so far): Brian Eno, U2, Stevie Wonder, Everything But The Girl, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, CSNY, Bob Marley, Miles Davis, Pavement, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple, Leonard Cohen, Marianne Faithfull, Cream, James Taylor, The Eagles, The B-52s, LL Cool J, The Dictators, Judas Priest, Johnny Cash, Alice Cooper

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My thanks to all who have participated in the “Artist of the Week” quizzes so far.

Congrats to all those who correctly identified Alice Cooper last week.

Here are the results after 24 quizzes:

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Ready for Quiz #25?

The ‘halfway-point-of-the-year’ quiz!

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Quiz Rules/Format
(feel free to skip to the quiz if you know the rules already)

Your Task: Name the mystery Artist, ideally with as few clues as possible.

Correctly guess the artist on the first clue? 500 points.

After scrolling down to the second clue? 400 points.

Still don’t know after the fifth clue? 0 points, but a crisp high-five for participating.

I’ll use google translate to put the correct answer at the bottom in Arabic (if you read Arabic, that’s fantastic, but no cheating by reading ahead!) and you can translate it back to the language of your choice to confirm your answer.

In the comments, please enter your POINTS earned (not the artist name) and I’ll keep track of the running totals in a spreadsheet.

In addition to eternal bragging rights, the winner at the end of the year may even get something as prestigious as a digital certificate.

Here goes!

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Artist of the Week #25
Record POINTS Earned (Not Artist Name) in the comments
(scroll down for additional clues)

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500 points………………..For their 1994 hit, Only Wanna Be With You, Hootie & The Blowfish lifted the line, “she inherited a million bucks and when she died, it came to me, I can’t help it if I’m lucky,” from this American Male Artist’s 1975 track, Idiot Wind

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400 points………………..In Johathan Franzen’s novel, Freedom, the character of Walter shared his hometown of Hibbing, Minnesota with this (now 76-year-old) singer-songwriter

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300 points…………………He has 7 albums on the 1001 albums list, primarily from the mid-1960s

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200 points………………….His birth name is Robert Zimmerman

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100 points………………..The artist is B______ D_________

 

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Answer: بوب ديلان
(Please post your points earned in the comments section)

Thanks for playing!

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Verbalize the Positive

Cheers to my friend Dave Hansford for a great quote regarding this artist.

A few years ago, I was reading a magazine that ranked this artist’s Top 100 songs.

When I brought it up with Dave, he said something along the lines of, “was (opening track from Highway 61 Revisited) #1 and the rest tied for #2?”

It should’ve been!