1. Who recorded a cover of A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall for the TV show Peaky Blinders?
2. Which song on Bringing It All Back Home was a protest song about having to write protest songs?
3. Which song contains the line: “I'm goin' down to the crossroads, gonna flag a ride / The place where faith, hope and charity died.”?
4. What is the name of Dylan’s mother?
5. What was the first track on Dylan’s first album?
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6. Which song was Joni Mitchell referring to when she said:
“I thought 'oh my God, you can write about anything in songs'. It was like a revelation to me.”?
7. What is odd about All Along The Watchtower’s verses?
8. Which song contains the line: “All my loyal and my much-loved companions, they approve of me and share my code.”?
9. Why did Dylan instruct Columbia to release John Wesley Harding with no hype attached?
10. Which Book in the Bible does Dylan reference in All Along The Watchtower?
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11. Dylan once ran into Elvis Presley at Las Vegas and turned it into a song. What was the name of that song?
12. Who did Dylan steal his arrangement for The House Of The Rising Sun from?
13. Which song contains the lines: “Man says, ‘Freddy!’ I say, 'Freddy who?’ He says, ‘Freddy or not here I come.’?”
14. On its list of the greatest singers of all time, who did Rolling Stone rank behind Dylan? Roy Orbison, James Brown or Otis Redding?
15. What song inspired Dylan to go electric?
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16. What song inspired Sam Cooke to write A Change Is Gonna Come?
17. In 1969, what did Dylan say was big and made of brass?
18. From which traditional song did Dylan steal the melody for Blowin’ In The Wind?
19. Which song contains the line: “The foreign sun, it squints upon a bed that is never mine /
As friends and other strangers from their fates try to resign.”?
20. Which Dylan album has a significant error in its title?
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Answers:
1. Laura Marling
2. Maggie’s Farm
3. Murder Most Foul
4. Beatty Zimmerman
5. You’re No Good
6. Positively 4th Street
7. They are not in chronological order - ie, the last verse is sung first
8. Ain’t Talkin’
9. Because he said 1968 was “the season of hype"
10. Isiah 21:5-9
11. Went To See The Gypsy
12. Dave Van Ronk
13. Po’ Boy
14. Roy Orbison [Dylan was #7, Orbison was #13]
15. The House Of The Rising Sun, by The Animals
16. Blowin’ In The Wind
17. His bed
18. No More Auction Block
19. Gates Of Eden
20. John Wesley Harding. The outlaw was called John Wesley Hardin
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