Music Intelligence Quiz

Find out how much you really know about music!

For the last three months The Music Intelligence Institute, along with eMusic, has sifted through hundreds of contributed questions from the finest minds in the music industry—musicians, critics and industry insiders. Locked in a darkened room with nothing more than an uncompromising attitude and a fully-loaded iPod, they have picked the very best of these probing queries into the musical arts. Their final selection has now become the basis for a new standard: The Music Intelligence Quiz.

The quiz covers a range of genres and eras and has been designed to evaluate everyone from the casual listener to the hippest music expert. Some of you will discover that years of carefully building your music collection have paid off and will feel the warm glow that comes from proving you know more about music than just about anyone else you know. Others will find that they have reached a musical midlife crisis and it's time to take action. Whatever your score, we hope you enjoy the ride.

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The Music Intelligence Institute

1. Ike and Tina Turner had a 1971 hit with "Proud Mary." What band recorded it first?

2. In the Kinks’ song, where did Terry meet Julie every Friday night?

3. Who once sang that he "shot a man in Reno just to watch him die?"

4. For their first five album covers, the White Stripes’ color scheme was:

5. What band closed the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival?

6. Which of these bands has the MOST members:

7. Which of these bands is not from the place for which they were named?

8. Who was "Lady Day"?

9. What was the inspiration for Coldplay's "Yellow"?

10. If the Beatles = Liverpool and the Smiths = Manchester, what do Belle and Sebastian =

11. Which of these is not a project involving rapper MF Doom:

12. Factory Records was formed by Tony Wilson and associated with which famous nightclub?

13. Which of these people is not a member of the Arcade Fire?

14. Miles Davis primarily played what instrument?

15. What is Ryan Adams’ real first name?

16. Which British punk band were the first to release a single?

17. Who wrote "Blue Suede Shoes?"

18. How many symphonies did Beethoven compose?

19. Punk : Post-Punk :: Reggae :

20. Which of these is not the name of a Bjork song?

21. Louis Armstrong’s biggest hit was:

22. In 1979 Bauhaus released a record informing us that "Bela Lugosi’s Dead." But who was Bela Lugosi?

23. Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe make up which duo?

24. Fela Kuti hailed from which African nation:

25. Which of these modern classical composers is NOT considered a minimalist?

26. In 1984, Liverpool group Frankie Goes to Hollywood instructed listeners to:

27. Hardcore godfathers Bad Brains are named after a song by what band?

28. Ronnie Scott played saxophone on which Beatles recording?

29. The drummer and the only one in ZZ Top without a beard is called?

30. Finish this opening Otis Redding song lyric: "Oh she may be [BLANK]"

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