The wonderful folks over at Coudal have posted their 2nd Annual CP Rock & Roll Pop Quiz. It’s a very interesting set of questions, not the run-of-the-mill kind of thing at all; I really appreciated having to dig for the answers. Of ten questions, I could only conceive of the answer to two (#s 7 and 8), and one of them I’m pretty sure I would have nailed.
Pretty sure? Huh? Well, the Coudalese have determined that you don’t get to see the answers except by submitting your contenders and waiting until the tally rolls around in January. Not wanting to embarrass myself publicly (more than I already do), I didn’t turn in my exam. Maybe you can do better, smartie?
(And if you’re that kind of TV-bred Gen-X instant-gratification junkie, you can try your hand at the 2001 CP quiz. NB: The answers are inline, so you might have to do a little screen concealment to avoid seeing them right away.)
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Those are tough questions! I took the 2001 test, without peeking. Fortunately, many of the questions were about Woodstock, of which I know quite a bit, knowing quite a few people who were there, and having seen the movie a few times. There were only two possible answers to the extortion question: either the Panthers or the Yippies and Abbie Hoffman, and I got that one right.
I also saw Patti Smith in concert back when "Jesus Died for Somebody's sins but not mine" was her hit. No, actually, I saw her just after "Radio Free Ethiopia, but she did sing "JDFSSBNM." Her other big hit was a cover of "Gloria." Anyway, in spite of the many Woodstock questions, those are the only two I got right -- in retrospect -- from last year.
That is, without peeking.
It occurs to me that my progeny might answer some of these better than I can!
