Almost Impossible Music Quiz: Reckon you know your music?
The popular 'Almost Impossible Music Quiz' has been baffling music lovers for one year now. The weekday feature on Gordon Graham's More Music Breakfast Show is compiled by one of our listeners. Meet him here!
Every weekday at 09:10 on the More Music Breakfast Show we test your music knowledge with the now one-year-old 'Almost Impossible Music Quiz' with questions provided by our KZN-based Quiz Master Chris Woudberg.
Chris researches and writes some amazing questions with a 100% no repeat guarantee. He wanted to make them very challenging so he researches them in various music history books in his home library. It's a passion of his and we're delighted to have such unique questions to test your musical knowledge with.
Some recent examples include:
Q. What title did the radio listeners in Memphis give Elvis Presley when he was only 19?
Q. Which Suzanne Vega song is about a poster?
Q. Which British group’s name is Latin for “beyond these things”?
Do you know the answers?
Take a listen as Gordon thanked Chris on-air on Friday and found out more about how Chris puts these almost impossible questions together. Click on the play button below to listen.
Test your musical knowledge
Q1. Whose epitaph in the Summerhouse of Golders Green Crematorium reads “All Right Now”?
Q2. Who appears on the original cover of Blind Faith’s only studio album?
Q3. Who started out as B.B. King’s valet and chauffeur?
Q4. Which keyboard player started out with Grand Funk Railroad and ended up playing for Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band?
Q5. What title did the radio listeners in Memphis give Elvis Presley when he was only 19?
Q6. Which Suzanne Vega song is about a poster?
Q7. Which member of the E-Street Band wrote an anti-apartheid song called “Sun City”?
Q8. Which British group’s name is Latin for “beyond these things”?
(Scroll down to the bottom of the page for the answers)
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See the full lineup by clicking here!Answers
A1. Ex Free guitarist Paul Kossoff
A2. 11-year-old Marida Goschen. This dispels the myth that it was Ginger Baker’s daughter.
A3. Bobby Bland
A4. Craig Frost
A5. The King of Western Bop
A6. Marlene on the Wall
A7. Steve Van Zandt
A8. Procol Harem