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Trivia Q & A # 11 - 2016

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Q. Husband and wife, Terry and Susan Jacks, had their biggest hit with "Which Way You Goin' Billy?" What was the name of their band? A. The Poppy Family Seventeen-year-old Susan Pesklevits met Terry Jacks in the mid-1960s while she was a regular performer on the national teen TV show Music Hop as well as many other national TV shows. She later called Jacks to accompany her on rhythm guitar for one of her live performances and eventually, with the addition of Craig McCaw on lead guitar, although she continued to make solo television appearances, Susan decided to dedicate all her live performances to the newly formed trio. The name Poppy Family was chosen when Susan, Terry and Craig were searching for a new name and came across it in the dictionary. Susan and Terry were married in 1967 and Susan Pesklevits became Susan Jacks. Craig McCaw later introduced Satwant Singh on ...

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Trivia Q & A # 10 - 2016

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Q.  This band's most popular song was "Innocence", but they also had a few other hits in Canada, such as "I Did it for Love" and "Sweet Things in Life". What is their name? A.  Harlequin In 1975, Winnipeg bassist Ralph James formed Harlequin upon recruiting vocalist George Belanger, guitarist Glen Willows, keyboardist Gary Golden, and drummer David Budzak.  The band began recording demos and travelling to Toronto to perform in the local bars and clubs. It was in one of these small bars in Toronto that Harlequin were discovered by representatives of Jack Douglas, the producer of Aerosmith, John Lennon, and Patti Smith, after they tried to see another band in a larger bar downstairs, but could not gain admittance due to a sell-out crowd. Douglas helped get Harlequin signed to CBS/Epic Records records in 1979, and later that year that band released their first LP, Victim of a Song, which went Gold, ...

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Trivia Q & A # 9 - 2016

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Trivia Q & A # 9 –...

Q. This Montreal singer/songwriter first made his mark as a poet and novelist. His first major song hit was an account of his 1966 love affair with a young woman. He wrote it as a poem and Judy Collins urged him to set it to music. Who is he? And what was the song? A. Leonard Cohen Cohen had received critical acclaim as a poet and novelist but had maintained a keen interest in music, having played guitar in a country and western band called the Buckskin Boys as a teenager. In 1966, Cohen set out for Nashville, where he hoped to become a country songwriter, but instead he got caught up in New York City's folk scene. In November 1966, Judy Collins recorded "Suzanne" for her album In My Life and Cohen soon came to the attention of famed record producer John Hammond. "Suzanne" was inspired by Cohen's platonic relationship ...

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Trivia Q & A # 8 - 2016

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Q. This band was formed in Toronto in 1968. It was unique in the way it combined rock with, jazz, classical, and a big band sound. It's biggest hits were "Pretty Lady", "One Fine Morning", and "Sunny Days". What band am I referring to? HINT: keeping seafarers safe on dark and stormy nights. A. Lighthouse Recognized as one of the best performing acts of their time, they toured 300 days a year including sold out performances at Carnegie Hall, the Fillmore East, Fillmore West, Expo ‘70 in Japan and the Isle of Wight Festival in England where they were the only act besides Kris Kristofferson (who had trouble with his sound system) asked to perform twice among acts that included The Doors, Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, The Who and Chicago. Back home, their free concerts at Toronto’s Nathan Philips Square attracted one hundred thousand people. Indeed, it’s hard to find a person who ...

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Trivia Q & A # 7 - 2016

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Q. In mid-1977, a band from Halifax, Nova Scotia, was booked to do a charity gig at the El Mocambo Club in Toronto. The co-headliner was The Cockroaches, a very famous band using a pseudonym  in hopes of minimize the riotous fanfare.  Who was the popular Canadian band that 'headlined' the show and who were The Cockroaches really? (Oooo what a night it must have been!) A. April Wine was the Halifax band. The Cockroaches were The Rolling Stones. April Wine's performance was captured and released as the album Live at the El Mocambo. The band got its first chance at touring the U.S. following the El Mocambo gig, first opening for The Rolling Stones, then for various popular headliners, including Styx and fellow Canadian band Rush. It all began in Nova Scotia late in 1969. The Henman brothers, David and Ritchie, got together with their cousin Jim Henman and fellow musician Myles ...

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Trivia Q & A # 6 - 2016

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Trivia Q & A # 6 –...

Q. Which Canadian female artist had great success with her songs, "Insensitive", and "Could I Be Your Girl", both written in 1994? A.Jann Arden, whose full birth name is Jann Arden Anne Richards. The songs both came from her second album, "Living Under June". Both tunes went to number one on the Canadian adult contemporary charts in 1994. "Insensitive" represents her biggest success internationally and it hit the number twelve position in 1994 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. The song also gained notoriety when it was included on the soundtrack of Christian Slater's 1996 film, "Bed of Roses". Jann's newest CD 'A Jann Arden Christmas' is nominated for Adult Contemporary Album of the Year 2016.

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Trivia Q & A # 5 - 2016

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Q.  This band is an all-Canadian trio that came together in 1969, with the only personnel change coming in 1974 when they signed on a new drummer. Two of the three members play under different monikers than their birth names. Which world famous group am I speaking of? A. It's Rush I'm speaking of. In 1974, the band made their only personnel change when the original drummer, John Rutsey, had to leave the trio due to a serious illness. That opened the door for Neil Peart, whose addition to Rush is often cited as being "all they needed to become the best power trio ever". The other two members, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, are the two members who use different names rather than their birth names. The lead guitarist, Lifeson, was born Alex Zivojinovic, while Lee was born Gary Lee Weinrib. In 2012 they released their twentieth studio album, "Clockwork ...

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Trivia Q & A # 4 - 2016

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Q. In 1998, "One Week" reached Number One for (appropriately) one week in the U.S. and quickly became a karaoke singer's nightmare due to the ridiculous speed of some of its lyrics. What Canadian band brought us "One Week"? A. Barenaked Ladies didn't actually have any ladies in the band, but they did have a very nice cult following. They gained a bit of a resurgence internationally when they were chosen to record the theme song to the CBS comedy, "The Big Bang Theory". In 1999, American parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic recorded a parody titled "Jerry Springer", about a man's strange obsession with The Jerry Springer Show, for his album Running with Scissors. The song has been featured numerous times in other media, including the films Digimon: The Movie, American Pie, 10 Things I Hate About You, the band appear to perform it live in "College Kids", an early season 4 episode of ...

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Trivia Q & A # 3 - 2016

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  This is more of a game rather than trivia this week. Hope you enjoy the challenge - I did... Scroll down for answers - no cheating!!!                             Radiohead / Matchbox 20 / Pearl Jam / Screaming Trees / Alice in Chains / SoundGarden / Smashing Pumpkins / Hole / NIne Inch Nails

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Trivia Q & A # 2 - 2016

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Q. Back to June 1957: John Diefenbaker is elected Canada's thirteenth prime minister. Diefenbaker was in his sixties, singer and song writer Paul Anka was nearing his sixteenth birthday. He was too young to vote but old enough to chart: in August he had his first Canadian, U.S., British & Australian number one. Can you tell me the song? A. Diana Anka was born in Ottawa of Syrian and Lebanese parents. He released his first single in 1956 and had his breakthrough with "Diana". "Diana" was the first British number one single by a Canadian artist. Anka stated that it was inspired by a girl at his church whom he hardly knew. He went on to have a further string of hits and wrote some for other people, like "She's a Lady" for Tom Jones and the translation of "Comme d'habitude" - "My Way"- Frank Sinatra's famous trade mark. Anka was introduced into ...

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