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Bob Dylan Lyrics Trivia Quizzes

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17 quizzes and 250 trivia questions.
1.
  Bob Dylan A-Z   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 25 Qns
This is a 25-question quiz on Bob Dylan lyrics. The answers (and questions!) are in alphabetical order. Yes, it's an abecedary (minus the letters X and Z) for Bobcats. I cite the lyric, you name the song. Enjoy!
Average, 25 Qns, ensiform, Oct 21 23
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ensiform
Oct 21 23
3165 plays
2.
  Biblical Allusion in Dylan's Lyrics   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 20 Qns
Dylan's music reflects scores of influences, including the Bible. See how much you know about the influence of the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures on the lyrics of Bob Dylan.
Tough, 20 Qns, skylarb, Feb 10 21
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skylarb
Feb 10 21
784 plays
3.
  Dylan 1965 Lyrics    
Multiple Choice
 20 Qns
A quiz of lyrics from Bob Dylan's albums and singles from 1965. I'll supply the lyric, you supply the song.
Average, 20 Qns, OofahLandian, Sep 20 10
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OofahLandian
379 plays
4.
  Numbers in Dylan's Lyrics    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
Numbers, numbers everywhere, hurry up and think! Familiar with Dylan's songs and lyrics? You should do fine on this number-themed quiz.
Average, 15 Qns, skylarb, Jan 27 03
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skylarb
802 plays
5.
  Bob Dylan's Story Songs    
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
Some of Bob Dylan's songs are intricate (sometimes absurd) stories, sometimes leading nowhere. Can you match the lyric snippets to the song titles?
Average, 10 Qns, CmdrK, Feb 05 21
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CmdrK gold member
Feb 05 21
159 plays
6.
  Black Diamond Bay    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
One of my favorite songs on Bob Dylan's album "Desire" is "Black Diamond Bay" about a number of people staying at a hotel at a vacation spot which is eventually consumed by the devastating force of a nearby volcano. Here are 15 questions about the song,
Average, 15 Qns, OofahLandian, Aug 26 10
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OofahLandian
177 plays
7.
  Dylan 1966 Lyrics    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
I will give the lyrics for 15 songs released or performed by Bob Dylan in 1966. You name the song. Good luck!
Average, 15 Qns, OofahLandian, Sep 23 10
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OofahLandian
405 plays
8.
  Bob Dylan Lyrics 1963 - 1990    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Are you a Bob Dylan fan? Test your knowledge of his songs here! I will give you a line from one of his songs and you choose which song it is from. Good luck!
Average, 10 Qns, Velvet_Rain, Jan 11 12
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Velvet_Rain
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  15 Questions on Bob Dylan Lyrics   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
I provide the lyric - you provide the song. There are NO phony song titles in this quiz. All choices are actual Bob Dylan songs.
Average, 15 Qns, ziptaan, Sep 29 03
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ziptaan
2404 plays
10.
  Take this Bob Dylan Lyrics Quiz    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
In this Bob Dylan quiz of quotative questionary, I will provide a lyric and you pick the song that the lyric can be found in. Good luck!
Average, 10 Qns, scscollector, Sep 07 11
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scscollector
360 plays
trivia question Quick Question
In what city does the narrator hear about the tragedy at Black Diamond Bay?

From Quiz "Black Diamond Bay"




11.
  Bob Dylan Lyrics, Part Two    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
The hardest part about making a Bob Dylan lyrics quiz is narrowing down the possibilities. I will supply the lyric, you name the song. This was a fun quiz to write, I hope you enjoy it.
Average, 10 Qns, ttb, Jun 12 04
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ttb
483 plays
12.
  Bob Dylan Lyrics, Part One    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
These are some of my favorite Bob Dylan Lyrics. I grew up listening to Dylan, and have continued through-out my life. I'll stick mostly to the seventies for this quiz. I'll provide the lyric, you provide the song.
Average, 10 Qns, ttb, Sep 22 04
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ttb
622 plays
13.
  Bob Dylan Biograph Albums    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Here are ten questions on lyrics by the great Bob Dylan. The questions deal with songs included on volume 3 of the Biograph collection, a three CD/album compilation set released in 1985.
Tough, 10 Qns, FJA0485, Jan 27 03
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FJA0485
615 plays
14.
  Bob Dylan Songs    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
This is a little difficult. Which song contains the following lyrics? Good luck.
Average, 15 Qns, danielprussky, Aug 04 20
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danielprussky
Aug 04 20
922 plays
15.
  Bob Dylan -" Desire" Lyrics    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
These questions all have to do with the lyrics to the songs off of the album 'Desire'.
Average, 10 Qns, ccatsass, Sep 22 04
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ccatsass
782 plays
16.
  Bob Dylan Lyrics I    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
15 Bob Dylan lyrics are given. You name the song. Some fill-ins.
Tough, 15 Qns, Oofahh, Jan 27 03
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Oofahh
1490 plays
17.
  Bob Dylan's Opening Lines    
Multiple Choice
 25 Qns
I give you the first line, you give me the title of the song. It should be pretty easy if you know your Bob. BUT Beware,.there are many fill in the blanks, so you better know your spelling and punctuation rules. Good Luck!
Difficult, 25 Qns, teenygreeny, Aug 29 13
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Bob Dylan Lyrics Trivia Questions
1. Match this lyric to the correct song title: "the ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face."

From Quiz Bob Dylan Lyrics

Answer: Visions of Johanna

"Visions of Johanna" is on the "Blonde on Blonde" album released Feb 5, 1966. "...and these visions of Johanna kept me up past the dawn."

2. What 1966 Bob Dylan song contains the following lyrics? "Your mama's working Your mama's moaning She's crying you know She's trying you know You better go now Well, I'd tell you what she wants But I just don't know how"

From Quiz Dylan 1966 Lyrics

Answer: Obviously Five Believers

"Obviously Five Believers" was not played in concert during Dylan's infamous 1966 tour, and in fact was not played live at all until 1995 when it became a fairly frequent choice in Dylan's set lists.

3. What 1965 Bob Dylan song contains the following lines? "The sun's not yellow It's chicken"

From Quiz Dylan 1965 Lyrics

Answer: Tombstone Blues

Stephen King quotes from this song at the end of his first published novel, "Carrie": "Now I wish I could write you a melody so plain That could hold you dear lady from going insane That could ease you and cool you and cease the pain Of your useless and pointless knowledge"

4. What two items of clothing are we told the woman wears?

From Quiz Black Diamond Bay

Answer: A Panama hat and a necktie

This is from the first verse in the song: "Up on the white veranda, she wears a necktie and a Panama hat." There is a Canadian band formed in 2006 named "Black Diamond Bay", presumably based on this song.

5. In which song would you find the following lyrics? "Well, I wake in the morning, Fold my hands and pray for rain. I got a head full of ideas That are drivin' me insane."

From Quiz Bob Dylan Lyrics 1963 - 1990

Answer: Maggie's Farm

"Maggie's Farm" can be found on the 1965 album "Bringing It All Back Home". It reached number 22 in the UK charts. Many artists have covered the song including Silvertide and The Residents.

6. "Everybody's wearing a disguise, To hide what they've got left behind their eyes"

From Quiz Bob Dylan Lyrics, Part Two

Answer: Abandoned Love

"Abandoned Love" is a track that was unreleased until "Biograph," in 1985. It's a great song, I like the dichotomy of the upbeat 3/4 tempo mixed with Dylan's dour view of love.

7. "I've heard new born babies wailin', Like a mornin' dove..."

From Quiz Bob Dylan Lyrics, Part One

Answer: Shelter from the Storm

From "Blood on the Tracks", released in 1975. For a laugh, try singing this song to the tune of "The Beverly Hillbillies" theme.

8. Which song contains the following lyrics? "Othello told Desdemona, 'I'm cold, cover me with a blanket'"

From Quiz Bob Dylan Songs

Answer: "Po Boy"

From the "Love and Theft" album (2001), which was nominated for the best album of the year Grammy.

9. 'Anybody can be just like me, obviously. But then, not too many can be like you, fortunately.'

From Quiz Bob Dylan A-Z

Answer: 'Absolutely Sweet Marie'

'Oh, where are you tonight, Sweet Marie?' First released on the 1966 masterpiece, 'Blonde On Blonde.'

10. What song starts off with the lyrics "Hot chili peppers in the blistering sun, dust on my face and my cape"?

From Quiz Bob Dylan -" Desire" Lyrics

Answer: Romance in Durango

'Romance in Durango' is the seventh track on the album. Better brush up on your Spanish if you want to sing along with this song!

11. In "Up to Me," the narrator says, "In ___ months I only smiled once..."

From Quiz Bob Dylan Biograph Albums

Answer: 14

"Up to Me" is a fine storytelling song. It was written during the time Dylan was putting together tunes for "Blood on the Tracks".

12. 'Well, your railroad gate, you know I just can't jump it'...

From Quiz Bob Dylan's Opening Lines

Answer: 'Absolutely Sweet Marie'

From the album, 'Blonde on Blonde'. One of Dylan's best.

13. 'Like Judas of old'

From Quiz Bob Dylan Lyrics I

Answer: Masters Of War

14. Match this lyric to the correct song title: "Your cracked country lips I still wish to kiss as to be by the strength of your skin."

From Quiz Bob Dylan Lyrics

Answer: To Ramona

"To Ramona" can be found on the album "Another Side of Bob Dylan" released July 26th, 1964. "Ramona come closer shut softly your watery eyes."

15. In 1966, Bob Dylan released what song with the following lyrics? "Nobody has to guess That Baby can't be blessed Till she sees finally that she's like all the rest With her fog, her amphetamine and her pearls."

From Quiz Dylan 1966 Lyrics

Answer: Just Like a Woman

Dylan wrote this ballad on Thanksgiving Day 1965 while on tour in Kansas City. One interpretation is that it was inspired by Edie Sedgwick, a pin-up girl who appears in sleeve photos of "Blonde On Blonde". Others allege it was inspired by his relationship with fellow folk singer Joan Baez.

16. What fast-paced song by Bob Dylan contains the following lyrics? "They must bust in early May Orders from the D.A."

From Quiz Dylan 1965 Lyrics

Answer: Subterranean Homesick Blues

"Subterranean Homesick Blues" became Dylan's first Top 40 Billboard Hot 100, reaching number 39. It went to Number ten in the United Kingdom. The song is probably remembered by most for the promotional video, which featured him in an alley, holding large cards with portions of the lyrics on them. The video has been redone in a number of styles by many artists that have followed.

17. The woman mistakes the Greek for someone she seems to know. Who does she think he is?

From Quiz Black Diamond Bay

Answer: The Ambassador to the Soviet Union

From the second verse: And as the yellow fog is lifting The Greek is quickly heading for the second floor She passes him on the spiral staircase Thinking he's the Soviet Ambassador She starts to speak, but he walks away Like many of the songs on "Desire", "Black Diamond Bay" was co-written with Jacques Levy.

18. The following lyrics can be found in which Bob Dylan song? "Early one mornin' the sun was shinin', I was layin' in bed Wond'rin' if she'd changed at all If her hair was still red"

From Quiz Bob Dylan Lyrics 1963 - 1990

Answer: Tangled Up In Blue

"Tangled Up In Blue" is from the 1975 album "Blood on the Tracks". Various artists have covered it including Jerry Garcia and Indigo Girls.

19. "The blacks and the whites, the idiotic, the exotic, wealth is a filthy rag"

From Quiz Bob Dylan Lyrics, Part Two

Answer: Band of the Hand

From the soundtrack of the 1986 movie of the same name. The movie was produced by Michael Mann, of "Miami Vice" fame, and directed by Paul Michael Glaser(Hutch, from TV's Starsky and Hutch). It is a true Eighties movie, more style than substance.

20. "And all the remnants of her recent past, are scattered in the wild wind..."

From Quiz Bob Dylan Lyrics, Part One

Answer: Black Diamond Bay

From "Desire", released in 1976. This has always been one of my favorite songs. The song does, however, date itself with the line, "I was sittin' home alone one night, in L.A. watchin' old Cronkite..."

21. Which song contains the following lyrics? "I gave him my blanket, he gave me his word."

From Quiz Bob Dylan Songs

Answer: "Isis"

From the wonderful "Desire" (1976) Album. A song which truly shows Bob's story telling skills.

22. How many roads must a man walk down according to a Dylan song?

From Quiz Numbers in Dylan's Lyrics

Answer: the answer is blowin' in the wind

Why did I put 42 as an option? In Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," a computer churns out the answer to the Universe: 42. But then the characters must figure out just what this means, so they say it is the answer to the question, "How many roads must a man walk down?"

23. Some have seriously argued that the Joker in "All Along the Watchtower" represents:

From Quiz Biblical Allusion in Dylan's Lyrics

Answer: Jesus Christ

Reasons for this interpretation include:
(1) The Joker is speaking to a thief, and Christ was crucified with two thieves
(2) The Joker speaks of businessmen drinking his wine and plowmen digging his earth, which accords with the Biblical picture of Christ as a husbandman of the Vineyard
(3) The thief says to the joker, "There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. / But you and I we've been through that, and this is not our fate. /So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.'" One of the two thieves crucified with Christ mocked him (treating life as a joke), but the other thief refused to talk falsely, recognizing that the end was at hand, and he asked Christ to remember him in His kingdom.

24. 'Because something is happening here but you don't know what it is, do you, Mister Jones?'

From Quiz Bob Dylan A-Z

Answer: 'Ballad Of a Thin Man'

First released on the 1965 album 'Highway 61 Revisited.' Never one of my personal favorites, but Dylan seems to like it --- it's on four live albums and at least one live single. 'Something is happening' became a sort of watchword in the '60s for the social upheaval that was being urged. Joseph Heller, author of 'Catch-22,' was said to have titled his novel 'Something Happened' after this song.

25. Finish this lyric: "I like to spend some time in Mozambique, the sunny sky is.."

From Quiz Bob Dylan -" Desire" Lyrics

Answer: aqua blue

From the third track, 'Mozambique'. A tale of love and romance.

26. Also in "Up to Me," the narrator leaves a note for Estelle. Where has the note been left?

From Quiz Bob Dylan Biograph Albums

Answer: in the bottle

The Thunderbird Cafe is mentioned in the song, but not in connection with Estelle. We are told that "Dupree came in pimpin' tonight to the Thunderbird Cafe."

27. 'Sometimes I feel so low-down and disgusted'...

From Quiz Bob Dylan's Opening Lines

Answer: Slow Train & 'Slow Train'

From the album....hmmmm can't really make the connection here....LOL....'SLOW TRAIN COMING'...a very interesting album.

28. 'With his candle lit into the sun Though its glow is waxed in black'

From Quiz Bob Dylan Lyrics I

Answer: Gates Of Eden

From 'Bringing it All Back Home'

29. 'No martyr is among you now, whom you can call your own. So go on your way accordingly and know you're not alone.'

From Quiz Bob Dylan Lyrics

Answer: I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine

From 'John Wesley Harding' (1967)

30. What 1966 song was derided by the folk community as a "drug song" and which contains the following lyrics? "They'll stone you when you're riding in your car. They'll stone you when you're playing your guitar."

From Quiz Dylan 1966 Lyrics

Answer: Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35

According to legend, Dylan assembled his band to rehearse this song. He provided lots of substances of questionable legality to them (and helped himself to some as well) to uh... lighten the mood a bit. Then they rehearsed the song, only Dylan had various band members switching instruments from ones they knew how to play to ones they did not. After a day or so, the band members asked when they were going to record the song. Dylan informed them that they already had. It's also said that one member of the band jokingly asked what the song was called, obviously expecting the answer to be "Everybody Must Get Stoned". Dylan responded straight-faced, "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35". The rest is history.

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