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1. Tezza1551 will meet you at the Perth Airport and take you to Fremantle Cemetery to visit the grave of a rock legend. Which of the following is it?
2. Our next team member, iCaramba, grew up in Los Angeles and will take you on a tour of Fairfax High School, where she graduated one year after which pair of future rock star band mates?
3. Back in Australia again, and Rock the Clock team leader redwaldo grew up in this city. Over 300,000 people greeted the Beatles when they arrived here on their Australian tour. The Australian singer/songwriter Paul Kelly was born here and wrote a song about this city. Which Australian city is it?
4. Across to the other side of the world now. Team member REDVIKING57 is from Leicester, a small city in England. Which of the following famous musicians was born and raised in Leicester?
5. Wyambezi greets you at Dulles International Airport for a destination located 115km northwest of Washington, D.C. This singer rocked the world of country music. We arrive in Winchester, Virginia, where this artist was born. Who is this talented singer?
6. Back to Australia again, where you are met in Sydney by psb1969, who will take you to one of his favourite events of the year, The Great Southern Blues Festival. Which town on the New South Wales South Coast will you visit to attend this festival?
7. As psb1969 can't go home yet (there's a fishing comp. on), casey317 agrees to drive you to Sydney Airport. He takes a wrong turn and you end up at Rushcutters Bay, where he points out the site of the original Sydney Stadium, known as 'The Old Tin Shed'. On the 4th October 1957 the man who became the 'Wild One' of Australian Rock took the stage for the first of many times. Name the 'Wild One'.
8. Back again to the UK, where Holkham16 lives in the North West of England. Flying into Liverpool John Lennon Airport you will immediately be reminded of the Fab Four. True talent knows no bounds. Paul McCartney had a younger brother, Peter Michael McCartney, who was also musically talented and found fame with a group called The Scaffold. What did he adopt as his stage name?
9. Gloriabrazil meets us next, and tells us that "The Girl from Ipanema", a Brazilian Bossa Nova song is a world wide hit and won a Grammy Award in 1965. Many singers around the world have recorded it. Who did NOT record this song?
10. Split Enz was one of the most well-known and successful bands to come out of Aotearoa. What New Zealand town were brothers Tim and Neil Finn born in?
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