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1. The singer/songwriter Harry Chapin was brought up on the Lower West Side of Manhattan in the 1940s. To one side and the rear of the family home was a parking lot used by trucks for a confectionery company. Which one?
2. In which of these New York City hospitals was the singer, songwriter and activist Harry Chapin born?
3. The singer/songwriter Harry Chapin came from a musical family. What instrument did his father play professionally?
4. Which of these instruments did the singer and songwriter Harry Chapin first learn to play?
5. Throughout much of his adult life, the singer and songwriter Harry Chapin was attracted to women, but which singer-songwriter herself had a schoolgirl crush on the adolescent Chapin?
6. Many people believed that Harry Chapin was best in front of a concert audience. One of his best-loved audience participation songs was "30,000lbs of Bananas". In which city was the song set?
7. Four years after his parents separated, Harry Chapin got a new stepfather when his mother married Henry Hart. He worked for a magazine in New York. Which one?
8. Which Harry Chapin song was about an old man "with two first names"?
9. Which subject gained the singer/songwriter Harry Chapin his best high school grades?
10. Harry Chapin mostly wrote songs about the lives of others, but often they had an autobiographical element. True or false: 'Babysitter' was based on a real incident in Chapin's life.
11. Among his many story songs about people he created, Harry Chapin also wrote about real people. Which singer and songwriter was "Old Folkie" about?
12. At the age of 15, the singer and songwriter Harry Chapin became captivated by the music of a band then at the top of their form. What was the name of that band?
13. One of the singer/songwriter Harry Chapin's early breakthroughs was with the song "Taxi". In which city was it set?
14. Through their love of music, Harry Chapin and his brothers Tom and Steve formed a band and made their first major appearance at one of New York City's famed folk clubs. Which one?
15. After high school, where did the singer/songwriter Harry Chapin first go to college?
16. One of Harry Chapin's best loved songs was "Taxi". The woman in the song, 'Sue', and her ambitions to be an actress were based on short story he read in a magazine.
17. What was the name of the a Capella band that Harry Chapin sang with at university?
18. The singer/songwriter Harry Chapin fled to Canada in the 1960s to avoid being drafted into the Army at the time of the Vietnam War.
19. The ironic thing about Harry Chapin's song "Taxi" was that he actually did drive a taxi for a time.
20. What kind of car was the singer, songwriter and activist Harry Chapin driving when he died in 1981?
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