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2 Buddy Rich quizzes and 20 Buddy Rich trivia questions.
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  The Buddy Rich Query    
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Ten questions on this famous American musician from Brooklyn. Do you know your biography on this great drummer? Have fun!
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  Buddy Rich    
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How much do you know about the great jazz drummer?
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trivia question Quick Question
Buddy had a drum set identical to which other famous jazz drummer?

From Quiz "Buddy Rich"




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Buddy Rich Trivia Questions
1. What was Buddy's given name?

From Quiz Buddy Rich

Answer: Bernard

He was born Bernard Rich, and later took on the nickname Buddy.

2. What kind of music did Buddy Rich play?

From Quiz The Buddy Rich Query

Answer: jazz

Buddy Rich was known as "the world's greatest drummer". He played as a drummer and was the bandleader for some great jazz bands. He was first employed by a jazz band which led him to appreciate jazz.

3. What kind of show business did Buddy start out with?

From Quiz Buddy Rich

Answer: Vaudeville

He started playing for his parents' show in Vaudeville.

4. Who was the first person to notice Buddy Rich's talent for keeping a steady rhythm when he was a kid?

From Quiz The Buddy Rich Query

Answer: his father

It was his father who initially realized Buddy's talent for rhythm, when Buddy could keep a steady beat with a drumstick at the age of one. He began playing drums in vaudeville when he was 18 months old. At the age of eleven, he was performing as a bandleader and had received no professional drum instruction.

5. What was Buddy Rich's religious background?

From Quiz The Buddy Rich Query

Answer: Judaism

He was born to Jewish parents in Brooklyn, New York on September 30, 1917. He is mentioned in a "Seinfeld" episode during the commentary.

6. What was Buddy's name in his early years of show business?

From Quiz Buddy Rich

Answer: Traps the Drum Wonder

He was known as "Traps the Drum Wonder". He was the second highest paid child star of his era.

7. In 1937, who was Buddy employed by, ultimately leading him to become a great musician?

From Quiz The Buddy Rich Query

Answer: Joe Marsala

Joe Marsala was a Chicago-based jazz clarinet player. Marsala is notable as one of the early employers of drummer Buddy Rich.

8. Who did Buddy never have a drum battle with?

From Quiz Buddy Rich

Answer: Ringo Starr

Gene Krupa and Buddy always had drum battles. Buddy played against Animal from "The Muppet Show" and battled the bebop drummer Max Roach, as well.

9. Which Broadway musical arrangement was Buddy Rich known for?

From Quiz The Buddy Rich Query

Answer: West Side Story

His most popular performance was a big band arrangement of "West Side Story". He was also known as a very short tempered and irritable bandleader.

10. Which famous jazz artist did Buddy start out with?

From Quiz Buddy Rich

Answer: Joe Marsala

In 1937, Rich entered jazz with Joe Marsala's group. He then played with Bunny Berigan in 1938; Artie Shaw in 1939, and Tommy Dorsey in 1939-1942, 1945, 1954-1955.

11. According to a quote he made before his final surgery, what was Buddy Rich allergic to?

From Quiz The Buddy Rich Query

Answer: country music

Buddy Rich died on April 2, 1987. Reportedly, among his last words prior to surgery when asked by a nurse if he was allergic to anything were, "Yes...country music!"

12. Which branch of military was Buddy Rich a member of during the late thirties, early forties?

From Quiz The Buddy Rich Query

Answer: Marines

Buddy Rich was featured with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra before joining the U.S Marines. He was the highest paid sideman in the orchestra.

13. Buddy had a drum set identical to which other famous jazz drummer?

From Quiz Buddy Rich

Answer: Gene Krupa

Drums: 5 by 14 snare, 9 by 13 tom, 2 16 by 16 floor toms, 14 by 24 (or 26) bass drum. Cymbals: 14" hi-hats, 18" thin crash, 18" medium-thin crash, 8" splash, 20" medium ride.

14. In 1966, what did Buddy Rich decide to do to make his music more successful?

From Quiz The Buddy Rich Query

Answer: start his own big band

In 1966, Buddy Rich decided to take the plunge and form his own big band. He assembled some of the leading players of the day, like Gene Quill and Pepper Adams. Over the next few years, the personnel of the Rich Orchestra included outstanding musicians like Don Menza, Art Pepper, Al Porcine, Pat LaBarbera and Steve Marcus.

15. Buddy Rich died from which ailment?

From Quiz Buddy Rich

Answer: Heart problems

A couple weeks before his death, he underwent "successful" heart surgery.

16. In which state was Buddy Rich interred?

From Quiz The Buddy Rich Query

Answer: California

Buddy Rich died on April 2, 1987. He was interred in Los Angeles, California at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.

17. When Buddy was wheeled into the operating room, the nurse asked him if he was allergic to anything. What did he say?

From Quiz Buddy Rich

Answer: Country and western music

In response, he was heard to mutter: "Yes. Country and western music."

18. In which DVD compliation of a famous sitcom was Buddy Rich mentioned during the commentary?

From Quiz The Buddy Rich Query

Answer: Seinfeld

In a "Seinfeld" episode named "The Opposite", one main character (George Costanza) is screaming at these two guys to keep it quiet at a movie theatre. In the commentary, Jerry Seinfeld (the creator and another main character of the show) explains how this was adapted from a audio tape taken by one of Buddy Rich's band members on one of their music tours.

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