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1.
  Yes Album Match    
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
Those giants of progressive rock, Yes, have made some classic albums over the years. Can you work out which one of these songs belongs to each album?
Easier, 10 Qns, Dizart, Apr 19 20
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  Yessongs   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
'Yessongs' is one of the all-time classic live albums -- how well do you know it?
Average, 10 Qns, EnglishJedi, Apr 19 20
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  The YES progressive rock quiz    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
I noticed that there were no quizzes on the great progressive-rock band YES, so here I go with my first submittal!
Average, 10 Qns, pilguss, Oct 16 03
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  The Revealing Science of Yes   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 20 Qns
So much has been written about these progressive rock giants. I may as well add to it...
Difficult, 20 Qns, JamesLake, Apr 06 16
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  Yes lyrics    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
If you are as big a fan of the progressive rock legends Yes as I am, you should be able to identify the songs that these lyrics are from.
Average, 10 Qns, Dizart, Apr 05 05
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trivia question Quick Question
Most rock stars have humble beginnings and un-glamorous first jobs. Jon Anderson was no different. What was Jon's first job?

From Quiz "The Revealing Science of Yes"




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Yes Trivia Questions
1. The album opens with an excerpt from which Igor Stravinsky classic?

From Quiz Yessongs

Answer: 'Firebird Suite'

'The Firebird' was a ballet written by Stravinsky in 1910. Yes frequently open live performances with their version of 'Excerpts from the Firebird Suite'.

2. From which Yes song would you find the following lyric: "Maybe we'll just stand awhile, and surely we can call, dreams are sure to blossom courage, consant to the soul"?

From Quiz Yes lyrics

Answer: Ritual

The closing track from the 1973 album "Tales from Topographic Oceans", which hit number 1 in the UK album charts, and number 6 in the USA.

3. What founding member of Yes is credited with coining the group's name?

From Quiz The Revealing Science of Yes

Answer: Peter Banks

Banks was a huge fan of The Who and likened Yes as a similar sounding moniker. The band took it as a temporary name, but never got around to changing it.

4. Who was the original guitarist for Yes?

From Quiz The YES progressive rock quiz

Answer: Peter Banks

Peter Banks played with Yes on their first two albums, and was replaced by Steve Howe for the classic "The Yes Album." South-African guitar whiz Rabin joined the band for 90215. Hackett was guitarist with Genesis.

5. From which Yes song would you find the following lyric: "Rejoice, they sing, they worship their own space, In a moment of love they will die for their grace"?

From Quiz Yes lyrics

Answer: Don't Kill the Whale

From the 1978 album "Tormato",which made number 8 in the UK and number 10 in the USA; "Don't kill the whale" was also released as a single and reached number 36 in the UK charts.

6. What English speaking nation is Yes' visionary guitarist-songwriter Trevor Rabin originally from?

From Quiz The Revealing Science of Yes

Answer: South Africa

Rabin was a member of Tomorrow's Children and Rabbitt in his native country before meeting Chris Squire and Alan White and forming Cinema, which became Yes.

7. Who was the original keyboards player for Yes?

From Quiz The YES progressive rock quiz

Answer: Tony Kaye

Tony Kaye left after "The Yes Album," supposedly because Jon Anderson was unhappy with his keyboard work and wanted to replace him with Wakeman. If true, it's odd that many recent versions of Yes have included Tony Kaye! Moraz played keyboards with Yes on one album, "Relayer." Downes of the Buggles played keys and sang on "Drama."

8. The first half of which track includes the lyrics: "Move me on to any black square//Make the white queen run so fast"?

From Quiz Yessongs

Answer: 'I've Seen All Good People'

'I've Seen All Good People' debuted on the third album, 'The Yes Album'. It is divided into two distinct sections, 'Your Move', written by Jon Anderson, which includes numerous chess references including those in the question, and 'All Good People' written by Chris Squire.

9. From which Yes song would you find the following lyric: "Sister Bluebird flying high above, Shine your wings forward to the sun"?

From Quiz Yes lyrics

Answer: Starship Trooper

From "The Yes Album", released in 1971, which hit number 7 in the UK album charts, and number 40 in the USA.

10. While most Yes members have never really been known as sessionmen, they have played with other luminaries in the rock world on occasion. Before joining Yes, which Yes-man played with John Lennon?

From Quiz The Revealing Science of Yes

Answer: Alan White

White learned the set for "Peace in Toronto", while flying over from London, with Lennon, Yoko Ono, Eric Clapton, and Klaus Voorman. He played drumsticks on the back of an airplane seat.

11. What musician is pictured on the cover of Yes' second album, "Time And A Word," although he didn't play a note on it?

From Quiz The YES progressive rock quiz

Answer: Steve Howe

Although Howe didn't record with the band until "The Yes Album," original guitarist Peter Banks quit shortly after recording "Time And A Word" and was unavailable for the photo sessions for the cover - so there's Steve Howe, looking very uncomfortable!

12. Which single track filled one whole side of the original 3-disc record release of 'Yessongs'?

From Quiz Yessongs

Answer: 'Close to the Edge'

Weighing in at 18 minutes 13 seconds, 'Close to the Edge' is the only track on 'Side 5' of the original album. The track is split into four movements, 'The Solid Time of Change', the very short 'Total Mass Retain', 'I Get Up I Get Down' and 'Seasons of Man'. All four sections were written by Jon Anderson, 'I Get Up I Get Down' with Chris Squire and the other three with Steve Howe. 'Close to the Edge' was the title track on the groups' fifth album, released in 1972. It occupied the whole of Side 1 with two other tracks that also appear on 'Yessongs', 'And You and I' and 'Siberian Khatru' on Side 2.

13. From which Yes song would you find the following lyric: "Stand the marchers soaring talons, Peaceful lives will not deliver freedom"?

From Quiz Yes lyrics

Answer: The Gates of Delirium

From the 1974 album "Relayer", which made number 4 in the UK and number 5 in the USA.

14. Robert Fripp, of King Crimson, nearly joined Yes as guitarist. Jon Anderson later sang on a Crimson track. Which album did it appear on?

From Quiz The Revealing Science of Yes

Answer: Lizard

"Prince Rupert Awakes" is the opening movement of the side-long title track.

15. What band member is the only one who appears on ALL Yes albums?

From Quiz The YES progressive rock quiz

Answer: Chris Squire

Bruford was replaced by White on drums during the live shows that became the Yesshows disc, while Anderson appears on all Yes albums except "Drama," where vocals were done by the former-Buggles team of Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes.

16. Alan White is the drummer on most of 'Yessongs', but on which two tracks is Bill Bruford the stickman?

From Quiz Yessongs

Answer: 'Perpetual Change'/'Long Distance Runaround'

William Scott Bruford was the original drummer with Yes, when he shared a house with Anderson and Squire. He left in 1972 to join King Crimson and also toured as the drummer with Genesis. Alan White joined Yes at the start of the 1972 'Close to the Edge Tour' on a three-month trial. He has featured on every Yes album since. Born in County Durham, he is a lifelong-member of Newcastle United's 'Toon Army.

17. From which Yes song would you find the following lyric: "A river a mountain to be crossed, The sunshine in mountains sometimes lost"?

From Quiz Yes lyrics

Answer: South Side of the Sky

From the 1971 album "Fragile", which proved to be their breakthrough album in the USA, reaching number 4. In the UK it peaked at number 7.

18. What book inspired the four "movements" on Tales From Topographic Oceans?

From Quiz The YES progressive rock quiz

Answer: Autobiography of a Yogi

In the liner notes to the album, Jon Anderson describes being "caught up" in a footnote of this book, and working with Steve Howe on four musical movements based on the four principles in the footnote.

19. Which other Yes album was released outside North America in the same year as 'Yessongs'?

From Quiz Yessongs

Answer: 'Tales from Topographic Oceans'

'Yessongs' was released in May 1973. December 1973 saw the worldwide release of the 4-track double-album 'Tales from Topographic Oceans' (although this was not released in North America until January 1974). This was never the most popular of Yes albums in most quarters. Indeed, Rick Wakeman famously once ate a curry during a live performance of one of the exceedingly long tracks from 'Tales', one of the events which ultimately led to his departure from the band, to be replaced by Patrick Moraz on the 'Relayer' album which followed. Of the alternatives, most of 'Yessongs' was recorded on the 1972 'Close to the Edge' tour and that album came out a year earlier. 'Relayer' followed in 1974 and 'Going for the One' appeared in 1977.

20. From which Yes song would you find the following lyric: "Run down a street where the glass shows that summer has gone, Age, in the doorways, resenting the pace of the dawn"?

From Quiz Yes lyrics

Answer: Machine Messiah

From the 1980 album "Drama", which was notable for featuring Trevor Horn rather than Jon Anderson on vocals. The album made number 2 in the UK charts, and number 18 in the USA.

21. What instrument, which is usually associated with country music, did guitarist Steve Howe introduce into progressive-rock?

From Quiz The YES progressive rock quiz

Answer: pedal-steel guitar

Howe used a pedal-steel to create beautiful, organ-like swells and high-pitched wails. For a few examples, listen to "And You And I" or "Going For The One."

22. Which song on the album is divided into three segments subtitled 'Life Seeker', 'Disillusion' and 'Würm'?

From Quiz Yessongs

Answer: 'Starship Trooper'

This was 'Starship Trooper', the final track on the album and, for me, the best. It first appeared on 'The Yes Album' in 1971. Jon Anderson apparently once claimed authorship of the first two sections of this track, although 'Disillusion' is usually credited to Chris Squire. 'Würm' is an awesome three-minute-plus guitar segment from the brilliant Steve Howe that evolved from a song he originally wrote for his earlier group, Bodcast.

23. From which Yes song would you find the following lyric:"Coming quickly to terms of all expression laid, Emotion revealed as the ocean maid"?

From Quiz Yes lyrics

Answer: And You and I

From the 1972 album "Close to the Edge", which made number 4 in the UK charts, and number 3 in the USA.

24. Peter Banks, Jon Anderson and Chris Squire all played together in a band in 1968 prior to forming Yes. What was the name of the band?

From Quiz The Revealing Science of Yes

Answer: Mabel Greer's Toyshop

Once Bill Bruford and Tony Kaye joined in August of 1968, Mabel Greer's Toyshop became Yes and the rest is history.

25. Yes has covered songs by all these artists EXCEPT:

From Quiz The YES progressive rock quiz

Answer: The Kinks

Yes covered the Beatles ("Every Little Thing") and The Byrds (Crosby/McGuinn's "I See You") on their eponymous first album. They've also covered the Beatles "I'm Down" in a live setting. They covered Paul Simon's "America" and it was released as part of a sampler from their (then) record company, Atlantic, called "The Age Of Atlantic" (which, at the time, was also the only place you could get Led Zeppelin's "Hey Hey What Can I Do"). America was finally included on a few of the Yes hits collections, like "Yesyears," "Yesstory," and "Best of Yes." One of my favorite Steve Howe performances on this great cover version! As far as I know, they've never covered The Kinks, though.

26. Which four-part track begins with Steve Howe tuning his guitar?

From Quiz Yessongs

Answer: 'And You and I'

'And You and I' originally made up half of Side 2 of the 'Close to the Edge' album. It is divided into four movements beginning with 'Cord of Life', which starts out as a Howe guitar solo and then introduces the vocal melody half way through. Then comes 'Eclipse' which has some superb synth work by Rick Wakeman, 'The Preacher The Teacher' and the short, haunting 'Apocalypse' to close. All in all, another brilliant composition.

27. From which Yes song would you find the following lyric:"Get the idea cross around the track, Underneath the flank of a thoroughbred racing chaser"?

From Quiz Yes lyrics

Answer: Going for the One

The title track from the 1977 album "Going for the One" which was a number 1 album in the UK, and a number 8 in the USA. This track was also released as a UK single, making number 24.

28. What famous producer was working with Yes during the aborted 1979 sessions that led to the subsequent departure of both Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman?

From Quiz The Revealing Science of Yes

Answer: Roy Thomas Baker

Baker produced Queen, Be-Bop Deluxe and the Cars, among others.

29. Which track is the Rick Wakeman solo composition on the album?

From Quiz Yessongs

Answer: 'Excerpts from The Six Wives of Henry VIII'

'The Six Wives of Henry VIII' was a Rick Wakeman solo album that was released in the same year as 'Yessongs', 1973. The six-and-a-half minute excerpt on 'Yessongs' is primarily an expansion of the 'Catherine of Aragon' track from the Wakeman album which allows the keyboard maestro to display his undoubted dexterity.

30. From which Yes song would you find the following lyric: "Sunshine is creeping in, And somewhere in a field a life begins, An egg too proud to rape, The beginning of a shape of things to come"?

From Quiz Yes lyrics

Answer: Survival

This song first appeared on the debut album "Yes", in 1969, which failed to chart, and reappeared on "Yesterdays" in 1975, which made number 27 in the UK album charts, and number 17 in the USA.

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