"Eddie and The Cruisers" For Diehards 1 Quiz

Answer: Eddie

As the red words "Eddie and The Cruisers" is scrolled across the screen, the name Eddie is chanted over and over again. It starts out low and picks up volume.

Answer: On The Darkside

As the movie begins, we see Eddie and The Cruisers singing "On The Darkside." However, before the song is finished, news reporter Maggie Foley, who works for Media Magazine, explains who the members of the band are. Then Maggie shows a clip of the Ebb Tide motel, with police cars and an ambulance in the foreground, explaining how the Cruisers' saxophone player, Wendell Newton, died.

Answer: 1963

According to Maggie Foley, "On The Darkside" was the number one song in the country during the summer of 1963, and came off of the Cruisers hit album, "Tender Years."

Answer: Raritan Bridge; March 15, 1964

On March 15, 1964, sometime after midnight, Eddie supposedly drove his car off the Raritan Bridge. According to Maggie, his body was never found and it could be that he is still alive.

According to her boss, Barry Siegal, during the conversation in the beginning of the movie, "Eddie swam away from the car where Jim Morrison met him on shore, and Amelia Earhart flew them all to paradise."

An interesting tidbit: the real name of the bridge that was shown in the movie when Eddie's car was pulled from the river, and on which Maggie stands on at the end of the movie, is really the Ocean City-Longport Bridge, which connects the two rural seaside towns.

Answer: Arthur Rimbaud

Maggie puts two and two together and determines that Eddie was influenced by Arthur Rimbaud. Reading from Rimbaud's "A Season In Hell," she determines that Eddie pulled a Rimbaud, who stopped creating poetry and faked his death when he was 20 years-old; only to reappear 18 years later on his death bed in Marseille.

Answer: A Season in Hell

"A Season In Hell" was the name of the album that the band was working on, and the night that the recording studio heard it is the same night that Eddie supposedly died. The tapes were never released, and turned up missing.

Answer: Satin Records

Satin Records, located in New York, recorded "Tender Years" in the summer of 1963, and they were counting on the Cruisers to release another hit album. However, they were greatly disappointed when they heard "A Season In Hell," which Eddie considered his masterpiece.

The buyer's cutting words drove Eddie out the door, with Joann following after him, thus leading to his disappearance and supposed death.

Answer: William Wordsworth

We first see Frank Ridgeway in his car driving to his job as a high school teacher in Vineland, New Jersey. While in the car he hears the song "Wild Summer Nights," and turns the volume up, and pulls into the parking lot.

We then see Frank reading poems by Wordsworth to his class. When the bell rings, he goes to his desk, props his legs up, and begins to reminisce about the time he first met "Eddie and The Cruisers."

Answer: Tony Marts

Frank first met the Cruisers at the Jersey Shore in the summer of 1962, the band arrived in Eddie's car, with a U-Haul attached to it. While sweeping the floors that fateful night, Joann Carlino, Eddie's girlfriend walked in, followed by Eddie and the rest of the Cruisers. Frank asks if he could help them, and was told by Sal, the bass player for the band, to tell Tony that "Eddie and The Cruisers" were there.

An interesting tidbit: Tony Marts was a real nightclub in Somer's Point, New Jersey, and stood for nearly 40 years before being bought out and renamed Egos, then Key West, then Club Impulse, and then Brownie By The Bay.

Answer: Runaround Sue

During the rehearsal, the band performed "Runaround Sue," then went on to "Betty Lou." However, Eddie wasn't happy with the musical arrangements, and lashed out at Sal.

Answer: Caesura

Eddie told Sal that no one would know what he was singing about, because the music was too fast and didn't have a break, he and Sal got into a heated argument, which ended with Eddie calling Sal a moron. Eddie then said that he would get another opinion, and tried to ask Joann, but Sal complained about that.

Then, looking over his shoulder, Eddie called Frank over and asked him. Frank agreed that the song needed a caesura, and explained that it meant "a timely pause, kind of a strategic silence." Frank then followed it with an example of a caesura, "One night I took beauty in my arms...and I thought it bitter...and I insulted her."

Answer: 3:10

When Maggie walked into Frank's classroom to talk to him about Eddie, the clock read 3:10, given that it was after school, it was in the afternoon. Maggie asked Frank about the tapes and what really happened that night, and Frank told her that he wouldn't tell her because Eddie was his friend and he just met her.

Interesting tidbit: the high school shown in the movie was really in Mount Holly, New Jersey.

Answer: WRHE; Asbury Park

When Frank drives home and goes inside, he is shocked to find that his house has been broken in. Then the phone rings, and to his amazement it's Doc, the former manager of the Cruisers. Doc tells Frank that he needs him, and asks him to come meet him.

Frank drives to WRHE in Asbury Park, and he and Doc have a talk about what's been happening with the Cruisers. Doc then asks Frank for a ride home because his car has been giving him trouble. When he and Frank arrive at his house, Frank sees that Doc's house was also broken into, and says "it looks like we have the same decorator, Doc. They got my house this morning."

Interesting tidbit: Doc's house was really the Black Horse Motel, which is located in Glendora, New Jersey on the Black Horse Pike.

Answer: El Marko Room

Sal and his version of the Cruisers, along with his lookalike of Eddie, perform at the El Marko Room from 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM. His Eddie lookalike only performs "On The Darkside," and is a huge hit.

On the night that Frank goes to see Sal, he meets up with Maggie Foley, who questions him about why he's there, and asks if she can interview him after the show. Frank agrees.

Answer: Regina Lewis

Joanne Collins portrayed Regina Lewis, the keyboard player at the El Marko Room. The name "Regina Lewis" is not credited, but is said in the movie by the emcee.

All information comes from the movie "Eddie and The Cruisers," www.imdb.com, www.richmangalleries.com, www.levity.com/corduroy/rimbaud.htm, and www.somerspoint.org/nightbeat.htm, www.fastrewind.com