Lay Down Your Weary Tune Trivia Quiz

Answer: Jim Morrison

Frontman for the Doors, Morrison was one of the icons of the counterculture of the 1960s and '70s. He died in Paris of "heart failure"; no autopsy was performed. Morrison was 27 years old at his death, and thus part of the so-called "27 Club", a large group of popular musicians who died at that age from drug abuse or by violent means.

Answer: Alan Wilson

Wilson was one of the co-founders of Canned Heat, a blues rock band. He sang lead on "Going Up the Country" which the band performed at Woodstock. That song might have been the anthem for the festival if Jimi Hendrix hadn't played "The Star Spangled Banner". Wilson is another member of the "27 Club", having died from barbiturate intoxication. Band members thought he might have intentionally overdosed.

Answer: Janis Joplin

One of the top female blues singers of the 1960s, Joplin performed alone or as part of Big Brother and the Holding Company. She became famous for her performance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. Though in a song she asked the Lord to buy her a Mercedes Benz she drove a psychedelically painted Porsche 356C. She died in 1970 of a heroin overdose, at age 27.

Answer: Jimi Hendrix

His career only lasted four years but Hendrix is considered one of rock music's most influential guitar players. He was left-handed and played a right-hand guitar upside down. His recording of Bob Dylan's song "All Along the Watchtower" became his biggest hit and even Dylan was impressed with his version of it.

His cause of death was listed as asphyxia while intoxicated with barbiturates. Like many others in this quiz, he was 27 when he died.

Answer: Michael Hutchence

Hutchence was leader of the Australian band INXS from 1977 to 1997. The band's popularity reached its high point in the early 1990s and began to wane as the decade progressed. Hutchence was found dead in a hotel room in Sydney in 1997, dead at age 37 from hanging in a Sydney hotel room

Answer: Amy Winehouse

Winehouse's music was influenced by soul and rhythm and blues. Her 2006 album "Back to Black" won five awards at the 2008 Grammy Awards, making her the first British woman to win five Grammys. She died of alcohol poisoning in 2011 at age 27.

Answer: Sid Vicious

Born John Simon Ritchie, Vicious was a member of the Sex Pistols, an influential punk rock group. Their music was quick to attack apathy, fascism and the British royal family. In 1979, Ritchie was accused of causing the death of his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, but died of a heroin overdose before a trial convened. He was 21.

Answer: Phil Ochs

One of the leaders of the folk/protest song movement in the 1960s, Ochs wrote hundreds of songs in the 1960s and '70s. His mental health declined in the '70s and he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and alcoholism. He committed suicide at age 35 in 1976.

Answer: Kurt Cobain

Cobain was the lead singer of Nirvana, a grunge band from Washington state that was very successful and sold millions of CDs. Cobain had physical and mental ailments which led to abuse of many drugs and alcohol. He attempted or threatened suicide a few times before finally killing himself in 1994, 27 years old.

Answer: Gram Parsons

A member of the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers, Parsons admired country music as well as rock; his songs led to the country-rock of the 1970s. His influence stretched from artists like Emmylou Harris to the Rolling Stones. He died of an overdose of morphine and alcohol in 1973, two months shy of his 27th birthday.