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Leonard Cohen Trivia Quiz

Leonard Cohen has been rather unfairly, I think, labelled a figure of gloom. The theme of this quiz is what other people think of him.

A multiple-choice quiz by quacker. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
quacker

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
58,471

Updated
Dec 03 21

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Question 1 of 10

1. Which of the following ingredients was missing from the recording of the album 'Death of a Ladies Man'? Hint

Bob Dylan

A pistol

Phil Spector

John Lennon

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Question 2 of 10

2. On the tribute album, 'I'm Your Fan,' from what country do both the coverers of 'Tower of Song' come? Hint

Ireland (one the Republic, one Northern)

Canada

Australia

France

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Question 3 of 10

3. Leonard Cohen's is arguably the most Jewish showbiz name outside of film producing. Cohen biographer Ira Nadel analyses Cohen's name quite thoroughly. Leonard's Hebrew name is? Hint

Leyb

Avrom

Baruch

Eliezer

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Question 4 of 10

4. Leonard Cohen is mentioned in which Nirvana song? Hint

'Smells like Teen Spirit'

'Lenny's Outlet'

'Lithium'

'Pennyroyal Tea'

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Question 5 of 10

5. 'Dance Me to the End of Love,' which is about the Holocaust gas chambers, is also a picture book. Who did the illustrations? Hint

Matisse

Anno

Quentin Blake

Toulouse Lautrec

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Question 6 of 10

6. Which of these soubriquets has been given to Cohen? Hint

The Prophet of Fumes

The Lord Byron of Rock

The Oracle of Modernity

The Moses of Sinai

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Question 7 of 10

7. About whom or what did Cohen begin to write an MA thesis while at Columbia University? Hint

Lord Beaverbrook

Federico Garcia Lorca

Cohen's own book

Canada-US relations

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Question 8 of 10

8. Whose intelligence does Cohen describe as 'average' in a poem? Hint

Adolf Eichman

Queen Victoria

Adolf Hitler

Queen Elizabeth

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Question 9 of 10

9. Who, apart from the man himself, was the first artist to record an entire album of Leonard Cohen songs? Hint

Jennifer Warnes

Judy Collins

Janis Joplin

Nina Simone

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Question 10 of 10

10. Joan Baez had an ethical and artistic problem singing what line from Leonard Cohen's oevre? Hint

'you've touched her perfect body with your mind'

'an Eskimo showed me a movie'

'and all the ladies go moist, and the judge has no choice'

'the moneylender's lovely little daughter'

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Which of the following ingredients was missing from the recording of the album 'Death of a Ladies Man'?

Answer: John Lennon

John had probably had enough of Phil, Cohen's collaborator on the album, at that point. Bob Dylan does some nice vocals on the klezmer-Motown fusion song 'Don't Go Home with your Hard-on,' along with Allen Ginzberg. Phil needed the pistol to help everyone else keep up with his work ethic.

2. On the tribute album, 'I'm Your Fan,' from what country do both the coverers of 'Tower of Song' come?

Answer: Australia

Nick Cave, whose 'I said to Leonard Cohen...' adlib is very touching, is from Victoria, and Robert Forster is a displaced Queenslander.

3. Leonard Cohen's is arguably the most Jewish showbiz name outside of film producing. Cohen biographer Ira Nadel analyses Cohen's name quite thoroughly. Leonard's Hebrew name is?

Answer: Eliezer

Leonard is a common Anglicization of both Eliezer and Leyb. His second name is Nehemiah, or Norman.

4. Leonard Cohen is mentioned in which Nirvana song?

Answer: 'Pennyroyal Tea'

Kurt Cobain wanted 'a Leonard Cohen underword.' Golly gosh.

5. 'Dance Me to the End of Love,' which is about the Holocaust gas chambers, is also a picture book. Who did the illustrations?

Answer: Matisse

Apparently there's a whole range of these books.

6. Which of these soubriquets has been given to Cohen?

Answer: The Lord Byron of Rock

Byron, a tremdously enthusiastic writer, shares Cohen's unearnt status as an emotionally crippled cynic.

7. About whom or what did Cohen begin to write an MA thesis while at Columbia University?

Answer: Cohen's own book

Magnificent in the chutz-pah of it!

8. Whose intelligence does Cohen describe as 'average' in a poem?

Answer: Adolf Eichman

'What did you expect? Talons? Huge incisors'

9. Who, apart from the man himself, was the first artist to record an entire album of Leonard Cohen songs?

Answer: Jennifer Warnes

'Famous Blue Raincoat' contains a couple of new verses and reworkings.

10. Joan Baez had an ethical and artistic problem singing what line from Leonard Cohen's oevre?

Answer: 'you've touched her perfect body with your mind'

From Suzanne; Baez played around with alternate lyrics before it struck her that the original line was good.

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