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1. Name the band that is New Zealand's most international act with top ten hits in Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
2. What is the name of the label that pioneered the "Dunedin Sound"?
3. Which of the following bands are not part of the Flying Nun stable?
4. Who was the mainstay and song writer for the Chills?
5. In 1985 NME chose as their Single Of The Week a song that fused traditional Maori lyrics with the hip hop style of the day. Performed by the Patea Maori Club, the song was called
6. Just over ten years after the success of the Patea Moari Club, another Polynesian act stormed the UK with a song called "How Bizarre". What was the name of the act?
7. Still with a Polynesian theme, the Pacific reggae band Herbs had a song banned due to to its lyrical content questioning French nuclear testing in the Pacific. What was the title of the song?
8. In 1958 New Zealand's first rock n roll superstar, Johnny Devlin, covered a song by composer Lloyd Price that had also been covered by Elvis Presley. Devlin outsold the "King" in New Zealand. Name the song.
9. During the 1970's, a local act, Bunny Walters, scored a minor US coup when his version of a recently-released song appeared on Kasey Casam's "American Top Forty" syndicated show. What was the song?
10. Named after a Japanese car, these guys became darlings of the British music scene and saviours of rock n roll alongside The Strokes, The Hives, and The White Stripes. They are who?
11. What band recently had to change its name for album release in the American market because it bore a resemblance to the Arabic word meaning "holy war"?
12. True or false: The new name of Pacifier (previously Shihad) came from a song title on their previous album, "The General Electric."
13. Who is the internationally-known New Zealand artist who played with Johnny Marr (The Smiths), Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam), Ed O'Brien and Johnny Greenwood (Radiohead), and Wendy Melvoin (Wendy and Lisa, Prince) as part of his backing band?
14. Pearl Jam has covered plenty of songs in their career to date, but they wear the Split Enz influence on their sleeves when Eddie includes which song in the Neil Finn set?
15. True or false: The Split Enz song "Six Months In A Leaky Boat" was banned from airplay in the UK during the Falklands War.
16. Some lyric lines to finish with. Please name the following songs.
"Creases on your white dress
Bruises on your bare skin
Looks like another fine mess
You've got yourself into"
17. "Walking round the room singing 'Stormy Weather'
At 57 Mount Pleasant Street
Now it's the same room but everything is different
You can fight the sleep but not the dream"
18. "In a sleepy little town
Where soft breezes blow
There's a lovely little
Maori miss I used to know"
19. "Each evening the sun sets in five billion places
Seen by ten billion eyes set in five billion faces
Then they close in a daze and wait for the dawning"
20. "Rock is dead or so it's said
And now it's all a part of history
Lost the thread and lost its head
Well I dunno, it seems okay to me
Jim Morrison, Brian Jones, Marc Bolan, Jimi Hendrix
Lying at the bottom of your swimming pool
Don't let Creem, Crawdaddy, Rip It Up, New Musical Express
Call you a fool, because I really care"
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Dizrythmia Man
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