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When Rock and Art Blend Trivia Quiz

Sex & Drugs & Paints & Brushes!

A multiple-choice quiz by roket555. Estimated time: 7 mins.

Author
roket555

Time
7 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
103,672

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
20

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
9 / 20

Plays
953

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Question 1 of 20

1. In between painting soup cans and hanging around Studio 54 with Bianca Jagger, Andy Warhol managed to design two album covers for The Rolling Stones. Can you name the two in question? Hint

Goats Head Soup & Emotional Rescue

Sticky Fingers & Love You Live

Let It Bleed & Some Girls

Tattoo You & Beggar's Banquet

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Question 2 of 20

2. Still on The Rolling Stones, which country banned Warhol's functioning 'Zipper on the Levi's' design for 'Sticky Fingers'? Hint

Australia

Japan

New Zealand

Spain

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Question 3 of 20

3. Which performer from this list has NOT illustrated their own album cover artwork.... Hint

Bob Dylan

Elton John

Joni Mitchell

Cat Stevens

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Question 4 of 20

4. Who produced most of the Sex Pistols' artwork? Hint

Jamie Reid

Peter Saville

Martin Garrett

Barney Bubbles

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Question 5 of 20

5. What UK group took their name from a Roy Lichenstein painting? Hint

Bananarama

Wham

The Drowning Girls

The Clash

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Question 6 of 20

6. Who was responsible for the artwork that graced The Who's 1975 album 'Who By Numbers'? Hint

John Entwhistle

Martin Sharpe

Ron Wood

Pete Townsend

7. Flemish painter Pieter Brueghel (1525-69) created paintings that just begged to belong on hard rock albums! Which band featured his images of tortured souls and nudity on one of their greatest hits packages? Hint

Megadeth

Black Sabbath

Deep Purple

Corpse of Christ

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Question 8 of 20

8. New York photographer Robert Mapplethorpe snapped an intriguing portrait for the debut album... Hint

The Ramones

Patti Smith

Blondie

Talking Heads

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Question 9 of 20

9. Hot-rod artist 'Big Daddy' Roth created a wonderful image for the 1982 album 'Junkyard'. Who were his clients? Hint

The Birthday Party

The Flamin' Groovies

The Blue Oyster Cult

Janis Joplin

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Question 10 of 20

10. This late 70's British four piece goth band took their name from a gang of early 20's European intellectuals and artists (who included Paul Klee and Kandinsky)... Hint

Dada

Bauhaus

The Surrealists

Caberet Voltaire

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Question 11 of 20

11. Controversial album 'Electric Ladyland' by The Jimi Hendrix Experience had major problems with its cover design (featuring dozens of nude women) before it hit the streets. What was the complaint? Hint

Dozens of nude women on the cover

The models thought they looked trashy

It was a double album

No picture of Jimi on the front

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Question 12 of 20

12. Salvadore Dali created a unique instrument for this performer... Hint

Alice Cooper

Harpo Marx

Elvis Presley

Frank Zappa

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Question 13 of 20

13. You don't often associate guitar-heroes with surrealists, but who of the following listed below featured a Rene Magritte painting on their 1969 album? Hint

Robin Trower

Eric Clapton

Peter Frampton

Jeff Beck

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Question 14 of 20

14. Master photo-montage artist of the 20's,John Heartfield, had his work re-produced by this late 70's punk band as artwork for their single 'Metal Postcard'... Hint

Adam & the Ants

Siouxie & the Banshees

Slaughter & the Dogs

Johnny & the Self Abusers

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Question 15 of 20

15. What was the title of John Lennon's first public art show at London's ritzy Robert Frazer gallery in 1968? Hint

In His Own Art

Imagine

Bottoms

You Are Here

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Question 16 of 20

16. Most of the cover artwork for 90's English band The Stone Roses was by their guitarist John Squire. He had a particular influence... Hint

Joan Miro

Jasper Johns

Jackson Pollock

Joseph Beuys

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Question 17 of 20

17. What American hardcore band had a splendid reproduction of 'The Last Supper' on their 1987 album 'This Blood's for You'? Hint

JFA

DRI

MDC

DOA

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Question 18 of 20

18. First written and performed by Johnathan Richman, and later covered by John Cale,this is a tribute song to a great lost European artist... Hint

Cezanne

Man Ray

Pablo Picasso

Max Ernst

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Question 19 of 20

19. The pose that David Bowie struck on the cover of 'Heroes' was tribute to one of his own heroes, an expressionist artist called... Hint

Gustav Klimt

Edvard Munch

James Ensor

Egon Schielle

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Question 20 of 20

20. Let's make this one easy...who's that song 'Vincent' by Don Mclean all about? Hint

Vincent Price

Vincent from 'Pulp Fiction'

Vincent Furnier

Vincent Van Gogh

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. In between painting soup cans and hanging around Studio 54 with Bianca Jagger, Andy Warhol managed to design two album covers for The Rolling Stones. Can you name the two in question?

Answer: Sticky Fingers & Love You Live

Andy Warhol has an infamous connection with rock music, not only producing and advising The Velvet Underground, but also designing their 'peelable' banana album artwork for their first record.

2. Still on The Rolling Stones, which country banned Warhol's functioning 'Zipper on the Levi's' design for 'Sticky Fingers'?

Answer: Spain

The Spanish cover featured an image of a woman's fingers emerging from an open can of treacle, much more wholesome!

3. Which performer from this list has NOT illustrated their own album cover artwork....

Answer: Elton John

Elton just sings and plays piano, but Dylan also illustrated the cover work for 'Music from the Big Pink' by The Band.

4. Who produced most of the Sex Pistols' artwork?

Answer: Jamie Reid

Reid's concept for the 4th Pistols' single 'Holidays In the Sun' was immediately halted after it was discovered that all he did was tamper with poster graphics from an English travel company. In amongst the other clues in this question, Peter Saville did most of the work for Joy Division & Factory Records.

5. What UK group took their name from a Roy Lichenstein painting?

Answer: Wham

He may not be as rich or successful as George Michael, but Paul Simonon, bass player from The Clash, is now a very successful artist in his own right, commanding large sums of money for his canvas examples of life in London.

6. Who was responsible for the artwork that graced The Who's 1975 album 'Who By Numbers'?

Answer: John Entwhistle

John was quite an illustrator, as his 'connect the dots' design on the cover shows. Martin Sharpe, an Australian artist, was responsible for the cover art for artists such as Cream and Tiny Tim (who he also managed)!

Answer: Black Sabbath

Fitting that Ozzy should choose such an artist for Sabbath's greatest triumph! As anyone who saw 'The Osbournes' realises, Ozzy doesn't mind bringing out the crayons himself!

8. New York photographer Robert Mapplethorpe snapped an intriguing portrait for the debut album...

Answer: Patti Smith

Perhaps the sensitive nature of the photo sprung from the fact that Robert and Patti had had a previous relationship. Mapplethorpe also went on to shoot the cover for the New York band Television's debut 'Marquee Moon'.

9. Hot-rod artist 'Big Daddy' Roth created a wonderful image for the 1982 album 'Junkyard'. Who were his clients?

Answer: The Birthday Party

Installing comic book artists is not unusual. Janis Joplin called upon another comic book artist to do the honours on her 'Big Thrills' album, Mr. Robert Crumb.

10. This late 70's British four piece goth band took their name from a gang of early 20's European intellectuals and artists (who included Paul Klee and Kandinsky)...

Answer: Bauhaus

The Bauhaus 2nd single 'Dark Entries' featured a detail of the artist Paul Devaux's 'Venus Asleep'

Answer: The models thought they looked trashy

Most of the models did revolt against the lurid and grainy quality of the shot. When the album was first released with original nude women artwork,in some instances, it was sold from under the counter in a brown paper bag.

12. Salvadore Dali created a unique instrument for this performer...

Answer: Harpo Marx

Dali adored the insane humour of The Marx Brothers so much he gave Harpo his Dali-designed Harp, strung with barbed wire!

13. You don't often associate guitar-heroes with surrealists, but who of the following listed below featured a Rene Magritte painting on their 1969 album?

Answer: Jeff Beck

The painting that Beck used for his album 'Beck-ola' was 'La Chambre d'Ecoute'. Also playing on the album was Ron Wood, future Rolling Stone, and quite a daub artist himself!

14. Master photo-montage artist of the 20's,John Heartfield, had his work re-produced by this late 70's punk band as artwork for their single 'Metal Postcard'...

Answer: Siouxie & the Banshees

Further art connection: Adam & the Ants often used images from popular British artist Allen Jones on their T-shirts and badges.

15. What was the title of John Lennon's first public art show at London's ritzy Robert Frazer gallery in 1968?

Answer: You Are Here

A feature of the show was helium-inflated white balloons released from the gallery labelled 'You are Here'.

16. Most of the cover artwork for 90's English band The Stone Roses was by their guitarist John Squire. He had a particular influence...

Answer: Jackson Pollock

The Stone Roses found themselves in conflict with their first label, Silvertone, in the early 80's. To make themselves feel better about their situation, they took to the record company's offices and automobiles with several buckets of paint.

17. What American hardcore band had a splendid reproduction of 'The Last Supper' on their 1987 album 'This Blood's for You'?

Answer: MDC

MDC aka Millions of Dead Cops... Anti-religion artwork was a mainstay of early American hardcore bands, including The Dead Kennedy's 'Frankenchrist' and the poster and cover artwork of the legendary Ray Pettibone.

18. First written and performed by Johnathan Richman, and later covered by John Cale,this is a tribute song to a great lost European artist...

Answer: Pablo Picasso

The lyric went...'And Pablo Picasso was never called an arsehole..not like you' They just don't write lyrics like that anymore!

19. The pose that David Bowie struck on the cover of 'Heroes' was tribute to one of his own heroes, an expressionist artist called...

Answer: Egon Schielle

Bowie was so taken with the work of this celebrated Austrian painter, he was prepared to produce and star in a film of his doomed life. Nothing has come from the project yet.

20. Let's make this one easy...who's that song 'Vincent' by Don Mclean all about?

Answer: Vincent Van Gogh

If anyone cares after 20 questions, Vincent Furnier is actually Alice Coopers real name...and was a close friend of Dali's!

Source: Author roket555

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