'Saturday Night Live' Musical Guests and Sketches Quiz

Answer: Janis Ian and Billy Preston

All of these artists were musical guests in the first season of 'Saturday Night Live,' but Ian and Preston were the very first musical guests. Ian performed 'At Seventeen' and Preston performed 'Nothin' From Nothin' on the first show, which aired on October 11, 1975.

Answer: Red Hooded Sweatshirt

'I love you sweeeeatshirt, red hooded sweeeeatshirt.' Paul and Linda McCartney joined in on the chorus at the end of the song.

Answer: George Harrison

Harrison appeared in the second season on the November 20, 1976 show, performing 'Here Comes the Sun' and 'Homeward Bound' with Paul Simon.

Answer: Dracula

Hartman played Frankenstein, Lovitz was Tonto, and Nealon was Tarzan. The sketch often ended when Frankenstein would destroy their props or have some other mishap, such as the time smoke started coming out of him during their rendition of 'Away in a Manger' (or, as they sang it, 'Away in Manger').

Answer: True

Spinal Tap performed 'Christmas with the Devil' and 'Big Bottom' on the May 5, 1984 show. The three main Spinal Tappers were all regulars on 'Saturday Night Live' at various times. Christopher Guest (Nigel Tufnel) was a cast member in the 1984-1985 season, Michael McKean (David St. Hubbins) was a cast member in 1994, and Harry Shearer (Derek Smalls) spent two seasons on the show -- 1979-1980 and 1984-1985.

Answer: King Tut

'Born in Arizona. Moved to Babylonia. King Tut.' 'King Tut' was released as a single and appeared on Steve's album 'A Wild and Crazy Guy,' which won the Grammy for Best Comedy Album in 1979.

Answer: Yes

Most of the times this happened it was a 'Best of' show, but on December 2, 1978 Walter Matthau hosted the show and there was no musical guest.

Answer: Frank Sinatra

In the sketch 'The Sinatra Group' (a panel discussion take-off on 'The McLaughlin Group'), Hartman's Sinatra takes on Sinead O'Connor (Jan Hooks), Billy Idol (Sting), Luther Campbell (Chris Rock), and Steve Lawrence (Mike Myers) and Eydie Gorme (Victoria Jackson). Over the course of this sketch, Sinatra calls O'Connor 'Sine-aid,' 'Sinbad,' 'Skinhead,' and 'Uncle Fester.'

Answer: Bob Dylan

Dylan appeared as a musical guest on 'Saturday Night Live' on October 20, 1979, but he did not appear on the show as a musical guest at all in the 1980s and 1990s.

Answer: Nick Slammer

Murray hosted the show in 1987 and reprised his role as Nick, who was performing at the Crestwood Minimum Security Prison Detention Center and Warehouse as Nick Slammer.

Answer: John Lennon

All of the Beatles except Lennon appeared on the show.

Answer: Will Ferrell and Ana Gasteyer

The Culps are middle school music teachers and moonlight at functions such as wedding receptions and shopping malls, performing their medleys. (One of my favorite recurring medley sketches featured Nora Dunn and Jan Hooks as The Sweeney Sisters.)

Answer: Watching the Detectives

Costello's musical rebellion got him banned from 'Saturday Night Live' for many years, and he did not appear on the show again until March 25, 1989. 'Less Than Zero' was the song Costello started playing in his second musical set on the show before cutting it off and launching into 'Radio, Radio.' (Although, apparently the SNL cd liner notes -- incorrectly -- claim that 'Allison' was the song that was cut off.)

Answer: Chopping Broccoli

Carvey accompanies himself on the piano and sings, 'And my lady, She went downtown, She bought some broccoli, She brought it home. She's chopping broccoli. She's chopping broccoli. She's chopping broccoli. She's chopping broccoli.'

Answer: Blues Brothers

The Blues Brothers performed as the show's musical guests on April 22, 1978 ('I Don't Know') and again on November 18, 1978 ('Soul Man,' 'Got Everything I Need, Almost,' and 'Get Back to You').