Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. What jazz poet and author released the Black Power anthem "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" in 1971?
FUN FACT
"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" by Gil Scott-Heron ranks at No. 258 on Rolling Stone's "500 Best Songs of All Time" list.
- Multiple Choice
2. What early 2000s indie rock darlings recorded the 2005 anti-George Bush screed "When the President Talks to God"?
Bright Eyes debuted the song on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" in May 2005.
- Multiple Choice
3. What Jean Claude Van Damme film shares its title with a popular 1960s Donovan protest song about the horrors of war?
Buffy Sainte-Marie's "Universal Soldier" (1964) was not a hit upon release but did find chart success with Donovan's cover version, released one year later.
- Multiple Choice
4. Folk singer Woody Guthrie first painted the phrase "This machine kills _________" on his guitar in 1943.
FUN FACT
Celtic punk band the Dropkick Murphy's titled their 2022 album "This Machine Still Kills Fascists" in homage to Woody Guthrie.
- Multiple Choice
5. What member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band penned the 1985 anti-apartheid single "Sun City"?
E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt wrote "Sun City" (1985) to protest apartheid in South Africa and to encourage artists to boycott playing the luxury resort of the same name.
Van Zandt recruited an all-star lineup to help record the song, including Bruce Springsteen, Miles Davis, Lou Reed, Run-DMC, and Keith Richards, among others.
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