Trivial Pursuit: folksinger's edition

Subject: Trivial Pursuit: folksinger's edition
From: GUEST,Suffet at work
Date: 11 Jan 02 - 04:28 PM

The boss isn't looking, so let's plaay a little game. Here are the first five questions, all multiple choice. Answers will be posted in a few days, after people have had time to respond. Let's start off with some questions about Woody Guthrie. They get progressively more difficult.

1. Woody was born in 1912 on the national holiday of which country?

a. Portugal
b. Haiti
c. Egypt
d. France


2. Woody is known to have fathered how many children?

a. six
b. seven
c. eight
d. nine


3. Which was Woody's usual brand of cigarette?

a. Marlboro
b. Pall Mall
c. Chesterfield
d. Lucky Strike


4. Who liked to taunt, "Woody, you're so full of bull----. If you ever came within fifteen feet of a real jackhammer it would knock you flat on your ass."?

a. Ronnie Gilbert
b. Cisco Houston
c. Millard Lampell
d. Gordon Freisen


5. Woody appeared on the same program with each of the following entertainers except whom?

a. Milton Berle
b. Tommy Makem
c. Tom Paley
d. Billie Holiday

Subject: RE: Trivial Pursuit: folksinger's edition
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Jan 02 - 06:35 PM

OK--but adg better not be answering these!

Subject: RE: Trivial Pursuit: folksinger's edition
From: Jerry Dingleman: The Boy Wonder(inactve)
Date: 11 Jan 02 - 06:35 PM

1) d

2) c

3) c

4) d

5) b

I guesded at a couple.

Jerry

Subject: RE: Trivial Pursuit: folksinger's edition
From: Suffet
Date: 12 Jan 02 - 04:37 PM

Let's give this game one more chance. I had no idea the response would be so thin. In any case, answers will be posted tomorrow.

--- Steve

Subject: RE: Trivial Pursuit: folksinger's edition
From:
Date: 12 Jan 02 - 06:02 PM

I missed this the first time. Hmmmm.

Well, I have to pass. I can't think of any of the answers for this.

Subject: RE: Trivial Pursuit: folksinger's edition
From: Sorcha
Date: 12 Jan 02 - 06:03 PM

I'll be booted out of the Folkie Corps......I don't know any of them either! We're bad, George, bad!

Subject: RE: Trivial Pursuit: folksinger's edition
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 12 Jan 02 - 06:05 PM

I'm waiting for Ed Cray's book on Woody to come out.

Linn

Subject: RE: Trivial Pursuit: folksinger's edition
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Jan 02 - 08:12 PM

Suffet, let's try some more. I didn't see this, earlier, either, but at least I knew No. 1. My youngest daughter shares the same birthday, July 14, Bastille Day!

Thanks,

kat

Subject: RE: Trivial Pursuit: folksinger's edition
From: Suffet
Date: 12 Jan 02 - 08:57 PM

Could be! I won't post the answers until tomorrow.

--- Steve

Subject: RE: Trivial Pursuit: folksinger's edition
From: Suffet
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 07:57 AM

It's Sunday, and here are the answers as promised.


1. d. Woodrow Wilson Guthrie was born on July 14, 1912. That's what we call Bastille Day, and it's the national holiday of France.

2. c. Woody is known to have fathered eight children: three with Mary Jennings Guthrie, four with Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, and one with Anneke Van Kirk Guthrie. Only three children survive: Arlo Davy Guthrie, Joady Ben Guthrie, and Nora Lee Guthrie, all born to Marjorie.

3. d. Lucky Strike. At least, according to people who knew him at the time, that was his preferred brand during the 1940s, when Woody was the Woody we have come to know best. Anyway, the other three brands would have been unlikely choices. Marlboro was being marketed as a women's cigarette back then, before they switched their marketing campaign. And both Pall Mall and Chesterfield were being marketed with a consciously upscale image, definitely not smokes for common folks!

4. d. Gordon Freisen liked to say that he would taunt Woody with that statement and ones like it whenever he felt Woody was becoming too establishment. Or at least so I have heard from Sis Cunningham, Gordon's widow.

5. b. Tommy Makem first came to the USA around 1960, by which time Woody was too seriously ill to perform. Woody appeared with Milton Berle and Billie Holiday and a number of other performers in a benefit in New York City in 1946. Woody performed several times with a young Tom Paley in New York, around the same time Woody started hanging out with Jack Elliott. To this day Tom wonders why is Jack remembered as Woody's sidekick-protegé and he isn't.


Nice work, Jerry. You got 4 out of 5 right. And Kat, you were right about Bastille Day, of course.

Would anyone like to continue this game by posting 5 questions about another folk musician?

---- Steve

Subject: RE: Trivial Pursuit: folksinger's edition
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 12:18 PM

OKee Dokee Steve: Huddie Ledbetter then.

1#. Did Leadbelly ever record with a six string guitar? Give details.

2#. Leadbelly's best known song was made into a 'Hit' by The Weavers...right? But that's not what the record label said. What DID it say?

3#. Leadbelly COULD have done more recording in LA. He COULD have done more radio, and club gigs. Why didn't he?

4#. When he was first "Presented" in urban concerts, he was asked to wear something humiliating. What was it? At the end of each concert, he was asked to DO something equally humiliating. What was it?

5#. Leadbelly knew a LOT of chords (most never found in a chord book!) but there was one kind of common chord he NEVER played. What?

Rick

Subject: RE: Trivial Pursuit: folksinger's edition
From: Jeri
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 01:04 PM

#5 - A Db7, including (from bass string) Ab, Db, F, B, Db, F? (silly guess)

An E? (wild guess)

Subject: RE: Trivial Pursuit: folksinger's edition
From: Jeri
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 01:07 PM

Er sorry, first guess, I'd guess isn't a "common chord"

As to the guess on the E, I'd better shut up because I seem to remember somebody saying something about Leadbelly's guitar habits and it wouldn't be fair...

Subject: RE: Trivial Pursuit: folksinger's edition
From: Chris Amos
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 01:39 PM

This is good,

I don't know the answers but I'll guess a few

1) Yes, he made a few slide guitar recordings with a 6-string including Leaving Trunk

2)Would guess eithre "Trad" or "Lomax"

3) ?

4)Wear a suit/ Leave by the back door

5)"Bar" Chords

Chris

Subject: RE: Trivial Pursuit: folksinger's edition
From: Mr Red
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 02:30 PM

I'm waiting for the Dylan (Bob that is not Thomas) cards I won't know those answers either but shuffle 'em up a bit.
I once accused a flirt of playing games - trivial pusuits, were were never friends so what the hell.

Subject: RE: Trivial Pursuit: folksinger's edition
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 04:26 PM

Answers

1. Correct Chris.

2. GORDON JENKINS with the Weavers (He was an orchestra leader)

3. His Union card didn't come through.

4.Prison Stripes. He passed the hat after every concert! Yuchhhhh!

5. Minor chords. He always played 7ths when singing minor scales.

Cheers

Rick

Subject: RE: Trivial Pursuit: folksinger's edition
From: Jerry Dingleman: The Boy Wonder(inactve)
Date: 13 Jan 02 - 06:27 PM

Rick,

Sorry. I showed up too late to get in on your Lead Belly quiz.

Jerry

Subject: RE: Trivial Pursuit: folksinger's edition
From: Chris Amos
Date: 14 Jan 02 - 01:42 AM

A few from the English Tradition.

1) What was the first song collected by Cecil Sharp.

2) In Which Essex village did Vaughn Williams begin collecting.

3)Which suqeeze box player used to accompany Nic Jones.

4)In which town did the traditional singer Sam Larnerlive

5)In which town and county is the Goose Fair held each year.

Regards

Chris

Subject: RE: Trivial Pursuit: folksinger's edition
From: Bo Vandenberg
Date: 14 Jan 02 - 03:54 AM

Sam Larner was born in Winterton in Norfolk. Is that where he lived? sigurd

Subject: RE: Trivial Pursuit: folksinger's edition
From: GUEST,PaulM
Date: 14 Jan 02 - 04:07 AM

1. Seeds of Love

2. Ingrave

3. Tony Hall

5. Nottingham

Paul

Subject: new folk trivia questions
From: Jerry Dingleman: The Boy Wonder(inactve)
Date: 14 Jan 02 - 06:51 PM

Each of these songs is about another singer or musician. Who do they refer to?

1) Lead Belly's "Silver City Bound"

2) Norman Blake's "Ragtime Texas"

3) Phil Ochs' "Bound For Glory"

4) Nanci Griffith's "Ford Econoline"

5) John Gorka's "That's How Legends Are Made"

6) Joni Mitchell's "Rainy Night House"

7) Peggy Seeger's "Old Friend"

8) Janet Smith's "A Little Muscle"

9) Eric Bogle- Katie and the Dreamtime Land

Subject: RE: Trivial Pursuit: folksinger's edition
From: ddw
Date: 14 Jan 02 - 10:35 PM

Guesses for Wonder Boy's list:

1) Blind Lemon Jefferson

2) Mance Lipscomb?

3) Woody Guthrie

rest, haven't a clue.

david

Subject: RE: Trivial Pursuit: folksinger's edition
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 14 Jan 02 - 11:00 PM

Well it's sort of my job (as well as my passion) to know these, but I'll just contribute to #2. Henry Thomas. The 'quill guy'.

Good quiz.

Rick

Subject: RE: Trivial Pursuit: folksinger's edition
From: Bert
Date: 14 Jan 02 - 11:20 PM

1. Who recorded "Diggin my Potatoes" on the flip side of a Chris Barber Record?
2. The EFDSS sent six people to the US to collect something. When Americans came to England a few years later they found that 'something' unrecognizable. What was it?
3. Which Lonnie Donnegan recording was banned by the BBC?
4. What is a tea chest and what is it used for in folk music?
5.How did the Futdella work?

Subject: RE: Trivial Pursuit: folksinger's edition
From: Haruo
Date: 14 Jan 02 - 11:24 PM

Better late than never. On Woody I would have got 2 out of five (I had strong hunches about Bastille Day and Lucky Strikes) if I had seen the thread in time.

Liland

Subject: RE: Trivial Pursuit: folksinger's edition
From: Chris Amos
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 01:43 AM

PaulM right on all counts.

Apart from using a tea chest as a bass in a sciffle group (with broom handle and string attatched) I can't think of another use. bert you have me stumped

Chris

Subject: RE: Trivial Pursuit: folksinger's edition
From: Muskrat
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 02:43 AM

1) Lonnie Donegan was a member of Chris Barber's band; it was his version of "Diggin' My Potatos."

2) No idea. An American accent?

3) No idea. Content or quality?

4) The tea chest is/was used (with a stick and string attached) as a bass in a skiffle group

5) The fotdella (`foot diller,' as in 'killer-diller') was invented and played by one man band Jesse Fuller; it was used to play bass strings by stomping on a kick drum petal with his foot

Subject: RE: Trivial Pursuit: folksinger's edition
From: Jerry Dingleman: The Boy Wonder(inactve)
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 09:08 AM

1) Lead Belly's "Silver City Bound" is about Blind Lemon Jefferson. ddw is correct.

2) Norman Blake's "Ragtime Texas" is about Henry Thomas. Rick Fielding is correct.

3) Phil Ochs' "Bound For Glory" is about Woody Guthrie. ddw is right again.

No takers on the rest.

4) Nanci Griffith's "Ford Econoline" is about Rosalie Sorrels.

5) John Gorka's "That's How Legends Are Made" is about Stan Rogers.

6) Joni Mitchell's "Rainy Night House" is about Leonard Cohen.

7) Peggy Seeger's "Old Friend" is about Ralph Rinzler.

8) Janet Smith's "A Little Muscle" is about Malvina Reynolds.

9) Eric Bogle- Katie and the Dreamtime Land is about Kate Wolf.

Jerry

Subject: RE: Trivial Pursuit: folksinger's edition
From: Bert
Date: 19 Jan 02 - 10:34 PM

1) spot on Muskrat
2)American Square Dancing - When Americans eventually brought square dancing to England, a group of dancers left the EFDSS and formed their own club called The Renegades. This started a movement which eventually led to the forming of The British Association of American Square Dance Clubs.
3)Nobody Loves Like an Irishman - The BBC felt that the refence to the Koran migh be offensive to Moslems.
4)Muskrat and Cris both right.
5)Muskrat right again.