|
Structure
Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
- There are a total of 65 general entries. We are selecting 30 for display.
Special Topics
|
 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Rage Against The Machine
13. When he was 13 Tom decided to pick up the guitar, but after only 2 horrible attempts he stopped going to formal lessons.
Political Science. Tom did his thesis on student protest in South Africa.
| Tom worked briefly as a scheduling secretary for Californian Senator. What is the Senator's name? | Rage Quiz-Tom Morello
|
Alan Cranston. Tom says on the RATM star profile,'I got to see first hand in the belly of the beast how it works and even though the senator who I worked for was a particularily progressive one, the degree to which America is a checkbook democracy was painfully obvious, and also there was a great deal of hypocracy there'
He thought they were trying to market the band artificially.
Parents for Rock and Rap.
| Tom had said that it never really entered his mind that he was half white until he was around what age? | Rage Quiz-Tom Morello
|
22. Tom even claims that he 'intergrated Libertyville' by being the first black kid there, and also stated that, that experience made him political. 'When you're black in America, you're political, like it or not'.
A Buddhist Monk, protesting.
Los Four. After a few years with Los Four, Beto had a nervous breakdown and destroyed his paintings. Zack helped his father destroy the paintings when he visited Beto on weekends.
Fifth grade. The UC Irvine Farm School was a laboratory school that was housed in former ranch hands' bungalows from the Irvine Ranch.
| The father of Tom Morello, RATM's guitar player, Ngethe Njoroge, was a former Mau Mau guerrilla and Kenya's first Ambassador to the United Nations. What was the name of Tom's great-uncle, the first president of Kenya after its independence? | Rage Against the Machine's Multiple Personalities
|
Jomo Kenyatta. Tom grew up in Libertyville, Illinois, in the 60s and 70s, a virtually all-white suburb of Chicago.
Type 1 diabetes. Brad's last name, Wilk, means "wolf" in Polish.
Harvard University. After graduating from Harvard, Tom worked as a congressional staffer for California Senator Alan Cranston.
| Before RATM, Zack de la Rocha fronted a hardcore band that had a large following in Irvine and Huntington Beach, CA. What was the name of the band, whose only release was "No Spiritual Surrender"? | Rage Against the Machine's Multiple Personalities
|
Inside Out. Inside Out broke up in 1990 and Rage Against the Machine formed in 1991.
Lock Up. Lock Up's original drummer, Michael Lee, formerly played with the Cult and later with Jimmy Plant and Robert Page.
| Rage Against the Machine's first album, which was self-titled, features the photo of a Buddhist monk burning himself up in protest of the South Vietnamese government. The picture won the World Press Photo of the Year award in 1963. What was the name of the monk? | Rage Against the Machine's Multiple Personalities
|
Thich Quang Duc. Thich Quang Duc was protesting the murder and persecution of Buddhist monks by South Vietnam's Ngo Dinh Diem administration.
| Rage Against the Machine appeared on Saturday Night Live in April 1996. They were originally scheduled to play two songs, but were kicked off the episode after their first song. What political figure was the guest host for that episode? | Rage Against the Machine's Multiple Personalities
|
Steve Forbes. RATM was removed from the set of SNL after they attempted to hang upside down American flags on their amps, in protest of Republican presidential candidate Steve Forbes' appearance.
| On New Year's Day in 1994, the EZLN, an Indian rebel army, started an uprising in the Mexican state of Chiapas. Zack de la Rocha made four trips to Chiapas in support of EZLN. What is the "nom de guerre" of EZLN's charismatic spokesperson? | Rage Against the Machine's Multiple Personalities
|
Subcomandante Marcos. Subcomandante Marcos has never appeared in public without a ski mask on. The Mexican government alleges him to be Rafael Sebastián Guillén, a former professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Chris Cornell. Chris Cornell was in the process of recording a solo album, but shelved the project, in order to form Audioslave.
The Nightwatchman. The Nightwatchman opened for the Dave Matthews Band during its European tour in May 2007.
| Zack de la Rocha recorded a 20-track project in New Orleans with what industrial performer, who says that the collaboration will probably never be released (with the exception of 2004's "We Want It All")? | Rage Against the Machine's Multiple Personalities
|
Trent Reznor. Reznor says that the collaboration was excellent, although Zack wasn't happy with the results.
| In July 2007, Rage Against the Machine headlined the Rock the Bells hip-hop festival. What band also appeared in the festival, with whom Rage previously appeared for a live performance and recording of "How I Could Just Kill A Man"? | Rage Against the Machine's Multiple Personalities
|
Cypress Hill. Cypress Hill, like RATM, was also banned from Saturday Night Live, after bandmember DJ Muggs smoked pot on-air.
|
Fun Trivia | 
Quizzes | 
Games
| 
People | 
Services | 
Help | 
Me
