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No Wave Music

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Introduction:
"Welcome. This quiz will test your knowledge of the short lived alternative 'no wave' music scene."


1. No Wave was a short lived music and art scene based primarily in what city?
    Boston
    Los Angeles
    New York City
    Chicago


2. Lydia Lunch was once part of this early No Wave band.
    Suicide
    Mars
    Teenage Jesus and the Jerks
    DNA


3. Lydia Lunch would later do a song with No Wave band Sonic Youth. What was the song?
    Inhuman
    Death Valley '69
    Dirty Boots
    Superstar


4. Which No Wave band is still going strong in the new century?
    Bush Tetras
    DNA
    Sonic Youth
    Teenage Jesus and the Jerks


5. A band of the No Wave scene were James Chance and the ___________.
    Distractions
    Dicktators
    Movements
    Contortions


6. James Chance is known for singing and playing what horn?
    Trumpet
    Saxophone
    Recorder
    Trombone


7. Sonic Youth's 2006 studio album includes the song "Reena." What is the album called?
    In the Bedroom
    White Light District
    False Step
    Rather Ripped


8. No Wave was also a film movement. Which director is a well known filmmaker of the No Wave scene?
    Cameron Crowe
    David Lynch
    Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu
    Jim Jarmusch


9. Which No Wave artist composed music for films such as "Permanent Vacation" and "Stranger Than Paradise"?
    James Chance
    Kim Gordon
    John Lurie
    Lydia Lunch


10. Back to James Chance. What other name does he go by?
    James Black
    James White
    James Blue
    James Grey


11. Who produced the compilation album "No New York" in 1978?
    Brian Eno
    David Byrne
    Tom Verlaine
    Rhys Chatham


12. Who sang for Bush Tetras?
    Lydia Lunch
    Cynthia Sley
    Judy Nylon
    Siouxsie Sioux


13. Which female punk singer's sister was in the band, DNA?
    Siouxsie Sioux of Siouxsie and the Banshees
    Pauline Murray of Penetration
    Excene Cervanka of X
    Cherie Currie of The Runaways


14. Who are the two members of Suicide?
    Martin Rev and Alan Vega
    Bob Fay and Jim Kay
    Johhny Jewel and Tv Eye
    Karl Head and Jac Knee


15. In which time period was No Wave founded?
    early 1980's
    late 1980's
    mid 1980's
    late 1970's


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