Some sample questions from this category:
* "Their minds were overflowing with the visions of their day."
* "She rubs my feet while the sun goes down."
* "Some say he was a sailor who died away at sea."
* "The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down."
* "She's away and westward bound/Far above the clouds she'll fly..."
* "The lamp is burning low upon my table top."
* "You'll find me there with the door shut tight/And the one wish that remains..."
* "...Slanted rays and colored days stark blue horizons/Naked limbs and wheat bins hazy afternoons..."
* "Her name was Ann and I'll be damned if I recall her face/She left me not knowin' what to do."
* In what small Ontario town was Gordon Lightfoot born?
* Lightfoot first appeared at this famous Toronto landmark at age 13.
* As a young man, Lightfoot used to be a regular on which of the following popular Canadian variety series?
* This act was the first to record a Lightfoot song, resulting in sudden international exposure.
* Who was Lightfoot's Swedish-born first wife?
* Bob Dylan has been quoted as saying he wished he'd written this Lightfoot song.
* In the seventies Lightfoot had a relationship with a woman named Cathy Smith, who would go on to some notoriety of her own due to her involvement in the death of this performer.
* Lightfoot was suddenly struck with this nerve disease in the mid-seventies.
* You've all heard arguably Lightfoot's most famous song, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" about the sinking of an iron ore carrier on Lake Superior in November 1975. But just WHO was Edmund Fitzgerald?
* Once the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald was discovered, there was a big controversy about a plan to raise the ship's bell as part of a memorial. Where is the bell now?
* The lyrics give up the month in which the freighter sank. As follows, this is in "the skies of _______ turned gloomy" and "the Gales of _______ came early." What month do these snippets refer to?
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