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Kansas is a Band Trivia Quiz

"Kansas is a band." So said the back of the album cover for this Topeka, Kansas garage band's first album, "Kansas". This quiz will ask you ten questions about the band and its songs. Have fun.

A multiple-choice quiz by Jayman0755. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
Jayman0755

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
196,346

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
889

Awards
Top 35% Quiz

Last 3 plays: Guest 160 (8/10), Guest 68 (7/10), Guest 50 (8/10).

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Question 1 of 10

1. Kansas' highest position on the US Billboard album charts was #4. Which album reached that position? Hint

Leftoverture

Point of Know Return

Song for America

Masque

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Question 2 of 10

2. The band's first five albums ("Kansas", "Song for America", "Masque", "Leftoverture" and "Point of Know Return") did not include any songs not written by a member of Kansas.

True

False

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Question 3 of 10

3. At which Kansas landmark can the cover art for the band's first album, "Kansas" be seen? Hint

The Eisenhower Museum in Abilene

Coronado Heights near Lindsborg

Fort Larned National Historic Site near Larned

The Capitol rotunda in Topeka

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Question 4 of 10

4. Kansas' highest position on the US Billboard singles charts was #6. Which song reached that position? Hint

Song for America

Carry On, Wayward Son

Dust in the Wind

Point of Know Return

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Question 5 of 10

5. After original band members Dave Hope and Kerry Livgren left the band, the six original members never recorded together again.

True

False

6. The last half of this quiz will deal with Kansas' lyrics. We'll start with an easy one. In "Carry On, Wayward Son" the wayward son is advised to "Lay your weary head to rest, don't you cry ...". Hint

No more

Again

So Hard

Too much

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Question 7 of 10

7. "Here all life abounds" is a recurring lyric in the first two verses of which song? Hint

Incomudro - Hymn to the Atman

Song for America

Icarus Borne on Wings of Steel

I Can Fly

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Question 8 of 10

8. In the song "Point of Know Return" the singer finds a note. The person who wrote the note "Wrote that when you could see it, you ...". Hint

Cried with fear

Celebrated

Wrote a note

Took pictures

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Question 9 of 10

9. Which song from the first album "Kansas" contains the lyric: "The fool and the wise man both burn at the stake". Hint

Apercu

Belexes

Journey from Mariabronn

Death of Mother Nature Suite

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Question 10 of 10

10. The stage for which song from the "Song for America" is set with the words: "On a winter's night, stars are cold and bright in the sky, the slumber of the earth is pure and deep". Hint

Lamplight Symphony

Incomudro - Hymn to the Atman

Lonely Street

The Devil Game

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Kansas' highest position on the US Billboard album charts was #4. Which album reached that position?

Answer: Point of Know Return

Kansas reached #4 with the "Point of Know Return" album, which included their highest rated single ever, "Dust in the Wind".

2. The band's first five albums ("Kansas", "Song for America", "Masque", "Leftoverture" and "Point of Know Return") did not include any songs not written by a member of Kansas.

Answer: False

"Bringing It Back," a rocking number on the band's first album, was written by J. J. Cale. It wasn't until their "Power" album (their thirteenth, released in 1986) that the band recorded another song not written or co-written by a member of Kansas.

3. At which Kansas landmark can the cover art for the band's first album, "Kansas" be seen?

Answer: The Capitol rotunda in Topeka

The mural, "Tragic Prelude" by John Steuart Curry, adorns the rotunda of the State Capitol in Topeka. The painting allegorically depicts famed abolitionist John Brown during the "Bleeding Kansas" decade of the 1850s.

4. Kansas' highest position on the US Billboard singles charts was #6. Which song reached that position?

Answer: Dust in the Wind

"Dust in the Wind", a haunting ballad sung by Steve Walsh and, according to the credits, written by "Kansas", reached #6 on the US Billboard charts. While it was the band's highest charting single, in 1995 their single "Carry On, Wayward Son" was the most requested song on classic rock stations in the US, according to Billboard.

5. After original band members Dave Hope and Kerry Livgren left the band, the six original members never recorded together again.

Answer: False

In 2000 the six original band members (Hope, Livgren, Steve Walsh, Robbie Steinhardt, Phil Ehart, and Richard Willaims, along with current bass player Billy Greer) recorded the album "Somewhere to Elsewhere" in Livgren's Topeka, Kansas studio. It was the first time all six original members had been featured on the same album in over 20 years.

Answer: No more

"Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more."
(Written by Kerry Livgren)

7. "Here all life abounds" is a recurring lyric in the first two verses of which song?

Answer: Song for America

"Virgin land of forest green, dark and stormy plains, here all life abounds
Sunlit valley, mountain fields, unseen in the rain, here all life abounds
No man rules this land, no human hand has soiled this paradise
Waiting patiently, so much to see, so rich in Earth's delights"
(Written by Kerry Livgren)

8. In the song "Point of Know Return" the singer finds a note. The person who wrote the note "Wrote that when you could see it, you ...".

Answer: Cried with fear

"Today I found a message floating
In the sea from you to me
You wrote that when you could see it
You cried with fear, the point was near"
(Written by Steve Walsh, Phil Ehart, and Robby Steinhardt)

9. Which song from the first album "Kansas" contains the lyric: "The fool and the wise man both burn at the stake".

Answer: Belexes

"You've got the power it's there deep inside
Just look around and you'll know what you've tried
So much relies on the course that you take
The fool and the wise man both burn at the stake"
(Written by Kerry Livgren)

10. The stage for which song from the "Song for America" is set with the words: "On a winter's night, stars are cold and bright in the sky, the slumber of the earth is pure and deep".

Answer: Lamplight Symphony

"Lamplight Symphony", a song by Kerry Livgren about an elderly man's attention oscillating between his deceased wife's grave and the happy memories that are fading like the old pictures of her he has in his album, is possibly one of Kansas' most poignant musical pictures, and one of my favorite songs.

Source: Author Jayman0755

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