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Quiz about Obscure Grateful Dead For True Fans

Obscure Grateful Dead For True Fans Quiz

This is the last of a series of Grateful Dead quizzes. Hope you enjoy this one.

A multiple-choice quiz by ashlybug. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
ashlybug

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
102,899

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
20

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
11 / 20

Plays
2623

Last 3 plays: Guest 184 (14/20), Guest 23 (9/20), Guest 76 (10/20).

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Question 1 of 20

1. How many times was Jerry Garcia court-martialed while he was in the U.S. Army? Hint

He wasn't in the Army

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Question 2 of 20

2. What was the name of the first official Grateful Dead fan club? Hint

The Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion

Bozo's on the Bus

The Grateful Dead Fan Club

Deadheads Inc.

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Question 3 of 20

3. The Dead's recording studio in San Rafael was nicknamed 'Club Front' because it was on Front Street. What was the first album recorded there? Hint

'Mars Hotel'

'Blues for Allah'

'Cats Under the Stars'

'Kingfish'

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Question 4 of 20

4. What is the room that houses the band's tape archive, also at Club Front, called? Hint

The Tombs

The Vault

Dead Space

The Weirhouse

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Question 5 of 20

5. 'Uncle Bobo' was the nickname bestowed on Bill Graham by which member of the Grateful Dead? Hint

Pigpen

Bob Weir

Phil Lesh

Jerry Garcia

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Question 6 of 20

6. From 1971 on Jerry Garcia usually played one of three guitars built for him by Doug Irwin. Which of the following is not the name of one of Irwin's guitars? Hint

Rosebud

The Tiger

Skull and Bones

The Wolf

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Question 7 of 20

7. Which of the following band members actually managed to graduate from high school? Hint

Pigpen

Jerry Garcia

Mickey Hart

Phil Lesh

8. In the early 1970's Dan Healy, Owsley Stanley, and other engineers designed a custom sound system for the Dead. It stood three stories high and was dubbed the 'Wall of Sound'. How many speakers did the wall contain? Hint

641

364

844

420

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Question 9 of 20

9. True or false: The Further Festival got its name from a bus.

True

False

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Question 10 of 20

10. What was Albert Hoffman's 'contribution' to the Grateful Dead scene? Hint

He invented LSD

He invented tie-dying

He was the first person to electrify a guitar

He was the long-time Grateful Dead tour manager

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Question 11 of 20

11. What is the significance of Sebastopol, California's Analy High School in Grateful Dead history? Hint

Pigpen was expelled from there

It was Bob Weir's alma mater

It was the site of Jerry Garcia's first public performance

The first Dead fan club was formed there

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Question 12 of 20

12. Which of the following was NOT one of Bob Weir's 'cowboy songs'? Hint

Mexicali Blues

Me and My Uncle

Lonesome Cowboy Blues

El Paso

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Question 13 of 20

13. Jerry Garcia was missing half of the middle finger on his right hand. How did he lose it? Hint

Lost it in a car door

A training accident in the Army

His brother cut it off with an axe

He was born without it

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Question 14 of 20

14. Which friend of the Grateful Dead family participated as a volunteer in the CIA-funded experiments involving the use of LSD? Hint

Phil Lesh

Robert Hunter

Jerry Garcia

Bill Kreutzman

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Question 15 of 20

15. Who was the Grateful Dead's lighting designer from 1972 on? Hint

Owsley Stanley

Richard Raffel

Chip Monck

Candace Brightman

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Question 16 of 20

16. What was the name of the Grateful Dead's in-house publishing company? Hint

Ice Nine Publishing

GD Publishing

Relix Music, Inc.

Dancing Bear Publishing

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Question 17 of 20

17. In the US, "Dupree's Diamond News", "Relix", and "the Golden Road" were some of the main Dead-themed magazines. What was the name of Europe's Grateful Dead magazine? Hint

Spiral Light

Dunkelstern

Euro-Dead

Grateful Dead Magazine

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Question 18 of 20

18. What is the main Grateful Dead related newsgroup on USENET? Hint

alt.music.deadheads

alt.grateful.dead

rec.music.gratefuldead

rec.music.gdead

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Question 19 of 20

19. 'Reckoning' and 'Dead Set' were live albums, the first acoustic and the second electric, recorded in the fall of 1980. They were recorded during long stands at two venues. One was the Warfield Theater in San Francisco- what was the other venue? Hint

Radio City Music Hall , NYC

Lisner Auditorium, Washington, DC

The Capitol Theater, Passaic, NJ

The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles

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Question 20 of 20

20. One of my favorite song lyrics was, "They're a band beyond description". What song did it come from? Hint

Playin' in the Band

New Speedway Boogie

Scarlet Begonias

The Music Never Stopped

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. How many times was Jerry Garcia court-martialed while he was in the U.S. Army?

Answer: 2

Garcia was in the Army for 9 months, being discharged in 1960. He was stationed at the Presidio in San Francisco and was court-martialed twice. He was also AWOL eight times.

2. What was the name of the first official Grateful Dead fan club?

Answer: The Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion

Founded in 1965, the cost to join was $1.00. The song 'The Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion', which appeared on the band's first album, was named for the fan club.

3. The Dead's recording studio in San Rafael was nicknamed 'Club Front' because it was on Front Street. What was the first album recorded there?

Answer: 'Cats Under the Stars'

'Cats Under the Stars', by the Jerry Garcia Band, was recorded at Club Front in 1978. 'Shakedown Street' was the first Grateful Dead album recorded there.

4. What is the room that houses the band's tape archive, also at Club Front, called?

Answer: The Vault

There are over 2,200 Dead shows stored in the Vault, but not all of them. There are tape traders who have tapes of shows the Dead themselves don't have.

5. 'Uncle Bobo' was the nickname bestowed on Bill Graham by which member of the Grateful Dead?

Answer: Bob Weir

In 1978, Bob Weir announced from the stage that it was Bill Graham's birthday and since they hadn't bought him a present, the band was giving him a new name; Uncle Bobo. Graham never liked the name.

6. From 1971 on Jerry Garcia usually played one of three guitars built for him by Doug Irwin. Which of the following is not the name of one of Irwin's guitars?

Answer: Skull and Bones

'The Wolf' was built in 1971, 'The Tiger' in 1979, and 'Rosebud' in 1990. After Garcia's death, their ownership was the subject of a lawsuit.

7. Which of the following band members actually managed to graduate from high school?

Answer: Phil Lesh

Hart and Garcia quit high school to go into the service. Pigpen was expelled from Palo Alto HS. Lesh graduated from high school and went on to college at Berkeley.

Answer: 641

The 641-speaker, 26,400-watt system was so massive that it required 5 trailers to haul it around. It was retired at the end of 1974.

9. True or false: The Further Festival got its name from a bus.

Answer: true

The bus that Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters bombed around the country in was named 'Furthur'. The festival's name seems to be reported about equally as "Furthur" or "Further".

10. What was Albert Hoffman's 'contribution' to the Grateful Dead scene?

Answer: He invented LSD

Hoffman synthesized LSD-25 in April of 1943, while working at Sandoz Laboratories in Switzerland.

11. What is the significance of Sebastopol, California's Analy High School in Grateful Dead history?

Answer: It was the site of Jerry Garcia's first public performance

Garcia's band won a contest there and got recording time as a prize. They recorded the Bill Doggett song, 'Raunchy'.

12. Which of the following was NOT one of Bob Weir's 'cowboy songs'?

Answer: Lonesome Cowboy Blues

The Dead never played or recorded 'Lonesome Cowboy Blues'.

13. Jerry Garcia was missing half of the middle finger on his right hand. How did he lose it?

Answer: His brother cut it off with an axe

Jerry lost his finger at the age of four while chopping wood with his brother, Tiff.

14. Which friend of the Grateful Dead family participated as a volunteer in the CIA-funded experiments involving the use of LSD?

Answer: Robert Hunter

Hunter, along with novelist Ken Kesey, were paid volunteers in the CIA's project MK-ULTRA.

15. Who was the Grateful Dead's lighting designer from 1972 on?

Answer: Candace Brightman

Jerry Garcia saw some work Brightman did with the Mahavishnu Orchestra and invited her along to do the lighting for the Dead's 1972 tour of Europe.

16. What was the name of the Grateful Dead's in-house publishing company?

Answer: Ice Nine Publishing

The name 'Ice Nine' came from Kurt Vonnegut's 'Cat's Cradle'. Robert Hunter was the president of Ice Nine.

17. In the US, "Dupree's Diamond News", "Relix", and "the Golden Road" were some of the main Dead-themed magazines. What was the name of Europe's Grateful Dead magazine?

Answer: Spiral Light

'Spiral Light' was first published in 1983 by a team of Deadheads in England.

18. What is the main Grateful Dead related newsgroup on USENET?

Answer: rec.music.gdead

rec.music.gdead, also known as Dead-Flames, was an outgrowth of a 1970's online mailing list for Heads.

Answer: Radio City Music Hall , NYC

A Halloween show at Radio City Music Hall ended the run of 25 3-set shows that resulted in the two live albums. It was also the last time the Dead did full acoustic sets.

20. One of my favorite song lyrics was, "They're a band beyond description". What song did it come from?

Answer: The Music Never Stopped

Unfortunately, the music did stop as far as the Dead was concerned, but they remain a band beyond description.

Source: Author ashlybug

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