Xanadu or Gehenna? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Devil

"Sympathy for the Devil" was on the Rolling Stones' "Beggar's Banquet" album. In a tongue-in-cheek interview on "Saturday Night Live" years ago, Mick Jagger (who has been called a Satanist) was asked what his role was in doing the devil's work. He replied: "Well, it's largely ceremonial".

Answer: Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead used the hell and bucket combination in a couple of their songs; this one was on their "In the Dark" album. It's a breakup song, as only the Dead could imagine one.

Answer: love

A song that well-matched the "Flower Power" movement, "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" was a 1967 Donovan song mostly concerning colors. It has been covered by singers from several genres including Richie Havens, Eartha Kitt and They Might Be Giants.

Answer: Rock and Roll Heaven

The last big hit for the Righteous Brothers (it reached number 3 on the "Billboard Hot 100"), the song remembered several deceased musicians from the 1970s. It was originally recorded by the band Climax from Los Angeles, California.

Answer: Hellhound

Though he recorded few songs, Robert Johnson has been a major influence on many musicians and on later styles of the blues and rock and roll. "Hellhound on My Trail" was the first single released from his recordings. His death at 27 likely made him the first member of the "27 Club", musicians who died at age 27.

Answer: Norman Greenbaum

A seemingly simple song, it topped the record charts in the U.S. and most Commonwealth nations and is cited as one of the important songs of rock and roll. Greenbaum was never able to duplicate his success and so became a one-hit wonder.

Answer: heaven

"Three Steps to Heaven" was a posthumous number one record in the United Kingdom in 1960, following the death of Eddie Cochran after a taxi accident in Wiltshire, England. Cochran had used the Crickets, Buddy Holly's band, on the record. Holly had died in a plane crash a year earlier.

Answer: AC/DC

Australia's hard rock band AC/DC released "Hells Bells" in 1980. It was one of their biggest hits in Australia and was moderately successful in the U.S.

Answer: an angel

"Heaven Must be Missing an Angel (Part 1)" was a 1976 song by Tavares, five brothers from Providence, Rhode Island. The mid-1970s were their most successful period. An early drummer for the group, non-family member Joey Kramer, became the drummer for another New England group: Aerosmith.

Answer: blue

A lifelong New Orleans, Louisiana resident, Antoine "Fats" Domino has had 35 American Top 40 hit songs. He was one of the first rock and roll/rhythm and blues stars. "My Blue Heaven" (or hea-VON, as Fats pronounced it in his Creole accent) was released as the B-side of "I'm in Love Again", a number one song on the "Billboard Rhythm and Blues" charts in 1956, "My Blue Heaven" reached number 5. Domino was given the National Medal of Arts by President Bill Clinton in 1998; it was lost in the New Orleans flooding caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. President George W. Bush replaced it in 2006.