Bob Dylan Trivia: From Blowin’ in the Wind to Icon!
1.
Which Biblical characters are mentioned in Bob Dylan's song "Desolation Row"?
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Cain And Abel
2.
What is Bob Dylan's home town?
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Hibbing, Minnesota
3.
What was the name of the group that Bob Dylan played in, alongside George Harrison, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Roy Or?
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The Traveling Wilburys
4.
What is the name of the first book Bob Dylan wrote in 1971?
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Tarantula
5.
How many times had Dylan played on ABC television's Hootenanny show?
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Never
6.
Who did Bob Dylan visit on his first trip to New York City in 1961?
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Woody Guthrie
7.
Who did Bob Dylan ask to "Play a song for him"?
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Mr. Tambourine Man
8.
What song did Bob Dylan write for Sara, as sung in the song "Sara"?
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Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands
9.
What university did Bob Dylan briefly attend?
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University Of Minnesota
10.
What was Bob Dylan's first album called?
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Bob Dylan
11.
What band does Bob Dylan's son Jakob front?
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Wallflowers
12.
What year did Bob Dylan have the hit single "Like A Rolling Stone" on Columbia?
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1965
13.
In a Bob Dylan song, where were "six white horses" delivered?
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The Penitentiary
14.
What is Bob Dylan's real name?
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Robert Allen Zimmerman
15.
Why was Bob Dylan criticized at the Newport Folk Festival?
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He Used An Electric Guitar
16.
What was the date of Bob Dylan's first live electric performance?
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25/Jul/65
17.
Who was Dylan's first manager?
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Albert Grossman
18.
Who produced Dylan's first LP?
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John Hammond
19.
According to a certain Bob Dylan song what is a good car to drive after a war?
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Cadillac
20.
Mr. Jones is the central character of what Bob Dylan song?
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Ballad Of A Thin Man
21.
Who backed Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival when he went electric?
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Members Of The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
22.
Who played piano on Dylan's "Watching the River Flow"?
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Leon Russell
23.
What was Dylan's son's band's first top 40 song?
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6th Avenue Heartache
24.
What albums are considered to be Dylan's Christian Trilogy?
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Slow Train Coming, Saved, Shot Of Love
25.
The first electric song Dylan played at 1965's historic Newport Folk Festival was which of these?
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Maggie's Farm
26.
What was the name of the 1963 BBC television play that Bob Dylan made his acting debut in?
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Madhouse On Castle Street
27.
In what club did Bob Dylan make his 1961 New York City debut?
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Gerde's Folk City
28.
From which university did Bob Dylan accept a Doctorate of Music?
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Princeton
29.
Bob Dylan's friend Happy Traum accompanied him on which song?
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Down In The Flood
30.
In which song did Bob Dylan sing the line, "He just smoked my eyelids and punched my cigarette"?
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Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues
31.
What was Bob Dylan's first high school rock band called?
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The Golden Chords
32.
In the song "Hazel", what color hair does the woman of the title have?
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Dirty Blonde
33.
Who killed Big Jim in Bob Dylan's song "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts"?
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Rosemary
34.
What kind of mouth does the "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" have in the Bob Dylan song?
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Mercury
35.
What Dylan song was on Ron Wood's "Gimme Some Neck" album?
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Seven Days
36.
With whom did Bob Dylan co-write "Brownsville Girl"?
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Sam Shepherd
37.
Where did Dylan actually perform the "Royal Albert Hall" bootleg of 1966?
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Manchester Free Trade Center
38.
Who is the girl walking with Dylan on the cover of "Freewheelin'"?
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Suze Rotolo
39.
What song did Bob Dylan open with at his 30th anniversary concert?
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Song To Woody
40.
Which Bob Dylan song says: "You've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books"?
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Ballad Of A Thin Man
41.
In which song does Bob Dylan sing to "Sweet Melinda"?
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Just Like Tom Thumb's Lues
42.
Which country artist has starred in a movie with Bob Dylan?
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Kris Kristofferson
43.
Which song did Bob Dylan write on Thanksgiving after declining a dinner invitation?
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Just Like A Woman
44.
Which hotel's window was Bob Dylan gazing out of in the song "Blind Willie McTell"?
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St James Hotel
45.
What was the name of the house in which Dylan and The Band recorded the material for the "Basement Tapes"?
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Big Pink
46.
Which town in Minnesota did Bob Dylan grow up in?
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Hibbing
47.
Where was Bob Dylan born?
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Duluth
48.
How long is the classic Bob Dylan song that concludes the album "Highway 61"?
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11 Minutes 22 Seconds
49.
Which films musical score did "Shelter from the Storm" feature upon?
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Jerry Maguire
50.
Which was the only cover of the following albums to feature a photograph of Bob Dylan?
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Empire Burlesque
51.
Which song was inspired from a newspaper cutting Bob was given, telling the amusing tale of events surrounding the Hudson Belle?
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Talkin' Bear Mountain Massacre Blues
52.
What decade is the hit single "Rainy Day Women #12 And 35" by Bob Dylan from?
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Sixties
53.
What year did Bob Dylan have the hit single "Lay Lady Lay" on Columbia?
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1969
54.
Which Paul Simon song did Bob Dylan include on "Self Portrait"?
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The Boxer
55.
In "Love and Theft", what does Bob Dylan drink a toast to?
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Decay
56.
What famous 1965 Bob Dylan song was over 6 minutes long?
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Like A Rolling Stone
57.
Who played electric guitar on Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone"?
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Michael Bloomfield
58.
Which group is seen in the trees on the cover of Dylan's "John Wesley Harding" LP?
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The Beatles
59.
How old was Bob Dylan when he won the Tom Paine Award?
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22
60.
How many original songs are on Bob Dylan's first album?
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2
61.
Jimi Hendrix recorded "Electric Ladyland" at which studio?
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Record Plant
62.
"When the jelly faced women all sneeze" is from which Bob Dylan song?
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Visions Of Johanna
63.
What's the title of the film of Bob Dylan's visit to England in the 60's?
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Don't Look Back
64.
What folk magazine did Bob Dylan contribute to on a regular basis in the early 1960's?
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Broadside
65.
Which Bob Dylan song was performed by Bruce Springsteen during the Amnesty International Tour?
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Chimes Of Freedom
66.
What two poets are named in Bob Dylan's song "Desolation Row"?
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Ezra Pound And T.S. Eliot
67.
What 20th century writer dedicated a short story to Bob Dylan?
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Joyce Carol Oates
68.
Which Bob Dylan album did Danial Lanios not produce?
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Infidels
69.
Bob Dylan co-wrote "Love Rescue Me" in the late 1980's with what band?
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U2
70.
In a Bob Dylan song, who does the narrator marry "on the fifth day of May"?
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Isis
71.
Who sang harmony on the bulk of Bob Dylan's 1976 LP "Desire"?
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Emmylou Harris
72.
Which Bob Dylan album includes his cover of Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi"?
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Dylan
73.
What was Dylan's first single?
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Mixed-Up Confusion
74.
In which song does Bob Dylan sing to Sweet Melinda?
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Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
75.
Which Bob Dylan lyric mentions "old men with broken teeth stranded without love"?
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Shelter From The Storm
76.
In the song "Isis", what object is the roamer NOT thinking he will find at the icy pyramids?
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Rubys
77.
Which song was featured on the 1997 CD "The Best of Bob Dylan"?
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Oh Sister
78.
Which Dylan song makes no reference to a sea or ocean in the lyrics?
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Romance In Durango
79.
Which Bob Dylan album did not reach number one in the 1970's?
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Street-Legal
80.
In the Bob Dylan song "Maggie's Farm", how much money does Maggie's brother give you?
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A Nickel And A Dime
81.
On whose album did Bob Dylan first receive a musician credit?
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Harry Belafonte
82.
Bob Dylan's song "Dear Landlord" is thought to have been written about Dylan's what?
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Manager
83.
The "Persian Drunkard" appears in which Bob Dylan song?
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Absolutely Sweet Marie
84.
What was Bob Dylan's character called in "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid"?
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Alias
85.
What was the first name of Bob Dylan's father?
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Abe
86.
In the Bob Dylan song "Motorpsycho Nitemare", what did the farmer throw at the narrator's head?
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Readers Digest
87.
In 1966, what nationality did Bob Dylan claim he was?
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Swedish
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