Pop Quiz

Okay, class, put away your books and other materials, and get out a sheet of paper and a pen. It's time for a Houston music pop quiz. Reward yourselves three points for each correct answer, including each part of the matching question, and since this is a pretty hard little quiz, five points for each bonus question. The answers are at the end. Good luck, and don't even think about cheating.

a) The Coachmen

b) The American Blues

c) The Moving Sidewalks

d) The Saints

e) all of the above

2. Which of these hit songs about Georgia originally had "Houston" in the title?

a) "Midnight Train to Georgia"

b) "Rainy Night in Georgia"

c) "The Devil Went Down to Georgia"

d) "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia"

e) "Georgia"

3. In the mid-1960s, Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark played some of their earliest gigs at this folk club:

a) The Eclectic Chicken

b) The Jester

c) The Joker

d) The Smoker

e) The Midnight Toker

4. For one night in 1986, this Frenchman lifted the city out of the oil-bust doldrums by bathing the downtown skyline in light and sound:

a) Jean-Luc Ponty

b) Jean-Paul Sartre

c) Jean-Claude Killy

d) Jean-Michel Jarre

e) Jean-Luc Picard

5. At one point in the 1950s, blues six-stringers Joe "Guitar" Hughes, Johnny Clyde Copeland, Albert Collins, Johnny "Guitar" Watson and Lightnin' Hopkins were all living a few blocks from each other in this neighborhood:

a) Second Ward

b) Third Ward

c) Fourth Ward

d) Fifth Ward

e) Sixth Ward

6. On their first two nationally distributed releases, the Geto Boys' DJ was:

a) DJ Purple Stuff

b) DJ Yella

c) DJ Mean Green

d) DJ Blue Soulja

e) DJ Reddy Red

7. Who made the first record anywhere with a variant of the word "zydeco" in the title?

a) Clifton Chenier

b) Boozoo Chavis

c) Bob Ton Garlow

d) Lightnin' Hopkins

e) John Delafose

8. In 1970, what radio station's transmitter was bombed by the Ku Klux Klan?

a) KCOH

b) KNUZ

c) KLOL

d) KPFT

e) KTRU

9. Which rocker passed away on his New Orleans-bound tour bus after playing a show at Numbers?

a) Dave Williams of Drowning Pool

b) Brad Nowell of Sublime

c) Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon

d) Doug Hopkins of the Gin Blossoms

e) Jonathan Melvoin of Smashing Pumpkins

10. Which act was the first to play the Toyota Center?

a) Fleetwood Mac

b) R. Kelly

c) Rascal Flatts

d) Radiohead

e) Sarah McLachlan

11. Which of the following was not an area punk club?

a) Cabaret Voltaire

b) Apocalypse Monster Club

c) Power Tools

d) Yucatan Liquor Stand

e) The Oven

12. Which area stadium did Jerry Lee Lewis once perform a concert in?

a) The Astrodome

b) Robertson Stadium

c) Rice Stadium

d) Galena Park ISD's Dement Stadium

e) Jeppesen Stadium

13. Which of these artists does not appear on the Urban Cowboy soundtrack?

a) The Eagles

b) David Allan Coe

c) Bonnie Raitt

d) Jimmy Buffett

e) Dan Fogelberg

14. Match the famous Houston musician with the high school he or she attended:

1. Mickey Newbury

2. Kenny Rogers

3. Willie D.

4. Rodney Crowell

5. Lyle Lovett

6. Billy Gibbons

7. Clint Black

8. Beyoncé Knowles

9. Tommy Tune

10. Lil' Flip

11. South Park Mexican

12. Robert Earl Keen

13. Arnett Cobb

14. Big Moe

15. Cory Morrow

16. Doug Supernaw

17. Jack Ingram

18. BJ Thomas

a) Crosby

b) Davis

c) Eisenhower

d) Forest Brook

e) HSPVA

f) Katy

g) Klein

h) Lamar

i) Lamar Consolidated

j) Lee

k) Memorial

l) Milby

m) Sam Houston

n) Sharpstown

o) Wheatley

p) Woodlands

q) Worthing

r) Yates

15. Bonus: True or false: Willie Nelson wrote "Crazy," "Funny How Time Slips Away" and "Night Life" in Houston.

16. Double bonus: Who is opening for the White Stripes at a festival next month in Japan?