The Music Quiz

Opus No 1:
The Music Quiz
by Omkar Banare, Parth Sharma
and Anshul Roy,
with inputs from Samvit Kumar

Standard Pounce/Bounce rules apply
+10/0
+15/-5

Titles may or may not be hints.

“Random VICE headlines” memes serve as safety slides
in this quiz, keep an eye out for some easy chuckles.

1.Marty B. Mcfly?
X is a stage element of guitar showmanship popularised by Y. X is performed by going
in the squatting position, and moving forward letting one lower leg swing back and
forth in the air while playing the guitar.
Y states that he used to perform X as a child to entertain his family. In an interview
with Rolling Stone magazine he also claimed that it was in a 1956 show in New York
City that he performed it for the first time in order to hide pleats in his silk suit. As the
audience loved these moves, he did them again and again.
You most probably would have seen Angus Young doing this live.

2. ID X and the album.
On 25 March 1966, photographer Robert Whitaker had the X in the studio for a
conceptual art piece titled A Somnambulant Adventure. For the shoot, Whitaker took
a series of pictures of the group dressed in butcher smocks and draped with pieces of
meat and body parts from plastic baby dolls. The group played along as they were tired
of the usual photo shoots— recalled the band having "boredom and resentment at
having to do another photo session and another X thing"—and the concept was
compatible with their own black humor. _____ pushed strongly for the photo's
inclusion as the album cover, and reportedly described it as "our comment on the
[Vietnam] war".
A photograph of the band smiling amid the mock carnage was used as promotional
advertisements for the British release of the “__________" single.

Beatles’ Yesterday and Today( The Butcher Cover)

3.
Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60 (titled X), was written c. 1939–40. Initially dedicated to the life and deeds of
Y, Shostakovich decided instead to dedicate the symphony to the city of X. The work remains one of Shostakovich's best-known
compositions.
The piece soon became very popular in both the Soviet Union and the West as a symbol of resistance to Nazi totalitarianism and
militarism. It is still regarded as the major musical testament of the estimated 25 million Soviet citizens who lost their lives in World War
II. The symphony is played frequently at the X Cemetery, where half a million victims of the 900-day Siege of X are buried.

4.Tried calling Sofie Fatale for answers?
X is a Scots poem written by Y in 1788 and set to the tune of some traditional folk
song. The song begins by posing a rhetorical question as to whether it is right that old
times be forgotten, and is generally interpreted as a call to remember long-standing
friendships. It is well known in many countries, especially in the English-speaking
world, its traditional use being to bid farewell to the old year at the stroke of midnight.
By extension, it is also sung at funerals, graduations and as a farewell or ending to
other occasions. The international Boy Scout youth movement, in many countries, uses
it to close jamborees and other functions.
Either give X, or give the English translation and Y.

Auld Lang Syne( old long since), Robert Burns

5.There are two destinations at the end.
On the slide is a pic showing a road to
the Canning highway in Perth. As the
road shown in the pic descends from a
steep hill, the intersection there has had
many crashes and accidents. This served
as an inspiration for what?

Highway to hell
Kudos to our hall for fucking it up during Galaxy Westerns.

6. the progenitor of tabla #BloodyKolStylz

7. Let me take you there. . .Let me take you there.
So the 4th (or 5th, goddamn multiple
standards) floor of a certain 5 storey
building in NYC, located between 96
and 98 St. Mark Place was, left out due
to practicality, while the rest was
immortalised by a certain Mike Doud,
which was even nominated for a
Grammy. What’s all this about ?

8. Hear Ye!
Variations by Paganini on which national anthem ?

Band Logos
Written +10/0
+10 for all correct
6 questions in total

Exchange Sheets, Answers Follow

Answers
1. Grateful Dead
2. Jethro Tull
3. Motorhead
4. Opeth
5. Public Enemy
6. Tool

9. “Welcome to my world”
The X sound originated during the mid 1950s as a subgenre of American country
music, replacing the chart dominance of the rough honky tonk music which was
most popular in the 1940s and 1950s with "smooth strings and choruses",
"sophisticated background vocals" and "smooth tempos". It was an attempt "to
revive country sales, which had been devastated by the rise of rock 'n' roll.The X
sound was pioneered by staff at Decca Records, RCA Records and Columbia
Records in X, Tennessee

10.Wait for this...
An Indian pop band features Madhu Balakrishnan, Deepak Warrier, Deepak Das,
Harib Mohammed, Niran Kumar, Narayan Unni and X. Their most famous numbers
are a Hindi song written by X, called (and I kid you not), “Hello Sher Banke Tu Jung
Ladle” and a romantic song in Tamil, “Anbulla Azhake”. ID X.

11. Apply some suntan on me, will you, Senpai?
X is an aria composed in 1934 by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess.
The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel Porgy on which the opera
was based, although the song is also co-credited to Ira Gershwin by ASCAP.
The song soon became a popular and much recorded jazz standard, described as
"without doubt ... one of the finest songs the composer ever wrote ... Gershwin's highly
evocative writing brilliantly mixes elements of jazz and the song styles of blacks in the
southeast United States from the early twentieth century"
The song is recognized as one of the most covered songs in the history of recorded
music, with more than 33,000 covers by groups and solo performers.

12.
According to an interview _____gave in the 1950s, one night in 1939 he was playing "Cherokee" in
a jam session with guitarist William "Biddy" Fleet when he hit upon a method for developing his
solos that enabled one of his main musical innovations. He realized that the 12 semitones of the
chromatic scale can lead melodically to any key, breaking some of the confines of simpler jazz
soloing.
Early in its development, this new type of jazz was rejected by many of the established, traditional
jazz musicians who disdained their younger counterparts. The X-ers responded by calling these
traditionalists "moldy figs".
Some researchers speculate that it was a term used by Charlie Christian because it sounded like
something he hummed along with his playing. Dizzy Gillespie stated that the audiences coined
the name after hearing him scat the then-nameless tunes to his players and the press ultimately
picked it up, using it as an official term: "People, when they'd wanna ask for those numbers and
didn't know the name, would ask for X." Another theory is that it derives from the cry of "Arriba!
Arriba!" used by Latin American bandleaders of the period to encourage their bands.

Someday my prince will come - SW&t7D
Frank Churchill
Larry Morey
Adriana Caselotti
Prince Rogers Nelson

14
“X of YZ" is a 1952 popular song with music by George Shearing and lyrics by George
David Weiss under the pseudonym "B. Y. Forster" in order to circumvent the rule that
ASCAP and BMI composers could not collaborate. The song has become a jazz
standard.
The title refers to Charlie "Y" Parker and the YZ jazz club named after him.
Parker, in reality, played very few jobs at YZ, not because he was troublesome (from
drug addiction), but, according to Gene Ramey, Goodstein said, "He was continually
wanting money." Ramey had persuaded Goodstein to let Parker perform at YZ with his
band on a pair of Monday nights in 1954.
U2 references the club in the song "Angel of Harlem" with the lyrics "...YZ on 53, the
streets sounds like a symphony…”
Sesame Street featured a night club called YZ, run by Hoots the Owl, which was
occupied by various Ys.

Music inspired by dank Lit
Twas in the darkest depths of Mordor/I met a girl so fair/But Gollum, and the evil one crept up/And
slipped away with her.
Written +10/0
+10 for all correct

2) Id the song and the novel
The song deals with the mixed feelings of lust, fear and guilt that a female student has for a school
teacher and vice versa, and inappropriateness leading to confrontation which is unravelled later
on in the song.
Before joining The Police, Sting had previously worked as an English teacher. Sting said of the
song in 1981:
I wanted to write a song about sexuality in the classroom. I'd done teaching practice at secondary
schools and been through the business of having 15-year-old girls fancying me – and me really
fancying them! How I kept my hands off them I don't know... Then there was my love for ______
which I think is a brilliant novel. But I was looking for the key for eighteen months and suddenly
there it was. That opened the gates and out it came: the teacher, the open page, the virgin, the
rape in the car, getting the sack, _______, all that.

3)
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask _____
When she's ten feet tall
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a ________-_________ caterpillar
Has given you the call
Call _____
When she was just small
When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask _____
I think she'll know
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the _____ Knight is talking backwards
And the ___ Queen's off with her head
Remember what the ________ said
Feed your head
Feed your head

4)
Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather
Whiplash girl child in the dark
Comes in bells, your servant, don't forsake him
Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart
Downy sins of streetlight fancies
Chase the costumes she shall wear
Ermine furs adorn the imperious
Severin, Severin awaits you there
I am tired, I am weary
I could sleep for a thousand years
A thousand dreams that would awake me
Different colors made of tears
Kiss the boot of shiny, shiny leather
Shiny leather in the dark
Tongue of thongs, the belt that does await you
Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart
Severin, Severin, speak so slightly
Severin, down on your bended knee
Taste the whip, in love not given lightly
Taste the…

Exchange Sheets. Answers incoming...

Killing an Arab, by The Cure (inspired from Camus’ The Stranger)

Don't Stand So Close to Me
The Police
Lolita

White Rabbit
Jefferson Airplane
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Venus in Furs (The Velvet Underground)

15 People hear me people hear me
X completed his paratrooper training in just over eight months, and Major General C. W. G. Rich awarded him the
prestigious Screaming Eagles patch on January 11, 1962. On June 29, 1962, Captain Gilbert Batchman granted X an
honorable discharge on the basis of unsuitability. X later spoke of his dislike of the army and falsely stated that he had
received a medical discharge after breaking his ankle during his 26th parachute jump.
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr had first seen X performing on 11 January 1967 at the Bag O'Nails club in London. On 4
june 1967 McCartney, George Harrison, Jane Asher and Pattie Boyd watched them headline a bill at the city's Saville
Theatre. X opened his set with a version of the title track from The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album,
which had been released just three days before. On that night, X, played a white Stratocaster.

My Favorite Things- The Sound of Music
Rogers and Hammerstein

17 What goes on?
The image is only for ophthalmic pleasure

18. Give funda
"Gloomy Sunday", is a song composed by Hungarian pianist and composer Rezső Seress and published
in 1933.Poet László Jávor wrote his own lyrics to the song, titled Szomorú vasárnap (Sad Sunday)The
original musical composition was a piano melody in C-minor, with the lyrics being sung over it. Seress
wrote the song at the time of the Great Depression and increasing fascist influence in the writer's native
Hungary. There have been several urban legends regarding the song over the years.However, most of
these claims are unsubstantiated. The BBC banned Billie Holiday's version of the song from being
broadcast, as being detrimental to wartime morale, but allowed performances of instrumental
versions.However, there is little evidence of any other radio bans ; the BBC's ban was lifted only in
2002.What is the urban legend?

Suicide
Several suicides have been associated with this song. The composer himself committed suicide in 1968.

19. XY --------> XZ + AB ; XZ <----------> Z
The origin of the group's name is disputed. "XY" is slang for a used paper match splint
to hold a marijuana joint that is too short to hold without burning the fingers – an
improvised roach clip. A popular conjecture suggests this was the origin of the band's
name, but band member Jorma Kaukonen has denied this and stated that the name
was invented by his friend Steve Talbot as a parody of blues names such as Blind
Lemon X. A 2007 press release quoted Kaukonen as saying:
"I had this friend [Talbot] in Berkeley who came up with funny names for people,"
explains Kaukonen. "His name for me was Blind Thomas XY (for blues pioneer Blind
Lemon X). When the guys were looking for band names and nobody could come up
with something, I remember saying, 'You want a silly band name? I got a silly band
name for you!'"
XY?

XY - Jefferson Airplane
XZ- Jefferson Starship
AB- Hot Tuna
Z- Starship

20 What ? this is a non-exhaustive list
Teen(Three in hindi) - 16
Dadra - 6
Roopak - 7
Kaharvaa - 8
Jhap - 10
Ek(One in hindi) - 12

Taal
The numbers denote the number of beats per cycle.

Musicians featured in The Simpsons
Written +10/0
+10 for all correct

Answers
1. Sting
2. Ramones
3. The Who
4. Elton John
5. Red Hot Chili Peppers
6. Ludacris

21. 4/4
Group leader X got the idea for song this from watching a lousy club band perform. As
the story goes, X was in _______ on a rainy night. He ducked into a bar where a
mediocre band was closing out the night to an audience that was maybe four or five
drunks unaware of their surroundings. The hapless band ended their set with the lead
singer announcing, with no apparent irony, "Goodnight and thank you. ___ ____ ____ Y
" . X got a lot of songwriting ideas from observing everyday people, something that got
harder to do when he became famous.
Give me X and Y. (Y is a phrase, not a single word)

“A band is blowing dixie double four time”
X= Mark Knopfler
Y= Sultans of Swing

22
The first part of the title of the song comes from A , who was X ‘s spiritual guru. The
second part comes from B, an experimental, minimalist composer X admired - many of
the keyboard riffs and sound effects on Y (album) were a result of his influence.
According to the Y liner notes, X wrote it as his vision of what would happen if the
spirit of A was fed into a computer and transformed into music. The result would be
______ in the style of B , or "___________."
Give me X and Y. Brownie points for A and B.

X= Pete Townshend
Y=Who’s Next
A=Meher Baba
B=Terry Riley

23. Careful with that Tea Set !
X created the name on the spur of the moment when he discovered that another band,
also called the Tea Set, were to perform at one of their gigs. The name AB is derived
from the given names of two blues musicians whose Piedmont blues records X had in
his collection, A _____ and B_____ .
Give me X and AB.

X= Syd Barret
A=Pink Anderson
B=Floyd Council

24 A Rough Innocent.
“Finally we learn the mysterious girl’s name: an allusion to Resusci X (also known as
CPR X ), a training mannequin used for teaching resuscitation.
“X, ____ ____ ____ ?” is a phrase used in CPR training courses . This line is repeated
several times in the song.
Hinted at with the repetition of this line is the narrator’s obsession over the girl, she
has been struck down yet Y still interrogates her like she still has life, this could hint at
the narrator’s denial of her death or just plain lunacy.”
Give me the Song and the phrase/X. No points for Y.

X= Annie
“Annie are you okay?”
Smooth Criminal
Y=Michael Jackson

25
Kathleen Hanna, the lead singer of the group Bikini Kill, gave X the idea for the title of
the song Y when she spray painted "X Y " on his bedroom wall after a night of
drinking and spraying graffiti around the Seattle area. In his pre-Y (X’s wife) days, X
went out with Bikini Kill lead singer Tobi Vail, but she dumped him. Vail wore _____
______ deodorant, and Hanna was implying that X was marked with her scent.
Give me the X and Y( song name) .

X= Kurt Cobain
Y=Smells Like Teen Spirit
Teen Spirit Deodorant

26 It’s not just the Rock Stars!
Lyrics from The Rolling Stones’ song “Mother’s Little Helper” .
"Things are different today
I hear ev'ry mother say
Mother needs something today to calm her down
And though she's not really ill
There's a little _____ ______
She goes running for the shelter of her mother's little helper”
“Mother’s Little helper” is a reference to what?

Mega Connect
All questions will be treated as before.

English translation to the lyrics of which song ?(+100/-50)
Arise, children of the Fatherland,
The day of glory has arrived!
Against us tyranny's
Bloody banner is raised, (repeat)
Do you hear, in the countryside,
The roar of those ferocious soldiers?
They're coming right into your arms
To cut the throats of your sons, your women!
To arms, citizens,
Form your battalions,
Let's march, let's march!
Let an impure blood
Soak our fields!

the 3rd, “Eroica”(+100/-50)
Beethoven's secretary, Ferdinand Ries said that:
...Not only I, but many of Beethoven's closer friends, saw this symphony on his table, beautifully copied in
manuscript, with the word "X" inscribed at the very top of the title-page and "Ludwig van Beethoven" at the
very bottom ...
I was the first to tell him the news … whereupon he broke into a rage and exclaimed, "So he is no more
than a common mortal! Now, too, he will tread under foot all the rights of Man, indulge only his ambition;
now he will think himself superior to all men, become a tyrant!" Beethoven went to the table, seized the
top of the title-page, tore it in half and threw it on the floor. The page had to be recopied, and it was only
now that the symphony received the title Sinfonia eroica
Give X.

A Movie is intimately linked to X. ID the movie(+70/-30)
X is a Latin aphorism, taken from book 1 of the Roman poet Horace's work Odes (23 BC)
Related expressions
"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may" from "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time".
The phrase ?‫אימתי‬ ,‫עכשיו‬ ‫לא‬ ‫ואם‬ "And if not now, then when?" (Pirkei Avoth 1:14).
De Brevitate Vitae ("On the Shortness of Life"),

The aphorism being ‘carpe diem’

a homophone of the answer goes into the connect(+40/-20)
What term?
Various formally approved collections of scriptures
religious laws, particularly in Christian contexts
Gospel ____, another name for works attempting to harmonize the divergent accounts of Jesus's life in the four Christian Gospels
a Japanese imaging and optical products corporation
_____ (music), a contrapuntal composition which employs a melody with one or more imitations
_________, a rule or a body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field of art or philosophy

Think swans and nuts(+20/0)
X was educated for a career as a civil servant. There was scant opportunity for a musical career in Russia
at that time and no system of public music education. Despite his many popular successes, X's life was
punctuated by personal crises and depression His homosexuality, which he kept private, has traditionally
also been considered a major factor, though some musicologists now downplay its importance.While his
music has remained popular among audiences, critical opinions were initially mixed. Some Russians did
not feel it was sufficiently representative of native musical values and expressed suspicion that Europeans
accepted the music for its Western elements.
Many of X's works have Ukrainian subjects or incorporate Ukrainian folk songs or melodies. Among these
are the operas Mazepa (based on Aleksandr Pushkin's poem), Little Shoes, and Night before Christmas
(or Vakula the Smith, based on Nikolai Gogol's story); symphonies No. 2 (Little Russian), No. 4, and No. 7
(finished and edited by Semyon Bogatyrev); the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in B-flat Minor.
ID X

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake
The Nutcracker

27
Mick Jagger went into a local drugstore to get a Cherry Coke. Back then a cherry coke
was a coke with real cherries in it and drug store soda fountains were the place you
usually found them. The store didn't have cherry cokes and Mr. Jimmy, standing in line
behind Jagger, commented, "Well,X (a phrase)."
X is the song title of a famous Stones song.

X= You can’t always get what you want

28
Following is taken from the lyrics of “You can’t always get what you want”
“I went down to the Chelsea drugstore
To get your prescription filled
I was standing in line with Mr. Jimmy
And man, did he look pretty ill
We decided that we would have a soda
My favorite flavor, cherry red”
The Chelsea Drugstore wasn’t open for very long (1968-1971), but’s aesthetic appeal –
from its sleek modern glass to its crisp aluminum front – was influential to pop culture
connoisseurs. Esteemed filmmaker X filmed an integral scene from Y in there. Give
me Y.

29
X's mother divorced his father when he was one year old, and he was raised by his
stepfather without knowing it; he even met his true father without even realizing they
were related. X's real father, Edward Severson III, died of multiple sclerosis in 1981,
before X could see him again. This is the autobiographical part of the song that shows
up in the opening lyrics. X didn't get along with his stepfather, and took out his lyrical
wrath on him in the song "A". Until he dropped out of high school, X was known as X
Mueller, but he took his mother's maiden name after finding out the truth about his
real father. When X became a father, he said that he would do everything he could to
break the cycle of family dysfunction.
Which song are we talking about ? Brownie points for A .

30 All is fair in love and WAR !
"Mainly we just liked the way it sounded," says Bob. "We liked the alliteration." "He was
an incredible figure as well," continues Alex. "His life, or at least the ending of it, was
the catalyst for the complete transformation of the world and that is what we want our
music to be. But I don't want to over-intellectualize the name thing. Basically a name
should just sound good … like music." Paul offered, "I like the idea that, if we become
popular, maybe the words XY will make people think of the band instead of the
historical figure”

31
Variations of the song have appeared in numerous movies, but when Dick Dale's
version was used to open the 199_ movie X, it revived both Dale's career and the Surf
Music genre. Dale earned his first appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman
a few weeks after the movie came out, and became a popular live act once again. His
success in the '60s was limited to America, but this time he was welcomed in the UK,
as well as Australia and Japan, where his sound caught on and he made tour
appearances for the first time. Dale's "Y" was also used in the movies Space Jam and
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.

Hand.Cannot.Erase , Steven Wilson

33 Can you put a price on peace? ft. 10^6 Chuck Schuldiners.
While X was traveling back to his home in the Bay Area on a bus after getting kicked
out of his former band, _________, he would write lyrics on the back of a handbill to
pass the time. The handbill itself quoted "The arsenal of _________can't be rid no
matter what the peace treaties come to," which inspired him to use _________as his
band name. He later found out "The _________" was the former band name for Pink
Floyd and dropped the 'A' in _________to keep the name, and hence Y was formed.

34 Bach-in’ Bad
“Most X open with a short main theme, the subject, which then sounds successively in
each voice (after the first voice is finished stating the subject, a second voice repeats
the subject at a different pitch, and other voices repeat in the same way); when each
voice has entered, the exposition is complete. This is often followed by a connecting
passage, or episode, developed from previously heard material; further "entries" of the
subject then are heard in related keys. Episodes (if applicable) and entries are usually
alternated until the "final entry" of the subject, by which point the music has returned
to the opening key, or tonic, which is often followed by closing material, the coda. In
this sense, a X is a style of composition, rather than a fixed structure.”
Give me X.
Hint: Ask the quizmaster for further details.

35 One bowl of arena rock for you, Sir
One of the band members had an issue of Astounding
Science Fiction (October 1953), whose cover art
depicted a giant robot holding the dead body of a man.
The caption read: "Please... fix it, Daddy?" to illustrate
the story "The Gulf Between" by Tom Godwin.
The painting inspired the band to contact Freas, the
artist of the original cover, who agreed to alter the
painting for their album cover, by replacing the single
dead man with the four "dead" band members (____ and
____ falling to the ground). What album?

36 FITB and guess the artist for ‘brown’ie pts. Sorry for any color discrimination, libtards.
Disclaimer: None of the QMs listen to the artist in question.

Album covers inspired by Paintings
Written +10/0
+10 for all correct

Answers
1. The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicoles Tulp by Rembrandt
2. La Charmeuse de Serpents by Henri Rousseau
3. The School of Athens by Raphael
4. Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear by Vincent van Gogh
5. Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man by Salvador Dali
6. The Luncheon on the Grass by Edouard Manet
7. Golconda by Rene Magritte
8. Marilyn Diptych by Andy Warhol

37 Knockin’ on heaven’s door
This is a non-exhaustive list of what?
● Leaving on a Jet Plane by John Denver
● Shot Down in Flames by AC/DC
● Learn to Fly by Foo Fighters
● Dust in the Wind by Kansas
● New York, New York by Frank Sinatra
● I’m Goin Down by Bruce Springsteen
● Burn Down the House by Talking Heads
● Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2
● Aeroplane by Red Hot Chili Peppers
● Blowin in the Wind by Bob Dylan
● Seek and Destroy by Metallica
● Crash into me by Dave Matthews Band
● Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin
● Only the Good die Young by Billy Joel
● The Boy from New York City by The Ad Libs
● Sabotage by Beastie Boys

These songs were banned from being played on the radio and TV after the 9/11 attacks by the “Clear
Channel Communications” as they were termed as "lyrically questionable" songs.

38 Chaste Flower
The lady in this picture is Aino Ackté, a
Finnish soprano. She was the first
international star of the Finnish opera
scene. She debuted in 1897 at the Paris
Grand Opera and her final public
performance took place at the Savonlinna
Opera Festival in 1930.
In the world of pop culture, why is Aino
Ackté so famous?

Aino Ackté is believed to be the inspiration for the character of Bianca
Castafiore in Tintin comics by Herge.

39 They Might Be Giants
According to a booklet that was included in their first album, the band's name was a reference to a
fictional character, a “X" that happens upon a band of musicians and is enthralled with their music.
The character is reminiscent of those from the Renaissance tales of François Rabelais.
From the start, X was a particularly flexible band because of the exceptionally broad musical skills
of its members. One X album would list a total of 46 instruments in the musician credits - all of
which had been played by group members - and five of the six members sang, enabling the band
to write and perform detailed vocal harmony. The band's approach to songwriting was equally
diverse, blending a wide variety of ideas and influences.
Even by the standards of progressive rock, X’s music is generally considered to be particularly
complex and demanding.
Id X.

40 Designed this way
In 2010, Polaroid Inc. appointed X as the
Creative Director of the company. In the 2011
CES at Las Vegas, Polaroid unveiled the
“GL20 Camera Glasses” which contain a
camera and 1.5-inch OLED screens that can
capture and display images and video to
people around the user. This gadget was
designed by X for Polaroid. X said that she
came up with the concept for the glasses on
her “Fameball" tour.
Id X.

41 Once upon a time
Gothic metal is a fusion genre combining the heaviness of heavy metal with the dark atmospheres
of gothic rock. The genre originated during the early 1990s in Europe. Lyrics are generally dark
and introspective with inspiration from gothic fiction as well as personal experiences. Some
examples of Gothic metal bands include - Cradle of Filth, Theatre of Tragedy etc.
One of the trademark feature of Gothic Metal songs is the practice of combining aggressive male
vocals with melodic female vocals, a contrast that has since been adopted by many gothic metal
groups. This type of vocals has been nicknamed the “X vocals”, named after the famous
story/movie X.
Id X.

42 Life, the universe and everything
The list of names which were being considered for this music album by X included names like
“Pow Wow” and “Down to Earth”.
Finally, the band settled for the name Y which was suggested by the author Z at a dinner one night
with the band members. Z was spurred by the promise of a donation to his favourite charity, the
“Environmental Investigation Agency”, and he suggested the name Y, which was a phrase used in
the lyrics of a song from this music album.
Id X, Y and Z.

X = Pink Floyd, Y = The Division Bell, Z = Douglas Adams

43 Mother of all solos
Lead guitarist X has been quoted as having an initial disdain for the song
due to its roots as simply a "string skipping" exercise and a joke at the
time. During a jam session at the band's house, the drummer and X were
warming up and X began to play a "circus" melody while making faces at
the drummer. The rhythm guitarist asked X to play it again as he quite
liked it. In his autobiography, X said "within an hour my guitar exercise
had become something else".
Meanwhile, lead singer Y was listening to the musicians upstairs in his
room and was inspired to write lyrics, which became complete by the
following afternoon. He based it on his girlfriend Erin Everly, and declared
that Lynyrd Skynyrd served as an inspiration "to make sure that we'd got
that heartfelt feeling”. On the next composing session, the band added
both a bridge and a guitar solo to the song.
This is the background story behind which famous song?

44 I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords
This is a song titled “Daddy’s Car” which was released in September 2016. The lyrics of this song
was written by the French composer Benoît Carré.
What unique distinction did this song achieve?

First song to be composed by an A.I.

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