Simon & Garfunkel Folk-Rock Trivia Quiz
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Simon & Garfunkel: Folk-Rock Years follows the duo from their early partnership through landmark albums, movie soundtrack work, layered harmonies, and inventive studio production. The questions move from familiar hits to sharper recording details.
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What This Quiz Covers
The quiz covers the duo's teenage recording identity, a Mike Nichols film soundtrack, the producer behind an electric overdub, a 1968 concept album, a Grammy sweep, and an unusual studio echo effect.
Trivia Study Guide ›
- “Scarborough Fair/Canticle” combines a traditional English ballad with material from which Paul Simon composition?
- The cannon-like percussion accent in “The Boxer” gained its echo beside what part of a Columbia building?
- Who added electric guitar, bass, and drums to the duo's original acoustic recording of their breakthrough hit?
- Which album includes “Cecilia,” “The Boxer,” and “El Condor Pasa”?
- Mike Nichols prominently featured the duo's recordings in which 1967 film?
- Which 1968 album opens with a short theme and explores youth, old age, memory, and loss?
- Whose voice delivers the bulletin heard beneath the closing carol on the duo's 1966 studio album?
- Under what name did the pair release “Hey, Schoolgirl” as teenagers?
- Which singer formed the celebrated recording partnership with Paul Simon?
- How many Grammy Awards did the duo's final album and its title recording collect at the 1971 ceremony?
Eddie Mallin via Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0. Cropped and color-modified.
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