Simon & Garfunkel Folk-Rock Trivia Quiz

Simon & Garfunkel: Folk-Rock Years
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Simon & Garfunkel: Folk-Rock Years
Ten questions spanning teenage recordings, 1960s albums, film connections, studio techniques, and their final chart-topping era.
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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 ›
  1. Whose voice delivers the bulletin heard beneath the closing carol on the duo's 1966 studio album?
  2. Which singer formed the celebrated recording partnership with Paul Simon?
  3. The cannon-like percussion accent in “The Boxer” gained its echo beside what part of a Columbia building?
  4. Under what name did the pair release “Hey, Schoolgirl” as teenagers?
  5. How many Grammy Awards did the duo's final album and its title recording collect at the 1971 ceremony?
  6. Which album includes “Cecilia,” “The Boxer,” and “El Condor Pasa”?
  7. Which 1968 album opens with a short theme and explores youth, old age, memory, and loss?
  8. “Scarborough Fair/Canticle” combines a traditional English ballad with material from which Paul Simon composition?
  9. Mike Nichols prominently featured the duo's recordings in which 1967 film?
  10. Who added electric guitar, bass, and drums to the duo's original acoustic recording of their breakthrough hit?
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