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Dylan at 80
Quiz: How well do you know Bob Dylan?
The singer-songwriter is celebrating a milestone birthday today.
WITH BOB CELEBRATING a milestone birthday today, tributes to the legendary songwriter are pouring in from far and wide.
But exactly how well do you know Mr Dylan?
Why not test your knowledge of the Nobel laureate’s life and work?
The answers are blowin’ in the wind…
An easy one to start... Bob celebrates a big birthday today. What age is he?
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85
80
70
90
He wasn't born Dylan, of course. What was his surname at birth?
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Dole
Seger
Zimmerman
Zuckerberg
Which US state was Bob born in?
New York
California
Idaho
Minnesota
Included on his 1962 self-titled album is a song titled 'Song to Woody' penned by Dylan in tribute to his mentor and hero, US folk singer and activist Woody...
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Guthrie
Harrelson
Woodpecker
Allen
Getting more difficult now... Finish the following lyric from Like a Rolling Stone: "You used to ride on a chrome horse with your diplomat/Who carried on his shoulder..."
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A welcome mat
A Siamese cat
A big fat rat
An acrobat
Bob played with a famous backing group for a time in the mid to late 1960s, originally called The Hawks. While touring with Dylan, they changed their name to...
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The Byrds
The Group
The The
The Band
Which famous guitar hero played lead guitar on Bob's 1979 song 'Gotta Serve Somebody'?
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Eric Clapton
Mark Knopfler
Jimmy Page
Joan Jett
Dylan received the Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in 2017. But apart from a few collections of lyrics and a memoir titled 'Chronicle', he's only published one other book, a collection of prose poetry called...
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Tarantula
Daddy Long-legs
Black Widow
The Catcher in the Rye
Irish country singer Nathan Carter had a hit with a song written by Dylan in 1974. Although Bob recorded a demo version of it, it was never officially released. What's it called?
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Banks of the Roses
Games People Play
Wagon Wheel
Blowin' in the Wind
This one's for all the marbles... As a young artist in the Greenwich Village folk scene in the early 1960s, which Irish folk music legends did Dylan rub shoulders with and befriend?
St Lawrence University
The Dubliners
Clannad
The Clancy Brothers
The Wolfe Tones
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You scored out of !
You're a certified Dylanologist
Wow, bet you can recite all 10 verses of Desolation Row.
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You're Bringing it all Back Home
An electric performance...
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You're 1980s Dylan
Hit and miss but some good stuff in there.
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You're probably more of a Donovan kinda person
"Donovan? Who is this Donovan?"
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"You're an idiot, babe"
"It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe."
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