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Tom Waits Library: Test 3
1) From which song is this line: "Two dead ends and you've still got to choose..."?
a) Emotional Weather Report
b) Drunk On The Moon
c) Fumblin' With The Blues
d) Virginia Avenue
2) What kind of car is the protagonist from The Heart Of Saturday Night driving?
a) Bel-Air
b) Oldsmobile
c) Plymouth
d) Buick
3) What was the name of the diner beneath the L.A. Tropicana Motel?
a) Duke's Coffee Shop
b) Napoleone's Coffee House
c) Harold's Club
d) The Recovery Room
4) Who was the drummer on Small Change?
a) Jim Hughart
b) Scott Edwards
c) Bill Goodwin
d) Shelly Manne
5) What year was Blue Valentine released?
a) 1976
b) 1977
c) 1978
d) 1979
6) What year were Tom Waits and Chuck E. Weiss arrested for "disturbing the peace"?
a) 1975
b) 1976
c) 1977
d) 1978
7) How many albums did Tom Waits do with producer Bones Howe?
a) 7
b) 8
c) 9
d) 10
8) On which show did Tom Waits use the "frontal lobotomy" quote?
a) Saturday Night Live
b) Mike Douglas Show
c) Don Lane Show
d) Fernwood2night
9) In which video does Val Diamond play a ventriloquist's doll?
a) Temptation
b) Blow Wind Blow
c) In The Neighborhood
d) Cold Cold Ground
10) In which city did the play Frank's Wild Years have its premiere?
a) Chicago
b) Los Angeles
c) Denver
d) New York
11) What instrument does Tom Waits play during his cameo in One From The Heart?
a) Trumpet
b) Saxophone
c) Guitar
d) Accordion
12) What's the name of the main character from The Black Rider play?
a) Frank
b) Bertram
c) Kuno
d) Wilhelm
13) In what year did the Wilson/ Waits theatre production Alice premiere?
a) 1992
b) 1993
c) 1994
d) 1995
14) Which song is NOT on the album Big Time?
a) Strange Weather
b) Way Down In The Hole
c) Temptation
d) Train Song
15) Who gave Tom Waits the line: "We're all gonna be just dirt in the ground..."?
a) William Burroughs
b) Teddy Edwards
c) Keith Richards
d) Kathleen Waits-Brennan
16) On which album was Filipino Box Spring Hog released for the first time?
a) The End Of Violence
b) Mule Variations
c) Born To Choose
d) Bone Machine
17) Who is the original creator of The Eyeball Kid?
a) Eddie Campell
b) Robert E. Howard
c) Brian Vaughan
d) Mike Mignola
18) From which album is the song Innocent When You Dream?
a) Bone Machine
b) Franks Wild Years
c) Rain Dogs
d) The Black Rider
19) How does Waits call the percussion rack he had built by Serge Etienne?
a) Conundrum
b) T-Rodimba
c) Bug
d) Basstarda
20) What is, according to Waits, the biggest enemy of computers?
a) Electricity cables
b) Music
c) Intelligence
d) Water
21) Which Tom Waits track features a Glass Armonica
a) Poor Edward
b) Town With No Cheer
c) November
d) Rainbirds
22) Which two songs did Waits contribute to the Big Bad Love soundtrack?
a) Jesus Gonna Be Here and Way Down In The Hole
b) Long Way Home and Jayne's Blue Wish
c) Fannin' Street and I Know I've Been Changed
d) Lost At The Bottom Of The World and Down There By The Train
23) In which movie does Tom Waits play a weapons designer?
a) Cadillac Tramps
b) Mystery Men
c) Short Cuts
d) Hellboy
24) Who wrote the biography Wild Years: The music and myth of Tom Waits?
a) Cath Carroll
b) Patrick Humphries
c) Jay S. Jacobs
d) Ken Brooks
25) Which song did Tom Waits do on the David Letterman show of 2002?
a) God's Away On Business
b) Coney Island Baby
c) All The World Is Green
d) Tabletop Joe
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