Sneaky music trivia game. Try and confuse, enlighten and entertain.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

Here's two.

What (or who) links Lord of the Rings, George Lucas and Paul McCartney?

Who was the first massively successful rock star of Indian (Asian Indian) origin?

[Whitacre D_WI]

1. The guy from Cornershop!

Or maybe Ravi Shankar? He did play on Beatles records, after all.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

2. Nope. It was the singer from a massively successful band from the 70's.

[Whitacre D_WI]

3. Don Henley is Indian?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

5. No. He's clearly Korean. That level of success though, a rock band.

[Whitacre D_WI]

6. Bruce Singhsteen?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

7. English Rock Band.

[Whitacre D_WI]

Ozzy Osbourne? Robert Plant? Marc Bolan?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

10. Freddie Mercury

[Whitacre D_WI]

11. Funny. He didn't look Cherokee.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

12. Duh! He was clearly Cree / Blackfoot.

This from the official Queen website.

Freddie Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara on September 5th 1946 in Zanzibar, to parents Bomi & Jer Bulsara. Freddie moved to India in 1947. He attended boarding school in Panchgani, just outside Bombay. Whilst there he began his piano lessons, reaching Grade 4 in practical and theory. The family, with the addition now of younger sister Kashmira, moved to England in 1963.

[Whitacre D_WI]

13. OH. So he was from Indiana.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

14. That's what the quote says, isn't it?

Well, duh! again. Duh!

[Whitacre D_WI]

17. He was also the origin of the phrases "Farrokh you"

and "going Farrokh."

[Screaming Lord Byron]

18. Well, that's Farrokhing typical, isn't it.

[patcox2]

26. But he was born in Zanzibar, of Persian parents.

That would be Iranian. They were Zanzibarian Zoroastrians. Really, truly they were. I love saying that, Zanzibarian Zoroastrians. The Freddie Mercury behind the music was the most amusing hour of television I have ever seen.

[asthmaticeog]

4. Buck Dharma?

Tee hee...

[Bertha Venation]

8. don't know how sneaky it is, but who was the only "Beach Girl?"

as in, a woman who toured with the Beach Boys

[Screaming Lord Byron]

15. They had a female bassist in the studio.

But I don't think she ever toured.

[Bertha Venation]

16. This woman toured, and she wasn't a bassist. eom

[Whitacre D_WI]

19. Wanda Jackson? Mahalia Jackson? LaToya Jackson?

Was she named "Jackson?"

[Bertha Venation]

21. Nope.

Not any kind of a Jackson.

Hint: She's from the American South.

[VOX]

20. Would this be Toni Tenille?

:shrug:

[Bertha Venation]

22. Yep.

You win the $5,000* and the rest of your clothes!

* Monopoly money.

[VOX]

23. Woo hoo! I'll purchase Boardwalk and Park Place!

:hug:

[Bertha Venation]

24. heh heh . . .

I don't know exactly where it came from but that's my family's standard answer whenever someone answers a hard question correctly in "Trivial Pursuit." Don't ask me how the Monopoly money got in there.

:hug: back atcha

[Whitacre D_WI]

9. To answer your first question:

What (or who) links Lord of the Rings, George Lucas and Paul McCartney?

Pretentious wankers.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

25. I'm afraid I can't accept that answer, Mr Whitacre.

We're looking for an individual.