QUIZ KEY:
1. Which Beach Boy had a personal friendship with Charles Manson?
-- A) Brian Wilson; B) Dennis Wilson; C) Carl Wilson; D) Mike Love; E) Al Jardine
•Hint: He was the drummer.
• Correct Answer: Dennis Wilson
•Feedback: Manson initiated a relationship with Dennis Wilson because he wanted to get into the music business -- he fancied himself a singer / songwriter.
2. What was the Beach Boys first number one record?
-- A) Surfin' Safari; B) Surfer Girl; C) Help Me Rhonda; D) I Get Around; E) Surf City
•Hint: Jan & Dean recorded 'Surf City.'
• Correct Answer: I Get Around
•Feedback: 'I Get Around' was The Beach Boys' 5th top ten record and reached number one on July 4th, 1964.
3. How many number one records did The Beach Boys have?
-- A) 1; B) 3; C) 5; D) 7; E) 9
•Hint: It's less than 7.
• Correct Answer: 3
•Feedback: 'I Get Around,' 'Help Me Rhonda,' and 'Kokomo' were their three number ones.
4. Which of the following was a Beach Boy before his successful solo career?
-- A) Jackson Browne; B) Michael Jackson; C) Glen Campbell; D) Neil Sedaka; E) John Denver
•Hint: He had a number three on the Country chart with 'Wichita Lineman.'
• Correct Answer: Glen Campbell
•Feedback: When Brian Wilson stopped touring with the band in late 1964, Campbell took his place for four months.
5. What Beach Boy song was based on Chuck Berry's 'Sweet Little Sixteen?'
-- A) Fun, Fun, Fun; B) Surfin' USA; C) I Get Around; D) Maybelline; E) Be True To Your School
•Hint: 'Maybelline' was actually another Chuck Berry record.
• Correct Answer: Surfin' USA
•Feedback: The original release of 'Surfin' USA' did not credit Berry with authorship, but later releases did list him.
6. In the song 'Fun, Fun, Fun' what was 'her Daddy's car?'
-- A) A Thunderbird; B) A Corvette; C) A Deuce Coupe; D) A GTO; E) A Dodge Rambler
•Hint: They did sing about a Deuce Coup, but not in this song.
• Correct Answer: A Thunderbird
•Feedback: ''She'll have fun, fun, fun til her daddy takes her T-bird away.'
7. What Beach Boys record was a remake of a 1961 top twenty record by The Regents?
-- A) Barbara Ann; B) Why Do Fools Fall In Love; C) Under the Boardwalk; D) Surfin' USA; E) God Only Knows
•Hint: The Beach Boys did record 'Why Do Fools Fall In Love' and released it as a B side to 'Fun, Fun, Fun.'
• Correct Answer: Barbara Ann
•Feedback: 'Barbara Ann' was a cut on the album 'Beach Boys Party!' which was a studio album simulating an impromptu party. It reached #2 on January 29, 1966.
8. Which of the following is the correct chronological order of Beach Boys records?
-- A) I Get Around, Surfer Girl, California Girls; B) Surfer Girl, California Girls, I Get Around; C) Surfer Girl, I Get Around, California Girls; D) California Girls, Surfer Girl, I Get Around; E) I Get Around, California Girls, Surfer Girl
•Hint: 'Surfer Girl' was their fourth single.
• Correct Answer: Surfer Girl, I Get Around, California Girls
•Feedback: 'Surfer Girl' peaked at #7 in September, 1963. 'I Get Around' peaked at #1 in July of 1964. 'California Girls' peaked at #3 in August of 1965.
9. What Beach Boys record features the lyric, 'she's giving me excitation?'
-- A) Surfer Girl; B) California Girls; C) Little Deuce Coup; D) Dance, Dance, Dance; E) Good Vibrations
•Hint: It rhymes.
• Correct Answer: Good Vibrations
•Feedback: 'I'm picking up good vibrations, she's giving me excitation.'
10. Which of the following was not a cut on the 'Pet Sounds' album?
-- A) Sloop John B; B) God Only Knows; C) Do It Again; D) Wouldn't It Be Nice; E) Caroline No
•Hint: The album was released in 1966 -- this song wasn't recorded until 1968.
• Correct Answer: Do It Again
•Feedback: 'Do It Again' was one of the Beach Boys' later successes, reaching #20 on September 14th, 1968.
11. Which Beach Boy was the only one who surfed when they issued their first single, 'Surfin'?
-- A) Brian Wilson; B) Bruce Johnston; C) Al Jardine; D) Dennis Wilson; E) Carl Wilson
•Hint: He was one of the Wilson brothers.
• Correct Answer: Dennis Wilson
•Feedback: Dennis Wilson was a surfer and suggested to Brian that he write a song about surfing.
12. Which original Beach Boy left the group just before its original success with 'Surfin' Safari' but later returned and sang lead on their number one, 'Help Me Rhonda?'
-- A) Al Jardine; B) Glen Campbell; C) Brian Wilson; D) Carl Wilson; E) Dennis Wilson
•Hint: All the Wilson brothers were included in the early recordings.
• Correct Answer: Al Jardine
•Feedback: Al Jardine originally wanted The Beach Boys to pursue folk music and didn't think the band would be a commercial success.
13. Which Beach Boy record includes the lyric, 'Suntanned bodies and Waves of sunshine?'
-- A) Surfer Girl; B) Good Vibrations; C) Don't Worry Baby; D) Do It Again; E) California Girls
•Hint: It's success marked a year and a half absence from the Billboard top 20.
• Correct Answer: Do It Again
•Feedback: 'Sunstanned bodies and waves of sunshine, the California girls and a beautiful coastline; warmed up weather, let's get together and do it again. -- 1968
14. Although it did not reach number one on the weekly Billboard Hot 100, what Beach Boy song was number one for the year 1963?
-- A) Surfin' USA; B) Do You Wanna Dance; C) Help Me Rhonda; D) In My Room; E) California Girls
•Hint: Chuck Berry was eventually given co-writer credit.
• Correct Answer: Surfin' USA
•Feedback: 'Surfin' USA' was kept from the number one position on May 25th, 1963 by Jimmy Soul's 'If You Wanna Be Happy,' and Litle Peggy March's 'I Will Follow Him.'
15. The Beach Boys had two number one albums. Their first one was a live album titled 'Beach Boys Concert' released in October of 1964. Their second was a compilation album of early hits released in JUne of 1974. What was it titled?
-- A) Greatest Hits, Volume 4; B) Good Vibrations; C) California Dreamin'; D) Back to the Beach; E) Endless Summer
•Hint: 'California Dreamin'' was a song recorded by The Mamas and Papas.
• Correct Answer: Endless Summer
•Feedback: 'Endless Summer' was a double album and included 20 tracks.
16. What Beach Boys record includes cheerleader yells from a girl group, The Honeys?
-- A) Little Deuce Coupe; B) Be True To Your School; C) I Get Around; D) Barbara Ann; E) Shut Down
•Hint: It's not a car song.
• Correct Answer: Be True To Your School
•Feedback: 'Be True To Your School' was a tribute to Hawthorn High School where the Wilson brothers attended.
17. What Beach Boy record contains the lyric, 'I come in late at night and in the mornin' I just lay in bed?'
-- A) Don't Worry Baby; B) Barbara Ann; C) Help Me Rhonda; D) God Only Knows; E) In My Room
•Hint: 'She was gonna be my wife and I was gonna be her man.'
• Correct Answer: Help Me Rhonda
•Feedback: 'Help Me Rhonda' was The Beach Boys second number one record.
18. On the record 'California Girls' which girls 'keep their boyfriends warm at night?'
-- A) Midwest farmers daughters; B) East Coast girls; C) Northern Girls; D) Southern Girls; E) West Coast Girls
•Hint: Think about it -- where does one need to be kept warm?
• Correct Answer: Northern Girls
•Feedback: 'And the Northern girls with the way they kiss,they keep their boyfriends warm at night.'
19. What Beach Boy record was remade by David Lee Roth in 1985?
-- A) Surfin' Safari; B) California Girls; C) Dance, Dance, Dance; D) Wouldn't It Be Nice; E) Good Vibrations
•Hint: In the music video Roth is a tour guide showing tourists girls on the beach.
• Correct Answer: California Girls
•Feedback: Like the original, David Lee Roth's version of 'California Girls' also peaked at number 3.
20. What folk song was given the 'Beach Boy treatment' and appeared on the 'Pet Sounds' album as well as being released as a single?
-- A) Cotton Fields; B) Blowin' in the Wind; C) Sloop John B; D) Michael; E) Tom Dooley
•Hint: 'Call for the captain ashore, I wanna go home.'
• Correct Answer: Sloop John B
•Feedback: Al Jardine recommeded that the group record 'Sloop John B.'
21. 'Kokomo' was featured in what Tom Cruise movie?
-- A) Mission Impossible; B) Risky Business; C) Rain Man; D) Cocktail; E) Top Gun
•Hint: He plays a bartender.
• Correct Answer: Cocktail
•Feedback: 'Kokomo' was number one in August of 1988.
22. What was the first name used by The Beach Boys?
-- A) The Wilson Brothers; B) The Pendletones; C) The Surfers; D) Brian & The Boys; E) The Beach Bums
•Hint: Surely they didn't even consider 'Beach Bums.'
• Correct Answer: The Pendletones
•Feedback: They named themselves after the Pendleton shirts frequently worn by surfers.
23. What Beach Boy song contains the lyric 'Early in the morning we'll be startin' out, some honeys will be comin' along?'
-- A) Surfer Girl; B) Surfin' Safari; C) Wouldn't It Be Nice; D) 409; E) In My Room
•Hint: It's a surfer song.
• Correct Answer: Surfin' Safari
•Feedback: 'Early in the morning we'll be startin' out, some honeys will be comin' along; We're loadin' up our Woody with our boards inside, and headin' out singin' our song.'
24. What record did Brian Wilson consider to be the greatest record ever produced?
-- A) Be My Baby by the Ronettes; B) Come Together by The Beatles; C) Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys; D) God Only Knows by The Beach Boys; E) Sweet Little Sixteen by Chuck Berry
•Hint: It wasn't a Beach Boys record.
• Correct Answer: Be My Baby by the Ronettes
•Feedback: Brian Wilson was reportedly obsessed with 'Be My Baby.'
25. How old was Brian Wilson when he died.
-- A) 52; B) 62; C) 72; D) 82; E) 92
•Hint: He was slightly older than me.
• Correct Answer: 82
•Feedback: Brian Wilson died of 'respiratory arrest.' He had dementia and a 'major neurocognitive disorder.'
