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
• Correct Answer: Dennis Wilson
•Hint: He was the drummer.
•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
• Correct Answer: I Get Around
•Hint: Jan & Dean recorded 'Surf City.'
•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
• Correct Answer: 3
•Hint: It's less than 7.
•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
• Correct Answer: Glen Campbell
•Hint: He had a number three on the Country chart with "Wichita Lineman."
•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
• Correct Answer: Surfin' USA
•Hint: 'Maybelline' was actually another Chuck Berry record.
•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
• Correct Answer: A Thunderbird
•Hint: They did sing about a Deuce Coup, but not in this song.
•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
• Correct Answer: Barbara Ann
•Hint: The Beach Boys did record 'Why Do Fools Fall In Love' and released it as a B side to 'Fun, Fun, Fun.'
•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
• Correct Answer: Surfer Girl, I Get Around, California Girls
•Hint: 'Surfer Girl' was their fourth single.
•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
• Correct Answer: Good Vibrations
•Hint: It rhymes.
•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
• Correct Answer: Do It Again
•Hint: The album was released in 1966 -- this song wasn't recorded until 1968.
•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?
-- A) Brian Wilson; B) Bruce Johnston; C) Al Jardine; D) Dennis Wilson; E) Carl Wilson
• Correct Answer: Dennis Wilson
•Hint: He was one of the Wilson brothers.
•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
• Correct Answer: Al Jardine
•Hint: All the Wilson brothers were included in the early recordings.
•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
• Correct Answer: Do It Again
•Hint: It's success marked a year and a half absence from the Billboard top 20.
•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
• Correct Answer: Surfin' USA
•Hint: It was The Beach Boys second national hit.
•Feedback:

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
• Correct Answer: Endless Summer
•Hint: 'California Dreamin'' was a song recorded by The Mamas and Papas.
•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
• Correct Answer: Be True To Your School
•Hint: It's not a car song.
•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
• Correct Answer: Help Me Rhonda
•Hint: 'She was gonna be my wife and I was gonna be her man.'
•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
• Correct Answer: Northern Girls
•Hint: Think about it -- where does one need to be kept warm?
•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
• Correct Answer: California Girls
•Hint: In the music video Roth is a tour guide showing tourists girls on the beach.
•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
• Correct Answer: Sloop John B
•Hint: 'Call for the captain ashore, I wanna go home.'
•Feedback: Al Jardine recommeded that the group record 'Sloop John B.'