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                	          by Bradford B. Taliaferro

        	                   S E M P R I N I W A R E

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								Q-1


		The Pink Floyd Quiz is divided into four sections.  The
	first section consists of sixty trivia questions about Pink
	Floyd.  The second section consists of lines from songs.  The
	intent is that you guess what songs the lines come from.  The
	final two sections consist of answers to the first two.

		Trivia Questions............................Q-2
		Song Lines..................................Q-6
		Trivia Answers..............................Q-8
		Song Answers................................Q-12
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                         Pink Floyd Trivia Questions

	1.	According to Steve Becker, what is the message (embedded
	backwards) just before the track `Empty Spaces' on the album The
	Wall?

	2.	Which song on Ummagumma was written by Syd Barrett?

	3.	`Candy and a Currant Bun' was originally known as what?

	4.	Syd Barret wrote a song titled `See Emily Play.'  What was
	the original title?

	5.  What is the longest name for a song on the Pink Floyd Albums?

	6.  In January 1978, Nick Mason produced the second album by what
	British punk band?

	7.	What two albums did Pink Floyd make specifically for movies
	(prior to The Wall)?

	8.	According to David Gilmour, how long did it take to finish
	`More'?

	9.	In the film `Live at Pompeii' what is on Nick Mason's shirt
	during `One of These Days' and `Set the Controls for the Heart of
	the Sun'?

	10.	What single did Syd Barrett release in 1969?

	11.	When and where was the bootleg known as `The Pink Floyd's
	British Winter Tour `74' made?

	12.	In the movie `The Wall' just before "The Trial" Pink is in a
	bathroom sitting in a stall and singing.  Part of the lines he
	sings are later used on an album.  What album, what song, and who
	wrote it?  Also, what are the lines?

	13.	The DISC AND MUSIC ECHO newspaper ran an article on Pink
	Floyd on July 22, 1967.  Pictures of the members were with the
	article.  Who had their picture in the article and how were they
	described?

	14.	All the Pink Floyd Members made albums.  Name them and their
	albums.

	15.  What Pink Floyd album cover had to be changed and why?

	16.	Who married singer Juliette Gale from the Abdabs?

	17.	When was Pink Floyd's first appearance on BBC-TV, what show
	was it, and what did they play?
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	18.	During what tour and in what year did Roger Waters first
	think of building a wall across the stage?

	19.	What singles were released by Pink Floyd?

	20.	What band did Gilmour play with between the time Pink Floyd
	started and the time he was asked to join the Floyd?

	21.	Who Plays Pink in `The Wall?'

	22.	What was the name of the cartoon project Pink Floyd was
	involved with?  When did it come out?

	23.	What were the first four name of Pink Floyd before "Pink
	Floyd" became the name?  The fourth name had two variations -
	name them as well.

	24.	What song(s) on `The Wall' were not written by Waters alone?

	25.	What two albums make `A Nice Pair?'

	26.	Pink Floyd played a concert on November 4, 1973.  Who was it
	for and why did they have it?

	27.	What two songs appeared in the movie `The Wall' but were not
	on the album `The Wall?'

	28.	Name the Birthdays of:
			Roger Waters
			Syd Barrett
			Nick Mason
			Rick Wright

	29.	Whose father died when he was twelve years old?

	30.	What does Nick Mason order after `Echoes - Part One' in
	`Live at Pompeii' (use his exact words)?

	31.	What song was originally written for ZABRISKIE POINT, used
	on a later album, and was known to the Floyd as the "Violent
	Sequence?"

	32.	Who has "a bit of an obsession about making the whole album
	into a one subject deal, into what you might call a concept
	album"  (according to David Gilmour)?

	33.	There is a song titled "Vera" on `The Wall.'  Who is Vera
	Lynn mentioned in this song?

	34.	What happened to David Gilmour on April 1, 1976?
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	35.	What four anthology albums have Pink Floyd made?

	36.	On what move soundtrack album did Pink Floyd appear in 1970? 
	What songs did they play?

	37.	In the movie `The Wall' Pink gets caught writing poetry. 
	What song are the words he is writing from?

	38.	Where does the name Pink Floyd come from?  Who thought of
	it?

	39.	During which month of what year, did the Floyd begin their
	`Dark Side of the Moon' tour of The U.S. and Canada?

	40.	What short lived band did Syd Barrett form in 1972 and who
	was in it?

	41.	Who wrote the visual documentary PINK FLOYD?

	42.	Where did Pink Floyd play one of their first, if not THE
	first, gig?

	43.	Where did the name `Piper at the Gates of Dawn' come from and
	who thought of it?

	44.	The song `Raving and Drooling' later became what song on
	what album?

	45.	Stephane Gappelly played on a Pink Floyd song.  What did he
	play, on what song, and what album?

	46.	What two Pink Floyd songs have the smae name, differing only
	by a question mark?

	47.	What is the building over which the pig is hovering on the
	front of the album cover for `Animals?'

	48.	On what film soundtrack did Pink Floyd appear in 1968?

	49.	How many bugs are on the front of Syd Barrett's album
	`Barrett?'

	50.	On what song did Pink Floyd use tape speed to help with
	vocals?

	51.	Who sings the vocals on the song `Shine on you crazy
	diamond?'

	52.	What single did David Gilmour release on August 4, 1978?

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	53.	What is the shortest name for a Pink Floyd song?

	54.	Who said this: "...I think the world is a very, very sad
	fucking place...'?

	55.	Who did the artwork for the album cover of `Relics?'

	56.	How did David Gilmour describe the making of `One of These
	Days?'

	57.	Who was the animator for `The Wall?'

	58.	How many nude women are on the Pink Floyd album cover for `A
	nice pair?'

	59.	Who was hit in the forehead and cut with a penny on April
	24, 1967 at Blue Opera Club, The Feathers, Ealing Broadway,
	London?

	60.	What is Roger Waters' full name?

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                          Pink Floyd Song Questions

		The following are lines from Pink Floyd songs.  Try to name
	the song, writer, album, when it was released and the track
	position on the original album.

	1.	"I was just a child then, now I'm only a man"

	2.	"I know a room full of musical tunes"

	3.	"Who calls the tune in the courtroom?"

	4.	"You awake with a start to just the beating of your heart"

	5.	"I gotta admit that I'm a little bit confused"

	6.	"Should we shout?  Should we scream?"

	7.	"She goes up while he goes down"

	8.	"Over the mountain watching the watcher"

	9.	"And I'm grateful that you threw away my old shoes"

	10.	"His boots were very clean"

	11.	"Fearlessly the idiot faced the crowd"

	12.	"When I was their age all the lights went out"

	13.	"No one flies around the sun"

	14.	"Pick your feet up off the ground"

	15.	"Sing a song that can't be sung"

	16.	"Then at last the mighty ship..."

	17.	"Tomorrow brings another town, and another girl like you"

	18.	"Please don't put your wires in my brain"

	19.	"Any fool knows a dog needs a home"

	20.	"You radiate cold shafts of broken glass"

	21.	"Weary stranger's faces show their sympathy"

	22.	"Where has the feeling gone?"

	23.	"They're gonna send you back to Mother in a cardboard box"
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	24.	"It's all right, we told you what to dream"

	25.	"Icy wind of night begone, this is not your domain"

	26.	"All that you buy, beg, borrow, or steal"

	27.	"The paper holds their folded faces to the floor"

	28.	"And we'll bask in the shadow of yesterday's triumph"

	29.	"Alone in the clouds all blue"

	30.	"There was a king who ruled the land"

	31.	"The child is grown, the dream is gone"

	32.	"That cat's something I can't explain"

	33.	"Music seems to help the pain"

	34.	"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl"

	35.	"For the want of the price of tea and a slice the old man
	died"

	36.	"Look at the sky, look at the river"

	37.	"A movement is accomplished in six stages"

	38.	"Floating down the sound resounds around the icy waters
	underground"

	39.	"Don't give me that do goody good bullshit"

	40.	"Did they expect us to treat them with any respect?"
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		Here are the answers to the trivia questions.  How many 
	did you get right?


	1.	"Congratulations.  You have just discovered the secret message.  
		Please send your answer to Old Pink, care of the Funny Farm, 
		Chalfont."

	2.	Astronomy Domine.

	3.	Let's Roll Another One.

	4.  	Games For May

	5.  	Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a 
		Cave and Grooving with a Pict.

	6.  	The Damned.

	7.  	More and Obscured by Clouds.

	8.  	Eight Days.

	9.  	A Butterfly.

	10.	Octopus, back with Golden Hair.

	11.  	Concert at Trentham Gardens, Stoke, Staffordshire on 
		November 19, 1974.

	12.	Two answers here:

		The Final Cut - Your Possible Pasts (Waters)

		"Do you remember me?  The way it used to be?"
		plus this close line:  "Do you think we should
		have been closer?"


		The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking (Roger Waters) -
		5:11 AM (The Moment of Clarity)

		"I put out my hand just to touch your soft hair
		to make sure in the darkness that you were still
		there.  And I have to admit that I was just a
		little afraid."

	13.	Roger Waters...A hard man
		Rick Wright....Group's musician
		Syd Barrett....Totally artistic
		Nick Mason.....Upsets very easily
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	14.	Roger Waters:
			Music From The Body (with Ron Geesin)
			The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking
			Radio Kaos

		Syd Barrett:
			The Madcap Laughs
			Barrett
			Opus

		Nick Mason:
			Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports
			Profiles (Mason and Fenn)

		David Gilmour:
			David Gilmour
			About Face

		Richard Wright:
			Wet Dreams
			(also on Identity by ZEE)

	15.	The cover of A Nice Pair had to be changed since it had a 
		picture of a shop window belonging to W.R. Phang, Dental 
		Surgeon.  Dentists are not allowed to advertise, so Phang 
		objected.

	16.	Richard Wright.

	17.	April 6, 1967 on Top of the Pops playing Arnold Layne.

	18.	Dark Side of the Moon tour, 1975.

	19.	Arnold Layne/Candy and a Currant Bun(1967)
		See Emily Play/Scarecrow(1967)
		Apples and Oranges/Paint Box(1968)
		It would be so nice/Julia Dream(1968)
		Point Me at the Sky/Careful With that Axe, Eugene(1968)
		Another Brick in the Wall, Part Two/One of My Turns(1979)

	20.	Jokers Wild, consisting of:
			Ricky Wills
			Willie Wilson
			David Gilmour
	
	21.	Little Pink - David Bingham
		Young Pink  - Kevin McKeon
		Pink        - Bob Geldof

	22.	Rollo, it was never finished.

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	23.	a.  Sigma 6
		b.  T-Set
		c.  Meggadeaths
		d.  Abdabs
			1.  Architectural Abdabs
			2.  Screaming Abdabs

	24.	Young Lust (Gilmour, Waters)
		Run Like Hell (Gilmour, Waters)
		The Trial(Waters, Ezrin)
		Comfortable Numb (Gilmour, Waters)

	25.	The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and A Saucerful of Secrets

	26.	It was a benefit concert for Robert Wyatt, the drummer from The
		Soft Machine, who had paralyzed his back in a fall.

	27.	What Shall We Do Now?  and  When the Tigers Broke Free.

	28.	Roger Waters - Sept 9, 1944
		Syd Barrett  - Jan 6, 1946
		Nick Mason   - Jan 27, 1945
		Rick Wright  - July 28, 1945

	29.	Syd Barrett

	30.	"Could I have eggs, sausage, chips and beans and a tea."

	31.	Us and Them from Dark Side of the Moon.

	32.	Roger Waters.

	33.	She sang a song called "The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot"
		in the movie.  The song is sung at the very beginning of the
		movie.

	34.	Thieves broke into his home and stole L6,500 worth of guitars 
		from his collection.

	35.	Relics (1971)
		Works (1983?)
		A Collection of Great Dance Songs (1975?)
		Delicate Sound of Thunder (1988)

	36.	Zabriskie Point, they played:
			1.  Heart Beat, Pig Meat
			2.  Crumbling Land
			3.  Come in Number 51, Your Time is Up

	37.	"Money," from Dark Side of the Moon
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	38.	The name comes from the name of Georgia blues men Pink Anderson
		and Floyd Council.  Syd Barrett saw the name in a vision
		(probably an acid trip).

	39.	March 1973.

	40.	The Stars, consisting of:
			Twink, on drums
			Jack Monck, on bass
			Syd Barrett, lead guitar and vocals

	41.	Miles (Putnam Publishing Group, 1980).

	42.	Countdown Club, Palace Gate, London, late 1965.

	43.	Barrett took the name from a chapter in Kenneth Graham's 
		children's novel "Wind in the Willows."

	44.	Sheep on Animals.

	45.	Violin at the end of "Wish You Were Here" on Wish You 
		Were Here.

	46.	In the Flesh?  and  In the Flesh

	47.	Battersea Power Station

	48.	'Tonight Let's Make Love In London.'

	49.	Thirteen.

	50.	"Welcome to the Machine."  They dropped the tape down half a 
		semitone and then dropped the line in on the track.

	51.	Roy Harper.

	52.	"There's No Way Out Of Here"

	53.	If

	54.	Roger Waters

	55.	Nick Mason

	56.	"Roger played a bass through a binson echo unit and the Floyd 
		had 'One of These Days' because of what evolved - that's what 
		the whole thing came out of."

	57.	Gerald Scarfe.

	58.	Two.

	59.	Roger Waters.

	60.	George Roger Waters.
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		Here are the answers to the lyrics questions.  Did you get 
	every song, album, writer, and track?  How about the release dates?

	1. 	Song:		Your Possible Pasts
		Writer:		Waters
		Album:		Final Cut
		Released:	1983
		Position:	Side one track two


	2. 	Song:		Bike
		Writer:		Barrett
		Album:		Piper at the Gates of Dawn
		Released:	Aug 5, 1967
		Position:	Side two track five 


	3. 	Song:		Free Four
		Writer:		Waters
		Album:		Obscured by Clouds
		Released:	June 1972
		Position:	Side one track four


	4. 	Song:		Childhood's End
		Writer:		Gilmour
		Album:		Obscured by Clouds
		Released:	June 1972
		Position:	Side two track one	


	5. 	Song:		Dogs
		Writer:		Waters, Gilmour
		Album:		Animals
		Released:	Jan 1977
		Position:	Side one track two


	6. 	Song:		The Post War Dream
		Writer:		Waters
		Album:		The Final Cut
		Released:	1983
		Position:	Side one track one
	

	7. 	Song:		See-Saw
		Writer:		Wright
		Album:		Saucerful of Secrets
		Released:	June 29, 1968
		Position:	Side two track two
	

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	8. 	Song:		Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
		Writer:		Waters
		Album:		A Saucerful of Secrets
		Released:	June 29, 1968
		Position:	Side one track three


	9. 	Song:		Jugband Blues
		Writer:		Barrett
		Album:		A Saucerful of Secrets
		Released:	June 29, 1968
		Position:	Side two track three
	

	10. 	Song:		Corporal Clegg
		Writer:		Waters
		Album:		A Saucerful of Secrets
		Released:	June 29, 1968
		Position:	Side one track four


	11. 	Song:		Fearless
		Writer:		Waters, Gilmour
		Album:		Meddle
		Released:	Nov 1971
		Position:	Side one track three


	12. 	Song:		The Hero's Return
		Writer:		Waters
		Album:		The Final Cut
		Released:	1983
		Position:	Side one track four
	

	13. 	Song:		Echoes
		Writer:		Waters, Wright, Mason, Gilmour
		Album:		Meddle
		Released:	Nov 1971
		Position:	Side two only track


	14. 	Song:		Fat Old Sun
		Writer:		Gilmour
		Album:		Atom Heart Mother
		Released:	Oct 1970
		Position:	Side two band three


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	15. 	Song:		Remember a day
		Writer:		Wright
		Album:		A Saucerful of Secrets
		Released:	June 29, 1969
		Position:	Side one track two


	16. 	Song:		Let There Be More Light
		Writer:		Waters
		Album:		A Saucerful of Secrets
		Released:	June 29, 1969
		Position:	Side one track one
	

	17. 	Song:		Summer `68
		Writer:		Wright
		Album:		Atom Heart Mother
		Released:	Oct 1970
		Position:	Side two track two


	18. 	Song:		If
		Writer:		Waters
		Album:		Atom Heart Mother
		Released:	Oct 1970
		Position:	Side two track two


	19. 	Song:		Pigs on the Wing Part II
		Writer:		Waters
		Album:		Animals
		Released:	Jan 1977
		Position:	Side two track three
	

	20. 	Song:		Pigs (three different ones)
		Writer:		Waters
		Album:		Animals
		Released:	Jan 1977
		Position:	Side two track one


	21. 	Song:		The Narrow Way
		Writer:		Gilmour
		Album:		Ummagumma
		Released:	Oct 25, 1969
		Position:	Side four track one

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	22. 	Song:		The Show Must Go On
		Writer:		Waters
		Album:		The Wall
		Released:	Nov 30, 1979
		Position:	Side four track one


	23. 	Song:		Run Like Hell
		Writer:		Waters, Gilmour
		Album:		The Wall
		Released:	Nov 30, 1979
		Position:	Side four track three	


	24. 	Song:		Welcome to the Machine
		Writer:		Waters
		Album:		Wish You Were Here
		Released:	Sept 1975
		Position:	Side one track two


	25. 	Song:		Grantchester Meadows
		Writer:		Waters
		Album:		Ummagumma
		Released:	Oct 25, 1969
		Position:	Side three track two


	26. 	Song:		Eclipse
		Writer:		Waters
		Album:		Dark Side of the Moon
		Released:	March 1973
		Position:	Side two track five


	27. 	Song:		Brain Damage
		Writer:		Waters
		Album:		Dark Side of the Moon
		Released:	March 1973
		Position:	Side two track four


	28. 	Song:		Shine On You Crazy Diamond
		Writer:		Wright, Waters, Gilmour
		Album:		Wish You Were Here
		Released:	Sept 1975
		Position:	Side two track three


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	29. 	Song:		Flaming
		Writer:		Barrett
		Album:		Piper at the Gates of Dawn
		Released:	Aug 5, 1967
		Position:	Side one track four


	30. 	Song:		Matilda Mother
		Writer:		Barrett
		Album:		Piper at the Gates of Dawn
		Released:	Aug 5, 1967
		Position:	Side one track 3


	31. 	Song:		Comfortably Numb
		Writer:		Waters
		Album:		The Wall
		Released:	Nov 30, 1979
		Position:	Side three track six


	32. 	Song:		Lucifer Sam
		Writer:		Barrett
		Album:		Piper at the Gates of Dawn
		Released:	Aug 5, 1967
		Position:	Side one track two
	

	33. 	Song:		Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk
		Writer:		Waters
		Album:		Piper at the Gates of Dawn
		Released:	Aug 5, 1967
		Position:	Side one track six
	

	34. 	Song:		Wish You Were Here
		Writer:		Waters, Gilmour
		Album:		Wish You Were Here
		Released:	Sept 1975
		Position:	Side two track two


	35. 	Song:		Us and Them
		Writer:		Wright, Waters
		Album:		Dark Side of the Moon
		Released:	March 1973
		Position:	Side two track two


								Q-17

	36. 	Song:		The Gnome
		Writer:		Barrett
		Album:		Piper at the Gates of Dawn
		Released:	Aug 5, 1967
		Position:	Side two track two


	37. 	Song:		Chapter 24
		Writer:		Barrett
		Album:		Piper at the Gates of Dawn
		Released:	Aug 5, 1967
		Position:	Side two track three


	38. 	Song:		Astronomy Domine
		Writer:		Barrett
		Album:		Piper at the Gates of Dawn
		Released:	Aug 5, 1967
		Position:	Side one track one


	39. 	Song:		Money
		Writer:		Waters
		Album:		Dark Side of the Moon
		Released:	March 1973
		Position:	Side two track one


	40. 	Song:		The Fletcher Memorial Home
		Writer:		Waters
		Album:		The Final Cut
		Released:	1983
		Position:	Side two track two


