The brainchild of Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner, the Rolling Stone Rock & Roll Bowl kicked off its inaugural run last fall with challenge exams at 30 colleges and universities nationwide. That’s where I came in. Six months later, after increasingly competitive regional and semifinal rounds, my Northwestern University team (myself, Will Getter, and Steve Weinstein) duked it out with San Jose State (Dawn Reichelderfer, Walter Ryce, and Thomas Lawler) amid the glamour and clamor of Spring Break Daytona Beach. Plans are already under way for another competition, and organizers are promising greater visibility and grander prizes; if you’re a full-time college student in search of a trivial pursuit, watch your campus newspaper this fall for news of the event. Meanwhile, you can match wits with the current national champions by trying your hand at these questions, drawn from the semifinal and final rounds of the competition.
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This group covered Led Zeppelin’s “Rock & Roll” on their 1980 Greatest Hits Live album.
To accompany the “explicit lyrics” stamp on the cover of their 1990 album, this band printed Article One of the United States Constitution.
Left-handed
Grading yourself:
Less than 6 We’re very sorry, Mr. Kasem.
