Welcome to Friday Night Pub Quiz #13
Test your knowledge of the psychedelic music of the second half of the 1960s.
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The Psychedelic Sixties
Questions
1.Which American group had “too much to dream last night” in 1967?
2. Which early psychedelic band was originally called the Warlocks?
3. Which 1965 Kinks single is considered to be psychedelic because of the Indian raga music sound of the guitars?
4. Who was the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and also the instigator of the Acid Tests, with the first one in 1965?
5. Which year did LSD become illegal across America?
6. Which 1967 psychedelic album from the Rolling Stones met with a mixed reception from fans and critics?
7. Which UK DJ championed the psychedelic-folk duo Tyrannosaurus Rex?
8. Which psychedelic group was guitarist Ed King with before he joined Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1972?
9. What did psychedelic music seek to emulate?
10. What did Andy Warhol call his multi-media experience, which included the Velvet Underground?
11. Which Texas band did The Austin Statesman describe as “Psychedelic Rock” in a February 1965 review?
12. Which was the first Beatles song to feature a sitar?
13. What was the North London venue for the notorious Be-In, 14-Hour Technicolor Dream held on the 29 April 1967?
14. Which prog rock group did Tomorrow’s guitarist, Steve Howe, go on to join?
15. Who had a UK hit with Paper Sun in mid-1967?
16. Which of The Smoke’s friends “ate sugar lumps”?
17. What does John Lennon claim to be the origin of the title for the Sgt Pepper song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds?
18. Who had a 1975 hit with a cover of Tomorrow’s 1967 psychedelic classic My White Bicycle?
19. Who wrote the majority of the songs on the Pink Floyd’s debut album, Piper At the Gates of Dawn?
20. Who first synthesised LSD-25 in 1938?
