Final answers below.

Thanks to all that took part.

Congratulations to Max for most answers correct.


1. Name both of Prince’s attempts at a dance commercial

a. Horny Pony - "Ahhh yes, new dance commercial - take 1" - sabaisabai

b. Jughead - "New dance commercial, take 2" - TheFrog



2. Who:

a. refers to Prince as ‘Muntana’?

Mavis Staples (interview in NPG magazine, issue #1) - IGo2DaMax


b. apparently had a piano in the bathroom?

Oliver - Sheila E's 'Oliver's House - "Oliver's got a swimming pool, a piano in his bathroom" - IGo2DaMax


c. mentions a rabbit called ‘Smokey’?

Apollonia - Apollonia 6 segue "God bless Susan and Brenda and my rabbit, Smokey " - CalhounSq



3. In which Prince-penned song is there reference to:

a. a Nobel Prize winner and two Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award Winners?

2045: Radical Man - Albert Einstein, Nobel Laureate, together with Jimi Hendrix, James Brown and Miles Davis - all Lifetime Achievement Award winners - laylow03


b. a Nobel Prize winner?

Love 2 The 9's (Ernest Hemingway) - "Is Hemingway dead?" - TheFrog


c. a two-time Academy Award winner with six other nominations?

'Pride and the Passion' (Marlon Brando) "He had big cash and a Brando smile" - Igo2DaMax


d. a two-time Academy Award winner with a further nomination?

'Damned If I Do' (Kevin Costner) - "I won't do it like Kevin" - SpudMonkey


e. five Grammy Award Winners and one Grammy Legend & Lifetime Achievement Awards Winner?

Judas Smile - Grammy Award Winners: Macy Gray, Lenny Kravitz, Patti Labelle, Erykah Badu, D'Angelo, Common - and Curtis Mayfield (Lifetime Achievement and Legend Awards) - IGo2DaMax



4. On which Prince-associated album do you hear, or hear mention of:

a. Jim Sledge?

Goldnigga - Final segue - IGo2DaMax


b. Rosie Gaines, Monie Love, Mavis Staples and Celine Dion?

Carmen Electra - Album segue includes snippets from Rosie Gaines' "Hit U In The Socket", Monie Love's "In A Word Or 2", Mavis Staples' "The Voice" and Celine Dion's "With This Tear" - IGo2DaMax


c. The Wright Brothers?

Ice Cream Castles - on "The Bird"



5. Name:


a. the connection between the following Prince-penned songs: ‘If The Kid Can't Make You Come‘, ‘Condition Of The Heart’, ‘Le Grind’, ‘Ain’t No Place Like You’, ‘Come On’ and ‘Family Name’

London - ‘If The Kid Can't Make You Come‘ - "This little hook went 2 London"; 'Condition Of The Heart’' - "There was a dame from London"; 'Le Grind' - "London, what does Big Ben say?"; ‘Ain’t No Place Like You’ - "Send me 2 Marbella, London, Paris 2"; 'Come On' - We could freeze in London"; 'Family Name' - "London, England, sometime in the early 1600's" - Igo2DaMax


b. the three people credited in the movie, 'Starsky and Hutch' who have worked with Prince

Carmen Electra - SpudMonkey

William Blinn - Igo2DaMax

Tomasina Parrott a.k.a Geneva


c. the connection between Joni Mitchell’s ‘Blue’, Neil Young’s ‘Harvest’ .... and ‘D.M.S.R’ at ‘Het Paard von Troje’, 19th August, 1988

Joel Bernstein - transcriber (for 'Blue'), photographer, archivist for (and sometime performer with) Joni Mitchell, photographer (on 'Harvest') and sometime performer with Neil Young, and photographer and guitar technician for Prince - soulyacolia
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[This message was edited Mon Jul 5 13:39:28 2004 by langebleu]

Don't know A or B.

C = Susan on A6 an segue




I can only answer A6 questions!!!

langebleu, are you playing with us? I can answer half of question 1., and that's it! Is this a reading comprehension for The Vault?

sabaisabai said:

I didn't have the Vault before I thought up the questions, and I don't think I looked up / checked any of the answers in Uptown publications:

If you give me the first half of question 1, you get half a mark.

I'll start giving clues as we progress, I'm sure.


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langebleu said:

well sarah mclachlan did a cover of blue...uh...

was that the DMSR where he did an "America" guitar interlude...uh...

CalhounSq said:

I don't think it can be Susan, can it, judging by what is said in the seque? But of course you're damn close!!!!
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langebleu said:

Goodo

Horny Pony

sabaisabai said:

jughead's the other, ain't it?

"dance commercial, take two."

TheFrog said:

That's the version I'm referring to ... the answer is a person, but it's not Sarah McLachlan.
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langebleu said:

I'm guessing that the connection is London...

Max

langebleu said:

is this to do with capital cities, or cities? london's in the first one. uh, paris in the second.

london's in come on. Uh... london's in Le Grind.

hang on.

london's in Condition of the heart too. i say London.

First clues in red above on their way

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langebleu said:[quote]Prince Quiz:

3. In which Prince-penned song is there reference to:

c. a two-time Academy Award winner with six other nominations?[color=red:9b06d1667b]R.I.P.[/color]



Pure guess as I don't know if he wrote it:

Shelia E - Pride and the Passion

"He had big cash and a Brando smile"

God, what a way to spend my day at home sick!

I've got two of the people linked with Starsky and Hutch, but I'm struggling with the third...

Max

1. Carmen Electra


3c Robert DeNiro?? - The One (U're lookin' 4 a man who can share his dinero)
3d Kevin Costner - Damned If I Do
3e - Musicology?

Ok, add William Blinn to the Starsky and Hutch answer!

langebleu said:

Then it must be Crapples - just tell me it wasn't Biker Brenda

SpudMonkey said:

- see above


Insufficient Grammy winners named.
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More clues above
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langebleu said:

Judus Smile

Grammy Award Winners:

1) Macy Gray
2) Lenny Kravitz
3) Patti Labelle
4) Erykah Badu
5) D'Angelo

Are you telling me you knew all of this off the top of your head? I'm discovering websites like nobody's business today! This quiz is addictive!

Max

langebleu said:

Mavis Staples


Max

Igo2DaMax said:

Mmm ... it may be 6 Grammies looking back at it - Common certainly has a Grammy award too, but under his birth name Lonnie Lynn.

Hope you're feeling a bit better

langebleu said:

Oliver's House - Shelia E

Let's just say that the quiz is a great distraction from the pain, thanks!

Max

langebleu said:

You know, there's a phenomena when you try so hard to think of something and it won't come to you, and so you do something else. Then, out of nowhere comes the line "Is Hemingway dead?". A quick google to check that he actually won a Nobel Prize, and realisation that this line comes from the same song as my screen name Spooky!

The song? The Max! In my best Athur Aske, Ithankyou!

Ok, unless I get another brainwave, I will finally bow out of this quiz. Thanks for coming up with the best Prince quiz I've ever attampted! When's the next one?

Max

Igo2DaMax said:

Nearly Max, nearly - right album, wrong track / screen name.
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langebleu said:

lovetractorpic?

i mean, love2the9s ?

TheFrog said:

Yeah - you sort of leap-frogged on to the back of that one!!
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langebleu said:

yeah, i'm lazy like that.

i want to say thanks to Igo2theMax for helping me achieve this milestone.

i want to, but i won't.

ME, ME, ME.



seriously, thanks Igo2theMax.

langebleu said:

Is this the photographer Joel Bernstein? At the end of DMSR Prince says 'The Infamous Joel Bernstein whats up?' Couldn't find any reference to him on the cover of Blue but he took the photos on Joni's 'Hejira' album Am I right? Do I get a prize?

soulyacolia said:

Spot on

Prince mentions him, as you say, during the song.

Joel Bernstein was his sometime photographer





and sometime guitar technician (Lovesexy tour).

It's not clear in what capacity Prince was referring to him from the recording?

Amongst other things, he is a close friend of Joni Mitchell and apart from his photographic work for her, he also was responsible for the official transcription of the album, Blue, for guitar and dulcimer (I believe - but can't confirm - that his photography features in the music book but is not used on the album cover).

Bernstein also photographed Neil Young on the 'Harvest' album (Bernstein can be seen with camera reflected in the door knob reflection photo of Young).

Strangely, I've never seen much reference to his work with Prince, how he hooked up with him etc., but I suspect his intimate knowledge of the unusual guitar tunings used by Joni Mitchell would have been of interest to Prince.
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langebleu said:

You know what? As soon as I stepped into the bath I thought - that's the wrong bloody title!

By then it was too late to correct my stupid error. Oh well, my name is still all over this quiz

TheFrog, as you said thanks I'll forgive you this time....

Max