Enter Sandman by BruceM

In a typical guitar tab for Metallica's "Enter Sandman," the first note of the introductory riff is position 0 (open) on the E string, the second note is position 7 on the A string, and the third note is in which position (we want a number) on the D string?

(If it helps, the note you're playing is a minor third above the root of the key the song is in.)

What three-word exhortation (given to a "little one") begins the lyrics of "Enter Sandman"?

Since 2000, which college football team has used "Enter Sandman" as part of a pregame tradition featuring fans jumping in place at Lane Stadium?

Many baseball fans knew "Enter Sandman" as Mariano Rivera's entrance music. But until a silly April 2006 New York sports controversy, many Yankee fans didn't realize it was also the longtime entrance music of what 5-foot, 10-inch southpaw closer?

This former Astro and Philly had signed with the Mets before the 2006 season. He retired in 2010 with 422 career saves.

"Enter Sandman" was the first single off of the eponymous album Metallica (also known as The Black Album). What was the second single from that album, following "Enter Sandman" and preceding "Nothing Else Matters"?

R.G. Armstrong, featured in the official "Enter Sandman" music video, appeared in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Ride the High Country, and other Westerns from what director who also created The Westerner and wrote early episodes of The Rifleman?

What three-word phrase fills in the blanks of this Lars Ulrich quote, a reaction to learning that U.S. interrogators in Iraq used "Enter Sandman" to break uncooperative prisoners?

"If there are people that are dumb enough to use Metallica to interrogate prisoners, you're forgetting about all the music that's to the left of us. I can name, you know, 30 [BLANK] [BLANK] [BLANK] bands that would make Metallica sound like Simon & Garfunkel"

This is a musical genre (referring to a specific nation), exemplified by bands like Bloodthorn and Zyklon.

A version of "Enter Sandman" is the next-to-last track on what April 1999 live album that Metallica recorded with the San Francisco Symphony?

First and last name required. Which Republican used "Enter Sandman" as entrance music for a March 2013 speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, the first of three years in a row that he won the CPAC annual straw poll?

Sample quote from that speech: "My question to the President was about more than just killing Americans on American soil. My question was about whether Presidential power has limits."

Who covered "Enter Sandman" (among other songs) on the 1997 album In A Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy?

Needing one more question for this quiz, your smith found "Metallica's 'Enter Sandman': Why This Song Sucks," a July 2012 piece in LA Weekly by what writer currently employed by The Ringer?

In that contrarian piece, this author of Basketball (and Other Things) points out that "the kid in the video is kind of a Grade A pussy. Essentially, he has nightmares about three things: being in water, being in the air, and snakes."

Two answers required. On Halloween night, 2017, a superstar drummer/singer guest-hosted for Jimmy Kimmel. An actress appearing on the show that night sang "Do You Want to Build A Snowman?" and segued into "Enter Sandman." Name both the musician and the actress who teamed up for that medley.

The former was in Them Crooked Vultures (among other bands), a trio with Josh Homme and John Paul Jones. Meanwhile, Diana Tremain is the alter ego -- and the name that had appeared on the fake ID -- of a dead but rapidly maturing Phoenix native played by the latter.