Brian Eno by DixonD

Champion(s):

Matto
Who knew we had 8000 salad plates?


Runner(s)-Up:

OlewnickB
Strictly speaking, I'm not a pedant.


Quiz Description

A few questions about the musician, producer, and public intellectual whose name anagrams to "One Brain".

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Questions:

Eno's full name is rather long, since it includes the name of what French Catholic patron saint of teachers, who founded the first teachers' college (normal school) in 1685? (Last name redacted in the picture.)

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De La Salle

From 1971-3, he was a member of the art rock group Roxy Music. Name any TWO other members of the band during Eno's tenure.

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Brian Ferry, Andy Mackay, Roger Bunn, David O'List, Phil Manzanera, Graham Simpson, Rik Kenton, Dexter Lloyd, Paul Thompson

Eno has collaborated several times with what virtuoso King Crimson guitarist? The audio excerpt is from "The Heavenly Music Corporation", from their first album together, (No Pussyfooting) (1973).

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Robert Fripp

When the song in Question 3 was first played on BBC Radio 1, it was accidentally played backwards in its entirety. Name the legendary DJ who made this error, which was apparently only noticed by Eno himself.

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John Peel

A vinyl copy of Eno's 1977 solo album Before and After Science can be seen in this still from what 2000 film?

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High Fidelity

One of the tracks on Before and After Science, "King's Lead Hat", is an anagram of what band, three of whose albums were produced by Eno?

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Talking Heads

Two albums by the band U2, both co-produced by Eno, won Grammy awards for Album of the Year. One was The Joshua Tree. Name the other album, which was also co-produced by Daniel Lanois, Chris Thomas, Flood, Jacknife Lee, and Steve Lillywhite.

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How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (All That You Can't Leave Behind won Best Rock Album, but not Album of the Year)

Eno wrote this short piece (on a Macintosh, ironically) as the startup sound for what specific operating system?

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Windows 95

In 2014, Eno released two albums, Someday World and High Life, of collaborations with Karl Hyde, frontman of WHAT GROUP whose work includes this track?

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Underworld

Eno's ambient album Neroli is an hour-long exploration of what musical mode with a flattened second, named for an ancient Anatolian kingdom whose capital was at Gordium? An example of a scale in this mode is: E F G A B C D E.

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Phrygian

He appeared as "Father Brian Eno" in the final episode of what British sitcom, set on Craggy Island off the west coast of Ireland? The title character's back is to the camera in this still. (edited at 8:58 pm, March 19, 2016 (EDT))

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Father Ted

Name the album redacted in this excerpt from Eno's statement upon the death of David Bowie: "About a year ago we started talking about XXXXXXX — the last album we worked on together. We both liked that album a lot and felt that it had fallen through the cracks. We talked about revisiting it, taking it somewhere new. I was looking forward to that." (An excerpt from this album is attached.) (edited at 8:51 pm, March 19, 2016 (EDT))

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