6 Degrees of Pink Floyd by Wolfman2

Champion(s):

BarthR
L’enfer, c’est les autres.


Runner(s)-Up:

OlewnickB
Strictly speaking, I'm not a pedant.


Quiz Description

An informative Quiz related (and indirectly related) to the band Pink Floyd.

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Questions:

What late, innovative singer and songwriter, who shares a first name with one of the members of Pink Floyd, performed Syd Barrett's "Arnold Layne" and "Comfortably Numb" as a special guest with David Gilmour in 2006?

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David Bowie

Jerry Garcia, Jim Morrison, and Pink Floyd contributed music to what 1970 Michelangelo Antonioni "counter-culture" film that was a box-office flop? The film's title comes from a "named" natural landmark in Death Valley National Park, California, where the film was also shot.

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Zabriskie Point

Jim Morrison's song "L'America" was rejected from the 1970 counter-culture film referenced in Question 2. On what Door's studio album did "L'America" later appear?

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L.A. Woman

Although they never performed in Death Valley, California, Pink Floyd did perform in a "Death Valley." What land-grant, sea-grant research university located in South Carolina has a Memorial Stadium nicknamed "Death Valley" where Pink Floyd performed during the 1994 Division Bell tour. The school also features a well known rock from Death Valley (CA).

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Clemson University

After performing with the brass section of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in 1969, what concert venue was Pink Floyd allegedly banned from after shooting cannons, nailing things to the stage, and having a man in a gorilla suit roam the audience? This historic concert venue was opened by Queen Victoria in 1871.

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Royal Albert Hall

According to biographer Nicholas Schaffner, this "psychedelic schoolgirl" at the UFO Club in the 1960's, who grew up to become one of "Britain's greatest living stone sculptors," might be the inspiration for what early Syd Barrett penned Pink Floyd single?

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See Emily Play (Emily Young)

Tonite Let's All Make Love In London (1967) is a semi-documentary film by Peter Whitehead about the "swinging London" scene of the 1960's. A live Pink Floyd performance and footage of John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Mick Jagger, Vanessa Redgrave, Lee Marvin, and Michael Caine (among others) are included in the film. What "swinging London" pop icon whose films include Darling (1965) and Fahrenheit 451 (1966) is also interviewed in the film (pictured on the right)?

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Julie Christie (not Oskar Werner)

The title for their fifth studio album, Atom Heart Mother (1970), came from a newspaper heading about a woman who was receiving the first (atomic) pacemaker. What animal appears on the cover of the album?

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A cow

Director Barbet Schroeder's films More and La Vallee have soundtracks that were recorded by Pink Floyd. (Excluding his mainstream Hollywood schlock like Single White Female, Desperate Measures, and Kiss of Death *lol*), what 1990 Academy Award nominated film directed by Schroeder starring Jeremy Irons and Glenn Close is adapted from a non-fiction book (by the same title) written by what former law professor? Name the film OR the author. Claus, but no cigar.

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Alan Dershowitz (Reversal of Fortune)

Spurred on by the promise of a payment to his favorite charity, what "hitchhiking" writer, who passed away in 2001, suggested the title of Pink Floyd's 1994 album The Division Bell?

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Douglas Adams

What scientist's voice can be heard in the song "Keep Talking" on 1994's The Division Bell?

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Stephen Hawking

Inspired by themes from 1973's Darkside of the Moon, the play Darkside is a 2013 philosophical comedy, radio drama written by what British playright and screenwriter?

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Tom Stoppard