The Dark Side of the Moon by DixonD

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Vicun-YAH


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Alpaca, the other white meat


Quiz Description

Questions related to the classic Pink Floyd album

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Questions:

The album was recorded at what famous studio, formerly called "EMI Studios", but renamed after a certain album was released in 1969?

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Abbey Road Studios

The iconic cover art, designed by Hipgnosis, depicts what optical phenomenon, where the index of refraction of a transparent material varies with the wavelength of the light?

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dispersion

The instrumental part of the song "Us and Them" was originally written for what explosive Michaelangelo Antonioni film, but was rejected for being "too sad"?

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Zabriskie Point

Name the singer featured on "The Great Gig in the Sky", who was initially paid only £30 for her work, but in 2004 successfully sued for songwriting credit and royalties.

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Clare Torry

Name the studio whiz who won a Grammy for his engineering work on the album, and soon embarked on his own Project.

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Alan Parsons

Dick Parry played saxophone on two of the album's tracks. Name both.

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Money, Us and Them

Name the band who covered the entire album in a 1998 concert, continuing an annual tradition of performing in "musical costume" around Halloween.

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Phish

Sometime in the mid-1990's, the Usenet discussion group alt.music.pink-floyd noticed that the album synced up eerily well with what 1939 film?

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The Wizard of Oz

Although it was #1 for only one week (April 28, 1973), the album remained on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart every week until what year?

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1988

The maniacal laughter heard in various places on the album was done by Pink Floyd's road manager, the father of what English actress, nominated for Academy Awards for her work in the films 21 Grams and The Impossible?

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Naomi Watts

Before it was recorded, Pink Floyd performed Dark Side of the Moon for the musical press at what London landmark, also the site of Jimi Hendrix's first guitar-burning and an incident where a jealous audience member pushed Frank Zappa off the stage, breaking his leg?

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Rainbow Theatre

Since the band Medicine Head had already released an album called Dark Side of the Moon in 1972, the album's title was temporarily changed. Name this working title, also the name of the album's closing track.

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Eclipse (A Piece for Assorted Lunatics)