Rock & Roll Death by PenningtonJ

Champion(s):

Falkor23
Have a break, have a Kit-Kat!


Runner(s)-Up:

HulkaE
Find what you like and let it kill you


Quiz Description

It's just what it says on the tin. The common thread is rock musicians who have died of unnatural causes.

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1 Falkor23 481 98 15
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Questions:

The same plane crash that killed Otis Redding also killed four out of six members of this R&B/instrumental group. What is THIS GROUP, known for the hit "Soul Finger," which was later reformed by its two surviving members as a 1970s funk act?

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The Bar-Kays

After dying of a drug-induced heart attack in Paris in 1971, Jim Morrison was buried in what FRENCH CEMETERY, named after a Jesuit priest who advised Louis XIV?

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Pere Lachaise

What COUNTRY SINGER, who had formerly been a member of Buddy Holly's Crickets, avoided losing his own life on "the Day the Music Died" when he lost a coin toss to give up a seat on Buddy Holly's plane to the Big Bopper?

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Waylon Jennings

The original drummer died choking on a cherry pit after morphine suppressed his gag reflex. The original lead singer died after his girlfriend, R&B singer Gloria Jones, accidentally crashed their car into a tree. What is THIS GROUP that began as a hippie folk duo with a long name, later shortened after becoming a glam rock band?

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T. Rex (or Tyrannosaurus Rex)

What SONG, later remade by both Harry Nilsson and Mariah Carey, acquired an unlucky reputation after its co-writers, Pete Ham and Tom Evans of the group Badfinger, both committed suicide by hanging?

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"Without You"

The drug overdoses of Stefanie Sargent of 7 Year Bitch and Andrew Wood of Mother Love Bone, as well as the murder of Mia Zapata of the Gits, were all deaths that affected the music scene in WHAT CITY?

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Seattle

What RAP ARTIST formed the Stop the Violence movement after his collaborator in Boogie Down Productions, DJ Scott La Rock, got shot in the neck while trying to mediate between two men fighting over the same woman?

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KRS One

What FRONTMAN of an eponymous quartet, best known for a rockabilly-flavored song remade by the Clash, was declared dead in 1966 after his corpse was found drenched in gasoline in a Hollywood parking garage?

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Bobby Fuller

Better known for his collaborations with Julianne Moore, WHAT FILMMAKER directed the suppressed underground film, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, which used Barbie dolls to depict the death of singer Karen Carpenter from anorexia?

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Todd Haynes

Vernon Isley of the Isley Brothers, Nico of the Velvet Underground, and Mary Hansen of Stereolab all died accidental deaths as a result of performing WHAT ACTIVITY?

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bicycling

Two answers required. Ron McKernan, Keith Godchaux, Brent Mydland, and Vince Welnick died of cirrhosis, a car accident, a drug overdose, and suicide, respectively, after all of them played WHAT INSTRUMENT for WHAT GROUP?

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keyboards, Grateful Dead

WHAT HEAVY METAL BAND, which had its biggest hit with a remake of an Ian Hunter song, contributed to the death of 100 people (including their guitarist Ty Longley) after their tour manager set off pyrotechnics that burnt down The Station nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island?

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Great White