Test your knowledge of Bob Dylan's biggest hits, deep cuts and iconic moments.
'Like a Rolling Stone', 'Blowin' in the Wind' and 'The Times They Are a-Changin'' are the ones the voice names in a heartbeat.
The Nobel Prize, the night he went electric at Newport, and the covers that outsold his own records.
Start with the voice and the anthems, then place the covers, the electric turn and the Nobel-winning words.
Two things give Dylan away: the nasal voice and lines everyone half-knows. 'Like a Rolling Stone', 'Blowin' in the Wind' and 'The Times They Are a-Changin'' are the ones most players name first, and they are the easy points early in a round.
Half the trick is that his compositions often became major hits in other artists' recordings. The Byrds took 'Mr. Tambourine Man' to number one, Jimi Hendrix owned 'All Along the Watchtower', and 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door' has been covered for decades. Naming Dylan as the writer is the catch.
In 1965 Dylan walked onto the Newport Folk Festival stage with an electric band and reportedly drew boos from purists. Telling the acoustic protest singer of 1963 from the electric 'Highway 61 Revisited' sound is a real quiz skill.
In 2016 Dylan became the first songwriter awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, for poetry written inside American song. A round often leans on the words, so knowing a lyric can place a track a melody alone would not.
A clip of a Bob Dylan song plays and you name it, then answer trivia on his lyrics, the artists who covered him and his switch from acoustic to electric.
'Like a Rolling Stone', 'Blowin' in the Wind', 'The Times They Are a-Changin'' and 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door', plus deeper cuts like 'Tangled Up in Blue'.
Yes. In 2016 he became the first songwriter awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, honored for the poetry in his lyrics.
Many of his songs are better known through covers, so the hard part is naming Dylan as the writer of a hit made famous by the Byrds, Hendrix or Guns N' Roses.
Robert Allen Zimmerman, an American singer-songwriter from Minnesota who reshaped popular music in the 1960s and won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Yes. The Bob Dylan quiz is free on Songtrivia, with no signup and no Spotify account needed. You can also guess the song with friends in a multiplayer round.
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