Score:
40=Join a Boy Band
50=Punk Rocker
61=Hit the Highway
66=You're on the Route
70=Folkie Merit Badge
80=Folkie Merit Badge with Oak Leaf Cluster
90=Folk Legend
If you have a different right answer, score 2 points. It's folk music.



i. B flat
ii. Charles Lamb
Refer back to the quiz
1. Barbara Allen
2. Leadbelly
3. Moe Asch
4. Mule Skinner Blues
5. Daly City, CA
6. 500 lbs
7. Howlin' Wolf
8. Poor Hattie Carroll
9. Martha Graham
10. 3
11. Mississippi
12. The Brown's Ferry Four
13. Rock salt and nails
14. Jesse Fuller
15. A Bulgarian fiddle with sympathetic strings and no fingerboard 
16. A diving duck
17. Ralph Rinzler
18. Duncan
19. Son House
20. Xhosa
21. Hank Williams, Jr.
22. John Hammond 
23. Pretty Peggy-o
24. The Ragtime Jug Stompers
25. Your land, my land
26. A Hudson-Essex car, 1932-1938
27. Sonny Terry
28. A 23 stringed West African harp with a gourd body.
29. Sara, Maybelle, and A. P. Carter
30. Sara and A. P. were married; "Mother" Maybelle was a sister-in-law
31. Deep Elm
32. Your sorrows
33. Eric Darling
34. Frank Hamilton
35. Bernie Krause
36. Her Black Bottom
37. E.Y. "Yip" Harburg
38. Bois Sec Ardoin
39. Jimmie Rodgers
40. Dorian mode
41. Cripple Clarence Lofton
42. Mr. Tom Hughes
43. Scottish war pipes
44. The Big Dipper
45. Taj Mahal
46. 8 more miles
47. The Late Great Townes Van Zandt
48. Louisiana
49. Garth Brooks
50. The Babysitters
51. Alan Arkin
52. The Skillet Lickers
53. A stringed instrument that supplies the drone in ragas
54. A Balkan long-necked mandolin sort of thing
55. Birch Monroe
56. On the back of their head. (The Danville girl)
57. Ralph Peer
58. 9 pounds
59. Will, Rodney, and Dewey
60. Omie (Naomi) Wise
61. Suze Rotolo
62. Avalon, Mississippi ("Avalon's my home town, always on my mind.")
63. Izzy Young
64. Bela Bartok
65. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
66. Bob Wills
67. Leon McAuliffe, steel guitarist in "The Texas Playboys."
68. Rev. Gary Davis
69. The fourth day of July
70. Jimmy Driftwood
71. The 8th of January (1815)
72. d.
73. f.
74. b.
75. a.
76. h.
77. c.
78. g.
79. e.
80. Hank Snow
81. "Captain said, "I ain't haulin' no coal.'"(Leadbelly)
82. A double barreled Bosnian recorder
83. Ya gotta like boobs a lot. (Steve Weber; The Fugs, The Holy Modal Rounders)
84. McKinley Morganfield
85. Albert (Mississippi John Hurt), Johnnie (most everybody else), Al Britt (per historical records)
86. The Clinch Mountain Boys
87. Bob Dylan recording with Eric Von Schmidt and Richard Farina
88. Paul Robeson
89. Bonaparte's Retreat, Hop High Ladies (McCleod's Reel), and Simple Gifts
90. Mouth bow
91. It moans, it groans, it flashes and it foams/And rolls on its weary way
92. Ramblin' Jack Elliott
93. Professor Longhair
94. Polly Ann
95. Kentucky (Jean Ritchie)
96. John Hardy
97. His mojo (also acceptable: BWDDWBBWDBWT!)
98. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
99. Strange Fruit (Abel Meeropol)
100. Foggy Mountain Breakdown



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