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What was the birth name of Bob Dylan?
Douglas Reddfield
Bower Franklin Shoup
Robert Alan Zimmerman
Carl Strump Kilspringer
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After leaving home, the artist changed his name to Bob Dylan after what poet from Wales?
Melvin Dylan
Dylan Burroughs
Keith Dylans
Dylan Thomas
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Once, Bob Dylan walked out of a rehearsal for The Ed Sullivan Show after he learned they wanted to censor which of his songs?
"Like a Rolling Stone"
"Subterranean Homesick Blues"
"The Times They Are a Changin"
"Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues"
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In another one of the more questionable features of Dylan's career, in 1963, he made a drunken rant against the committee that chose him to receive which award?
The Congressional Medal of Freedom
The Tom Paine Award
The Philadelphia Medal of Liberty
The Pierson Medal for the Arts
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The lyrics "How many roads must a man walk down / Before you can call him a man?" were in which Dylan song?
"Gotta Serve Somebody"
"Blowin' In the Wind"
"The Times They Are a Changin"
"Planet Waves"
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Dylan's album Planet Waves was a collaborative effort with what other musical artist?
Paul McCartney and Wings
Pink Floyd
The Band
King Crimson
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An aspect of Dylan's life that had a profound impact on his music was his conversion to what religion in the late seventies?
Evangelical Christianity
Judaism
Luteranism
Catholicism
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How many Grammy Awards has Bob Dylan won?
8
11
12
14
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What was the title of Dylan's acclaimed autobiography which had its first part released in 2004?
What I Know
Blowin' in the Wind
Chronicles
The Joker and the Thief
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Among his other achievements, Dylan also won an Academy Award for his song "Things Have Changed" which was used in what film?
Twilight Dawn
He Came Back
I'm Alright
Wonder Boys
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In 2016, Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in what category?
Medicine
Science
Literature
Peace
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From 2006 to 2015 Dylan hosted a radio show that bore what title?
Bob Dylan's Hour Extravaganza
Theme Time Radio Hour
The Joker and the Thief
Way Back Flashback with Bob Dylan
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In 2011, Rolling Stone Magazine named which Bob Dylan song "The Greatest Song of all Time"?
All Along the Watchtower
Like a Rolling Stone
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
The Times They Are a Changin'
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