From: junkman@gmx.co.uk   
      
   Given how very, very quiet it's become...   
      
      
   So you're in a TV studio with the cameras rolling and you're invited to   
   take the chair in the spotlight for a 2-minute examination of your   
   knowledge of matters Steely.   
      
   Questions are spoken fairly rapidly if you've just answered one   
   correctly but more slowly if you've just got one wrong. You may pass on   
   providing an answer and the questioner moves on but an incorrect answer   
   is met with the correct answer being provided to you. A pass wastes less   
   time but, in the event of a tie, the contestant with the fewest passes   
   is the winner.   
      
   You proceed along the catwalk and try to settle in the hotseat as the   
   studio lights dim, the set becomes intimidatingly silent and your   
   inquisitor tells you that your two minutes starts....... now!   
      
   1. Steely Dan took their name from a reference in which book by William   
   Burroughs published in 1959?   
      
   2. In which college in New York State did Steely Dan's founder members,   
   Donakd Fagen and Walter Becker, first meet in 1967?   
      
   3. According to the sign on the seller's cart shown in the black and   
   white photograph on the cover of "Pretzel Logic", how much did the hot   
   pretzels cost?   
      
   4. What was the title of the band's first single released in 1972   
   featuring Jim Hodder on lead vocals?   
      
   5. In which category did Steely Dan receive their first Grammy for Aja   
   in 1978?   
      
   6. Who played bass on three tracks of the band's comeback studio album   
   "Two Against Nature" including the opening song "Gaslighting Abbie"?   
      
   7. Which track from "Everything Must Go" was Walter Becker's first lead   
   vocal for a Steely Dan studio album?   
      
   8. Which song had been recorded and fully edited for the "Gaucho" album   
   but was accidentally erased by an assistant recording engineer?   
      
   9. By what epithet did the engineer Roger Nichols become known, having   
   been credited with it on the band's first six albums?   
      
   10. Jeff Baxter and Michael McDonald both left Steely Dan - although at   
   different times - to join which other band?   
      
   11. Which unusual instrument does Denny Dias play on the hit single "Do   
   It Again"?   
      
   12. Who designed the album sleeve for "Countdown To Ecstacy"? She was   
   Donald Fagen's girlfriend at the time.   
      
   13. In which California city did Steely Dan play their last concert in   
   1974 after which the band did not perform live together for another 19   
   years?   
      
   14. What is the title of Walter Becker's first solo album that was   
   released in 1994 and was produced by his Steely Dan partner, Donald Fagen?   
      
   15. Featuring Flo and Eddie on vocals, a demo of which track is the only   
   previously unreleased song from the "Citizen Steely Dan" boxed set?   
      
   16. In which vocal group did Becker and Fagen play as backup musicians   
   from 1969 to 1971?   
      
      
   Your time is up and in that round you scored .........   
      
   /...now we dolly back, now we fade to black..../   
      
      
   How well did you do in the two minutes?   
      
   Join us after the break to discover the score of our heroic warehouseman   
   from Corby and to view the answers according to the "Mastermind"   
   question setters for episode 4 in the 2008 series (BBC probably have the   
   copyright in the questions).   
      
      
      
   Anyone who suggests that the answer to any SD question is always "Drugs"   
   may not score [sic] too well.   
      
   --   
   JonPhred   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)