trivia contest  the long winters library

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updated 21 January 2006

It's an old trick. How do you get kids to run through a museum? Give them a puzzle hunt and a little bonus prize at the end.

Wanna play? Here's a trivia contest about The Long Winters. Some answers are somewhere in the Library, or on a page linked from the Library, although not all.

The official contest is over, and at the bottom of the page you will find a link to the answers and the winner.



1.   When was the first Long Winters show under that name?


2.   Which poster was actually used: left, middle or right?

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3.   Which cover was played in combination with Cinnamon (artist and title)


4.   From where to where did John Roderick walk in 1999?


5.   Who is the mystery drummer in this sequence?

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6.   What song is the mystery track on The Worst You Can Do Is Harm?


7.   Who did the Future Mix of The Commander Thinks Aloud?


8.   Who is this cowboy in the Harvey Danger video Sad Sweetheart of the Rodeo?

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9.   And who is this cowboy, so lovingly captured by Ryan Schierling?

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10.   Link left and right correctly:
    A. Michael Chick
    B. Ryan Schierling
    C. Merlin Mann
    D. Adde Russell
    E. Shawn Wolfe


1. Designer of the artwork for Ultimatum
2. Designer of the artwork for When I Pretend To Fall
3. Director of the video for Blue Diamonds
4. Webmaster of thelongwinters.com
5. Photographer of Long Winters promo photos

11.   What did John Roderick study at the University of Washington?
    A. Law, Societies and Justice
    B. Comparative History of Ideas
    C. Comparative Religion
    D. European Studies
    E. Public Policy and Management


12.   Where did this man show up?

sorry, ask me for the cowboy


13.   Which guest musician is John talking about in this old bio entry from www.thelongwinters.com:
    On "Give Me a Moment," he played the egg shaker flawlessly for eight minutes.


14.   What is the band eating in the Blue Diamonds video?


15.   What is the name of the horn section that occasionally joins The Long Winters

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16.   From which songs are the following Gizoogled lyrics:

    A.   Now It's breakfast tizzy, You're hold'n Hollywood above mah heezee

    B.   Rizzle Won't grow at home, And tha Moon Doesn't favor bitchez

    C.   It neva rains enough ta coo' mah hustla

    D.   She laughs when I pretend ta F-to-tha-izzall


17.   Under what name does John Roderick register the rights to his songs with BMI?


18.   For which artist did The Long Winters tour as backing band as well as support act? (On the photo you see him doing lead vocals for TLW, because John had vocal problems that night.)

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19.   Which cover is the odd one out and why?:
    A. Don't tell me
    B. The night they drove old Dixie down
    C. Outshined
    D. Sway


20.   Which Long Winters song is this?
    Play the mystery song



Go here for the answers and the winner of the official contest.
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