Q 01/05

In which California city was Bonnie Raitt born?

A) Pasadena

B) Burbank

C) Long Beach

D) Santa Ana

Answer · why

B) Burbank

Burbank. As a girl she sang protest songs and idolised Joan Baez; in 1999 the two went up a threatened redwood together to visit the activist living i...

Q 02/05

Bonnie Raitt's father, John, was best known on Broadway for which original role?

A) Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof

B) Harold Hill in The Music Man

C) Billy Bigelow in Carousel

D) Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls

Answer · why

C) Billy Bigelow in Carousel

Billy Bigelow in Carousel. Decades later he would walk on to close Bonnie's concerts with a song from Oklahoma!, and the two recorded Broadway duets f...

Q 03/05

As a girl, Bonnie Raitt chose guitar because she felt she'd never match which relative on piano?

A) Her grandmother

B) Her mother

C) Her older brother

D) Her aunt

Answer · why

B) Her mother

Her mother. Marge Goddard was an accomplished pianist, so Bonnie taught herself on a Stella guitar she was given for Christmas, copying records by ear...

Q 04/05

A live blues album recorded at which festival hooked the 14-year-old Bonnie Raitt on slide guitar?

A) Newport Folk Festival

B) Philadelphia Folk Festival

C) Monterey Jazz Festival

D) Berkeley Folk Festival

Answer · why

A) Newport Folk Festival

Newport Folk Festival. The album Blues at Newport set her learning bottleneck guitar at 14, the skill that later won her the respect of the veteran bl...

Q 05/05

Which college did Bonnie Raitt attend, majoring in social relations and African studies?

A) Vassar

B) Berklee

C) Radcliffe

D) Sarah Lawrence

Answer · why

C) Radcliffe

Radcliffe. She meant to graduate and do social work in Tanzania, but the blues clubs won: she left without a degree to play music full-time.