Q 01/05

Before music, Eddie Money trained for which career that his father and grandfather had followed in New York City?

A) Firefighter

B) Police officer

C) Dock worker

D) Subway motorman

Answer · why

B) Police officer

Police officer was the family trade, but Money never got past NYPD trainee: he left in 1968, saying the force would not let him grow his hair long.

Q 02/05

Which 1960s girl-group singer came out of retirement to duet with Eddie Money on Take Me Home Tonight?

A) Darlene Love

B) Martha Reeves

C) Ronnie Spector

D) Cindy Birdsong

Answer · why

C) Ronnie Spector

Ronnie Spector was washing dishes when Money phoned to coax her back, and the hit relaunched her career so well that she made a new solo album the nex...

Q 03/05

Which Irish family surname did Eddie Money shorten into his stage name as a joke about always being broke?

A) Mahoney

B) Maloney

C) Moynihan

D) Mulroney

Answer · why

A) Mahoney

Mahoney lost two letters to become Money after he moved to California in 1968, a sarcastic nod to his empty pockets.

Q 04/05

In a 2012 GEICO commercial, Eddie Money sang Two Tickets to Paradise while playing the owner of what business?

A) A pawn shop

B) A car dealership

C) A travel agency

D) A karaoke bar

Answer · why

C) A travel agency

A travel agency was the setting: Money serenades a family trying to book a vacation, one of several late-career turns in which he spoofed his own imag...

Q 05/05

Eddie Money's father, angry that his son chose rock music, tore posters of which guitarist from the bedroom wall?

A) Jimi Hendrix

B) Eric Clapton

C) Keith Richards

D) Jimmy Page

Answer · why

A) Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix came down off the wall, but the teenager kept playing in rock bands, partly because it helped him get dates with cheerleaders.