Q 01/05

Which TV series played Kansas's Carry On Wayward Son over the recap that opened nearly all of its season finales?

A) Smallville

B) Supernatural

C) Once Upon a Time

D) Teen Wolf

Answer · why

B) Supernatural

Supernatural adopted the 1976 hit as an unofficial theme song, running it before every season finale from its second season on. It became the longest-...

Q 02/05

In which comedy film does Will Ferrell's character sing Kansas's Dust in the Wind at a fraternity brother's funeral?

A) Old School

B) Anchorman

C) Step Brothers

D) Talladega Nights

Answer · why

A) Old School

Old School reached cinemas in 2003, a quarter of a century after the ballad peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100. It is the only Kansas single to ...

Q 03/05

Which scientist is the subject of Kansas's single Portrait (He Knew), which its composer later rewrote about Jesus?

A) Isaac Newton

B) Nikola Tesla

C) Albert Einstein

D) Galileo Galilei

Answer · why

C) Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein inspired the 1977 original. Eleven years later its writer recorded a new version, Portrait II, with his Christian band AD.

Q 04/05

Which abolitionist appears on the cover of Kansas's debut album, in a scene cropped from a Kansas State Capitol mural?

A) Nat Turner

B) Frederick Douglass

C) Harriet Tubman

D) John Brown

Answer · why

D) John Brown

John Brown holds a Bible in one hand and a rifle in the other in Tragic Prelude, John Steuart Curry's mural about the Bleeding Kansas years that led u...

Q 05/05

Which member of Queen sang backing vocals on three songs of the 1982 Kansas album Vinyl Confessions?

A) Brian May

B) John Deacon

C) Roger Taylor

D) Freddie Mercury

Answer · why

C) Roger Taylor

Roger Taylor, Queen's drummer, sang on three tracks of the first Kansas album made after the band's original lead singer left.