Q 01/05

Rush formed in 1968 in which Canadian city?

A) Toronto

B) Vancouver

C) Winnipeg

D) Montreal

Answer · why

A) Toronto

They played their first gig in a church-basement youth centre called the Coff-Inn and were paid CA$25.

Q 02/05

Which 1981 Rush song, co-written with Max Webster lyricist Pye Dubois, opens Moving Pictures?

A) Limelight

B) Tom Sawyer

C) Vital Signs

D) The Camera Eye

Answer · why

B) Tom Sawyer

Dubois's original poem was called "Louis the Warrior"; Peart reworked it and Lee called the result the band's defining piece of the early 80s.

Q 03/05

The instrumental "YYZ" takes its title from what?

A) A radio call sign

B) A postal code

C) An airport code

D) A NASA mission number

Answer · why

C) An airport code

The intro spells the letters out in Morse code, which the band first heard broadcast as they flew into Pearson.

Q 04/05

What was Neil Peart's nickname within the band?

A) The Colonel

B) The Headmaster

C) The Doctor

D) The Professor

Answer · why

D) The Professor

It came from his resemblance to the Gilligan's Island character; Lee introduced him that way at Massey Hall in 1976.

Q 05/05

In the song series "Cygnus X-1", what kind of object does the explorer aboard the Rocinante fly into?

A) A black hole

B) A supernova

C) A comet

D) A neutron star

Answer · why

A) A black hole

The ship's name comes from Don Quixote's horse, and Book II picks up the story on the next album, Hemispheres.