Q 01/05

Rush formed in 1968 in which Canadian city?

A) Toronto

B) Vancouver

C) Winnipeg

D) Montreal

Answer · why

A) Toronto

Toronto was home turf, and its bars opened to the teenage trio in 1971, when Ontario lowered its drinking age from 21 to 18 and a high-school act coul...

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

Tom Sawyer began as a Pye Dubois lyric called "Louis the Warrior", a portrait of a modern-day rebel that Peart reworked by adding his own theme of rec...

Q 03/05

The instrumental "YYZ" takes its title from what?

A) A stock ticker symbol

B) A postal code

C) An airport code

D) A NASA mission number

Answer · why

C) An airport code

An airport code: YYZ identifies Pearson International, and the opening riff taps out those three letters in Morse code, the same signal the airport's ...

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

The Professor was no tribute to his reading, by Peart's own account: his bandmates were simply comparing his manner to the character of that name on t...

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

A black hole swallows the Rocinante, which shares its name with Don Quixote's horse, and the lyric sheet ends "to be continued": the explorer returns ...