Q 01/05

The Doors took their name from a Huxley book that itself referenced a line by which poet?

A) William Blake

B) John Keats

C) Percy Shelley

D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Answer · why

A) William Blake

William Blake wrote that if the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is, infinite. Aldous Huxley took the phrase as the ti...

Q 02/05

Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek of the Doors first met as film students at which university?

A) USC

B) UCLA

C) Stanford

D) UC Berkeley

Answer · why

B) UCLA

UCLA's film school introduced them, but the band began weeks after they left it: meeting by chance on a beach in 1965, Morrison shared songs he had be...

Q 03/05

Which founder of Elektra Records signed the Doors in 1966 after seeing them at the Whisky a Go Go?

A) Jac Holzman

B) Ahmet Ertegun

C) Clive Davis

D) Mo Ostin

Answer · why

A) Jac Holzman

Jac Holzman had started Elektra in his college dorm room in 1950 as a small folk label. He went to see the Doors on a tip from a singer already on his...

Q 04/05

Which Los Angeles band's singer recommended that Elektra's president go and see the Doors?

A) The Byrds

B) Buffalo Springfield

C) The Turtles

D) Love

Answer · why

D) Love

Arthur Lee's group was already on Elektra; the Doors would soon eclipse them as the label's biggest act.

Q 05/05

Which track on the Doors' debut album comes from a German opera by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht?

A) Soul Kitchen

B) Back Door Man

C) Alabama Song

D) The Crystal Ship

Answer · why

C) Alabama Song

Alabama Song comes from Mahagonny, an opera about a city of vice, where it is sung on the way to the next whisky bar. Ray Manzarek brought the number ...