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A Wee Mo Weppa: The Crimson Oldies Quiz

The answers to this quiz and the winners' names will be published in Tuesday's CRIMSON. All undergraduates at Harvard and Radcliffe are eligible to win the grand prize; other readers may enter, but their entries will not count. An individual may represent a group of students. Decision of the judges is final.

Bring entries to the CRIMSON, c/o BHB, by midnight Sunday. Anyone answering all 80 questions and the bonus correctly will win the complete record collections of both authors. Members of the CRIMSON and their families are not eligible.

1. Who sang "Stagger Lec" and "Lawdy Miss Clawdy?"

2. What did Skeeter Davis do as a follow-up to "End of the World?"

3. Who sang "Do You Wanna Dance" before anyone else?

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4. Very few people know if Stevie Wonder had reached puberty when he first made the charts. We don't either. But we do know how old he was. Give Stevie's age at the time of his first record.

5. What was Buddy Knox's first big hit?

6. Who sang "You Talk Too Much?"

7. A song called "I'll Hide My Love" was popular about nine years ago. The Short Cuts sang it, but on what label?

8. Two singers, both with the surname Lawrence, sang "The Old Philosopher" and "Footsteps." What were the first names, and which of these two songs did each sing?

9. An English group did a rendition of "Tossin' and Turnin'" five years ago. Who did the original?

10. What was Betty and the Emblems' biggest hit?

11. Who sang "100 Pounds of Clay?"

12. What's the flip side of "Eve of Destruction" by Barry McGuire?

13. What famous singer and his date would have had fun and plenty of time if they'd left home at quarter to nine?

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