JAZZQUIZ
for
October

1.  I'm Coming Virginia : If you travel south from New York down the Interstate 95 which do you come to first - the state of Virginia or the state of North Carolina?

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2.  Dear Old Stockholm : In which coutry would you find Stockholm - Norway or Sweden?

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3.  Scrapple From The Apple :  The Apple is New York, but what is Scrapple - Fried pork scraps and trimmings with cornmeal and wheat flour or A song from the film West Side Story?

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4.  On Green Dolphin Street : is the theme tune to the 1947 film Green Dolphin Street. In the film what is the Green Dolphin - an inn  or a ship?

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5. Cantaloupe Island : Where is Cantaloupe Island located? The Maldives, off Mexico or nowhere (it is just a tune title)

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6.  Night In Tunisia : Tunisia is a country in North Africa. What is its capital?

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7.  St Thomas : This Sonny Rollins tune a. traditional Bahamian folk song "Sponger Money" and the traditional English song "The Lincolnshire Poacher". "The Lincolnshire Poacher" evolved into a nursery song in the Virgin Islands, which Rollins' mother sang to him when he was a child. The Virgin Islands are an archipelago of how many Islands?

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8.  Stompin' At The Savoy : Does the tune refer to the Savoy Hotel in London or the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem?

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9.  The Girl From Ipanema : Ipanema is a neighbourhood in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Who was the girl who was the inspiration for the song - Heloisa Pinto  or Astrud Gilberto?

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10. Georgia - Is the official State song Georgia On My Mind or Midnight Train To Georgia?

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11.  I Could Write A Book  : This song is from a musical based on a series of short stories from The New Yorker. Was the show High Society or Pal Joey?

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12.  A Foggy Day : "in London town, Had me low and had me down, I viewed the morning with alarm ......." What then  "lost its charm" - The National Gallery or The British Museum?​

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13.  Hackensack : This Thelonious Monk tune is a suburb named after an American city where the earliest known inhabitants of the area were an Algonquian people who became known to settlers as 'the Delaware Indians.' They lived along a river they called "Achinigeu-hach", or "Ackingsah-sack", which translates to 'stony ground'. Is Hackensack in New Jersey or Delaware?​

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14. Concierto de Aranjuez : This track appears on the Miles Davis album Sketches Of Spain as an extended version of the second movement of Joaquin Rodrigo's compostion. Aranjuez is part of a Spanish city - is that Barcelona or Madrid? 

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15. Chicago (that toddlin' town) : is located on the edge of one of the Great Lakes - is that Lake Huron or Lake Michigan?​

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