| Coverage : Big Country Quiz is designed to test your knowledge of this famous band. How much do you think you really know about Big Country? This Big Country Quiz will give you new insight into the work and history of Big Country. |
| 1. | Big Country was a rock band from Dunfermline, Scotland, popular in the early to mid 1980s but still releasing material for a cult following as recently as? |
| a. | | 2004 |
| b. | | 2005 |
| c. | | 2006 |
| d. | | 2007 |
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| 2. | The band was notable for music heavily accented with traditional Scottish folk and martial music styles, as well as for playing and engineering their guitar sound to resemble the bagpipes, fiddles and other traditional folk instruments? |
| a. | | True |
| b. | | False |
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| 3. | Formed initially as a five piece band in? |
| a. | | 1980 |
| b. | | 1981 |
| c. | | 1982 |
| d. | | 1983 |
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| 4. | Their first single was "Harvest Home", recorded and released in? |
| a. | | 1982 |
| b. | | 1983 |
| c. | | 1984 |
| d. | | 1985 |
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| 5. | It was a modest success, reaching what number on the UK singles chart? |
| a. | | #30 |
| b. | | #80 |
| c. | | #91 |
| d. | | #44 |
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| 6. | Their next single was 1983's "Fields of Fire", which reached the UK's Top Ten and was rapidly followed by the album named what? |
| a. | | The Crossing |
| b. | | The Gates |
| c. | | The Boardwalk |
| d. | | The Evening |
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| 7. | The album was a crossover hit in the United States, powered by "In A Big Country", their only stateside hit single? |
| a. | | True |
| b. | | False |
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| 8. | Also contributing to the band's unique sound was their early virtuoso use of the e-bow, a device which allows a guitar to sound more like strings or synthesizer? |
| a. | | True |
| b. | | False |
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| 9. | The Crossing sold over how many copies in the UK and obtained gold record status (sales of over 500,000) in the USA? |
| a. | | hundred |
| b. | | thousand |
| c. | | million |
| d. | | billion |
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| 10. | The band released the non-LP extended play single Wonderland while undergoing a lengthy worldwide tour in? |
| a. | | 1984 |
| b. | | 1985 |
| c. | | 1986 |
| d. | | 1987 |
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