Which Nobel Prize did Bob Dylan win in 2016 as the first musician?
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Nobel Prize in Literature
Awarded for ‘new poetic expressions’ in song.
💡 Did you know? He took his time responding to the award at first.
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Which Dylan song asks how many roads a man must walk down?
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Blowin’ in the Wind
The song became a civil-rights anthem.
💡 Did you know? ‘The answer is blowin’ in the wind.’
Which genre did Bob Dylan originally come from?
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Folk
He played early in the cafés of Greenwich Village.
💡 Did you know? Woody Guthrie was his great role model.
What caused a scandal when Dylan played Newport in 1965?
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went electric
Part of the folk audience felt betrayed.
💡 Did you know? Some shouted ‘Judas!’ at later concerts.
What was Bob Dylan’s birth name?
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Robert Zimmerman
He partly chose the stage name after the poet Dylan Thomas.
💡 Did you know? He was born in Minnesota in 1941.
Which six-minute Dylan song asks ‘How does it feel?’
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Like a Rolling Stone
The song broke with the usual radio length.
💡 Did you know? Many rank it among the greatest songs ever.
Which country is Bob Dylan from?
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USA
He grew up in the mining town of Hibbing.
💡 Did you know? He later lived in New York for a long time.
Which 1964 Dylan song calls out 'Come senators, congressmen, please heed the call'?
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The Times They Are a-Changin’
A call for the social change of the 1960s.
💡 Did you know? The title became a catchphrase.
Which mouth instrument does Dylan often wear on a neck rack?
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harmonica
Guitar and harmonica are his trademark.
💡 Did you know? He often accompanies himself solo with it.
Which Dylan song from the 1973 Western ‘Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid’ became one of his most covered?
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Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
Originally written for a Western soundtrack.
💡 Did you know? Many bands covered it, including Guns N’ Roses.
Which 1965 Dylan album launched his rock phase?
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Highway 61 Revisited
It opens with ‘Like a Rolling Stone’.
💡 Did you know? Highway 61 linked his home region to the South.
How is Dylan’s importance to songwriting often summed up?
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Songwriter
He raised song lyrics to a literary level.
💡 Did you know? That is exactly what the Nobel in Literature honoured.
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