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1. What were the month, date and year of “The Day the Music Died?”

2. “This’ll be the day that I die” slightly alters the title of a hit song by which victim of the plane crash?

3. Which teenaged Mexican-American singer died in the plane crash?

4. A singer named J.P. Richardson also died in the plane crash. What was his more famous stage name?

5. A future country music star was a young bass player among the travelling musicians. He gave up his seat on the plane and rode the show bus instead. He felt survivor guilt for years afterward. Who was he?

6. To what does the term “American Pie” refer?

7. Among other lines about this singer-songwriter are these: “When the jester sang for the king and queen in a coat he borrowed from James Dean and voice that came from you and me.” To whom does “the Jester” refer?

8. The lyrics refer to three different rock groups that formed in the early 1960s. Name one.

9. Of his high school experiences, McLean wrote, “I was a lonely teenage broncin’ buck with a pink carnation and a pick-up truck.” That’s a line referring to “A White Sport Coat and a Pink Carnation.” Which country-pop star wrote and recorded that song in 1957?

10. McLean asked, “Did you write the Book of Love,” a slight variation on a 1958 Billboard hit. Which group recorded that hit song ?

Answers:

1. 3, 1959, 2. Buddy Holly, 3. Ritchie Valens, 4. The Big Bopper, 5. Waylon Jennnings, 6. The name of the airplane that crashed, 7. Bob Dylan, 8. The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, or The Byrds, 9. Marty Robbins, 10. The Monotones