Rough And Rowdy Ways

Question 1

Life advice:
1. Be reasonable Mister, be honest, be fair, let all your earthly thoughts be a ____
2. I do what I think is right, I do what I think is ____
3. Spare no expense, do it with decency and ____ ____

Answer 1

1. Prayer
2. Best
3. Common sense

Question 2

Where does Bob Dylan not live?
1. Where the Jews and the Catholics and the Muslims all pray
2. On a street named after a saint
3. On a boulevard of crime
4. He lives in all those places

Answer 2

4

Question 3

Why can’t Bob Dylan play the record?

Answer 3

Because the needle got stuck

Question 4

Bob Dylan and friends
1. Where were Bob Dylan and Jimmy Reed calling from?
2. What did Bob Dylan and Julius Caesar do?
3. How are Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen traveling?
4. What do Bob Dylan and Walt Whitman contain?
5. Bob Dylan and Van Morrison listen to pirate radio stations from where?
6. Who do Bob Dylan and David Bowie rollick and frolic with
7. What kind of songs do Bob Dylan and William Blake sing?

Answer 4

1. Down in Virginia
2. They crossed the Rubicon
3. They’re traveling light
4. Multitudes
5. Luxembourg and Budapest
6. All the young dudes
7. Experience

Question 5

Expressions:
1. Honor and faith and
2. Today and tomorrow and
3, Treason, strife and

Answer 5

1. Glory Be
2. Yesterday too
3. The unlived, meaningless life

Question 6

Which muse is Bob Dylan falling in love with?
1. Calliope
2. Clio
3. Thalia
4. Polyhymnia
5. none of the above

Answer 6

1. Calliope

Question 7

Which Goddess did Bob Dylan get up early for

Answer 7

The Goddess of the Dawn

Question 8

What did Bob Dylan not to before crossing the Rubicon
1. He painted his wagon and abandoned all hope
2. He prayed to the cross and kissed the girls
3. He pawned his watch and paid his debts
4. He poured a cup and passed it along
5. He turned the key and broke it off
6. He strapped his belt and buttoned his coat
7. He lit the torch and looked to the East
8. He did all of these things

Answer 8

8

Question 9

What does Bob Dylan see

Question 10

What do people not tell Bob Dylan
1. He’s truly blessed
2. He ought to try a little tenderness
3. He left a big mess
4. They tell him all these things

Answer 10

3

Question 11

What does he mean, “12 years old they put me in a suit, forced me to marry a prostitute”

Answer 11

Possibly his Bar Mitzvah which took place before he turned 13. In the Bible, the prophet Hosea was commanded to marry a prostitute

Question 12

According to Bob Dylan, what happens when your smile meets my smile?

Answer 12

Something’s got to give

Question 13

Complete the rhyme:
1. I’m sitting on my terrace lost in the stars, Listenin’ to the sounds of the sad ____

Answer 13

1. sad guitars

Question 14

Threats:
1. I’ll take a sword and hack off your ___
2. I’m here to bring vengeance on someone’s ____
3. I’ll make your wife a widow, you’ll never see ___ ___
4. I’m going to marry you to a ____ and ____
5. I’ll cut you up with a ____ ____

Answer 14

1. arm
2. head
3. old age
4. ball chain
5. crooked knife

Question 15

Which do not apply to Bob Dylan?
1. He paints landscapes and he paints nudes
2. He drives fast cars and he eats fast foods
3. He’s a man of contradictions and a man of many moods
4. He plays Beethoven sonatas and Chopin’s preludes
5. He sings songs of love and he sings songs of betrayal
6. He carries 4 pistols and 2 large knives
7. They all apply

Answer 15

7. They all apply

Question 16

Jokes:
1. What did Bob Dylan say to the willow tree?

Answer 16

1. Don’t weep for me

Question 17

Why does Bob Dylan play both sides against the middle?

Answer 17

He’s trying to pick up that pirate radio signal

Question 18

How did Bob Dylan climb a mountain of swords?

Answer 18

On his bare feet

Question 19

To improve his mind Bob Dylan studies Sanskrit and ____

Answer 19

Arabic

Question 20

Similes:
1. My eye is like
2. My heart is like

Answer 20

1. A shooting star
2. A river that sings