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Take this quick blues quiz and see if you really know what lies at the heart of the blues. Scroll down for the answers.

491 blues Quiz.

1. Who or what is 'Black Betty' ?

2. Where did the blues originate ?

3. Why would you want the 'Midnight Special' to shine on you ?

4. Which hand did Albert King play the strings of his guitar with ?

5. What is a 'mojo hand' ?

6. What is Muddy Waters real name ?

7. Who is 'John the Congeroo' ?

8. Who was known as Blues Boy ?

9. What is a 'black cat bone' ?

10. How does legend say Robert Johnson died ?

11. Who sold their soul to the Devil so they could play the blues better ?

12. What were 'Hollers and Calls' ?

13. What is a blues saxophone or harp ?

14. How was Bessie Smith better known ?







































Answers.

1. Black betty is a whip used in prisons in the southern sates in the U.S.A.

2. Mainly Mississippi.

3. If you were a prisoner in the Sugarland Prison Farm in Texas, you could hear the 'Midnight Special' train running throughthe night on its way from Houston to California. The legend was that if the light from the train shone on your prison cell, you would soon be free.

4. Albert King was left handed.

5. A Mojo hand is a black bag in which you keep your magic charms, prayer slips and the like.

6. Muddy Waters real name was McKinley Morganfield.

7. John Congeroo is a plant root. It is meant to have magical powers and as such was used as a magic charm. You would carry it in your mojo hand. It would certainly make your enemies run, as it is most well known as a laxative.

8. B.B. King was Blues Boy King.

9. A black cat bone is just what it says, a bone from a black cat. If you put it under your tongue, it is meant to make you invisible as long as it has been prepared in the right way.

10. Robert Jonhson was said to have been poisoned.

11. Robert Johnson is reputed to have sold his soul to the devil in a Faustian pact for his music skills.

12. Hollers and Calls were the original style of singing by black workers in the southern states of the U.S.A. on which blues was built.

13. A blues saxophone or harp is a reference to a harmonica (mouth organ).

14. Bessie Smith was known as the 'Empress of the blues'.