What is your Chicago music IQ?

Chicago is a musical town, and after a year of living here I am just beginning to realize how many great musical careers intersect with the Chicago scene. Chicago's unique styles of blues, soul, jazz and hip-hop have all made me smile at one time or other. This post is a hats off and thank you to the musicians of the city of broad shoulders. Thanks!

And now a celebration of Chicago music through trivia. What is your Chicago music IQ? Did you know that Sam Cooke and Lou Rawls went to High School together here, or that both Wilco and the Smashing Pumpkins got started here? I didn't, but now I do and I decided to write a quiz to publicize some interesting facts. The study guide is first: a list of artists and links to them on Wikipedia. Study up before you take the quiz below.

• Sam Cooke
• Wilco
• Muddy Waters
• Mel Torme
• Lou Rawls
• Coleman Hawkins
• Jim O'Rourke
• Billy Corgan
• Herbie Hancock
• Quincy Jones
• Gene Krupa
• The Smashing Pumpkins

The Quiz:

1. Which two singers grew up in chicago and were in a 50's gospel group called "The Teenage Kings of Harmony?"
2. What chicago band features the landmark Marina Towers on the cover an album?
3. Who is the chicago filmmaker, producer and musician with an album cover featuring a naked reclining asian man getting fellatio from a small rabbit?
4. Which Chicago born jazz drummer was the first person to use a bass drum pedal in 1927?
5. Who was the Glendale heights kid and guitar virtuoso who's father, a jazz guitarist, refused to give him guitar lessons because he doubted his commitment?
6. What artist got his nickname from his childhood fondness for playing in the mud? (Yeah, this is super easy, but an interesting fact.)
7. What Chicago born music producer produced the 2 biggest selling albums of all time, and is the only african-american film producer to have been nominated for an oscar in the category of best picture?
8. Who attended high school in Chicago (and Topeka, Kansas) before becoming the first influential jazz musician to use the tenor saxophone?
9. This Chicago based musician was one of the first mainstream musicians to use an Apple computer in making music. His 1980 album featured sounds from an Apple II.
10. Born in Chicago this singer's nickname is the Velvet Fog.

I guess you get a point for each of these questions. So the highest possible IQ is 10! Go brains!