American Patriot Quiz
Music Icon Bo Diddley
Born in Mississippi on December 30, 1928, Bo Diddley was an early pioneer of Rock and Roll music.

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1. Because of the many musicians he influenced, as well as his key role in the transition from blues to rock and roll, Bo Diddley was nicknamed what?
2. After a November 20, 1955 performance, Diddley was banned from what variety show known for launching musical acts?
3. In 1987, Diddley was inducted into what institution along with artists like Aretha Franklin, B.B. King, Roy Orbison, Eddie Cochran, and Marvin Gaye?
4. Though he was born in Mississippi, Diddley got his musical start on the south side of what famous blues city?
5. One of Diddley's greatest contributions to music is a syncopated rhythm known eponymously as what?
6. Bo Diddley is famously associated with a guitar fashioned out of a what?
7. Before recording songs like "Satisfaction" and "Start Me Up," which English rock band covered Bo Diddley's song "Mona (I Need You Baby)" on their British debut album?
8. In the late 1980s, Bo Diddley appeared with athlete Bo Jackson in a television commercial for what company?
9. In 1964, Bo Diddley recorded and released Two Great Guitars, a collaboration album between himself and what guitar legend and writer of "Johnny B. Goode?"
10. Currently, Rolling Stone has Bo Diddley ranked as the 27th greatest guitarist of all time, right behind what guitarist for the rock band Queen?



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