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By what royal honorific is Sam Cooke, one of the founding fathers of the genre he helped invent, best remembered? | 100% |
Which 1957 single was Sam Cooke's debut solo pop hit, topping both the pop and R&B charts and launching his secular career? | 100% |
Before going pop, Sam Cooke rose to fame as the lead singer of which legendary gospel quartet? | 100% |
When Sam Cooke first crossed from gospel to secular music, he initially released a record under what pseudonym to avoid alienating his religious audience? | 0% |
Cooke's posthumously released civil-rights anthem 'A Change Is Gonna Come' was inspired in part by which Bob Dylan protest song? | 100% |
Showing unusual business independence for a Black artist of his era, Sam Cooke founded which record label in 1961? | 0% |
Sam Cooke was fatally shot on December 11, 1964, at a motel in which city? | 100% |
What 1961 Sam Cooke hit, sharing its name with the Roman god of love, asks that god to draw back his bow? | 100% |
Which 1960 Sam Cooke hit opens with the line 'Don't know much about history'? | 0% |
Cooke's 1962 call-and-response classic 'Bring It On Home to Me' featured a prominent backing vocal from which singer? | 100% |
Cooke's 1960 hit 'Chain Gang' and many of his other classics were released on which major label he signed to that year? | 100% |
In what year was Sam Cooke inducted in the inaugural class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, alongside Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry? | 100% |
A raw, gospel-fervor 1963 concert by Cooke, shelved by his label for being too gritty for his supper-club image, was finally issued in 1985 under what venue name? | 100% |
Sam Cooke was born in 1931 in which Mississippi town, a place often linked to the birth of the blues? | 100% |
After moving north as a child, in which city was Sam Cooke raised, the son of a Baptist minister? | 100% |
Which younger soul singer, who later married Sam Cooke's widow Barbara, was a protégé signed to Cooke's label? | 0% |
Cooke's 1962 dance hit riding the era's most popular dance craze shares its name with which fad it celebrated? | 100% |
Which British rock singer credits Sam Cooke as a primary vocal influence and recorded a cover of 'Bring It On Home to Me'? | 100% |
Sam Cooke's swaggering 1960 single about working under guards on a road crew is titled after what kind of forced-labor group? | 100% |
Unusually for a singer of his era, Sam Cooke wrote most of his own hits, including which of these signature songs? | 100% |
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