Bob Dylan, the Victoria's Secret Ad, and Other Questions

Answer a series of forehead-slapping anecdotal factoids. It's up to you to weigh each fact in each anecdotal factoid. They're tricky. One might seem like total B.S. until it's revealed to be strangely and disturbingly "True." Another anecdotal factoid might seem to contain all solid and verifiable facts until it's revealed to be yet one more big fat garden variety "Bald-Faced Lie." And here's the trickiest part: an anecdotal factoid might even be "Half-True"; in other words, a mishmosh of truths and bald-faced lies, where you don't know where one ends and the other begins, much like the usual slop served by Madison Avenue, Washington D.C., and the Internet in its entirety.

Category: "The answer, my friend, is blowing in this Bob Dylan trivia quiz"

Decide for yourself, and mark "T" for "Truth", "F" for "Bald-Faced Lie" or "TF" for "Half-Truth" in the blank slot next to each factoid.

The answers will be revealed on the next page.

1) __ In his autobiography, "Chronicles Volume 1", Dylan indicated that he's a fan of Barry Goldwater, Mickey Rourke, the song "Moon River", polka dances, President William McKinley, and an especially big fan of late fifties teen idol Ricky Nelson.

2) __ Dylan was once secretly married to gospel singer Carol Dennis, one of his former backup singers. Their daughter Desiree is in her twenties.

3) __ In Hibbing, Minnesota, his hometown, the only Jewish deli for miles around is called "Zimmy's", Dylan's high school nickname.

4) __ In the nineties, Bob Dylan was a member of the group, The Traveling Wilburys, which also included rock legend Roy Orbison, "Rolling Stone" Keith Richards, Dylan's son Jakob, "Band" member Robbie Robertson, and Arkansas folksinger Malcolm Wilbury.

5) __ In 2006, Bob Dylan made his first appearance in a television commercial. It was an ad for "naughty" women's wear company, "Victoria's Secret."

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Here are the answers for "The answer, my friend, is blowing in this Bob Dylan trivia quiz"

Answers:

A reminder: "T" is for "Truth", "F" is for "Bald-Faced Lie" or "TF" is for "Half-Truth".

1) TF: This anecdote is both true and false. It's true that, in his autobiography, Dylan indicated that he's a fan of Barry Goldwater, Mickey Rourke, the song "Moon River", polka dances, and an especially big fan of late fifties teen idol Ricky Nelson.

Nelson's song "Garden Party" mentions Dylan. The song was about Nelson being booed at Madison Square Garden for mixing new material with his old material.

It's false that he's a fan of President William McKinley,

2) T: It's true that Dylan was secretly married to Carol Dennis for six years. When their daughter Desiree turned 18, she and her dad agreed that she'd take his last name.

3) TF: This anecdote is both true and false. It's true that a Hibbing, Minnesota restaurant is called "Zimmy's", Dylan's high school nickname. It's false that Zimmy's is a Jewish deli.

4) TF: This anecdote is both true and false. It's true that Bob Dylan was a member of the group, The Traveling Wilburys, which also included rock legend Roy Orbison. It's false that the band included "Rolling Stone" Keith Richards, Dylan's son Jakob, and "Band" member Robbie Robertson. There's no such person as Arkansas folksinger Malcolm Wilbury.

5) T: It's true that Bob Dylan made his first television commercial appearance in a "Victoria's Secret" ad. In 1996, he sold the rights to "The Times They Are-A Changin'" for a Bank of Montreal TV commercial.

SOURCES:

"So you thought you knew Dylan", Janet Maslin, New York Times, URL: (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/05/books/05masl.html?ex=1188619200&en=279b34678d6b8551&ei=5070)

"Chronicles part one", Charles Taylor, Salon, URL: (http://dir.salon.com/story/books/review/2004/10/08/dylan/index.html?pn=1)

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/1273409.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3618291.stm

"Tangled up in boobs", Seth Stevenson, Slate, URL: (http://www.slate.com/id/2098635/)

"Who's this guy Dylan whose borrowing lines from Henry Timrod?", Motoko Rich, New York Times, URL: (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/14/arts/music/14dyla.html?ex=1315886400&en=b047f7c116eacc87&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001168/bio

"Bob Dylan's two secret wives", David Gardner, Sunday Mirror, URL: (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_19980322/ai_n14472920)