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About This Quiz
With an emphasis on topics like love, boating and fruity cocktails, this smooth music style of the late 1970s and early 1980s features a SoCal vibe and lots of collaboration among its practitioners (Toto, Michael McDonald, Christopher Cross, Kenny Loggins, etc.) Don your captain's hat, grab a pina colada and find out how well you know yacht rock!
Which seminal yacht rock album took two years to record and was the most expensive record ever made at the time that it was released in 1980?
The Doobie Brothers' "The Captain and Me"
Toto's "IV"
Steely Dan's "Gauchoâ€
Which of the following artists is NOT considered a yacht rocker?
Robbie Dupree
Boz Scaggs
Jackson Browne
Where did the whole idea of yacht rock come from?
Michael McDonald's popular podcast
a web parody series
a show on a New York radio station
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Who was the inspiration for Toto's song "Rosanna�
actress Rosanna Arquette
the band's studio dog
no one in particular
In which recognized YR classic from 1980 does the singer long to "make it to the border of Mexico�
"Ride Like the Wind†by Christopher Cross
"Keep on Running†by Byrne & Barnes
"Alibis†by Sérgio Mendes
Who co-wrote "What a Fool Believes,†the only song to earn a perfect 100 on the Yacht or Nyacht? scale, with Michael McDonald?
Carly Simon
Jim Messina
Kenny Loggins
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On the "Beyond Yacht Rock†podcast episode titled "Women of Yacht,†who takes the No. 1 position in the countdown?
Nicolette Larson
Diana Ross
Lauren Wood
In addition to cutting more than one single with Michael McDonald, James Ingram topped the yacht rock charts with a duet with which female singer?
Kate Bush
Janet Jackson
Patti Austin
Which of these Lionel Richie songs earned the highest score on the Yacht or Nyacht? scale?
"Running with the Night"
"All Night Long (All Night)"
"Hello"
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