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The Jazz Nickname Game

There are a lot of great jazz musicians who had interesting nicknames - in each grouping below, there are three real names of jazz musicians, and one fake name - can you pick which name is the imposter in each set?
Group #1:
  • Cannonball Adderley
  • Lovie Austin
  • Bombastic Billerbeck
  • Billy Bang
Group #2:
  • Count Basie
  • Bix Beiderbecke
  • Bunny Berigan
  • Bubbles McCoy
Group #3:
  • Hotdog Houlihan
  • Tubby Hayes
  • Baby Dodds
  • Lockjaw Davis
Group #4:
  • Kid Ory
  • Hot Lips Page
  • Pillowhead Peterson
  • Zoot Sims
Group #5:
  • Shorty Miller
  • Jabbo Smith
  • Pharoah Sanders
  • Fats Waller

Score =

Correct answers:

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