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Music Trivia Questions and AnswersMusic trivia questions and answers What is the minimum number of musicians a band must have to
be considered a "big band"? What musical instrument's sales escalated from 228,000 in 1950 to
2.3 million in 1971? What 1976 chart-topping song did Barry Manilow sing, but not write? What does the Italian musical term adagio mean? Who was the top-selling album artist of the 1970's according to
Billboard? What's the only group to claim two of the top ten best-selling
singles of the 1970's? Who was the first country artist to sell over 10 million copies of
an album? Music trivia questions and answers What band is named after a scuplture in Seattle that hums in the
wind? What two Frank Sinatra hits were tops for U.S. karaoke singers in
1993? What stringed symphonic instrument has a pedestal and a crown? What studio did the Beatles use to record 191 songs? What jazz musician got his nickname by shortening "Satchel
Mouth"? What jazz trumpeter was dubbed the "Prince of Darkness"? What did Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen lose in a 1984 auto
accident? What Southampton junior high school musical was cancelled in 1994
when Shinnecock Indians objected to the " Ug-a-wug" song? What classical conductor won posthumous Grammy Awards in 1991,
1992, and 1993? Who's "Monk" to jazz buffs? What California group waited 22 years to score their first
chart-toping single since 1966? What city's opera house does " The Phantom of the Opera"
prowl? Who scored his first platinum album since 1978 with " The Icon
Is Love " in 1994? What Michael Jackson album spawned five chart-topping singles? What trumpeter became the oldest person ever to score a
chart-topping single, in 1964? What rock star was trying to bite the head off a bat in concert
when the bat decided to bite back? What Shania Twain recording became the best-selling country music
album ever by a female artist, in 1996? What patriotic song was originally titled "The Defense of Fort
McHenry? Who's waxed more gold and platinum albums than any other solo
female artist? How many songs from the Beatles "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts
Club Band" were released as singles? What singer for a 70's British rock quartet changed his name from
Frederick Bulsara? What rock'n'roll singer is memorialized by a eight-foot bronze
statue in Lubbock, Texas? What Woody Guthrie song goes "From California to the New York
island / From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters"? What Pink Floyd song was banned by the South African government
after it became an anthem for black school children? What were the two most popular rock operas of 1969? What are the two most common unbowed stringed instruments found in
a symphony orchestra? What legendary soul singer wrecked his Corvette the first time he
drove it? What tenor received a record 165 curtain calls at a Berlin opera
house in 1988? What Beatles single lasted longest on the charts, at 19 weeks? |
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