Music Trivia Questions and Answers

 

 

Music Trivia Questions and Answers

Music trivia questions and answers

What Broadway musical revival did Lou Diamond Philips refuse to shave the top of his head for, in 1996?
A: The King and I.

Who appeared on the cover of Seventeen magazine before selling over 11 million copies of her debut album?
A: Whitney Houston.

Who'd never been farther east than Montana when he wrote Proud Mary?
A: John Fogarty.

What Kiss star sported the longest tongue in rock?
A: Gene Simmons.

What 1976 chart-topping song did Barry Manilow sing, but not write?
A: I Write the Songs.

Who was the top-selling album artist of the 1970s, according to Billboard?
A: Elton John.

What Rodgers and Hammerstein show is the most often-performed musical in U.S. high schools?
A: Oklahoma!

What trumpeter became the oldest person ever to score a chart-topping single, in 1964?
A: Louis Armstrong.

What genre did Ice Cube define as "the network newscast black people never had"?
A: Rap.

What 1865 Wagner opera opens on a ship?
A: Tristan and Isolde.

What R&B vocal quartet titled its third album II in 1994?
A: Boyz II Men.

Who are the Three Tenors?
A: Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti.

How many birthday candles were Cher, Dolly Parton and Sylivester Stallone each obliged to blow out in 1996?
A: Fifty.

What bankrupt Las Vegas crooner spent $75,000 to refurbish his pet penguins' pond?
A: Wayne Newton.

What hard-drinking country legend explains his bumpy life in the book I Lived to Tell It All?
A: George Jones.

Whose pop parody career includes the hits Addicted to Spuds, My Bologna and Eat It?
A: "Wierd Al" Yankovic's.

What bandleader became the first jazz musician to get an honorary degree from Columbia University, in 1973?
A: Duke Ellington.

What tenor recieved a record 165 curtain calls at a Berlin opera house in 1988?
A: Luciano Pavarotti.

What female singer scored 14 million-selling singles between 1967 and 1973?
A: Aretha Franklin.

Who was the first female artist to debut on the Billboard album chart at Number One?
A: Whitney Houston.

What was the nickname of jazzman John Birks Gillespie?
A: Dizzy.

Which of the inmates who heard Johnny Cash's 1958 San Quentin concert became the biggest country music star?
A: Merle Haggard.

What mother and child spent years in Nashville shopping demos they'd recorded on a $30 cassette recorder?
A: The Judds.

Whose guitar version of The Star-Spangled Banner was featulred in a 1996 Aiwa TV ad?
A: Jimi Hendrix's.

What 15-year-old rock icon-to-be was grounded for the whole summer after sneaking out to her first concert, to see David Bowie?
A: Madonna.

Who's waxed more gold and platinum albums than any other solo female artist?
A: Barbra Streisand.

What Jackson actually had a million-selling LP called Let's Get Serious?
A: Jermaine Jackson.

What Sinatra signature tune became Elvis Presley's best-selling posthumous hit?
A: My Way.

What song-writing duo's hits made it to Broadway in the show Smokey Joe's Cafe?
A: Leiber and Stoller's.

Who's "Monk" to jazz buffs?
A: Thelonious Monk.

How many Grammy Awards did Lawrence Welk garner during his 50-year career?
A: Zero.

What studio did the Beatles use to record 191 songs?
A: Abbey Road.

What jazz musician got his nickname by shortening "Satchel Mouth"?
A: Louis Armstrong.

What two Frank Sinatra hits were tops for U.S. karaoke singers in 1993?
A: New York, New York and My Way.

What rocker Darius Rucker's stage name?
A: Hootie.

What British group got its name from the title of a 1950 Muddy Waters song?
A: The Rolling Stones.

 

 

 

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