Music Questions and Answers about Bands, Singers, Songs, Groups and More!
How many of Frank Sinatra's collaborators on Duets and Duets II
joined him in the studio?
A: Zero.
What three words preceded "land that I love" in a
1938 Irving
Berlin tune?
A: "God bless America".
What Georgia rockers resurrected
Dan Rather's mysterious 1986
mugging in their 1994 track, What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
A: R.E.M.
What's the only group to claim two of the top ten best-selling
singles of the 1970s?
A: The Bee Gees.
What group's early BBC performances went quadruple platinum
within two months of their U.S. release in late 1994?
A: The Beatles'.
What Stephen Foster tune encourages racing enthusiasts to "bet on
de bay"?
A: Camptown Races.
What singer sent the punk band Rancid a naked photo along with a
plea to sign with her record label?
A: Madonna.
Who was the first solo female host of the Academy Awards
ceremony?
A: Whoopi Goldberg.
How many former Beatles had chart-topping singles from 1973 to
1974?
A: Four.
What rock star did Lou Diamond Phillips' wife leave him for?
A: Melissa Etheridge.
What jazz musician got his aristocratic nickname in high school
for his neat attire and fastidious manners?
A: "Duke" Ellington.
What jazz trumpeter was dubbed the "Prince of Darkness"?
A: Miles Davis.
What sitcom spawned the hit song I'll Be There for You?
A: Friends.
What MTV twosome are known as "The Bad Boys" in
Mexico?
A: Beavis and Butt-head.
What did rapper Mohandas Dewese coolly change his name to?
A: Kool Moe Dee.
How many songs from the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
Band were released as singles?
A: Zero.
What folk-rocker said he'd like Billy Dee Williams or Mickey
Rooney to play him if his life story is filmed?
A: Bob Dylan.
What was the only language beat writer Jack Kerouac spoke until
the age of six?
A: French.
What Italian wrote 32 operas between the ages of 18 and 30?
A: Gioacchino Rossini.
What countdown deejay intones: "keep your feet to the ground, and
keep reaching for the stars"?
A: Casey Kasem.
What Shania Twain recording became the best-selling country music
album ever by a female artist, in 1996?
A: The Woman in Me.
What Elton John album became the first album to enter the charts
at Number One, in 1975?
A: Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy.
What veteran British rock star explained: "I smash guitars
because I like them"?
A: Pete Townshend.
What Alanis Morissette debut album sold over ten million copies?
A: Jagged Little Pill.
Who stomped off a 1995 Lollapalooza stage after a fan of her late
husband threw a shotgun shell at her feet?
A: Courtney Love.
What opera star sold more recordings in 1990 than all but Madonna
and Elton John?
A: Luciano Pavarottti.
What country star changed his first name from Randall to Hank?
A: Hank Williams Jr.
What Bizet opera concerns a gal who dumps a soldier for a
bullfighter?
A: Carmen.
What late pun rocker did Debbie Gibson try to contact during a
Halloween séance in 1988?
A: Sid Vicious.
What songstress died before the release of her cross-over album
Dreaming of You?
A: Selena.
What composer was honored on the bicentennial of his death with a
180-disc compilation of all his works?
A: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
What 1976 and 1991 hit begins: "Is this the real life / Is this
just fantasy"?
A: Bohemian Rhapsody.
What did Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen lose in a 1984 auto
accident?
A: An arm.
What Allman Brothers anthem announces: "When it's time to leave I
hope you'll understand"?
A: Ramblin' Man.
What British punks played to more fans in the first weekend of
their 1996 "Filthy Lucre" tour than during their entire 1978 U.S.
tour?
A: The Sex Pistols.
What 23-year-old Tejano singer was
murdered by her fan club
president?
A: Selena.
