Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Almost Daily Music Trivia Quiz #149 - Music, Songs, Artists, Albums and More!

Music related trivia quiz questions and answers
  1. Who was the youngest person to have a chart-topping solo single,
    in 1970?
     
  2. What German playwright penned the lyrics to Mack the Knife and
    Alabama Song?
     
  3. What's indicated by the word fine on a piece of sheet music?
     
  4. What grungeless Seattle band's name is affectionately abbreviated
    "Pot USA"?
     
  5. What question ends the Ira Gershwin lines: "I got rhythm / I got
    music / I got my man..."?
     
  6. What calypso singer founded the USA For Africa charity that
    recorded We Are the World?
     
  7. What group's lead guitar player is known for his guitar amps with
    control knobs that go up to 11, "one more than 10"?
     
  8. What was the best-selling album named after a city, in the 1970s?
     
  9. What fellow Floridian did Jon Secada write and sing back-up for
    before going solo?
     
  10. What song includes the lines: "I've lived a life that's full / I
    traveled each and ev'ry highway..."?
     
  11. What Beatles song advises: "One thing I can tell you is you got
    to be free"?
     
  12. What TV host went gold with the CD Romantic Christmas?
     
  13. What seven words complete the Purple Haze line: "Actin' funny,
    but I don't know why"?
     
  14. Who adorned his last piano with 350 pounds of rhinestones?
     
  15. What did Melissa Etheridge title her first album after coming out
    of the closet?
     
  16. How many singles did Bruce Springsteen put atop Billboard charts
    in the 1980s?
     
  17. What crooner's mother warned him not to change his name to
    Frankie Satin?
     
  18. Who sold part of his ownership of Beatles songs to Sony for $95
    million in 1995?
     
  19. Who's responsible for the LPs Shamrocks and Champagne, Bubbles in
    the Wine and Pick-a-Polka?
     
  20. Who did Chuck Berry say "could play a guitar just like ringing a
    bell"?
     
  21. What classical conductor won posthumous Grammy Awards in
    1991,1992, and 1993?
     
  22. What singer for a '70s British rock quartet changed his name from
    Frederick Bulsara?
     
  23. What British duo's works are referred to as the Savoy Operas?
    Gilbert & Sullivan's.
  24. What rock group is immortalized on Butt-head's T-shirt?
    AC /  DC.
  25. What stringed symphonic instrument has a pedestal and a crown?
    The harp.
  26. Who were Benn, Bjorn, Agnetha and Frida?
    ABBA.
  27. What rock group's only beardless member is Frank Beard?
    ZZ Top's.

Answers to Fun Daily Trivia Quiz   #149 - Music Questions
  1. Michael Jackson.
  2. Bertholt Brecht.
  3. The end.
  4. The Presidents of the United States.
  5. "Who could ask for anything more?".
  6. Harry Belafonte.
  7. Spinal Tap's.
  8. Boston.
  9. Gloria Estefan.
  10. My Way.
  11. Come Together.
  12. John Tesh.
  13. "Scuse me while I kiss the sky".
  14. Liberace.
  15. Yes I Am.
  16. Zero.
  17. Frank Sinatra's.
  18. Michael Jackson.
  19. Lawrence Welk.
  20. Johnny B. Goode.
  21. Leonard Bernstein.
  22. Freddie Mercury.
  23. Gilbert & Sullivan's.
  24. AC /  DC.
  25. The harp.
  26. ABBA.
  27. ZZ Top's.