Entertainment: Music trivia questions
5102 multiple-choice Entertainment: Music trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- This popular male musician wrote the 1973 song Knockin on Heavens Door?
- What is the name of the band that recorded the 1974 song Sweet Home Alabama?
- What is the most common alternate tuning for a guitar when playing bluegrass?
- Since a traditional bluegrass ensemble usually does not include a drummer (fiddle, guitar, banjo, mandolin, string bass), the musician playing the mandolin will sometimes mute the strings and strum off the beat to help keep time in a technique that has generally become known by what name?
- What is the missing part of this Bill Monroes well-known recording: The Muleskinner ______?
- The technique, not generally used in classical or legit playing that turns a violin into a fiddle, is called what?
- What musician recorded the 2001 song Sugar Baby on the album Love and Theft?
- What animal is the title character in the 1995 movie Babe?
- What band recorded the 1997 song Anybody Seen My Baby? on their album Bridges to Babylon?
- What is special about the baby in the 1968 movie Rosemarys Baby?
- Which of these is the title of a popular 1990 song by Whitney Houston?
- What is the title of the popular song released by Sonny Cher in 1965?
- How many symphonies did Beethoven compose?
- Music historians have divided Beethovens career as a composer into three periods. What are they called?
- Possibly the best-known symphony by Beethoven, it is sometimes referred to as The Fate Symphony or Fate Knocking at the Door.
- This symphony by Beethoven is often called The Pastoral and was featured in the movies Fantasia and Soylent Green.
- This symphony was composed by Beethoven while he was at a health spa in Teplitz in Bohemia. It is Opus 92, in A -Major. Beethoven conducted it at its premiere at a concert to aide soldiers injured at the Battle of Hanau, against Napoleons troops.
- This symphony by Beethoven was the first and last piece conducted by Leonard Bernstein with the Boston Symphony. The Philadelphia Orchestra used to perform the second movement at rehearsals whenever they heard of the death of a present or former orchestra member.
- Running for 26 minutes, this symphony in F Major is the shortest of Beethovens symphonies and the only one without a dedication.
- One of Beethovens most popular and famous works, this symphony was originally dedicated to Napoleon. When Napoleon accepted the title of Emperor of France, Beethoven changed the dedication to a heroic symphony, composed to celebrate the memory of a great man.
- The great Choral Symphony by Beethoven ends with a beautiful song based on a German poem. Who wrote the poem?
- This symphony, composed by Beethoven in 1800, lasts for just 28 minutes. Many say that it resembles a German drinking song.
- The period from about 1812 to 1816 was one of Beethovens least productive periods. What is the most probable reason for this?
- This great musician was born in Wisconsin but lived for many years in Mahwah, New Jersey. He is most responsible for the development of the unibody electric guitar. Unfortunately, he died in August of 2009.
- She was called Sassy and was one of the greatest jazz vocalists.
- Sherry was the first big hit of this group that featured four Jersey Boys.
- Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero, born in Newark, N.J., is better known by this name.
- This singer hit the pop charts with Its My Party and Ill Cry If I Want to and Now Its Judys Turn to Cry.
- Bruce Springsteen is from New Jersey. Can you name the two Jersey-born drummers for the E Street Band that periodically toured and recorded with Bruce Springsteen?
- This singer was the only female member of The Fugees. She also acted in Sister Act II.