Entertainment: Music trivia questions
5102 multiple-choice Entertainment: Music trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- Who recorded Purple Rain, the #73 album on Rolling Stones list of the 500 greatest albums of all time?
- The album The Joshua Tree is #27 on Rolling Stones list of the top 500 albums. Who recorded it?
- Who recorded Imagine, the #77album on Rolling Stones list of the top 500 albums?
- Which artist recorded Graceland, the #81album on Rolling Stones list of the greatest albums of all time?
- Axis: Bold As Love is #82 on Rolling Stones list of the top 500 albums. Who recorded it?
- Who recorded Paranoid the #130 album on Rolling Stones list of top 500 albums of all time?
- This group recorded a song called Viva La Vida that was featured in a iPod commercial?
- This group gained popularity after recording the song Over My Head (Cable Car).
- Which of these groups recorded a 2006 hit song featuring and produced by Timbaland?
- Which of these artists performed the song Nicest Thing?
- Complete these lyrics from the Death Cab for Cutie song What Sarah Said: But Im thinking of what Sarah said That love is watching someone .......
- Who recorded the first jazz LP to sell one million copies?
- This groups recordings for Columbia in 1917 are considered the first commercial jazz recordings.
- What made Wilbur Sweatman, a New York-based jazz musician, famous in jazz history?
- In what year was the jazz hit Alexanders Ragtime Band recorded?
- In the 1930s this music company began buying up smaller labels such as Okeh and became the major recording company for jazz and blues records.
- King Oliver, Sidney Bechet, Bessie Smith, Jelly Roll Morton, Mamie Smiths Jazz Hounds, and Coleman Hawkins all made their first recordings in what year?
- Which of these jazz drummers was married to singer and actress Pearl Bailey?
- Billy Holiday had her first recording sessions with whose group?
- On January 16, 1938 Benny Goodman and his band played at which famous venue?
- This former Yale dropout and music producer, who spent almost 50 years developing and supporting jazz musicians, was Benny Goodmans brother-in-law.
- The use of Japan as a location for a love story in the opera Madame Butterfly was partially in response to the writings of which European Japanophile?
- Who wrote the first major Western novel set in Japan?
- In Madame Chrysantheme, one of the works the opera Madame Butterfly was based on, the main character has two goals in traveling to Japan. What are they?
- Who does Miss Chrysantheme, from the novel Madame Chrysantheme by Pierre Loti, really like?
- In the novel Madame Chrysantheme, when Loti leaves Japan, what does Madame Chrysantheme do?
- Who wrote the first opera entitled Madame Butterfly?
- The second act of the opera Madame Butterfly closes with what famous chorus?
- The composer of the opera Madame Butterfly also wrote the opera on which the play Rent is based. What is the name of that opera?
- What song received the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1990?