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Pop Music XXVIII Quiz
Here is another themed quiz.
1pt for each answer unless stated otherwise.
1 Which song by Queen shares its title with that of a novel by Mark Helprin and a play by William Shakespeare ?
2 In 1978, Nw York-born Jeff Wayne released which concept album, based on a novel by H.G.Wells ?
3 Recordings taken from which band's 2007 'Turn It On Again' reunion tour were turned into a live album, Live Over Europe ?
4 Which 1970s band's greatest hit was Make It With You ?
5 What is the better known professional name of musician/songwriter/producer Alan Kuperschmidt ?
6 Which classic album was voted top place in Rolling Stone magazine's '500 Greatest Albums Of All Time' list in 2003 ?
7 Which classic album was voted second place in Rolling Stone magazine's '500 Greatest Albums Of All Time' list in 2003 ?
8 With six weeks at the top of the singles chart in 1979, My Sharona is probably the best known song of which band ?
9 Which band was named after a German art and craft movement founded by the architect Walter Gropius ?
10 Which Goffin/King song was a big hit for The Drifters in 1962 and was covered by Neil Diamond in 1993 ?
11 What's New Pussycat, the title song to the movie of the same name, sung by Tom Jones, was penned by which songwriting duo ?
12 If Not For You, penned by Bob Dylan, found its greatest success in whose version of 1971 ?
13 Of which rock band was Van Morrison the front man before he went solo in 1966 ?
14 Who in 1972 was replaced by Billy Griffin as lead singer with the Motown band The Miracles ?
15 In 2003, who spent nine weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 with In Da Club ?
16 In The Year 2525 by Zager and Evans was at the top of the Billboard singles chart at the time of which great event of 1969 ?
17 What was the Billboard Hot 100 No.1 single at Christmas and New Year 2007 ?
18 What was the first Billboard Hot 100 No.1 single of the 21st century ?
19 What are Janet Jackson's middle names ?
20 Who teamed up with R Kelly on the 1998 No.1 hit I'm Your Angel ?
21 Which appropriately titled single by Barenaked Ladies spent a short time at the No.1 slot in 1999 ?
22 Which band's name derives from a 1960 movie starring Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood ?
23 What name was used by record producer Norman Smith, most famous for his 1972 big hit Oh Babe What Would You Say ?
24 In 2008, who overtook Elvis Presley's previously unbroken record for the greatest number of No.1s in the American Billboard charts ?
25 Which band had hits in the 1960s with Mony Mony and Crimson And Clover ?
26 Whose American successes have included the singles When The Going Gets Tough The Tough Get Going and There'll Be Sad Songs ?
27 Born in 1936 and dying aged 52, he had his fair share of tragedy: lost his first wife in a motorcycle accident in 1966 and two of his sons when his house burned down in 1968. Who was he ?
28 When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman was a 1979 top ten hit for which band ?
29 Still Crazy After All These Years was a 1975 album by which artist ?
30 Which long-established band produced the hit single Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is ?
31 The South African Ladysmith Black Mambazo band came to worldwide attention after it featured on which Paul Simon album ?
32 Which band was formed from four individuals who responded to an ad in the LA Daily Variety in 1965 ?
No more than 6 answers per person in any one 4-hour period, please. Good luck !
Here is another themed quiz.
1pt for each answer unless stated otherwise.
1 Which song by Queen shares its title with that of a novel by Mark Helprin and a play by William Shakespeare ?
2 In 1978, Nw York-born Jeff Wayne released which concept album, based on a novel by H.G.Wells ?
3 Recordings taken from which band's 2007 'Turn It On Again' reunion tour were turned into a live album, Live Over Europe ?
4 Which 1970s band's greatest hit was Make It With You ?
5 What is the better known professional name of musician/songwriter/producer Alan Kuperschmidt ?
6 Which classic album was voted top place in Rolling Stone magazine's '500 Greatest Albums Of All Time' list in 2003 ?
7 Which classic album was voted second place in Rolling Stone magazine's '500 Greatest Albums Of All Time' list in 2003 ?
8 With six weeks at the top of the singles chart in 1979, My Sharona is probably the best known song of which band ?
9 Which band was named after a German art and craft movement founded by the architect Walter Gropius ?
10 Which Goffin/King song was a big hit for The Drifters in 1962 and was covered by Neil Diamond in 1993 ?
11 What's New Pussycat, the title song to the movie of the same name, sung by Tom Jones, was penned by which songwriting duo ?
12 If Not For You, penned by Bob Dylan, found its greatest success in whose version of 1971 ?
13 Of which rock band was Van Morrison the front man before he went solo in 1966 ?
14 Who in 1972 was replaced by Billy Griffin as lead singer with the Motown band The Miracles ?
15 In 2003, who spent nine weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 with In Da Club ?
16 In The Year 2525 by Zager and Evans was at the top of the Billboard singles chart at the time of which great event of 1969 ?
17 What was the Billboard Hot 100 No.1 single at Christmas and New Year 2007 ?
18 What was the first Billboard Hot 100 No.1 single of the 21st century ?
19 What are Janet Jackson's middle names ?
20 Who teamed up with R Kelly on the 1998 No.1 hit I'm Your Angel ?
21 Which appropriately titled single by Barenaked Ladies spent a short time at the No.1 slot in 1999 ?
22 Which band's name derives from a 1960 movie starring Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood ?
23 What name was used by record producer Norman Smith, most famous for his 1972 big hit Oh Babe What Would You Say ?
24 In 2008, who overtook Elvis Presley's previously unbroken record for the greatest number of No.1s in the American Billboard charts ?
25 Which band had hits in the 1960s with Mony Mony and Crimson And Clover ?
26 Whose American successes have included the singles When The Going Gets Tough The Tough Get Going and There'll Be Sad Songs ?
27 Born in 1936 and dying aged 52, he had his fair share of tragedy: lost his first wife in a motorcycle accident in 1966 and two of his sons when his house burned down in 1968. Who was he ?
28 When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman was a 1979 top ten hit for which band ?
29 Still Crazy After All These Years was a 1975 album by which artist ?
30 Which long-established band produced the hit single Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is ?
31 The South African Ladysmith Black Mambazo band came to worldwide attention after it featured on which Paul Simon album ?
32 Which band was formed from four individuals who responded to an ad in the LA Daily Variety in 1965 ?
No more than 6 answers per person in any one 4-hour period, please. Good luck !
