Music Questions and Answers
Who was the youngest person to have a chart-topping solo single,
in 1970?
A: Michael Jackson.
What German playwright penned the lyrics to Mack the Knife and
Alabama Song?
A: Bertholt Brecht.
What's indicated by the word fine on a piece of sheet music?
A: The end.
What grungeless Seattle band's name is affectionately abbreviated
"Pot USA"?
A: The Presidents of the United States.
What question ends the Ira Gershwin lines: "I got rhythm / I got
music / I got my man..."?
A: "Who could ask for anything more?".
What calypso singer founded the USA For Africa charity that
recorded We Are the World?
A: Harry Belafonte.
What group's lead guitar player is known for his guitar amps with
control knobs that go up to 11, "one more than 10"?
A: Spinal Tap's.
What was the best-selling album named after a city, in the 1970s?
A: Boston.
What fellow Floridian did Jon Secada write and sing back-up for
before going solo?
A: Gloria Estefan.
What song includes the lines: "I've lived a life that's full / I
traveled each and ev'ry highway..."?
A: My Way.
What Beatles song advises: "One thing I can tell you is you got
to be free"?
A: Come Together.
What TV host went gold with the CD Romantic Christmas?
A: John Tesh.
What seven words complete the Purple Haze line: "Actin'
funny,
but I don't know why"?
A: "Scuse me while I kiss the sky".
Who adorned his last piano with 350 pounds of rhinestones?
A: Liberace.
What did Melissa Etheridge title her first album after coming out
of the closet?
A: Yes I Am.
How many singles did Bruce Springsteen put atop Billboard charts
in the 1980s?
A: Zero.
What crooner's mother warned him not to change his name to
Frankie Satin?
A: Frank Snatra's.
Who sold part of his ownership of Beatles songs to Sony for $95
million in 1995?
A: Michael Jackson.
Who's responsible for the LPs Shamrocks and Champagne, Bubbles in
the Wine and Pick-a-Polka?
A: Lawrence Welk.
Who did Chuck Berry say "could play a guitar just like ringing a
bell"?
A: Johnny B. Goode.
What classical conductor won posthumous Grammy Awards in
1991,1992, and 1993?
A: Leonard Bernstein.
What singer for a '70s British rock quartet changed his name from
Frederick Bulsara?
A: Freddie Mercury.
What British duo's works are referred to as the Savoy Operas?
A: Gilbert & Sullivan's.
What rock group is immortalized on Butt-head's T-shirt?
A: AC / DC.
What stringed symphonic instrument has a pedestal and a crown?
A: The harp.
Who were Benn, Bjorn, Agnetha and Frida?
A: ABBA.
What rock group's only beardless member is Frank Beard?
A: ZZ Top's.
