Tag: Music

Themed Quiz 7 –Oldies 4 the Oldies – FreeQuiz400

Oldies 4 the Oldies
1 What was the best-selling single in Britain in the year 1959 - Living Doll (Cliff Richard)
2 Who had a UK top ten in the fifties with See You Later Alligator - Bill Haley & His Comets
3 Which American crooner had a number one in the fifties with Magic Moments - Perry Como
4 Which fifties singer was billed as the girl with the giggle in her voice - Alma Cogan
5 Which group had a UK top ten hit with Oh Boy in 1957 - Crickets
6 Who had a UK top ten in the fifties with The Glow Worm - Mills Brothers
7 Who released an album in 1958 titled One Dozen Berrys - Chuck Berry
8 Who had a UK top ten in the fifties with The Great Pretender - The Platters
9 Who had a number one in the fifties with When - The Kalin Twins
10 Which future chart topper compered the Buddy Holly and the Crickets UK Tour in 1958 - Des O'Connor
11 Which female singer had a top ten hit in 1959 with Lipstick On Your Collar - Connie Francis
12 Who sang the theme to the 1950s film 3:10 to Yuma - Frankie Laine
13 Who had a UK top ten hit in the fifties with Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" - Jerry Lee Lewis
14 Which song first released in 1957 took twenty nine years to get to number one in the UK - Reet Petite
15 Who was the lead singer with fifties soul band The Soul Stirrers - Sam Cooke
16 Which British comedian had a chart entry in 1957 with Any Old Iron - Peter Sellers
17 Who had a UK top ten hit in the fifties with C'mon Everybody - Eddie Cochran
18 Which actor had a top twenty hit in 1954 with West of Zanzibar - Anthony Steele and the Radio Revellers
19 Who had a UK top ten hit in the fifties with All the Way - Frank Sinatra
20 Which American had a top ten hit in the fifties with Pretty Little Black Eyed Suzie - Guy Mitchell

Themed Quiz 6 – 80’s Music – FreeQuiz400

Eighties Music

1 Who had an eighties top ten hit with Puss 'n' Boots -- Adam Ant
2 Which song from the film Arthur won the Oscar for best song in 1981 -- Best That You Can Do
3 What was the name of Patsy Kensit's group with which they had a top ten hit in 1988 -- Eighth Wonder (I'm not Scared)
4 Which band was Eddi Reader with in the late eighties -- Fairground Attraction
5 Which eighties band recorded a song about Doctor Who actor Tom Baker -- Human League
6 Who had an eighties top ten hit with Happy Birthday -- Altered Images
7 Which arty eighties band used to be called 1919 -- Bauhaus
8 Who had an eighties top ten hit with Layla -- Derek and the Dominoes
9 Shostakovitch’s Prelude Number 15 was used as the theme for which eighties TV sitcom that starred Peter Egan and Richard Briers -- Ever Decreasing Circles
10 Who was the lead singer with the eighties Scottish band Hipsway -- Grahame Skinner
11 Heartsong by Gordon Giltrap was used as the theme for which TV series in the eighties -- Holiday
12 What song did Smokey Robinson release in the eighties to celebrate his silver anniversary in show business and it became a UK number one -- Being With You
13 Which American group taped the first 3-D rock video in 1983 -- Aerosmith
14 Which American musical first produced for Broadway in 1980 by David Merrick, tells the story of famed director Julian Marsh's attempt to stage a successful musical in the height of the Great Depression -- 42nd Street
15 Anne Dudley was a keyboards player with which eighties band -- Art of Noise
16 Who won the Eurovision song contest in 1988 with Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi -- Céline Dion (Switzerland)
17 Which eighties number one was about the love between a teacher and pupil -- Don't Stand So Close to Me
18 In which 1986 musical would we find the characters Crepes Suzette and Vendice Partners -- Absolute Beginners
19 Who launched the Really Useful Company in 1986 -- Andrew Lloyd Webber
20 Who had an eighties top ten hit with Rabbit -- Chas & Dave

Themed Quiz 4 - 60’s Music

60’s Music

1. Phil Collins had a hit with Groovy Kind Of Love, who had the original hit in the sixties -- The Mindbenders
2. What was the first instrumental to go to the top in the UK in the sixties -- Apache
3. What was the only number one of the sixties to have a soft fruit in the title -- Blackberry Way
4. Which sixties quintet were said to have the Tottenham sound -- The Dave Clarke Five
5. Who had a UK sixties hit with Like a Rolling Stone -- Bob Dylan
6. With which successful sixties band did Van Morrison play before going solo -- Them
7. What colour was the Island record label in the sixties -- Pink
8. Which British keyboards player and singer had a top twenty hit in the sixties with Sunny -- Georgie Fame
9. Who was Carole King's song writing partner in the sixties -- Gerry Goffin
10. British singer David Clayton-Thomas was front man for which American sixties band -- Blood, Sweat and Tears
11. What was the everyday job of most of the sixties group the Honeycombs -- Hairdressers
12. What was the name of Chris Farlowe's backing group on his sixties number one Out Of Time -- Thunderbirds
13. Who had a hit in the sixties with Midnight In Moscow -- Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen
14. Who was the male star of the sixties musical film Half A Sixpence -- Tommy Steele
15. How old was Helen Shapiro when she took Don't Treat Me Like A Child to the top three in the sixties -- Fourteen
16. In which organisation were The Joy Strings who had top forty hits in the sixties -- Salvation Army
17. The Seventh Earl of Cricklewood was the leader of which sixties group -- New Vaudeville Band
18. Which American all girl group toured with The Rolling Stones in the early sixties -- The Ronettes
19. Which former Emmerdale actor was a drummer with the sixties group The Dennisons -- Clive Hornsby
20. With which girl's name in the title did Donovan and the Hollies have hits with in the sixties -- Jennifer (Eccles and Juniper)

Themed Quiz 3 - 50’s Music

Had a request from Herman H for a 50's Music quiz. Here it is:

1 Who had a number one in the fifties with ‘What Do You Want’ -- Adam Faith
2 Which style of music was created in the late fifties by Antônio Carlos Jobim and João Gilberto in Brazil -- Bossa Nova
3 Whose orchestra had a fifties hit with 'The Faithful Hussar' -- Ted Heath
4 What was the original name of the Bobbettes who had a hit in the fifties with 'Mr Lee' -- The Harlem Queens
5 According to the fifties song what was Running Bear's Indian girlfriend called -- Little White Dove
6 Who had a UK top ten hit in the fifties with 'Guitar Boogie Shuffle' -- Bert Weedon
7 Which American singer of the fifties always wore white bucks (white shoes) -- Pat Boone
8 What name was given to the country music style of the fifties of artists including Patsy Cline, Tammy Wynette, Jim Reeves and Charlie Rich -- Nashville Sound
9 Rudy Pompilli played saxophone in which fifties and sixties band -- Bill Haley and the Comets
10 Who had a top ten hit in the fifties with Rachmaninov's 18th Variation on a Theme By Paganini (The Story of Three Loves) -- Winifred Atwell
11 'Here's a certain couple that I know. They're strictly lovebirds, A pair of turtle dove birds' are lyrics from which fifties TV theme -- I Love Lucy
12 What job had the fifties American singing Group The Ink Spots been doing before they became famous - Railway porters
13 Who had a UK instrumental top ten hit in the fifties with 'Peter Gunn' -- Duane Eddy
14 Jacky Landry Jackson and Lois Harris were members of which fifties group -- The Chantels
15 'In the Wee Small Hours' was a fifties album by whom -- Frank Sinatra
16 What was the name of the band that George Melly played with in the fifties -- Mick Mulligan's Magnolia Jazz Band
17 Who had a UK top ten in the fifties with ‘Main Title Theme’ from The Man with the Golden Arm -- Billy May
18 Which fifties and sixties crooner was often called the singing barber -- Perry Como
19 Nick Reynolds, Bob Shane and Dave Guard were the original members of which fifties and sixties American trio -- The Kingston Trio
20 Who owned the legendary Sun record label of Memphis in the fifties -- Sam Phillips