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  • What was the name of the Queen album featuring Bohemian Rhapsody and Love of My Life?
    The Game
    Sheer Heart Attack
    A Night at the Opera
    News of the World
  • Which singer who released the album, Here, My Dear?
    Elvis Costello
    Bruno Mars
    Elton John
    Marvin Gaye
  • Where was the Fresh Prince “born and raised”?
    Compton
    Bel Air
    West Philidelphia
    Harlem
  • Who wrote the composition, "Rhapsody in Blue"?
    George Gershwin
    Cole Porter
    Leonard Bernstein
    Claude Debussy
  • In Don McLean’s American Pie, “the day the music died” refers to the plane crash that killed Richie Valens, The Big Bopper and which other pioneer of rock and roll?
    Sam Cooke
    Buddy Holly
    Jimi Hendrix
    Otis Redding
  • Bjork was lead singer of what Icelandic band before pursuing a solo career?
    Kukl
    The Elgar sisters
    The Sugarcubes
    Cocteau Twins
  • Which hard rock band formed in Sydney, Australia was started by the brothers Angus and Malcolm Young?
    Black Sabbath
    Rush
    AC/DC
    Metallica
  • Released in 1977, name the song with the lyrics ‘Buddy, you’re a boy, make a big noise’, ‘Playing in the street, gonna be a big man some day’.
    Tonight's the Night (Rod Stewart)
    Feels like the first time (Foreigner)
    Got to Give it up (Marvin Gaye)
    We Will Rock You (Queen)
  • What is Snoop Dogg's real name?
    O'Shea Jackson
    Tracy Marrow
    Calvin Broadus
    William Griffin Jr.
  • Which 80s hit had a world-famous video that featured a live-action pencil sketch scene
    Karma Chameleon (Culture Club)
    Total Eclipse of the Heart (Bonnie Tyler)
    Take on Me (Ah-Ha)
    Girls Just Want to Have Fun (Cyndi Lauper)
  • Released in 1982 what song includes the lyrics ‘As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti’ and ‘I seek to cure what’s deep inside, frightened of this thing that I’ve become’?
    Shock the Monkey (Peter Gabriel)
    Eye of Tiger (Survivor)
    Abracadabra (Steve Miller Band)
    Africa (Toto)
  • Which lead singer was born Farrokh Bulsara?
    Rami Malek
    Brian May
    Freddie Mercury
    Jim Hutton
  • Released in 1956, name the song recorded by Elvis Presley with the lines, ‘You can knock me down, step in my face’, ‘Slander my name all over the place’, ‘And do anything that you want to do’.
    Don't Be Cruel
    Hound Dog
    Heartbreak Hotel
    Blue Suede Shoes
  • Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood are longstanding members of which legendary band?
    The Who
    The Rolling Stones
    Pink Floyd
    Led Zeppelin
  • Under what name did band members T-Boz, Left Eye and Chilli have hits with Creep and Waterfalls?
    Xscape
    SWV
    En Vogue
    TLC
  • Which city on the West coast of the US is the home of Sub Pop records and the birthplace of Grunge music?
    San Francisco
    Portland
    Seattle
    Los Angeles
  • What is the the all-time bestselling movie soundtrack?
    My love is your love
    The Bodyguard
    I have nothing
    Waiting to Exhale
  • Which 90s hip hop collective took their name from a 1978 Kung Fu film? Several of the rappers also took their individual stage names from films of the same period and genre.
    The Pharcyde
    Company Flow
    Fu-Schnickens
    Wu-Tang Clan
  • Name one of the three platinum-selling rock guitarists who started out playing together in the Yardbirds in the mid-1960s?
    Keith Richards, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix,
    Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards
    Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Jimmy Page
    Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton
  • The theme from the 1971 movie Shaft was a hit for Isaac ______.
    Hilton
    Hayes
    Hampton
    Harper
  • Which hip hop act recorded It’s Like That and a cover of Aerosmith’s Walk This Way?
    Run DMC
    The Furious Five
    Outkast
    The Fat Boys
  • Which American punk band had their breakthrough with the album Dookie in 1994?
    Green Day
    Blink-182
    The Offspring
    Rancid
  • Which hugely influential British band of the late 70s and early 80s, were named after Nazi prostitution rings?
    Joy Division
    Ultravox
    New Order
    Depeche Mode
  • Which legend was found dead on the 16th of August in 1977?
    Jimi Hendrix
    Janis Joplin
    Elvis Presley
    Buddy Holly
  • Often referred to as CCR, who had a 1970 hit with Have you ever seen the rain?
    Camp Clashing Riders
    Coffee and Cream Restitution
    Creedence Clearwater Revival
    Cool Crash Revolution
  • In which borough of New York was hip hop created?
    The Bronx
    Brooklyn
    Queens
    Manhattan
  • Which Michael Jackson single tells the story of a woman falsely claiming that the protagonist had fathered her child?
    Smooth Criminal
    Billie Jean
    Girlfriend
    Beat It
  • Who was the first person to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine?
    Tom Petty
    Peter Bowes
    John Lennon
    Richard Gere
  • Who released Rivers of Babylon, Ra Ra Rasputin and Mary’s Boy Child?
    Village People
    Abba
    Boney M
    Milli Vanilli
  • Which singer married Sean Penn in 1985?
    Madonna
    Whitney Houston
    Cher
    Cyndi Lauper
  • Chuck D and Flavor Flav are members of which hip hop group?
    The Fearless Four
    Wu-Tang Clan
    De La Soul
    Public Enemy
  • Which singer in the 1970s topped the US charts with the single Killing Me Softly With His Song?
    Gladys Knight
    Minnie Ripperton
    Dionne Warwick
    Roberta Flack
  • Which artist released the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars in 1972?
    Lou Reed
    Elvis Costello
    David Bowie
    George Harrison
  • What took place on Max Yasgur’s farm in Sullivan County, New York from 15th to 18th August 1969?
    The recording of Bob Dylan's first album
    John Lennon and Yoko Ono's wedding
    Woodstock
    The Monkey's first concert in the U.S.
  • Which singer's real name was Ellas Otha Bates?
    Muddy Waters
    Little Richard
    Bo Diddley
    Chuck Berry
  • Released in 1995 which song includes the lines ‘Act like you know, Rico’,’I know what Bo don’t know’, ‘Touch them up and go, uh-oh!’ ‘Ch-ch-chang chang’?
    Cotton Eye Joe (Rednex)
    Here Comes the Hotstepper (Ini Kamoze)
    Candy Rain (Soul for Real)
    This Is How We Do It (Montell Jordan)
  • Who won the 2001 Grammy Award for Best New Artist?
    Amy Winehouse
    Sam Smith
    Meghan Trainor
    Alessia Cara
  • Who recorded “Groove is in the Heart“?
    Technotronic
    The B-52’s
    Q-Tip
    Deee-Lite
  • Which song by the Rolling Stones was a tribute to David Bowie's ex-wife?
    Angie
    Satisfaction
    Heart of Stone
    Wild Horses
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