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