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