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Which two singers were killed in a light plane crash in Clear Lake, Iowa, on February 3rd, 1959, together with the Big Bopper and the pilot? |
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Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens |
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Bruce Springsteen won an Oscar for which song? |
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Streets of Philadelphia |
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Who did Jackie Paper love? |
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"Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea and frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lei. Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal Puff and brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff" |
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Which songs open with the line 'are you ready Steve, uhuh, Andy, yeah, Mick, ok all right fellers let's goooooooooooooooooo'? |
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Ballroom Blitz (by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman and originally performed by Sweet) |
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What was the title of the Eurhythmics only number one hit? |
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"There must have been an angel playing with my heart" |
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Who recorded the 70's disco song "You're My First, My last, My Everything"? |
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Barry White |
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Who sang "Walk on the Wild Side" in 1973? |
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Lou Reed |
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What are bow strings made of? |
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Horse tail hairs |
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Which group backed Martha Reeves? |
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The Vandellas |
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In Bizet's "Carmen", what is the profession of Escamillo? |
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Bullfighter |
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Which style of music was created in the late fifties by Antônio Carlos Jobim and João Gilberto in Brazil? |
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Bossa Nova |
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On which record label was The Beatles 'Hey Jude' released? |
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Apple |
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Which British singer has the middle name Hercules? |
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Elton Hercules John |
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Which jazz trumpeter was nicknamed Satchmo? |
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Louis Armstrong |
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What is Bono's (of U2) real name? |
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Paul Hewson |
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How many strings has a balalaika? |
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Three or sometimes three pairs |
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The Beatles' 'Penny Lane' was on one side of a Double-A. What was on the other side? |
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Strawberry Fields Forever |
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Who recorded the 1970 album 'Abraxas'? |
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Santana |
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Who wrote the opera Turandot? |
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Puccini |
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Which band did Ronnie Wood leave to join the Rolling Stones? |
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The Faces |
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Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison all joined Elvis at which recording label in the 50s? |
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Sun Records |
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Who composed 'Die Fledermaus' (The Bat)? |
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Johann Strauss |
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Which musical instrument did Karen Carpenter play? |
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Drums |
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Who is Vincent Furnier better know as? |
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Alice Cooper |
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Who had a 1993 album called 'Diva'? |
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Annie Lennox |
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Who composed 'La Mer'? |
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Claude Debussy |
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Who holds a trumpet on the Sgt. Pepper album? |
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Ringo |
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In which Puccini opera do friends ply their landlord with drinks to avoid paying the rent? |
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La Bohème |
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Percussionists have strange demands made of them by composers - to operate tape recordings of nightingales or to bash Rolls Royce springs, for example. In "The Rite of Spring" a percussionist must drop a tambourine absolutely flat on the floor, so it does not roll. Which composer made this unreasonable demand? |
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Igor Stravinsky |
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A capella is vocal music without instrumental accompaniment, but what does it mean? |
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As in church |
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Against the advice of her friends, Carmen (in Bizet's opera) leaves the bullring to see Don José outside. What is the result of the meeting? |
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He kills her |
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Chuck Berry wrote the first song that The Rolling Stones recorded. Which was it? |
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Come On, in 1963 |
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Elvis Presley had a hit with a Carl Perkins song. Which one? |
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Blue Suede Shoes |
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Haydn's catalogue contains 104 symphonies, Mozart's 41. How many did Beethoven and Schubert write each? (They wrote the same number.) |
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Nine |
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How many hours from Tulsa was Gene Pitney in 1963? |
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24 |
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If a violinist broke her G-string, she would have three strings left. Name the note to which any of them is tuned. |
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E (mi ) A (la) D (re) |
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In which opera do you find Lieutenant Pinkerton? |
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Madame Butterfly, by Giacomo Puccini |
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On which LP cover can we read the words: 'Welcome the Rolling Stones'? (Snow White is also on the cover) |
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Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
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The Beatles had several earlier names. Which wasn't one of them: The Quarrymen, Johnny and the Moondogs, The Silver Beatles, Rory Storme and the Hurricanes? |
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Rory Storme & the Hurricanes. It was Ringo's band before joining. |
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The Hard Rock Café is named after one side of an album by which band? |
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The Doors |
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The Who had an entry in the Guinness Book of Records. What for? |
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The loudest band, in London on May 31 1976, 120 decibels at 50 yards |
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What comes out of the little tap that drains a French horn (and other brass instruments)? |
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Water, the result of condensation (not spit or saliva) |
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What does the Bee Gees name mean? |
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Brothers Gibb |
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What is a Gopak? |
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A lively two beat time Russian or Ukrainian dance |
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What is a Hurdy-Gurdy? |
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A pear shaped fiddle having strings that are sounded by the friction of a rosined wheel on the strings which are stopped by keys |
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What is Eric Clapton's nickname? |
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Slowhand |
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What is the nickname of Haydn's Symphony no. 101 in D major? |
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The Clock Symphony |
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What is the smallest size of a grand piano? |
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A baby grand |
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What runs for 2,200 miles from Michigan Avenue in Chicago to Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica, California? |
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Route 66 |
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What was Sting before he became a rock star? |
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A teacher |
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Where does Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde" take place? |
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Cornwall |
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Who are Moon Unit, Diva, Dweezil, and Ahmet Rodan? |
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Frank Zappa's children |
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Who is Declan Patrick McManus better known as? |
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Elvis Costello |
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Who is Steveland Morris better known as? |
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Stevie Wonder |
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Who was Janis Joplin referring to when she said "I can't go out the same year because he's a bigger star"? |
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Jimi Hendrix |
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