Mathematical Music

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1. Which New Zealand band sang the song: 'Why Does Love Do This To Me?" The Indices The Exponents The Powers The Square Roots

2. The line "Mathematically turning the page, unequivocally showing my age" is a line from the song "Black Math". A colour also appears in the name of the band that performed it. What colour is it? black white red puce

3. The song "Particle Man" by They Might be Giants contains the line: "Triangle man hates particle man. They have a fight..." Did triangle man win? Yes No

4. What word completes this line from a System of a Down song: "Tell the people that arrive, we don't need to ..." multiply integrate subdivide differentiate

5. Fill in the missing word in the Cure album title: "Three ... Boys" Whole Imaginary Complex Natural

6. Which band tried to break new mathematical ground with the song "2 + 2 = 5"? Radiohead Coldplay Muse Arcade Fire

7. The Offspring showed some novel arithmetic skill when they counted to six in Spanish at the start of "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)". They counted off seven numbers on their way to six. Which number did they repeat? cinco cuatro tres seis

8. In 1966, Love released the single "7 and 7 is". What was the B-side? No. Thirteen No. Fourteen No. Twelve No. Eleven

9. Which Tool song (from the album Lateralus) draws heavily on the Fibonacci Sequence? Sequins and Pearls Lateralus Fibber Island 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8

10. "The Tide is High" was a number one hit for Blondie in 1980 and for Atomic Kitten in 2002. Complete the lyric: The tide is high but I'm holding on, I'm gonna be your..." number one sine curve definite integral complex root