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Quiz about FunTrivia Music Mix Vol 10
Quiz about FunTrivia Music Mix Vol 10

FunTrivia Music Mix: Vol 10 Trivia Quiz


A mix of 10 Music questions, submitted by 10 different FunTrivia players! The first few questions are easy, but the last couple are tough!

A multiple-choice quiz by FTBot. Estimated time: 2 mins.
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Author
FTBot
Time
2 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
409,701
Updated
Jul 12 22
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Easy
Avg Score
9 / 10
Plays
736
Last 3 plays: batowers (5/10), Guest 120 (10/10), banjoman547 (5/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. From which country of the UK do the singers Shirley Bassey, Tom Jones and Charlotte Church all hail? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Björn Again is an Australian band that parodies which pop group? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Whose songs include "Born in the U.S.A." and "American Skin (41 Shots)"? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Mud's crept in, Squeeze were cool for theirs, and Harry Chapin's was in the cradle. Which animal are they all singing about? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. What is the only musical instrument that is played without touching it? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. In which Supertramp song did they ask for "kippers"? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Which muppet sang "The Rainbow Connection"? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Who is the portly American folk singer famous for his rendition of "The Foggy Foggy Dew" as well as "Blue Tail Fly"? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Backstreet Boys? Eminem? Beyonce? Nope. Which long-disbanded rock band had the best-selling album worldwide in the 2000s (2000-2009)? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Though they've been pretty much dead since the end of the 1960s, what British band's debut single was titled "She's Not There"? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. From which country of the UK do the singers Shirley Bassey, Tom Jones and Charlotte Church all hail?

Answer: Wales

Shirley Bassey's most well known hit is probably the James Bond theme "Goldfinger". Tom Jones has had many songs including "Delilah" and "The Green, Green Grass Of Home". Charlotte Church started out as a child star singing operatic songs but has since gone over to the pop genre.

Question by player caz231231
2. Björn Again is an Australian band that parodies which pop group?

Answer: ABBA

"Björn Again" takes its name from Björn Ulvaeus, one of the guys in ABBA. The members' names are Agnetha Falstart, Benny Anderwear, Frida Longstokin and Björn Volvo-us. ABBA have always praised their tribute band and Benny Andersson said: "Björn Again are the closest you can get to seeing ABBA. ABBA will never reform!".

Question by player chabenao1
3. Whose songs include "Born in the U.S.A." and "American Skin (41 Shots)"?

Answer: Bruce Springsteen

"Born in the U.S.A." is the title track of a Bruce Springsteen album while "American Skin" is from his album "High Hopes." Both songs are pointed looks at America, not altogether pleased with certain aspects of life in the U.S.A. But as he stated in his Rolling Stone magazine interview in 2007, "The American idea still has enormous power in its best manifestation... What we're going through now, we're going to be out the other side at some point."

Question by player Billkozy
4. Mud's crept in, Squeeze were cool for theirs, and Harry Chapin's was in the cradle. Which animal are they all singing about?

Answer: Cat

The "Cat Crept In" by Mud made it to number two in the Official UK Charts in 1974, and in 1979 Squeeze's "Cool for Cats" also reached the number two position, although in the US neither song managed to make it in to the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In 1974 Harry Chapin's "Cat's in the Cradle" only made it to number 53 in the Official UK Charts, however made it all the way to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the US.

Question by player CardoQ
5. What is the only musical instrument that is played without touching it?

Answer: theremin

The theremin is played by moving your hands within the instrument's electromagnetic field. One hand controls the pitch: the closer to the pitch antenna, the higher the tone; the other hand (usually the left) controls the volume: the closer to the volume loop, the quieter.

The theremin was invented by Leon Theremin, who patented it in 1928. It can sound very eerie, or remarkably like a human voice.

Question by player mam711
6. In which Supertramp song did they ask for "kippers"?

Answer: Breakfast in America

"Could we have kippers for breakfast, mummy dear, mummy dear?" is a line from the Supertramp song "Breakfast in America" from Supertramp's 1979 album of the same name. The song peaked at 62 on the US Hot 100 chart and at nine on the UK singles chart.

Kippers, by the way, are a whole herring that has been butterflied, gutted, salted or pickled, and cold-smoked over oak woodchips.

Question by player deaconblues63
7. Which muppet sang "The Rainbow Connection"?

Answer: Kermit the Frog

Kermit (voiced by Jim Henson) performed this song in the opening of "The Muppet Movie", released in 1979. It was later nominated for the Academy Award for best song.

Question by player timence
8. Who is the portly American folk singer famous for his rendition of "The Foggy Foggy Dew" as well as "Blue Tail Fly"?

Answer: Burl Ives

Burl Ives, 1909-1995, was a movie actor, the singing cowboy in "Smoky" (1946), an Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor in 1959, an author, object of "blacklisting" during the 1950s, and a major part of American culture from the 1950s to 1970s.

He was famous for his role in "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer" (1964) in which Ives played Sam the Snowman.

Question by player Windswept
9. Backstreet Boys? Eminem? Beyonce? Nope. Which long-disbanded rock band had the best-selling album worldwide in the 2000s (2000-2009)?

Answer: The Beatles

The Beatles "1" was released in November 2000 and featured twenty-seven songs that had hit number one in the U.K. or the U.S. It was a massive success, selling over three million copies the first week and thirteen million within the first month, and the album also topped the charts in nearly every market around the world. According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and Nielsen SoundScan, by the end of 2009, the album had sold over 31 million copies worldwide, beating Eminem ("The Eminem Show"), Linkin Park ("Hybrid Theory"), and Norah Jones ("Come Away With Me"), all of whom were the runners-up with 27 million copies sold worldwide.

Question by player PDAZ
10. Though they've been pretty much dead since the end of the 1960s, what British band's debut single was titled "She's Not There"?

Answer: The Zombies

Released in 1964, "She's Not There" became The Zombies' highest-charting hit, reaching number two on the Billboard Hot 100. Two other singles, 1964's "Tell Her No" and 1969's "Time of the Season", also managed to peak in the top ten, hitting number six and number three, respectively.

Question by player daBomb619
Source: Author FTBot

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