Music 118642

Music 118642 is a selection of 10 questions. Music 118642 is the filename to differentiate it from other Music quizzes. Feel free to use any of these questions and answers for your own quizzes. Just keep in mind that you cannot republish them in any format.

1   Who rode his “Funky Moped” to No 5 in the charts in 1975?
A   Jasper Carrott – Birth name Robert Norman Davis

2   Which novelty band were “Star Trekkin” in 1991?
A   The Firm (One of the song’s phrases, “It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it”, became so popular that it has often been misattributed to the TV series, but actually originated with “Star Trekkin'”.)

3   Which rock band had chart-topping albums with OK, Computer in 1997, and In Rainbows in 2007?
A   Radiohead – formed in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in 1985.

4   Which progressive rock group had a hit in 1977 with an instrumental version of Fanfare for the Common Man?
A   Emerson, Lake, and Palmer (aka ELP)

5   Which girl group took ‘Manic Monday’ to Number two in the UK charts in 1986?
A   The Bangles (1986)

6   Which band recorded the album Tusk?
A   Fleetwood Mac – the twelfth studio album by British-American rock band, released as a double album on 12 October 1979

7   American singer-songwriter Barry Alan Pincus, performs under what better known what name?
A   Barry Manilow (Manilow is his mother’s maiden name)

8   In The Drifters’ song, where was the kissing taking place, on a Saturday night?
A   In the back row of the movies

9   Because of its almost six-minute playing time, which smash hit of 1975 was predicted to be a flop?
A   Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen

10   Who wrote the operas Don Giovanni and the Magic Flute?
A   Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote most of Don Giovanni in the summer of 1787, while he was in Vienna. He then completed the opera in Prague in early October of the same year.