
Music 117104 is a selection of 10 questions. Music 117104 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 Which rock band’s 1977 album “Animals” features a pig flying above Battersea Power Station on the cover?
A Pink Floyd, their tenth studio album
2 The song “I Dreamed a Dream” comes from which musical?
A Les Misérables, it is sung by Fantine during the first act.
3 Which pop/rock band took “The Wall Street Shuffle” into the top ten in 1974?
A 10cc. It reached number 10 on the UK charts.
4 Which rock band titled their 2007 album Favourite Worst Nightmare?
A Arctic Monkeys. It was their second studio album, following their debut “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not”.
5 In which Andrew Lloyd Webber musical is the song “Music of the Night”?
A The Phantom of the Opera. Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe.
6 What is the stage name of the English singer born Arnold George Dorsey?
A Engelbert Humperdinck. Since starting his career in the 1960s, this internationally renowned pop singer and pianist has dominated the charts with hits like “Release Me.” In 2021, the Crown awarded him an MBE for his contributions to the music industry.
7 In 1982, Captain Sensible topped the charts with which song from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific?
A Happy Talk. Captain Sensible’s cover featured backing by Dolly Mixture and a band including Robyn Hitchcock.
8 Which song by Geri Halliwell debuted at Number One in 2001?
A It’s Raining Men, previously it was a Number Two hit by the Weather Girls in 1984
9 Which band topped the Album charts in 1972 with ‘Fog on the Tyne’?
A Lindisfarne – topped the charts for four weeks and remained in the chart for 56 weeks in total.
10 Punk rock musician of the 1970’s, John Ritchie was better known by what stage name?
A Sid Vicious. As the Sex Pistols’ bassist, Sid Vicious reportedly created the pogo dance.