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- Q: What is the most widely recognised English title of Mozart’s piano piece, “Ah, vous dirai-je maman”?
A: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. Translated to English, the French phrase means “Ah, Mother, I Shall Tell You” or “Ah, Mother, If Only I Could Tell You”. - Q: Which musical instrument consists of metal bars played with hammers?
A: The glockenspiel (or the closely related vibraphone, which features built-in resonators and a sustain pedal). - Q: Which heavy metal band became the first—and currently the only—musical act to perform on all seven continents in a single year?
A: Metallica. on December 8, 2013. Their historic Antarctic performance, dubbed “Freeze ‘Em All,” took place for scientists and competition winners at the Argentine Carlini Station. To protect the fragile environment, the band played a completely “silent” gig with the sound transmitted directly to the audience via headphones. - Q: Which 1964 song by “The Animals” became an international sensation and the band’s signature track?
A: The House of the Rising Sun. It topped the US and UK charts in 1964. Bob Dylan had previously recorded the folk song about a brothel in New Orleans, but the Animals took it to Number One. - Q: Which Motown recording artist was shot and killed by his father in 1984?
A: Marvin Gaye. The fatal shooting occurred at their Los Angeles home following a heated family argument. - Q: Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe make up what synth-pop duo?
A: Pet Shop Boys. Known for worldwide hits like “West End Girls” and “It’s a Sin”, the group has been releasing influential electronic dance-pop music since the early 1980s. - Q: In which year did “Paper Lace” tell Billy not to be a hero?
A: 1974. The anti-war pop song, written by Mitch Murray and Peter Callender, reached number one on the UK Singles Chart in March of that year. - Q: Which satirical pop-dance track by “Right Said Fred” spent six weeks at number two in the charts in 1991?
A: I’m Too Sexy. Bryan Adams’ massive hit, ‘(Everything I Do) I Do It for You’, was the only song to hold it off the top spot. - Q: Rod Temperton, a former fish-gutter from Cleethorpes, is one of the most successful yet anonymous figures in music history. What is his main claim to fame?
A: He wrote Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”, the biggest-selling album of all time. Also “Off the Wall,” “Rock with You,” and “Baby Be Mine”. - Q: Which musical instrument requires a musician to blow and suck air through it?
A: Harmonica (also known as a mouth organ or “blues harp”).