Quiz #5: Have You Been Paying Attention?

1. At the 1994 Brit Awards, PJ Harvey performed [I Can’t Get No] Satisfaction as a duet. Who was the other artist?

2. Which song did Stevie Wonder’s mother help him write?

3. What does Swedish company Abba produce?

4. What song begins with: “Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street”?

5. Which two Bob Marley songs aren’t reggae? 

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6. What was Prince’s first US No.1 single?

7. Why did the other members of Genesis reject In The Air Tonight?

8. Which form of music was Link Wray describing when he said: “It’s pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin’.”?

9. What was the name of The The’s 1995 Hank Williams tribute album?

10. How many times did Tammy Wynette get married [and divorced]?

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11. Who was Noel Gallagher referring to when he said: “If I was to write songs literally about my life, heavens above, they would probably
be more boring than xxxxx. If that is at all possible. Which of course, as we all know, it isn’t.”?

12. Who recorded the original version of Bette Davis Eyes?

13. Why did The Police dye their hair blonde?

14. Which member of The Buggles went on to become one of the 1980's biggest producers?

15. Who is the oldest artist to top the UK chart?

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16. What two albums did Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters once say were “the most influential in rock n roll”?

17. What song inspired Paul McCartney to forge a career in music?

18. Who did Bob Dylan once say was “one step soft of heaven”?

19. Why did Fats Domino fire Screamin’ Jay Hawkins from his band?

20. Michael Jackson’s Thriller had nine tracks. How many were singles?

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Answers 

1. Bjork 

2. Signed, Sealed, Delivered [I’m Yours]

3. Seafood

4. Is She Really Going Out With Him?, by Joe Jackson

5. Could You Be Loved and Redemption Song

6. When Doves Cry [1984]

7. They said it was “too simple”

8. Soul

9. Hanky Panky

10. Five

11. James Blunt

12. Jackie De Shannon [1975]

13. They filmed a commercial for Wrigley’s spearmint chewing gum [which never aired].

14. Trevor Horn

15. Louis Armstrong  [What A Wonderful World, 1968]. He was 66

16. 1967’s Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, by The Beatles and 1968’s The Weight, by The Band

17. What’d I Say, by Ray Charles

18. Aretha Franklin

19. Because he once turned up in a leopard skin suit that took attention away from Fats

20. Seven

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