Q 01/05

'Rock Around the Clock' took off in 1955 after it played over the opening credits of which film?

A) Blackboard Jungle

B) The Wild One

C) Jailhouse Rock

D) Rebel Without a Cause

Answer · why

A) Blackboard Jungle

Bill Haley & His Comets had recorded it in 1954; on July 9, 1955 it became the first rock and roll record to top Billboard's pop chart.

Q 02/05

Who founded Sun Records in Memphis in 1952?

A) Berry Gordy

B) Leonard Chess

C) Sam Phillips

D) Ahmet Ertegun

Answer · why

C) Sam Phillips

His one-room studio at 706 Union Avenue recorded Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis, who jammed together there as the 'Million Dolla...

Q 03/05

Elvis Presley's first RCA Victor single, released in January 1956, was which song?

A) Blue Suede Shoes

B) Heartbreak Hotel

C) Hound Dog

D) Don't Be Cruel

Answer · why

B) Heartbreak Hotel

It took twelve weeks to reach number one, his first pop chart-topper.

Q 04/05

Chuck Berry's first hit, 'Maybellene' (1955), was his adaptation of which country song?

A) Hey Good Lookin'

B) Orange Blossom Special

C) Ida Red

D) Wabash Cannonball

Answer · why

C) Ida Red

It sold over a million copies and topped the R&B chart; 'Johnny B. Goode' later became the only rock and roll song on the Voyager Golden Record.

Q 05/05

Which 'safer' white singer's cover of Little Richard's 'Tutti Frutti' charted higher than the original?

A) Paul Anka

B) Pat Boone

C) Bobby Darin

D) Perry Como

Answer · why

B) Pat Boone

Richard walked away from rock in 1957, mid-tour in Australia, to enter the ministry.