Q 01/05

Both the 1980 film 9 to 5 and Dolly Parton's title song took their name from what?

A) A working women's organization

B) A Loretta Lynn album

C) A Nashville radio show

D) A Broadway comedy revue

Answer · why

A) A working women's organization

9to5 was founded in 1973 to fight for fair pay and equal treatment for women in the workplace, and the film's premise grew from its members' stories. ...

Q 02/05

Songwriter Dallas Frazier named "Elvira," the Oak Ridge Boys' huge 1981 hit, after what?

A) His wife's grandmother

B) A street in East Nashville

C) A Memphis nightclub

D) A racehorse he once owned

Answer · why

B) A street in East Nashville

Frazier wrote and recorded the song himself in 1965; it only became a smash 16 years later when the Oak Ridge Boys took it to the top five of the Hot ...

Q 03/05

Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton's 1983 duet "Islands in the Stream" was written by which group?

A) The Eagles

B) ABBA

C) The Bee Gees

D) The Everly Brothers

Answer · why

C) The Bee Gees

The Gibb brothers wrote it and it went to number one on both the country and pop charts. Its title comes from a 1970 Ernest Hemingway novel.

Q 04/05

Which R&B star was 'Islands in the Stream' first written for, before the country duo took it?

A) Gladys Knight

B) Dionne Warwick

C) Donna Summer

D) Diana Ross

Answer · why

D) Diana Ross

The R&B-styled song was reworked into a country-pop duet for Rogers's album Eyes That See in the Dark, which its songwriters also produced.

Q 05/05

Kenny Rogers's 1980 chart-topper "Lady" was written and produced by which Motown star?

A) Lionel Richie

B) Stevie Wonder

C) Marvin Gaye

D) Smokey Robinson

Answer · why

A) Lionel Richie

Richie had first pitched the song to his own band, the Commodores, who turned it down. Rogers later sang on "We Are the World," which Richie co-wrote.