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 named "Elvira" after a street in East Nashville, Elvira Street, which he drove past in the mid-1960s; his own 1966 recording flopped, but the ...

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 Bee Gees, brothers Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, wrote it, and the duet topped both the Hot 100 and the country chart in 1983; the title comes fr...

Q 04/05

Emmylou Harris's 1985 concept album about a fictional singer was titled what?

A) Roses in the Snow

B) The Ballad of Sally Rose

C) Thirteen

D) Blue Kentucky Girl

Answer · why

B) The Ballad of Sally Rose

The Ballad of Sally Rose, released in 1985, was Emmylou Harris's self-written concept album tracing a singer's life and loss, co-written with English ...

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.