Q 01/05

Which ELO song is the opening track of Awesome Mix Vol. 2, the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 soundtrack?

A) Mr. Blue Sky

B) Livin' Thing

C) Strange Magic

D) Turn to Stone

Answer · why

A) Mr. Blue Sky

Mr. Blue Sky first appeared in 1977 as the last part of Concerto for a Rainy Day, a four-song suite about the weather. The suite fills side three of t...

Q 02/05

ELO's debut album got which accidental US title after a label caller failed to reach the band's contact?

A) Line Busy

B) Wrong Number

C) No Answer

D) Call Back

Answer · why

C) No Answer

No Answer was only the caller's note about the failed phone call, which the US label then took for the album's name. In Britain the record kept its re...

Q 03/05

ELO's 1974 concept album Eldorado, about a daydreamer's fantasy worlds, has a cover still from which classic film?

A) Gone with the Wind

B) The Wizard of Oz

C) Casablanca

D) King Kong

Answer · why

B) The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz still shows Dorothy's ruby slippers with the Wicked Witch's hands reaching for them. Eldorado was also the first ELO album made with ...

Q 04/05

ELO's Roll Over Beethoven, which opens with a blast of the Fifth Symphony, was first recorded by which rock pioneer?

A) Fats Domino

B) Buddy Holly

C) Jerry Lee Lewis

D) Chuck Berry

Answer · why

D) Chuck Berry

Chuck Berry wrote and released the song in 1956. ELO stretched it into an eight-minute epic that threads passages of Beethoven's symphony through his ...

Q 05/05

ELO wrote half the songs for which 1980 roller-skating movie musical starring Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly?

A) Xanadu

B) Grease 2

C) Hairspray

D) Flashdance

Answer · why

A) Xanadu

Xanadu disappointed at the box office, yet its title song, sung by Newton-John with the band, became ELO's only UK number-one single.