Q 01/05

Norah Jones is the daughter of which Indian musician?

A) Ravi Shankar

B) Zakir Hussain

C) Ali Akbar Khan

D) L. Subramaniam

Answer · why

A) Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar's younger daughter, sitar player Anoushka Shankar, is her half-sister, and Jones sings three songs on Anoushka's 2013 album Traces of You...

Q 02/05

Jones attended a Dallas arts high school named after which Black American leader?

A) Frederick Douglass

B) Booker T. Washington

C) George Washington Carver

D) Mary McLeod Bethune

Answer · why

B) Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts is where she won three DownBeat student awards, two for jazz vocals and one for co...

Q 03/05

What was the title of Jones's 2002 debut album?

A) Feels Like Home

B) Come Away with Me

C) Not Too Late

D) First Sessions

Answer · why

B) Come Away with Me

Come Away with Me, released in February 2002, entered the Billboard 200 low, climbed to No. 1 a year later and was certified diamond for ten million U...

Q 04/05

Which song from her debut album won Jones the Grammy for Record of the Year in 2003?

A) Shoot the Moon

B) Feelin' the Same Way

C) Turn Me On

D) Don't Know Why

Answer · why

D) Don't Know Why

Don't Know Why wasn't hers to begin with: its writer had recorded it with his own band in 1999, and he collected Song of the Year for it on the same n...

Q 05/05

Jones's five Grammys in 2003 tied a one-night record for a woman first set in 1999 by which singer?

A) Alanis Morissette

B) Shania Twain

C) Lauryn Hill

D) Celine Dion

Answer · why

C) Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill won five for The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and never made a second solo studio album; in 2021 she said nobody at her label had ever call...