Q 01/05

The Broadway and Hollywood standards Bennett sang all his life are known as the Great American what?

A) Songbook

B) Jukebox

C) Hit Parade

D) Playlist

Answer · why

A) Songbook

Songbook is the word: he resisted pressure to trade those standards for passing fashions, and in the 1990s a generation raised on rock embraced him ex...

Q 02/05

In which New York City borough was Tony Bennett born?

A) The Bronx

B) Queens

C) Brooklyn

D) Manhattan

Answer · why

B) Queens

Queens was home: he grew up poor in Astoria, the son of a grocer who died when he was ten, and watched his mother work all hours to support three chil...

Q 03/05

Bennett played himself in an episode of which animated series, crooning an ode to 'Capital City'?

A) Family Guy

B) King of the Hill

C) The Simpsons

D) Rugrats

Answer · why

C) The Simpsons

The Simpsons cast him as himself in 'Dancin' Homer'; cartoons, late-night talk shows and MTV were all part of a deliberate push to introduce him to li...

Q 04/05

Bennett likened being pushed to record rock hits to his seamstress mother being forced to make what?

A) A cheap dress

B) A soldier's uniform

C) A funeral shroud

D) A circus costume

Answer · why

A) A cheap dress

A cheap dress was his comparison: as a boy he had watched his mother, sewing piecework to feed three children, refuse to work on bad ones, and he felt...

Q 05/05

Which pop star did Bennett collaborate with on the albums Cheek to Cheek and Love for Sale?

A) Norah Jones

B) Amy Winehouse

C) Lady Gaga

D) Diana Krall

Answer · why

C) Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga was almost 60 years his junior; their first album of standards went straight to No. 1 in the US, and she shared the stage for the two 2021 s...