1,000 trivia questions and answers: music
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Music trivia questions 501–550
Q 501TVXQ's 2005 signature song Rising Sun is heard early in which 2009 Hollywood action film?
- ANinja Assassin
- BTerminator Salvation
- CDragonball Evolution
- DFast & Furious
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Fast & Furious
Fast & Furious uses the track in Paul Walker's opening scene, four years after its release. In South Korea the album it came from was the fourth best-selling record of 2005.
Q 502Alex Terrible, the guest growler on Falling in Reverse's 'Ronald', fronts which deathcore band?
- AThe Black Dahlia Murder
- BThy Art Is Murder
- CSlaughter to Prevail
- DSuicide Silence
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Slaughter to Prevail
Slaughter to Prevail's Russian frontman brought death growls and deathcore breakdowns to a track that also features a rap verse.
Q 503Which crunk pioneer produced Usher's 'Yeah!' and later shouted his way through DJ Snake's 'Turn Down for What'?
- ASwizz Beatz
- BLil Jon
- CBusta Rhymes
- DTimbaland
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Lil Jon
Lil Jon is so tied to crunk that his group's 1997 debut album was called Get Crunk, Who U Wit. He rejoined Usher at the 2024 Super Bowl halftime show to shout his part of 'Yeah!'.
Q 504Which 2011 rap hit did Little Mix perform, under their original name, on the first X Factor live show?
- ASuper Bass
- BStarships
- CFly
- DMoment 4 Life
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Super Bass
Super Bass was the group's American pick for the opening 'Britain vs. America' week on 8 October 2011, sung under a name they announced they would change before the month was out.
Q 505In 2015 Bryan played the halftime show of the Cowboys' Thanksgiving game against which then-unbeaten team?
- AChicago Bears
- BMiami Dolphins
- CCarolina Panthers
- DPhiladelphia Eagles
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Carolina Panthers
The Carolina Panthers, playing on Thanksgiving for the first time in their history, finished that season 15–1; Bryan's halftime set launched the Salvation Army's annual Red Kettle campaign.
Q 506Jak nazywano Marię Annę, starszą o pięć lat siostrę Mozarta?
- ALiserl
- BNannerl
- CResel
- DGretl
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Nannerl
Ona także przejawiała uzdolnienia muzyczne. Rodzeństwo grywało razem duety na klawiaturze zasłoniętej materiałem, a ojciec woził oboje po całej Europie.
Q 507What was the name of PrettyMuch's first label, the One Direction home that was wound down in 2020?
- APolydor
- BSyco Music
- CEpic Records
- DJive Records
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Syco Music
Syco Music closed after its founder and Sony ended an 11-year joint venture; Sony kept the roster, and the band spent a year without a record deal.
Q 508To whom did Berlin assign all royalties from his patriotic anthem of 1938?
- AThe Salvation Army
- BThe Veterans of Foreign Wars
- CThe Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts
- DThe American Red Cross
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The Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts
The Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. Uneasy about profiting from a hymn to his adopted country, Berlin signed the copyright over to a fund in 1940, and it has paid the Scouts millions since.
Q 509"Qlona" was Peso Pluma's 2023 hit with which Colombian star?
- AKarol G
- BFeid
- CShakira
- DMaluma
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Karol G
Karol G knocked herself off No. 1 with it: on Hot Latin Songs the duet replaced her own "Mi Ex Tenía Razón" at the top.
Q 510Which 1975 single gave Earth, Wind & Fire their first No. 1 on the pop chart?
- AShining Star
- BBoogie Wonderland
- CLet's Groove
- DSeptember
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Shining Star
Shining Star came to Maurice White on a night walk under the stars at the Colorado ranch studio where the band was recording an album that doubled as a film soundtrack.
Q 511In 'Santa Baby', which luxury gift does the singer ask Santa for first?
- AA platinum mine
- BA convertible
- CA yacht
- DA sable
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A sable
A sable, a costly fur, opens the list; the requests then climb to a convertible, a yacht and the deed to a platinum mine in a lyric that Joan Javits, a senator's niece, wrote in 1953.
Q 512Z którego utworu George'a Harrisona szczególnie znany jest album „Abbey Road”?
- A„Octopus's Garden”
- B„Something”
- C„Here Comes the Sun”
- D„I Want You (She's So Heavy)”
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„Something”
Harrison pokazał na tej płycie potencjał kompozytorski porównywalny z Lennonem i McCartneyem.
Q 513Doubling the frequency of a musical note raises it by which interval, the gap from one C to the next?
- AAn octave
- BA perfect fifth
- CA semitone
- DA major third
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An octave
An octave joins notes that sound so alike they share a letter name. The C above middle C vibrates about 523 times a second, twice as fast as middle C.
Q 514Which country star, born Harold Jenkins, is said to have picked his stage name from two towns on a map?
- AConway Twitty
- BPorter Wagoner
- CFerlin Husky
- DBuck Owens
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Conway Twitty
Conway Twitty pairs Conway, Arkansas, with Twitty, Texas. His birth name was a tribute too: a great-uncle named him after the silent film comedian Harold Lloyd.
Q 515Which object, rattling on a speaker, made the eerie ending of George Harrison's White Album song Long, Long, Long?
- AA tambourine
- BA tea cup
- CA wine bottle
- DA metal ashtray
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A wine bottle
A wine bottle left on the organ's speaker cabinet began to vibrate whenever one particular note was played, and the band liked the sound enough to build the song's ending around it.
Q 516Which British star's voicemail, praising Logic's Grammys performance, closes 'Yuck' on Bobby Tarantino II?
- AElton John
- BPaul McCartney
- CMick Jagger
- DRod Stewart
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Elton John
Elton John introduces himself, congratulates Logic on the performance and promises to ring back with a favour to ask. Logic kept the message as the song's outro.
Q 517Which 1969 film starring Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper made a lasting anthem of Steppenwolf's Born to Be Wild?
- AMidnight Cowboy
- BZabriskie Point
- CAlice's Restaurant
- DEasy Rider
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Easy Rider
Easy Rider tied the song to bikers for good, even though its words never mention a motorcycle. Steppenwolf had taken their own name from a Hermann Hesse novel.
Q 518Broadway's original Fiona and Donkey from Shrek the Musical reunited in which fairy-tale musical revival in 2024?
- AThoroughly Modern Millie
- BInto the Woods
- CThe Music Man
- DOnce Upon a Mattress
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Once Upon a Mattress
Once Upon a Mattress cast him as the Jester opposite her in 2024, sixteen years after the pair opened as princess and sidekick in the ogre's show.
Q 519Which label did critic Jody Rosen coin in 2013 for hits about pickup trucks, parties and blue jeans, such as Cruise?
- ABro-country
- BOutlaw country
- CCountrypolitan
- DHick-hop
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Bro-country
Bro-country was a term Rosen came to dislike seeing used as an insult. He felt some of the scorn for the songs came from class and regional snobbery.
Q 520Which Washington-born bandleader got his aristocratic nickname in boyhood for his dapper dress and noble bearing?
- AEarl Hines
- BCount Basie
- CDuke Ellington
- DFletcher Henderson
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Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington won his big break in 1927, a house-band job at Harlem's most famous nightspot, only after King Oliver turned the booking down.
Q 521Lizzo's Cuz I Love You was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2020 Grammys but lost to which artist's debut?
- ALil Nas X
- BBillie Eilish
- CLana Del Rey
- DH.E.R.
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Billie Eilish
Billie Eilish swept the four top prizes that night, but the deluxe Cuz I Love You still won Best Urban Contemporary Album, one of three Grammys for Lizzo.
Q 522Quel membre d'ABBA assurait la composition musicale des chansons du groupe ?
- ABenny Andersson
- BRutger Gunnarsson
- CMike Watson
- DRoger Palm
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Benny Andersson
L'écriture des textes revenait à Björn, tandis que le manager coécrivait les paroles des premiers albums jusqu'en 1977.
Q 523Love On Tour opened in September 2021 in which city, after two pandemic postponements?
- ALondon
- BLos Angeles
- CNew York
- DLas Vegas
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Las Vegas
Love On Tour opened in Las Vegas, and where state rules allowed, ticket holders had to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a recent negative test, and wear a mask.
Q 524Which director made Nicki Minaj's 'Anaconda' music video, shot in Los Angeles and released in August 2014?
- AColin Tilley
- BHannah Lux Davis
- CJoseph Kahn
- DBenny Boom
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Colin Tilley
Colin Tilley's video was Vevo-certified for passing 100 million views just eleven days after its release.
Q 525George Michael sang 'These Are the Days of Our Lives' with which singer at the 1992 Freddie Mercury tribute?
- ALisa Stansfield
- BChrissie Hynde
- CAnnie Lennox
- DLiza Minnelli
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Lisa Stansfield
Lisa Stansfield. Their duet came out a year later on the Five Live EP, which topped the UK chart and raised money for the Mercury Phoenix Trust, the AIDS charity launched after the concert.
Q 526What does the name Dua mean in Albanian?
- AHope
- BLove
- CSong
- DLight
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Love
Love is the sense she gives her name, from a verb that covers both wanting and loving. Her grandmother chose it, and as a London schoolgirl she longed to be a Hannah or a Sarah instead.
Q 527Na co Czajkowski mocno cierpiał podczas rejsu przez Atlantyk w 1891 r.?
- Auporczywą bezsenność
- Bchorobę morską
- Czapalenie płuc
- Dataki migreny
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chorobę morską
Owacyjne przyjęcie w Ameryce i prośby wielbicieli o autografy szybko pozwoliły mu zapomnieć o niedogodnościach podróży.
Q 528Day6's first world tour, spanning 24 cities, took which name from a pair of EPs released in 2018?
- AEntropy
- BGravity
- CThe Decade
- DYouth
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Youth
Youth ran for seven months from June 2018 and reached Asia, Australia, the Americas and Europe, sharing its name with the EPs Shoot Me: Youth Part 1 and Remember Us: Youth Part 2.
Q 529Which Cure single did Robert Smith write as a wedding present for his fiancée, Mary Poole?
- APictures of You
- BFriday I'm in Love
- CLovesong
- DJust Like Heaven
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Lovesong
Lovesong. Smith had met Mary Poole at school when they were about 14; the gift he wrote before their 1988 wedding became The Cure's biggest American hit.
Q 530Which song, later the theme of a sitcom about the Bundy family, was written for a 1955 TV musical of Our Town?
- ACall Me Irresponsible
- BCome Fly with Me
- CLove and Marriage
- DThe Tender Trap
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Love and Marriage
Love and Marriage shares its title with the play's second act, and decades later it became the opening theme of Married... with Children.
Q 531Em protesto contra qual político J Balvin cancelou sua apresentação no Miss USA 2015?
- ATed Cruz
- BJeb Bush
- CDonald Trump
- DMike Pence
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Donald Trump
O show estava marcado para 12 de julho de 2015, na Louisiana, e seria a estreia do cantor em rede nacional de TV nos Estados Unidos.
Q 532O que Siegfried jura fazer ao se apaixonar pela princesa dos cisnes?
- AQuebrar o feitiço
- BAbdicar do trono
- CEnfrentar a rainha
- DSecar o lago inteiro
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Quebrar o feitiço
O encantamento em questão é obra do mago que reina sobre o lago do bosque e as suas margens.
Q 533Jimmy Buffett wrote the music for which 1975 comedy about two cattle rustlers in Montana?
- AStay Hungry
- BThe Last American Hero
- CRancho Deluxe
- DBad Company
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Rancho Deluxe
Rancho Deluxe was scripted by novelist Thomas McGuane, and Buffett appears on screen singing in a bar scene.
Q 534Sinéad O'Connor said her real tears in the "Nothing Compares 2 U" video were for whom?
- AHer mother
- BHer grandmother
- CHer ex-husband
- DHer son
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Her mother
Her mother had died in a car accident in 1985; O'Connor said she had not planned to cry on camera but thought, 'I should let this happen.'
Q 535Which Coldplay album uses Eugène Delacroix's painting Liberty Leading the People as its cover?
- AParachutes
- BViva la Vida
- CMylo Xyloto
- DGhost Stories
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Viva la Vida
Viva la Vida has its title daubed across the 1830 canvas in white paint, and the companion EP Prospekt's March borrowed a second Delacroix scene, a battle.
Q 536Which platform hosted Bryson Tiller's breakthrough 2014 uploads and later his Slum Tiller mixtapes?
- ASoundCloud
- BMixcloud
- CAudiomack
- DReverbNation
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SoundCloud
SoundCloud brought Bryson Tiller four million streams in six months for his breakthrough song, and he returned in 2023 to release music free of sample clearances.
Q 537Which Midnights lead single was number one the week Taylor Swift filled the entire Hot 100 top 10?
- AKarma
- BBejeweled
- CAnti-Hero
- DLavender Haze
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Anti-Hero
Anti-Hero led the chart dated November 5, 2022, when Midnights songs filled the top ten; Drake had fallen one short in 2021, when 'Stay' by the Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber held on at number six.
Q 538What happened to Janis Joplin's ashes?
- AThey were kept by her sister Laura
- BThey were buried beside Bessie Smith
- CThey were interred in Port Arthur
- DThey were scattered from a plane into the Pacific Ocean
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They were scattered from a plane into the Pacific Ocean
She was cremated at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park in Los Angeles; the death was ruled an accidental heroin overdose.
Q 539Qual álbum do BTS foi o primeiro de K-pop a chegar ao nº 1 da Billboard 200, em 2018?
- ALove Yourself: Her
- BYou Never Walk Alone
- CWings
- DLove Yourself: Tear
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Love Yourself: Tear
O álbum estreou com 135.000 unidades, e “Fake Love” chegou ao 10º lugar da Hot 100 na mesma semana, o primeiro top 10 de um grupo de K-pop.
Q 540¿Cómo muere Carmen al final de la ópera de Bizet?
- AEstrangulada
- BEnvenenada
- CApuñalada
- DFusilada
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Apuñalada
Ocurre ante la plaza de toros, mientras el público aclama al torero; después don José confiesa el crimen.
Q 541In welke twee talen is de single van Blackpink en Dua Lipa uit 2018 gezongen?
- AEngels en Spaans
- BKoreaans en Engels
- CJapans en Engels
- DKoreaans en Japans
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Koreaans en Engels
Het nummer hoort bij de Complete Edition van het debuutalbum van Dua Lipa.
Q 542In Josh Turner's four-week number one Why Don't We Just Dance, where in the house does the couple dance?
- AThe basement
- BThe kitchen
- CThe living room
- DThe back porch
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The living room
The living room is where the song's narrator asks his partner to dance and forget their troubles. The video shows a real-life couple dancing there in the styles of each decade since the 1950s.
Q 543Which rock icon and businessman co-owned a Los Angeles-area Arena Football League team?
- AAlice Cooper
- BOzzy Osbourne
- CGene Simmons
- DBret Michaels
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Gene Simmons
Gene Simmons and bandmate Paul Stanley named their team the LA Kiss and staged game nights like rock concerts, with pyrotechnics, before it ceased operations in 2016.
Q 544Which Dave Clark Five single knocked the Beatles off the top of the UK chart in January 1964?
- AGlad All Over
- BBits and Pieces
- CBecause
- DCatch Us If You Can
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Glad All Over
Glad All Over, driven by a stomping beat, ended the Beatles' run at the top; Crystal Palace football fans later adopted it as their club anthem.
Q 545Em que data Lennon assinou o fim da parceria dos Beatles, de férias no Walt Disney World?
- A10 de abril de 1970
- B29 de dezembro de 1974
- C8 de maio de 1970
- D15 de fevereiro de 1971
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29 de dezembro de 1974
McCartney havia entrado com a ação pela dissolução em 31 de dezembro de 1970, e as disputas legais se arrastaram por quatro anos.
Q 546¿Hasta qué año se creyó perdido el pas de deux que Chaikovski escribió para Sobeschánskaya?
- A1929
- B1912
- C1941
- D1953
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1953
Apareció por accidente en los archivos de un teatro de Moscú, entre las partes orquestales de una recuperación de «El corsario».
Q 547Als wat fungeerden bepaalde elementen op een platenhoes soms voor een artiest?
- AHandelsmerk
- BKeurmerk
- CVisitekaartje
- DHandtekening
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Handelsmerk
Meerdere platenhoezen zijn in de loop van de geschiedenis zelfs beroemder geworden dan de muziek die erin zat.
Q 5481984年にディオンが最年少で出演したパリの劇場は？
- Aバタクラン劇場
- Bオランピア劇場
- Cシャンゼリゼ劇場
- Dモガドール劇場
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Q 549W którym mieście w stanie Jalisco urodził się Peso Pluma?
- ATlaquepaque
- BPuerto Vallarta
- CTonalá
- DZapopan
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Zapopan
Wychowywał się jednak głównie w rodzinnym domu w pobliskiej Guadalajarze.
Q 550The G-clef, which fixes G above middle C on the second line, is commonly known by what name?
- AAlto
- BTenor
- CTreble
- DBass
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Treble
Treble: guitar music uses it too, written higher than it sounds so that guitarists can avoid the bass clef.
Music trivia questions 551–600
Q 551In House of Gucci, who played Maurizio Gucci opposite Gaga's Patrizia Reggiani?
- AJared Leto
- BAl Pacino
- CJeremy Irons
- DAdam Driver
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Adam Driver
Adam Driver played Maurizio, whose ex-wife Patrizia had a hitman shoot him dead outside his office in 1995.
Q 552Which jazz singer co-wrote the songs for Lady and the Tramp and sang its number "He's a Tramp"?
- AElla Fitzgerald
- BDinah Shore
- CPeggy Lee
- DRosemary Clooney
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Peggy Lee
Peggy Lee voiced four characters in the film, and when it reached videocassette she sued Disney, arguing that her 1952 contract let nobody sell recordings of her work without her approval; she won millions.
Q 553In which Australian city did 5 Seconds of Summer form in 2011?
- ABrisbane
- BSydney
- CMelbourne
- DPerth
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Sydney
Sydney's outer suburbs are where the members grew up, and they built an audience by posting cover songs to YouTube before they had played a single gig.
Q 554A 2007 Vice documentary about the band Acrassicauda, filmed amid war, is titled Heavy Metal in which city?
- ABaghdad
- BKabul
- CBeirut
- DDamascus
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Baghdad
Baghdad was only the first stop: filming moved on to Erbil, Lebanon and Syria, with the director Spike Jonze as executive producer.
Q 555Which Grammy-winning a cappella gospel group formed in 1980 on the campus of Huntsville's Oakwood College?
- AThe Winans
- BTake 6
- CRockapella
- DBoyz II Men
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Take 6
Take 6 grew out of a quartet started by freshman Claude McKnight, whose younger brother Brian went on to R&B stardom.
Q 556Alice in Chains' singer joined Mike McCready in which supergroup?
- AWellwater Conspiracy
- BThree Fish
- CMad Season
- DBrad
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Mad Season
Mad Season. McCready started the band with a bassist he had befriended in rehab, then brought in the singer; Above was the only album they made.
Q 557¿Con quién se casó Solange, hija de George Sand, en la boda que desató la ruptura con Chopin?
- AAuguste Clésinger
- BFernand de Préaulx
- CAlfred de Musset
- DJules Sandeau
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Auguste Clésinger
La escritora prohibió a Chopin mencionar siquiera a su hija si quería volver a la finca familiar, y el músico no regresó jamás.
Q 558Ric Ocasek, the singer and songwriter who died in September 2019, fronted which American new wave band?
- ATalking Heads
- BBlondie
- CThe Cars
- DThe Knack
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The Cars
The Cars had entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame only a year earlier, with a set that turned out to be his final performance with the band.
Q 559Which director filmed the Rolling Stones at New York's Beacon Theatre in 2006 for the concert film Shine a Light?
- ABrian De Palma
- BFrancis Ford Coppola
- CMartin Scorsese
- DJonathan Demme
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Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese filmed two nights but used performance footage only from the second. It was also the first film on which he used digital cinematography.
Q 560Which Chromatica lead single did Lady Gaga release in February 2020, weeks after the full track leaked online?
- AStupid Love
- BFun Tonight
- CFree Woman
- DSine from Above
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Stupid Love
Stupid Love went on to debut at number five on the Hot 100, and she answered the leak with a joking tweet asking fans to stop.
Q 561Which song made famous by the Bobby Fuller Four did the Clash cover on their 1979 EP The Cost of Living?
- ALouie Louie
- BI Fought the Law
- CBrand New Cadillac
- DSummertime Blues
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I Fought the Law
I Fought the Law reached Strummer and Jones through a jukebox in a San Francisco studio, and their cover won the band its first American airplay.
Q 562StarKid regulars Corey Lubowich and Brian Rosenthal co-founded which group behind Spies Are Forever?
- ABroken Lizard
- BTin Can Brothers
- CThe Lonely Island
- DShipwrecked Comedy
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Tin Can Brothers
Tin Can Brothers grew out of friendships made at university and went on to create the web series Wayward Guide for the Untrained Eye.
Q 563Which Ben Affleck film inspired 'She Lied to the FBI', the opening track of Alkaline Trio's My Shame Is True?
- AArgo
- BState of Play
- CThe Town
- DPaycheck
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The Town
The Town follows a Boston bank robber who falls for a victim of one of his raids while hiding who he is. Matt Skiba called the album a love letter and apology to an ex-girlfriend.
Q 564Warren G's 'Regulate' (1994) rides a sample of which Michael McDonald song?
- ASweet Freedom
- BWhat a Fool Believes
- CYah Mo B There
- DI Keep Forgettin'
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I Keep Forgettin'
I Keep Forgettin': Warren G sampled it because his parents used to play that record, and finding it brought back good feelings.
Q 565Welche Namensform führte Mozart selbst zumeist?
- AWolfgang Gottlieb Mozart
- BWolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- CWolfgang Theophilus Mozart
- DWolfgang Amadé Mozart
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Wolfgang Amadé Mozart
Er schuf Meisterwerke in nahezu allen Gattungen seiner Zeit und zählt zu den berühmtesten Komponisten der Musikgeschichte.
Q 566In which 1942 film did Bing Crosby first sing "White Christmas"?
- AThe Bells of St. Mary's
- BGoing My Way
- CBlue Skies
- DHoliday Inn
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Holiday Inn
Holiday Inn (1942) introduced Irving Berlin's 'White Christmas', which won the Oscar for Best Original Song; twelve years later the song gave its name to a second Crosby film built around it.
Q 567Which pop superstar spent her childhood holiday seasons on a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania?
- AKacey Musgraves
- BKelly Clarkson
- CTaylor Swift
- DChristina Aguilera
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Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift spent winters on the family farm and summers at Stone Harbor on the New Jersey shore, where she played acoustic songs at a local coffee shop.
Q 568Papa Gates, the guitarist father of Avenged Sevenfold's Synyster Gates, toured as 'Guitar Guy' with which comedian?
- ABill Engvall
- BRon White
- CJeff Dunham
- DJeff Foxworthy
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Jeff Dunham
Jeff Dunham featured him in his 2008 Christmas special. Papa Gates has also played on his son's records, including the guitar solo on the Nightmare track 'Tonight the World Dies'.
Q 569Ai problemi mentali di quale ex membro dei Pink Floyd si ispirano i temi dell'album?
- APeter Jenner
- BRon Geesin
- CSyd Barrett
- DBob Klose
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Syd Barrett
Roger Waters voleva un disco con temi che «facessero arrabbiare la gente», partendo dalle pressioni subite dalla band per il suo stile di vita.
Q 570On their 2018 tour Why Don't We performed a mash-up that paired 'Shape of You' with a hit by which rapper?
- ALil Pump
- BLil Skies
- CLil Baby
- DLil Yachty
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Lil Pump
Lil Pump's 'Gucci Gang' slotted into a 20-song set built on simple, synchronized moves rather than big dance routines. The band kept the idea for their next tour, swapping in newer hits.
Q 571Which drummer of the Who had a bass drum packed with gunpowder for a 1967 American television appearance?
- AGinger Baker
- BKeith Moon
- CMitch Mitchell
- DJohn Bonham
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Keith Moon
Keith Moon bribed a stagehand on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, who used about ten times the standard charge. Offstage, his favourite stunt was blowing up hotel toilets with fireworks.
Q 572Qual doença, contraída na infância, deixou marcas indeléveis no rosto de Mozart?
- Asarampo
- Bcatapora
- Cescarlatina
- Dvaríola
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varíola
Uma epidemia em Viena levou a família a se mudar para Brno e depois para Olmütz, mas as duas crianças adoeceram mesmo assim, de forma suave.
Q 573Which Seattle band's 1991 debut album Ten produced the hit singles Alive, Even Flow and Jeremy?
- ASoundgarden
- BMudhoney
- CAlice in Chains
- DPearl Jam
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Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam first performed as Mookie Blaylock, after a professional basketball player, and titled the album Ten after his jersey number.
Q 574Which Scottish DJ produced and is featured on Rihanna's We Found Love, 2011's longest-running Hot 100 number one?
- APaul Oakenfold
- BCalvin Harris
- CArmin van Buuren
- DMark Ronson
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Calvin Harris
Calvin Harris saw the track spend ten non-consecutive weeks on top, overtaking Umbrella as the Barbadian singer's longest-running number one.
Q 575Each concerto in Vivaldi's The Four Seasons arranges its three movements in which order of tempos?
- AFast–fast–slow
- BSlow–slow–fast
- CSlow–fast–slow
- DFast–slow–fast
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Fast–slow–fast
Fast–slow–fast is the shape of all four concertos, and each accompanying poem is split three ways to match. Vivaldi helped turn the solo concerto into a widely followed form.
Q 576Which Swedish director made a celebrated 1975 film of The Magic Flute for television?
- ALasse Hallström
- BBo Widerberg
- CJan Troell
- DIngmar Bergman
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Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman fell for the opera at twelve and failed to get it onto his puppet-theatre stage; decades later his film went out on Swedish television on New Year's Day 1975.
Q 577Which political office did Frank Zappa, a self-described practical conservative, consider seeking as an independent?
- ALos Angeles mayor
- BUS president
- CCalifornia governor
- DUS senator
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US president
US president was the job he weighed, and he set up voter registration booths at his 1988 concerts. He favored limited government and low taxes, yet spent the 1980s deriding Republican policies in song.
Q 578¿Qué número del segundo acto nació de una apuesta sobre una melodía con las notas de la octava en secuencia?
- ALa Danza del Hada de Azúcar
- BEl Grand adagio del Grand pas de deux
- CEl Vals de las flores
- DLa obertura en miniatura
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El Grand adagio del Grand pas de deux
Chaikovski preguntó si importaba que las notas fueran ascendentes o descendentes, y el amigo que apostaba le respondió que no.
Q 579Quel compositeur français est associé au sérialisme intégral ?
- APierre Schaeffer
- BPierre Boulez
- CHenri Dutilleux
- DOlivier Messiaen
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Pierre Boulez
La musique contemporaine de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle va des happenings musicaux de John Cage aux innovations électroniques de Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Q 580Which member of Why Don't We's touring team won an iHeartRadio Music Award of his own in 2020?
- AThe drummer
- BThe photographer
- CThe choreographer
- DThe stylist
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The photographer
The photographer, Zack Caspary, beat rivals who shoot Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish and Post Malone to the fan-voted prize. He had been nominated the year before as well.
Q 581Welke naam kreeg het operahuis in Pavarotti's geboortestad in oktober 2007?
- ATeatro Comunale Luciano Pavarotti
- BTeatro Lirico Pavarotti
- CTeatro dell'Opera Pavarotti
- DAuditorium Luciano Pavarotti
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Teatro Comunale Luciano Pavarotti
De tenor was een maand eerder overleden.
Q 582Which football club did Elton John chair from 1976 to 1987 and again from 1997 to 2002?
- AFulham
- BLuton Town
- CWatford
- DBrentford
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Watford
Elton John bought Watford in 1976; under his chairmanship the club climbed from the Fourth Division to First Division runners-up in 1983 and reached the 1984 FA Cup Final.
Q 583Quale animale compare sulla copertina di Atom Heart Mother?
- AUna mucca
- BUna capra
- CUn cavallo
- DUna pecora
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Una mucca
Il titolo dell'album, deciso all'ultimo minuto, venne da un articolo di giornale su una donna con un pacemaker a energia atomica che era riuscita a partorire.
Q 584Which Senegalese star of mbalax music had his biggest worldwide hit in 1994 with the duet 7 Seconds?
- ABaaba Maal
- BYoussou N'Dour
- CCoumba Gawlo Seck
- DIsmaël Lô
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Youssou N'Dour
Youssou N'Dour sang the trilingual duet with Neneh Cherry, later served as Senegal's minister of tourism, and was once described by Rolling Stone as perhaps the most famous singer alive in much of Africa.
Q 585Which crooner's life influenced Car Seat Headrest's Teens of Denial and is named in the subtitle of 'Connect the Dots'?
- AFrank Sinatra
- BDean Martin
- CSammy Davis Jr.
- DBing Crosby
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Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra also shaped an earlier song: Will Toledo drew on him for the chord progression of the fourteen-minute opener of How to Leave Town.
Q 586Which rapper's 2010 single 'Airplanes' featured Hayley Williams?
- AKid Cudi
- BWiz Khalifa
- CB.o.B
- DDrake
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B.o.B
B.o.B later released 'Airplanes, Part II' with an added Eminem verse, and it earned a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Collaboration.
Q 587Which love theme from A Star Is Born made Barbra Streisand the first woman to win an Oscar as composer?
- ALost Inside of You
- BEvergreen
- CWoman in Love
- DStoney End
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Evergreen
Evergreen set her melody to words by Paul Williams, and the single spent three weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100.
Q 588Que punição Bach sofreu em Weimar depois de insistir em pedir dispensa ao duque Wilhelm?
- AMulta
- BExílio
- CPrisão
- DAçoite
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Prisão
O duque cedeu menos de um mês depois, mas liberou o músico com uma notificação de “exoneração indecorosa”.
Q 589"American Pie" mourns "the day the music died" — the 1959 crash that killed which star?
- AEddie Cochran
- BBuddy Holly
- CElvis Presley
- DOtis Redding
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Buddy Holly
Buddy Holly died with Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper in the February 3, 1959 plane crash; Don McLean, then a 13-year-old paperboy, learned of it from the papers he was delivering.
Q 590Which singer's 2017 single "Again" featured XXXTentacion's vocals?
- ABillie Eilish
- BKehlani
- CHalsey
- DNoah Cyrus
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Noah Cyrus
Noah Cyrus sings the pleading hook while he slurs a slow verse, and the video sends her wandering through a graveyard without him.
Q 591Quelle maladie emporte la mère de Mozart à Paris, le 3 juillet 1778 ?
- APetite vérole
- BFièvre puerpérale
- CTuberculose pulmonaire
- DFièvre typhoïde
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Fièvre typhoïde
Anna Maria meurt rue du Gros-Chenet, aujourd'hui rue du Sentier, où une plaque commémorative rappelle l'événement.
Q 592Who chaired the committee that chose Malaya's national anthem in 1957?
- ATun Abdul Razak
- BTunku Abdul Rahman
- CLee Kuan Yew
- DMahathir Mohamad
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Tunku Abdul Rahman
Tunku Abdul Rahman, soon to be the first prime minister, turned down hundreds of contest entries before settling on Perak's anthem, a tune said to have reached its sultan's court from the Seychelles.
Q 593Which boy band's future members, then trainees, joined EXO on the 2014 retro show 'Exo 90:2014'?
- ARiize
- BiKon
- CGot7
- DNCT
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NCT
NCT did not debut until 2016. On the show, EXO members remade 1990s K-pop hits and their videos alongside the original stars.
Q 594フランク・オーシャンがカバーした「Moon River」が主題歌の1961年の映画は？
- A『シャレード』
- B『ティファニーで朝食を』
- C『サウンド・オブ・ミュージック』
- D『ローマの休日』
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『ティファニーで朝食を』
映画で原曲を歌ったのはオードリー・ヘプバーン。オーシャンのカバーは2018年2月14日にリリースされた。
Q 595Jaki instrument trzyma Ringo Starr na okładce Sgt. Pepper’s?
- AKornet
- BTrąbkę
- CKlarnet
- DPuzon
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Trąbkę
Perkusista ma na sobie purpurowy strój i płaską czapkę, jedyne takie nakrycie głowy w całej czwórce.
Q 596What is the title of Linkin Park's eighth studio album, released in November 2024?
- AHeavy Is the Crown
- BUnshatter
- CPapercuts
- DFrom Zero
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From Zero
From Zero marks a restart: it is the first album with a new singer and drummer, seven years after the last one, and a deliberate return to the band's early heavy sound.
Q 597Instead of a plastic plectrum, Queen guitarist Brian May prefers to play with which old British coin?
- AA farthing
- BA sixpence
- CA shilling
- DA threepenny bit
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A sixpence
A sixpence is rigid, which May feels gives him more control than a flexible pick, and one of the coins even decorates the headstock of his home-built guitar.
Q 598Which bar owner and former MCA executive became Strait's longtime manager?
- AJimmy Bowen
- BKent Finlay
- CTony Brown
- DErv Woolsey
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Erv Woolsey
Erv Woolsey ran the Prairie Rose, a San Marcos club the band played, then went back to MCA in Nashville and persuaded the label to sign Strait; he later quit to manage him.
Q 599Juice Wrld appears on "PTSD", a 2020 title track that gave which rapper a first entry on the Hot 100?
- ALil Durk
- BLil Baby
- CKing Von
- DG Herbo
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G Herbo
G Herbo was among the established names who noticed Juice Wrld's early uploads in 2017. "PTSD" came out less than three months after his death and peaked at number 38.
Q 600Besides South Korea, Twice's line-up includes members from which two countries?
- AChina and Thailand
- BJapan and Taiwan
- CJapan and Thailand
- DThailand and Vietnam
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Japan and Taiwan
Japan and Taiwan: Momo, Sana and Mina are Japanese and Tzuyu is Taiwanese; Sana was scouted by a JYP employee at a shopping mall and auditioned the very next day.
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