The Great Music Trivia Quiz Book. Rachel Federman

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СКАЧАТЬ nuclear war, but things were falling apart in other places, as Chinua Achebe’s exposé of Nigeria poetically showed.

      When Elvis broke onto the scene with his scandalous hip shakes and jailhouse rock, the establishment didn’t know what had hit it. Kids idolized convicted felons and social outsiders like Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis. Wherever it was Sam Cooke wanted to be sent, parents didn’t want to know. Still, three years later, when the times really were a-changin’, those same parents would give their eye teeth to know all they had to worry about was a teenager in love exhausted from one-too-many-nights spent rocking around the clock.

      

      1. The Weavers made it a number one hit in 1950, but Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter recorded the original version of this haunting lullaby of sorts nearly two decades earlier. What was it called?

       “_______, Irene”

       Points: 2

      2. This 1956 release from 20th Century Fox about two brothers during the American Civil War was Elvis Presley’s first foray into cinema. The film’s original title – The Reno Brothers – was changed to the title of the first single when the advance music sales went through the roof. What is the name of the movie (and the single)?

       a) Viva Las Vegas

       b) Blue Suede Shoes

       c) Are You Lonesome Tonight?

       d) Love Me Tender

       e) Return to Sender

       Points: 2

      3. The day in February 1959 when Ritchie Valens, the Big Bopper, and Buddy Holly died in a plane crash was dubbed “The Day the _____ _____” by Don McLean in his eight-and-a-half minute 1971 hit “American Pie.” (The radio single was cut in half.)

       Points: 1

      4. Name the movie from which the following quote comes and the character who said it.

      After a high-energy performance of “Johnny B. Goode” at a mid-1950s high school dance:

       “I guess you guys aren’t ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it.”

      Movie: ______________________________________________________

      Character: ___________________________________________________

       Points: 1 for each correct answer

      5. The capital of the Caribbean island of Jamaica was the inspiration for which successful pop/folk trio, who hit it big with their versions of “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” and “Tom Dooley”?

       Points: 2

      6. Johnny Cash’s song “Five Feet High and Rising” refers to what memory from his childhood?

       a) working in the family cotton fields

       b) the Arkansas floods

       c) the lifelong dreams Johnny had of witnessing his older brother Jack (killed in a horrific mill accident) ascend to heaven

       d) neighborhood bonfires

       e) growing up with the Christian faith

       Points: 2

      7. At a mid-50s performance at the Apollo Theater in New York’s Harlem, the sensationalist performer of “I Put A Spell on You” fame was supposed to spring out of a coffin but got locked inside. Who was he?

       Points: 3

      8. True or false?

      Elvis had a fraternal twin brother who died before birth.

      

       Points: 2

      9. The inspiration for the name of the 1980s New Wave group The Pretenders came from the song “The Great Pretender” by which soulful R&B group that hit it big in the 1950s?

       a) The Four Aces

       b) The Playmates

       c) The Chantels

       d) The Platters

       e) The Teen Queens

       Points: 2

      10. Country cross-over star Patsy Cline wasn’t crazy about this song when it was presented to her, but her 1957 version soared up the pop charts, keeping people up late into the night to listen.

       a) “Walkin’ After Midnight”

       b) “In the Midnight Hour”

       c) “Round Midnight”

       d) “Lady Midnight”

       e) “Midnight Confession”

       Points: 2

       1950s score ___/20

       1960s

      (41 questions)

      

      Charles Dickens’ best of times and worst of times described late eighteenth-century Paris and London, but it could easily apply to the 1960s, a decade which promised so much (literally, the moon) but exacted an enormous toll at СКАЧАТЬ