Music Trivia Questions XI

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If you got all the gifts mentioned in the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas", how many gifts in all would your true love have given you?

       a. 144
       b. 12
       c. 364
       d. 1200


Who composed an opera called "La fanciulla del West" (meaning "The Girl of the Golden West"), arguably the first "spaghetti Western"?

       a. Claudio Monteverdi
       b. Gioacchino Rossini
       c. Giacomo Puccini
       d. Giuseppe Verdi


You may not have realized this, but the weird item jumping on Beck's "Odelay" is a komondor. What is a komondor?

       a. A Hungarian sheepdog
       b. A dust bunny
       c. A robot toy
       d. A fairy creature


Written in the mid-1930s, this country's national anthem is "March of the Volunteers", and it was originally written as the theme song for a movie soundtrack. What country is this?

       a. Cuba
       b. China
       c. India
       d. Egypt


What country singer had been scheduled to film the video for "The Tin Man" re-release at the World Trade Center on 9/11, only to cancel because of equipment delays?

       a. Steve Earle
       b. Toby Keith
       c. Kenny Chesney
       d. Keith Urban


What part of the body serves as a nickname for the spaces between the lines of the staff in a treble clef?

       a. Nose
       b. Face
       c. Ear
       d. Heart


What band finally released Chinese Democracy in 2008, after $13 million in costs and 14 years of delays?

       a. Guns N Roses
       b. Beach Boys
       c. Parliament/Fundadelic
       d. Boston


What 2003 hit used an 11/4 time signature and a punk-inspired guitar lick that was the first chord Andre 3000 ever learned?

       a. Lose Yourself
       b. Hey Ya
       c. Are You Gonna Be My Girl?
       d. I Believe In a Thing Called Love


Take a trip down the Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Who recorded an anti-Bush rock opera called American Idiot, about a man from Jingletown named Jesus of Suburbia?

       a. Audioslave
       b. Rage Against the Machine
       c. Green Day
       d. Sum 41


What former member of the Clash, who shares a name with the guitarist for Foreigner, was briefly part of General Public before forming Big Audio Dynamite?

       a. Joe Strummer
       b. Paul Weller
       c. Mick Jones
       d. Paul Cook


Although this song by the Police is actually about an obsessive stalker, it is also popular at weddings. What is it?

       a. Every Breath You Take
       b. Roxanne
       c. If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
       d. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic


Thomas Morgan Robertson annoyed a certain corporation with his stage name, settling the resulting lawsuit out of court. What name was this?

       a. Thomas Xerox
       b. Thomas Dolby
       c. Thomas Polaroid
       d. Thomas the Tank Engine


Before joining the band Jefferson Airplane, which group was Grace Slick a member of?

       a. Heart
       b. The Great Society
       c. Starship
       d. Sundazed


I am a pianist who joined the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when I was nine years old. Who am I?

       a. Harry Connick, Jr.
       b. Liberace
       c. Elton John
       d. Herbie Hancock


Which 1966 Donovan hit made reference to the "electrical banana" a women's vibrator popular at the time?

       a. Mellow Yellow
       b. Sunshine Superman
       c. Jennifer Juniper
       d. Preachin' Love




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