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Welcome to Music Trivia Questions and Answers

Music trivia questions and answers What Broadway musical revival did Lou Diamond Philips refuse to shave the top of his head for, in 1996? A: The King and I. Who appeared on the cover of Seventeen magazine before selling over 11 million copies of her debut album? A: Whitney Houston. Who'd never been farther east than Montana when he wrote Proud Mary? A: John Fogarty. What Kiss star sported the longest tongue in rock? A: Gene Simmons. What 1976 chart-topping song did Barry Manilow sing, but not write? A: I Write the Songs. Who was the top-selling album artist of the 1970s, according to Billboard? A: Elton John. What Rodgers and Hammerstein show is the most often-performed musical in U.S. high schools? A: Oklahoma! More music trivia What trumpeter became the oldest person ever to score a chart-topping single, in 1964? A: Louis Armstrong. What genre did Ice Cube define as "the network newscast black people never had"? A: Rap. What 1865 Wagner opera opens on a ship? A: Tristan and Isolde. What R&B vocal quartet titled its third album II in 1994? A: Boyz II Men.

Who are the Three Tenors? A: Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti. How many birthday candles were Cher, Dolly Parton and Sylivester Stallone each obliged to blow out in 1996? A: Fifty. What bankrupt Las Vegas crooner spent $75,000 to refurbish his pet penguins' pond? A: Wayne Newton. What hard-drinking country legend explains his bumpy life in the book I Lived to Tell It All? A: George Jones. Whose pop parody career includes the hits Addicted to Spuds, My Bologna and Eat It? A: "Wierd Al" Yankovic's. What bandleader became the first jazz musician to get an honorary degree from Columbia University, in 1973? A: Duke Ellington. What tenor received a record 165 curtain calls at a Berlin opera house in 1988? A: Luciano Pavarotti. What female singer scored 14 million-selling singles between 1967 and 1973? A: Aretha Franklin. Who was the first female artist to debut on the Billboard album chart at Number One? A: Whitney Houston. What was the nickname of jazzman John Birks Gillespie? A: Dizzy. Which of the inmates who heard Johnny Cash's 1958 San Quentin concert became the biggest country music star? A: Merle Haggard. What mother and child spent years in Nashville shopping demos they'd recorded on a $30 cassette recorder? A: The Judds. Whose guitar version of The Star-Spangled Banner was featulred in a 1996 Aiwa TV ad? A: Jimi Hendrix's. What 15-year-old rock icon-to-be was grounded for the whole summer after sneaking out to her first concert, to see David Bowie? A: Madonna.

Who's waxed more gold and platinum albums than any other solo female artist? A: Barbra Streisand. What Jackson actually had a million-selling LP called Let's Get Serious? A: Jermaine Jackson. What Sinatra signature tune became Elvis Presley's best-selling posthumous hit? A: My Way. What song-writing duo's hits made it to Broadway in the show Smokey Joe's Cafe? A: Leiber and Stoller's. Who's "Monk" to jazz buffs? A: Thelonious Monk. How many Grammy Awards did Lawrence Welk garner during his 50-year career? A: Zero. What studio did the Beatles use to record 191 songs? A: Abbey Road. What jazz musician got his nickname by shortening "Satchel Mouth"? A: Louis Armstrong. What two Frank Sinatra hits were tops for U.S. karaoke singers in 1993? A: New York, New York and My Way. What rocker Darius Rucker's stage name? A: Hootie. What British group got its name from the title of a 1950 Muddy Waters song? A: The Rolling Stones.

The Arts Trivia. Tattered Tom and Ragged Dick were the heroes and titles of books written by what nineteenth century American author? A: Horatio Alger, who wrote more than 100 rags-to-riches success stories about hardworking and honest young men. What writer-friend nicknamed T. S. Eliot "Old Possum"? A: Ezra Pound. What American writer, while a war correspondent, is credited with capturing a town singlehandedly during the Spanish-American War? A: Stephen Crane. The town was Juana Diaz in Puerto Rico; the resistance was nonexistent. What cartoon character said, "The trouble with the rat race is there is never a finish line"? A: Dagwood in the Blondie strip. What are the names of Popeye's four nephews? A: Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye , and Poopeye. What visual impairment do some experts believe influenced the styles of artists El Greco and Modigliani? A: Astigmatism. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren is a roman a clef about what American political figure? A: Louisiana governor and senator Huey Long. What famous writer had several butterflies named after him? A: Lolita author Vladamir Nabokov, who was also a lepidopterist. In the novel Futility, published in 1898--fourteen years before the sinking of the Titanic--an "unsinkable" luxury liner was lost after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage. What was the ship's name? A: The Titan. It was the creation of writer Morgan Robertson. What was the house in the background of Grant Wood's classic painting American Gothic? A: A brothel in Eldon, Iowa. Who wrote: "There was a little girl Who had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead"? A: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his 1883 poem There Was A Little Girl.

What was the name of Frances Hodgson Burnett's character Little Lord Fauntleroy? A: Cedric Errol. What was the first daily comic strip published in the U.S.? A: Mr. Mutt by H. C. (Bud) Fisher, later called Mutt and Jeff. The strip first appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1907. What fellow artist did French impressionist Paul Gauguin refer to as "the little green chemist"? A: Pointillist Georges Seurat. Sherlock Holmes' sidekick, Dr. Watson, suffered a war-time bullet wound. Where was it? A: On his shoulder, according to A Study in Scarlet; in the leg, according to The Sign of Four. What book was once banned by the Eldon, Missouri library because it contained 39 "objectionable" words? A: The American Heritage Dictionary. What nineteenth-century American literary classic was labeled "downright socialistic" and banned from U.S. Information Service libraries in 1954? A: Walden, by Henry David Thoreau. Who wrote: "twinkle Twinkle little bat! How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly! Like a tea tray in the sky!"? A: Lewis Carroll, in Alice in Wonderland. It was sung by the Mad Hatter. What great American writer ran rum because he couldn't sell his work? A: William Faulkner, creator of Yoknapatawpha County and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction (A Fable and The Reivers). Who was Little Lulu's boy companion in the comic strip created by Marjorie Henderson? A: Tubby. What major British literary figure served two years at hard labor after being found guilty of homosexuality? A: Oscar Wilde, who wrote De Profundis during his imprisonment.

Art Trivia Questions

01. In oil painting, why shouldn't you dry your paintings in the dark? a. You can't see when it's dry. b. This may cause a thin film of oil to rise to the surface, yellowing it. c. Paint needs sunlight to dry. d. It will stay wet and eventually go mouldy. 02. Who painted 'The Scream' (the famous painting of a man screaming with a nuclear mushroom cloud behind him.)? a. Oskar Kokoschka b. Marc Chagall c. Egon Schiele d. Edvard Munch 03. Which famous twentieth century artist painted "100 Cans" (Pop Art)? a. Andy Warhol b. Roy Lichtenstein c. Piet Mondrian d. Jeff Koons 04. What is Pablo Picasso's style of artwork called? a. Realism b. Cubism c. Abstract d. Romanticism 05. What art movement was Yoko Ono associated with during the 1960s? a. Dadaism b. Futurism c. Fluxus d. Post-Impressionism 06. This art term, describing an outlined image of a solid figure and having the appearance of a 'shadow', was named for a finance minister in the government of French King Louis XV. What is the name of this shadowy art form? a. Blotter b. Poster

c. Silhouette d. Modern 07. With which 20th century art movement were Salvador Dali, Ren Magritte, and Andr Breton associated? a. Surrealism b. Dadaism c. Post-Impressionism d. Outsider 08. American children ages 2-8 years old, average how much time per day coloring? a. 5 minutes b. 28 minutes c. 10 minutes d. 45 minutes 09. What is a primary color? a. Any color of the rainbow. b. A color made from mixing two others. c. A color that can't be made by mixing others together. d. A color made by mixing three colors together. 10. How many paintings did Van Gogh sell in his lifetime? a. One hundred b. Fifty-four c. Sixteen d. One 11. This is the combination of pieces of cloth, magazines and other found objects to create artwork. What is it called? a. Collage b. Found Art c. Outsider d. Surrealist 12. The term "collage" is derived from a French word meaning ... a. Paste Up b. Messy c. To Cut d. Bizarre 13. What are the three primary colors? a. Yellow, blue, red b. Orange, red, green c. Yellow, orange, blue d. Grey, black, white

14. Which type of paint dries the most quickly? a. Acrylic b. Watercolor c. Gouache d. Oil 15. In respect to art, what is a body of work? a. A set of life drawings. b. A set of bronze sculptures of figures. c. The collection of paintings of a gallery or museum. d. The collection of paintings an artist has done that are typical of their style, approach, or techniques. 16. Which notorious 20th century European leader said: 'Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and pastures blue ought to be sterilized.' a. Joseph Stalin b. Benito Mussolini c. Adolf Hitler d. None of the above 17. The first example of cave painting was discovered in 1879. What country was it found in? a. America b. Spain c. Africa d. China 18. Which 19th-century artist inspired the American Congress to create the National Park System? a. Vincent van Gogh b. Albert Bierstadt c. Ansel Adams d. Winslow Homer 19. Who is famous for painting huge close-ups of flowers? a. Mary Cassatt b. Georgia O'Keeffe c. Camille Claudel d. Sonia Delauney 20. What culture is credited with producing the first ceramics? a. The Egyptians b. The Aztecs c. The Chinese d. The Japanese

21. How long did Leonardo da Vinci spend painting the Mona Lisa's lips? a. 8 months b. 12 years c. 10 weeks d. 2 years 22. What is it called when therapists use art to help clients deal with emotional issues? a. Crazy Art b. Art Therapy c. Angel Painting d. Self-Portrait 23. When and where was the first pencil invented? a. France in the 1300s AD b. China in 800 AD c. England in the 1500s AD d. Eygpt in 500 BC

BONUS QUESTIONS: 1. How can art be used to get over dating blues? Answer 2. Who said, "Painting is just another way of keeping a diary." Answer 3. What is art healing? Answer

Art Trivia Answers

01. b. Because this may cause a thin film of oil to rise to the surface, yellowing it. / 02. d. Edvard Munch / 03. a. Andy Warhol / 04. b. Cubism / 05. c. Fluxus / 06. c. Silhouette / 07. a. Surrealism / 08. b. 28 minutes / 09. c. A color that can't be made by mixing others together. / 10. d. One / 11. a. Collage / 12. a. Paste Up / 13. a. Yellow, blue, red / 14. a. Acrylic paints are touch-dry in minutes, and fully dry in a week or two. (Oil paints are touch-dry in 2-7 days, depending on thickness and climate, and fully dry in 6 months to 2 years.) / 15. d. The collection of paintings an artist has done that are typical of their style, approach, or techniques. / 16. c. Adolf Hitler / 17. b. Spain / 18. b. Albert Bierstadt's (1850-1902) landscape paintings helped the American people to realize the importance of protecting the wilderness. / 19. b. Georgia O'Keeffe / 20. d. The Japanese / 21. b. 12 years / 22. b. Art Therapy / 23. c. England in 1565