89900 Intermediate Trivia Questions
89900 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which honor did Jamaica award Bob Marley posthumously in 1981?
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Order of Merit
Which 1989 Public Enemy song was commissioned for Spike Lee’s film Do the Right Thing?
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Fight the Power
Which rapper was the first hip-hop artist signed to a major record label?
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Kurtis Blow
Which rapper became the first woman to win the Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance?
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Queen Latifah
Which record label released Dr. Dre’s 1992 debut solo album The Chronic?
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Death Row Records
Which Patsy Cline song became her first country number-one single in 1961?
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I Fall to Pieces
Which Waylon Jennings album helped launch the outlaw country movement in 1973?
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Honky Tonk Heroes
Which country legend wrote the song “Hello Walls,” later a hit for Faron Young?
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Willie Nelson
Which Buck Owens style of country music is associated with Bakersfield, California?
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The Bakersfield sound
Which Willie Nelson album, released in 1973, helped define the outlaw country movement?
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Shotgun Willie
Which Jimmie Rodgers nickname reflected his work on American railroads?
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The Singing Brakeman
Which pianist was nicknamed the “High Priest of Bebop”?
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Thelonious Monk
Which record label did Alfred Lion found in New York in 1939?
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Blue Note Records
What song opens Dave Brubeck’s 1959 album Time Out?
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Blue Rondo à la Turk
Which jazz guitarist co-founded the Hot Club de France Quintet with Stéphane Grappelli?
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Django Reinhardt
Which jazz standard did Billie Holiday co-write with Arthur Herzog Jr. in 1939?
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God Bless the Child
What was Duke Ellington’s orchestra’s signature train-themed composition?
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Take the “A” Train
Which jazz pianist composed “Waltz for Debby”?
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Bill Evans
Which jazz musician recorded the landmark album Giant Steps?
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John Coltrane
Which Wagner opera premiered at the Bayreuth Festival in 1882?
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Parsifal
Which opera by Dmitri Shostakovich was adapted from Nikolai Leskov’s novella Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District?
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Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Which opera by George Frideric Handel premiered at London’s King’s Theatre in 1724?
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Giulio Cesare
Which opera by Claudio Monteverdi is based on the Roman emperor Nero and Poppea?
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L’incoronazione di Poppea
Which composer wrote the piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition after Viktor Hartmann’s death?
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Modest Mussorgsky
What is the subtitle of Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique?
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Episode in the Life of an Artist
Which composer wrote the ballet Petrushka, first performed in Paris in 1911?
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Igor Stravinsky
Which composer wrote the symphonic poem Also sprach Zarathustra, premiered in 1896?
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Richard Strauss
Which Queen song reached number one in the UK twice, in 1975 and 1991?
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Bohemian Rhapsody
Which Queen member wrote the song “I Want to Break Free”?
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John Deacon
What is the name of Queen’s 1980 film soundtrack album about a space adventure?
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Flash Gordon
Which Queen album includes the song “Under Pressure”?
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Hot Space
Which Queen song features a bicycle bell in its studio recording?
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Bicycle Race
Which Queen album contains the song “The Prophet’s Song”?
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A Night at the Opera
What was the title of Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s joint 2018 album?
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Everything Is Love