92822 Intermediate Trivia Questions
92822 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which Merle Haggard song, co-written with Roy Edward Burris, became a controversial 1969 country hit?
Answer
Okie from Muskogee
Which George Jones song, released in 1980, is widely regarded as his signature recording?
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He Stopped Loving Her Today
Which country legend wrote the song “Family Tradition”?
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Hank Williams Jr.
Which country legend wrote and first recorded ‘I Will Always Love You’?
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Dolly Parton
Which 1969 Johnny Cash live album was recorded at a California prison?
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At San Quentin
Which jazz bassist led the 1959 album Mingus Ah Um?
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Charles Mingus
Which guitarist lost the use of two fingers after a 1928 fire but continued playing jazz?
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Django Reinhardt
Which jazz musician wrote the score for the 1986 film Round Midnight?
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Herbie Hancock
Which singer recorded the jazz standard “Strange Fruit” in 1939?
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Billie Holiday
Who co-founded the Jazz Messengers with Art Blakey in 1954?
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Horace Silver
Which John Coltrane album, released in 1965, is a four-part spiritual suite?
Answer
A Love Supreme
Which 1995 2Pac album became the first album by an incarcerated artist to debut at number one?
Answer
Me Against the World
Which Beastie Boys album became the first rap album to top the Billboard 200?
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Licensed to Ill
Which 1988 Public Enemy album includes “Bring the Noise” and “Don’t Believe the Hype”?
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It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
What was the title of the first hip-hop album to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year?
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The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Who released the 1982 hip-hop single "The Message" with Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five?
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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
Which artist won the first Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album in 1985?
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Black Uhuru
Who hosted the first Grammy Awards ceremony in 1959?
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Mort Sahl
Who won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist at the 1972 ceremony?
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Carly Simon
Which album won Album of the Year at the 1965 Grammy Awards?
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Getz/Gilberto
Which act won the first Grammy for Best Rock and Roll Recording?
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Bill Haley & His Comets
Who was the first woman to win the Grammy Award for Best New Artist?
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Bobbie Gentry
Which artist became the first to win all four General Field Grammy Awards in one ceremony?
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Christopher Cross
Which Grammy ceremony was the first to be broadcast live on television?
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The 13th Grammy Awards
Which album became the first live album to win Grammy Album of the Year?
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Judy at Carnegie Hall
Which recording won the first Grammy for Record of the Year?
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“Nel blu, dipinto di blu”
Who was the first rapper to win the Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance?
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DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince
Which Dire Straits music video, released in 1985, prominently used computer animation?
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Money for Nothing
Who directed Jamiroquai’s “Virtual Insanity” music video?
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Jonathan Glazer
Who directed Peter Gabriel’s “Sledgehammer” music video?
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Stephen R. Johnson
Which song by Queen is widely credited as the first major promotional music video?
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Bohemian Rhapsody