Category: Music Decades

Music Decades 60’s. Bills Free Quiz

Sixties Music

1 What was Britain’s 1966 Eurovision Song Contest entry sang by Kenneth McKellar – A Man Without Love
2 Who broke off her engagement to Paul McCartney in 1968 – Jane Asher
3 Junior Campbell was a guitarist with which Scottish chart topping group in the sixties – Marmalade
4 Who had a top ten hit in the sixties with the instrumental Time Is Tight – Booker T and the MGs
5 Who was the leader of Blues Incorporated in the sixties – Alexis Korner
6 Which female folk singer had a UK hit in the sixties with Going to the Zoo – Julie Felix
7 Who played kazoo on Ringo’s hit single, You’re Sixteen – Paul McCartney
8 Which sixties group included Roy Wood and Carl Wayne – The Move
9 To what did the Farinas change their name in the sixties – Family
10 Who had a UK hit in the sixties with Stranger on the Shore – Acker Bilk
11 Who was the lead singer with sixties acid rock band Steppenwolf – John Kay
12 Which comedian had a hit in 1961 with Harvest of Love – Benny Hill
13 From which country did the sixties group The Easybeats come – Australia
14 Which father and son sang the Oscar winning song in successive years in the sixties – Rex and Noel Harrison (Talk to the animals’1967 and The Windmills of Your Mind 1968)
15 How many UK number ones did The Beatles have in the sixties – Seventeen
16 Which sixties number one was written by Madden and Morse in 1903 – Two Little Boys
17 Which Liverpool band had a UK hit in the sixties with Do You Want to Know a Secret – Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas
18 Which sixties musical was written by James Rado, Gerome Ragni and Galt McDermott – Hair
19 In the sixties which DJ sang about Ahab the Arab – Jimmy Savile
20 What was the theme music used for Sounds of the Sixties – Foot Tapper by the Shadows

 

Music Decades 50’s. Bills Free Quiz

Fifties Music

1 Which fifties singer was nicknamed The Prince of Wails – Johnny Ray
2 Which actor/singer had a hit in 1959 with Idle On Parade – Anthony Newley
3 Which recording company introduced the 33 ½ rpm LP to the UK in 1950 – Decca
4 In whose jazz quintet did John Coltrane come to prominence in the 1950s – Miles Davis
5 Which rock ‘n’ roll song was the biggest worldwide selling single of the 1950s – Rock Around The Clock
6 Which musical won the Tony award for best musical in 1950 – South Pacific
7 Who had a UK top ten in the fifties with The Saints Rock ‘n’ Roll – Bill Haley and the Comets
8 How did Massachusetts brothers Joe, Gene, Vic and Ed become known in the fifties – The Ames Brothers
9 Which American female singer did Tennessee Ernie Ford duet with in 1950 with, Ain’t Nobody’s Business But My Own – Kay Starr
10 Which soul singer married dancer Delores Mohawk in the 1950s Sam Cooke
11 Who had a hit in 1959 with You’re the Top Cha Cha – Al Saxon
12 Which city is the setting of the 1950s musical Kismet – Baghdad
13 Jerry and Mike are the first names of what famous pairing of fifties hit songwriters – Leiber and Stoller
14 Who had a 1957 hit with the title song for the fifties film The Girl Can’t Help It – Little Richard
15 Which song from the film Captain Carey USA won the Oscar for best song in 1950 – Mona Lisa
16 Which fifties band were originally known as The Silvertones – The Cleftones
17 Which fifties number one came from the Jane Russell film Underwater – Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White
18 What did Frank Sinatra lose at The Copacabana on April 26th 1950 – His voice
19 Who had an American smash hit in the 1950s with I Walk the Line – Johnny Cash
20 Which American soul singer won the 1950 Golden Gloves welterweight championship – Jackie Wilson

 

 

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