Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Rock and Roll Trivia Quiz- Test Your Knowledge About Songs and Music History


i was going through some old files and found this, i made this about three years or four years ago and thought it would be fun to test your memory!

1) We know that the 5th Dimension had a hit single with "Wedding Bell Blues," but they also released another 'couples song,' which was it?

A) One Less Bell To Answer
B) Wedding Song
C) Love Is Strange
D) To Know Him Is To Love Him

2) This Thurston Harris song was his only Top 40 charting song:

A) Kansas City
B) Someone To Love
C) Little Bitty Pretty One
D) Little Star

3) The Cowsills Biggest Single was:

A) The Rain, The Park & Other Things
B) Indian lake
C) Hair
D) Poor Baby

4) This Dovell's singer went solo in the 1960's and hit #2 in 1965 with 1-2-3:

A) Richard Barret
B) Ron Dante
C) Bobby Darin
D) Len Barry

5) This band burst on to the scene in 1969 with their hit "Venus":

A) Blue Cheer
B) Blue Magic
C) Blue Swede
D) Shocking Blue

6) This hard rock trio from San Francisco hit #13 with a remake of "Summertime Blues":

A) Blue Cheer
B) Blue Mink
C) Blue's Magoos
D) Blue's Image

7) This Canadian group, with Tom Cochrane on vocals, was able to land two hits on the Billboard Top 100:

A) Red Rockers
B) Red Rider
C) Redman
D) Redeye

8) The co-star of the classic TV show "My Three Suns," Don Grady, was able to land a hit in 1967 with this colorful band:

A) Yello
B) The Yellow Ballon
C) Yellow Orchestra
D) Yellow Bananas

9) While we are on the subject, what character did Don Grady play on "My Three Suns"?

A) Chip
B) Bert
C) Ernie
D) Robbie

10) Paul Simon wrote this tune for the Cyrkle:

A) Red Robin
B) Red Rubber Ball
C) Red Sunset
D) The Red Birds

11) Who gave the band Cyrkle their name?

A) John Lennon
B) Paul Simon
C) Ringo Starr
D) George Harrison

12) This army Sgt. scored big with "The Battle of the Green Berets":

A) Sgt. York
B) Sgt. Pepper
C) Sgt. Barry Sadler
D) Sgt. Jim Lowe

13) This song by Bullet is their only Top 40 hit:

A) White Lies, Blues Eyes
B) Green Tambourine
C) White Caps Of Dover
D) Brown-Eyed Girl

14) Booker T. & the MG's took this song to #3 in 1962:

A) Red Apples
B) White Snow
C) Green Onions
D) Black Cats

15) Jim "Dandy" Mangrum was the vocalist for what Southern rock band:

A) Black Oak Arkansas
B) Blackflag
C) Blackhawk
D) Black Crows

16) This band added the dreadful "oogachuga" to this classic song and hit #1 in 1974:

A) BJ Thomas
B) Blues Magoos
C) Blue Swede
D) Blue Stars

17) "Once Bitten Twice Shy" was a Top 40 hit for:

A) Great White
B) Whitesnake
C) White Lion
D) White Clouds

18) This bayou rocker hit #8 in 1969 with the song "Polk Salad Annie":

A) Billy Joe Blue
B) Al "Fingers" Green
C) Billy Bob Blue
D) Tony Joe White

19) This sweet band hit it big in August of 1970 with the song "Green-Eyed Lady":

A) Sugarloaf
B) Sugarland
C) Sweet Sugar
D) Sugar & Spice

20) This song by Dobie Gray was re-done by Uncle Cracker in 2003:

A) Driftwwod
B) Drift Away
C) Drifting Away With You
D) The Drift Dance

21) Cream scored a #6 hit in 1968 with:

A) White House
B) White Room
C) White Horses
D) White Hot Summer Love

22) "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane hit #8 in this year:

A) 1967
B) 1968
C) 1966
D) 1969

23) Originally a flop with Fleetwood Mac, this second band had much more success with a certain song:

A) Black Mamba
B) Black Magic Woman
C) Black Eyed Peas
D) Black Skies

24) What is the name of the band who out did Fleetwood Mac with their version of the song in question 23?

A) Santana
B) Beatles
C) Monkees
D) Cream

25) Donovan had some help recording his hit "Mellow Yellow" Who can be heard whispering in the background of this hit?

A) John Lennon
B) Harry Nilsson
C) Paul McCartney
D) Ringo Starr

26) Donovan returned the favor in this silly song by the Beatles:

A) I Am The Walrus
B) Bulldog
C) Yellow Submarine
D) Octupus's Garden

27) This brother and sister team on Nino Tempo and April Stevens went to #1 with this colorful ditty:

A) Deep Purple
B) Purple People Eater
C) Purple Lilacs
D) Soft Purple Lace

28) Who sang the song 1958 hit "Purple People Eater?"

A) Stan Getz
B) Sheb Wooley
C) Ian Glover
D) Joe P. South

29) Who originally recorded the song "Delta Dawn?"

A) Dolly Parton
B) Tanya Tucker
C) Judy Collins
D) Helen Reddy

30) This Van Morrison hit peaked at #23 on the Billboard charts in 1971:

A) Blue Thunder
B) Brown-Eyed Girl
C) Green Grass Of Home
D) Blue Money

31) This Black Sabbath cut peaked at #61 in 1970:

A) War Pigs
B) Paranoid
C) Sweetleaf
D) Iron Man

32) Bobby Vinton hit it big in 1963 with this hit:

A) Blue On Blue
B) Black and White
C) Blues Skies
D) Roses Are Red

33) Vinton also scored a #1 hit in 1963 with this song:

A) Roses Are Red
B) Red Rain
C) Blue Rain
D) Blue Velvet

34) Who wrote the classic rocker "Blue Suede Shoes?"

A) Elvis Presley
B) Jerry Lee Lewis
C) Carl Perkins
D) Little Richard

35) "My Baby Loves Lovin'" was a hit song for this band"

A) Rose Garden
B) Lemon Pipers
C) Vanity Fair
D) White Plains

36) Barry White's highest charted single was:

A) Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe
B) I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby
C) It's Ecstasy When You Lay Next To Me
D) You're The First, The Last, My Everything

37) Which band from Liverpool was the first to top the American charts?

A) Beatles
B) The Searchers
C) Peter and Gordon
D) Gerry and the Pacemakers

38) What was the first Lennon/McCartney song to land on the charts in America?

A) Please Please Me - Beatles
B) World Without Love - Peter and Gordon
C) From Me To You - Del Shannon
D) I Saw Her Standing There - Dion

39) Who was the lead singer on the Beach Boy's hit "Barbara Ann?"

A) Dennis Wilson
B) Al Jardine
C) Dean Torrence
D) Mike Love

40) What was the #1 song in the US when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon?

A) In the Year 2525
B) Let It Be
C) Bad Moon Rising
D) Moon River


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Answers

1. A
2. C
3. A
4. D
5. D
6. A
7. B
8. B
9. D
10. B
11. A
12. C
13. A
14. C
15. A
16. C
17. A
18. D
19. A
20. B
21. B
22. A
23. B
24. A
25. C
26. C
27. A
28. B
29. B
30. D
31. B
32. A
33. D
34. C
35. D
36. A
37. D
38. C
39. C
40. A

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