Jazz and Popular Music Trivia Questions; Louis Armstrong, Barbra Streisand, F Scott Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra,
Billie Holiday, Rogers and Hammerstein, Miles Davis and more.

Trivia Questions - Jazz and popular music; Miles Davis, Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Buddy Holly, Gene Kelly and more.

 


 

 




 

 

 

Trivia questions about jazz and popular music.

Which instrument did Lionel Hampton introduce to jazz?
A: Vibraphone.

Who was Singin' n the Rain in 1952?
A: Gene Kelly.

Who is credited with the invention of scat singing?
A: Louis Armstrong.

Which bandleader disappeared on a flight from England to France in 1944?
A: Glenn Miller.

Which American jazz singer is particularly noted for her interpretations of songs by Gershwin and Cole Porter?
A: Ella Fitzgerald.

Which singer became a star in Funny Girl?
A: Barbra Streisand.

What was Louis Armstrong's nickname?
A: Satchmo.

What instrument was played by jazzman Django Reinhardt?
A: Guitar.

Who was backed by the Shadows?
A: Cliff Richard.

Who is credited with describing the 1920s as the Jazz Age?
A: F Scott Fitzgerald.

Who is particularly associated with the song 'My Way'?
A: Frank Sinatra.

Who wrote the Sound of Music?
A: Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Which rock and soul singer's real name is Annie Mae Bullock?
A: Tina Turner.

Whose 'Maple Leaf Rag' was the first instrumental sheet music to sell a million?
A: Scott Joplin.

Who sang about 1999 in 1982?
A: Prince.

What is the stage name of the rock singer Reg Dwight?
A: Elton John.

Which jazz singer was nick named 'Lady Day'?
A: Billie Holiday.

Who was Born to Run in 1975 and Born in the USA in 1984?
A: Bruce Springsteen.

Who wrote the song "White Christmas" in 1942?
A: Irving Berlin.

What style of music was pioneered by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie?
A: Bebop.

Which soul singer had a posthumous hit with (Sittin' on the ) "Dock of the Bay"?
A: Otis Redding.

In whose quintet did John Coltrane come to prominence in the 1950s?
A: Miles Davis.

Which destructive English rock band made the rock operas Tommy and Quadrophenia?
A: The Who.

Which record company signed the Four Tops, the Temptations and Marvin Gaye?
A: Motown.

What is the specialist instrument of Wynton Marsalis, the jazz musician?
A: Trumpet.

Which group's hits include 'Surfin USA' and Good Vibrations?
A: Beach Boys.

Which singer and songwriter had a successful partnership with Art Garfunkel?
A: Paul Simon.

Which band started their notorious career with 'Anarchy in the UK'?
A: Sex Pistols.

Who composed 'One O' Clock Jump'?
A: Count Basie.

What was the title of Chris de Burgh's 1986 number 1 hit?
A: Lady In Red.

Which of Michael Jackson's albums sold 41 million copies?
A: Thriller.

What was the name of the best-selling British female group of the 19870s?
A: Bananarama.

Who had a hit in 1965 with the song 'In the Midnight Hour'?
A: Wilson Pickett.

Who made the jazz albums Birth of the Cool and Sketches of Spain?
A: Miles Davis.

Which guitarist was in the Yardbirds, Cream and Derek and the Dominoes?
A: Eric Clapton.

Which great rock-and-roller died in a plane crash in 1959 at the age of 22?
A: Buddy Holly.

Who is the connection between the Boomtown Rats and Band Aid?
A: Bob Geldof.

Which British singer has had a string of hits including 'In the Air Tonight' in 1981, and 'Groovy Kind of Love' in 1988?
A: Phil Collins.

Which jazzman said "There are only two kinds of music: good and bad"?
A: Duke Ellington.

Where did hip-hop music originate: New York, Detroit, or London?
A: New York.

Who was the 'Empress of the Blues'?
A: Bessie Smith.

 

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