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Jazz and Popular Music Trivia Questions; Louis
Armstrong, Barbra Streisand, F Scott Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra,
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Trivia questions about jazz and popular music.Which instrument did Lionel Hampton introduce to jazz? Who was Singin' n the Rain in 1952? Who is credited with the invention of scat singing? Which bandleader disappeared on a flight from England to France in
1944? Which American jazz singer is particularly noted for her
interpretations of songs by Gershwin and Cole Porter? Which singer became a star in Funny Girl? What was Louis Armstrong's nickname? What instrument was played by jazzman Django Reinhardt? Who was backed by the Shadows? Who is credited with describing the 1920s as the Jazz Age? Who is particularly associated with the song 'My Way'? Who wrote the Sound of Music? Which rock and soul singer's real name is Annie Mae Bullock? Whose 'Maple Leaf Rag' was the first instrumental sheet music to sell
a million? Who sang about 1999 in 1982? What is the stage name of the rock singer Reg Dwight? Which jazz singer was nick named 'Lady Day'? Who was Born to Run in 1975 and Born in the USA in 1984? Who wrote the song "White Christmas" in 1942? What style of music was pioneered by Charlie Parker and Dizzy
Gillespie? Which soul singer had a posthumous hit with (Sittin' on the ) "Dock
of the Bay"? In whose quintet did John Coltrane come to prominence in the 1950s? Which destructive English rock band made the rock operas Tommy and
Quadrophenia? Which record company signed the Four Tops, the Temptations and Marvin
Gaye? What is the specialist instrument of Wynton Marsalis, the jazz
musician? Which group's hits include 'Surfin USA' and Good Vibrations? Which singer and songwriter had a successful partnership with Art
Garfunkel? Which band started their notorious career with 'Anarchy in the UK'? Who composed 'One O' Clock Jump'? What was the title of Chris de Burgh's 1986 number 1 hit? Which of Michael Jackson's albums sold 41 million copies? What was the name of the best-selling British female group of the
19870s? Who had a hit in 1965 with the song 'In the Midnight Hour'? Who made the jazz albums Birth of the Cool and Sketches of Spain? Which guitarist was in the Yardbirds, Cream and Derek and the
Dominoes? Which great rock-and-roller died in a plane crash in 1959 at the age
of 22? Who is the connection between the Boomtown Rats and Band Aid? Which British singer has had a string of hits including 'In the Air
Tonight' in 1981, and 'Groovy Kind of Love' in 1988? Which jazzman said "There are only two kinds of music: good and bad"? Where did hip-hop music originate: New York, Detroit, or London? Who was the 'Empress of the Blues'?
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