Ramsdencon February 2004 Multimedia Quiz

Section 4

Music

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  1. Which still running West End musical has been on for the longest? Name one of the musicals which ran for longer but has now finished.

  2. Which one of the following was not at Woodstock: Bob Dylan, The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix and The Who.

  3. Where will you find Aleister Crowley, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Edgar Allan Poe, Bob Dylan, Karl Marx, H.G. Wells, Albert Einstein, Gandhi (later removed) and Shirley Temple, among others?

  4. John Cage's famous piece of silence is how long?

  5. Identify which of these are boy bands and which are girl bands: All Saints, Eternal, New Kids on the Block, S Club 7, Take That and Westlife.

  6. Which of these is the odd one out and why? Jailhouse Rock, Long Tall Sally, Yellow Submarine, Sea of Love, Peggy Sue Got Married, Stand By Me, American Pie.

  7. Name three of the UK's winning Eurovision song contest winners or joint winners (the songs, not the performers).

  8. Put the following composers in chronological order (you can use birth or death dates, you will get the same answer): Johnann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Peter Illich Tchaikovsky and Richard Wagner.

  9. Which channel's first broadcast was of Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles?

  10. Of the Recording Industry Association of America's 92 Diamond Awards for albums selling over 10 million copies, four groups or individuals have 20 of them. Name two of these four.

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