Entertainment - Trivia Questions and Answers

1. What is the minimum number of musicians a band must have to be considered a "big band"?
   Answer: Ten.
2. What musical instrument's sales escalated from 228,000 in 1950 to 2.3 million in 1971?
   Answer: The guitar's.
3. What 1976 chart-topping song did Barry Manilow sing, but not write?
   Answer: I Write the Songs.
4. What does the Italian musical term adagio mean?
   Answer: Slow.
5. Who was the top-selling album artist of the 1970's according to Billboard?
   Answer: Elton John.
6. What's the only group to claim two of the top ten best-selling singles of the 1970's?
   Answer: The Bee Gees.
7. Who was the first country artist to sell over 10 million copies of an album?
   Answer: Garth Brooks.
8. What band is named after a sculpture in Seattle that hums in the wind?
   Answer: Soundgardem.
9. What two Frank Sinatra hits were tops for U.S. karaoke singers in 1993?
   Answer: New York, New York and My Way.
10. What stringed symphonic instrument has a pedestal and a crown?
    Answer: The Harp.
11. What studio did the Beatles use to record 191 songs?
    Answer: Abby Road.
12. What jazz musician got his nickname by shortening "Satchel Mouth"?
    Answer: Louis Armstrong.
13. What jazz trumpeter was dubbed the "Prince of Darkness"?
    Answer: Miles Davis.
14. What did Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen lose in a 1984 auto accident?
    Answer: An arm.
15. What Southampton junior high school musical was cancelled in 1994 when Shinnecock Indians objected to the " Ug-a-wug" song?
    Answer: Peter Pan.
16. What classical conductor won posthumous Grammy Awards in 1991, 1992, and 1993?
    Answer: Leonard Bernstein.
17. Who's "Monk" to jazz buffs?
    Answer: Thelonious MOnk.
18. What California group waited 22 years to score their first chart-toping single since 1966?
    Answer: The Beach Boys.
19. What city's opera house does " The Phantom of the Opera" prowl?
    Answer: Paris.
20. Who scored his first platinum album since 1978 with " The Icon Is Love " in 1994?
    Answer: Barry White.
21. What Michael Jackson album spawned five chart-topping singles?
    Answer: Bad.
22. What trumpeter became the oldest person ever to score a chart-topping single, in 1964?
    Answer: Louis Armstrong.
23. What rock star was trying to bite the head off a bat in concert when the bat decided to bite back?
    Answer: Ozzy Osbourne.
24. What Shania Twain recording became the best-selling country music album ever by a female artist, in 1996?
    Answer: The Woman in Me.
25. What patriotic song was originally titled "The Defense of Fort McHenry?
    Answer: The Star Spangled Banner.
26. Who's waxed more gold and platinum albums than any other solo female artist?
    Answer: Barbara Streisand.
27. How many songs from the Beatles "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" were released as singles?
    Answer: Zero.
28. What singer for a 70's British rock quartet changed his name from Frederick Bulsara?
    Answer: Freddie Mercury.
29. What rock'n'roll singer is memorialized by a eight-foot bronze statue in Lubbock, Texas?
    Answer: Buddy Holly.
30. What Woody Guthrie song goes "From California to the New York island / From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters"?
    Answer: This Land is Your Land.
31. What Pink Floyd song was banned by the South African government after it became an anthem for black school children?
    Answer: Another Brick in the Wall.
32. What were the two most popular rock operas of 1969?
    Answer: Hair and Tommy.
33. What are the two most common unbowed stringed instruments found in a symphony orchestra?
    Answer: The Harp and the Piano.
34. What legendary soul singer wrecked his Corvette the first time he drove it?
    Answer: Ray Charles.
35. What tenor received a record 165 curtain calls at a Berlin opera house in 1988?
    Answer: Luciano Pavarotti.
36. What Beatles single lasted longest on the charts, at 19 weeks?
    Answer: Hey Jude.

More Entertainment - Trivia Questions and Answers

1. What member of the Monkees, a holdout for nearly three decades, rejoined the other geezers for a 1996 album?
   Answer: Mike Nesmith.
2. What Francis Ford Coppola movie sees Marlon Brando blather: "Horror has a face, and you must make a friend of horror"?
   Answer: Apocalypse Now.
3. What David Lynch movie did a few filmgoers attend expecting to see Bobby Vinton's life story?
   Answer: Blue Velvet.
4. What rap star got his name from the observation "Ladies Love Cool James"/
   Answer: L.L.Cool J.
5. What Mayberry resident once hijacked a bull when he'd had too much to drink?
   Answer: Otis Campbell.
6. Whose guitar version of The Star-Spangled Banner was featured in a 1996 Aiwa TV ad?
   Answer: Jimmy Hendrix's.
7. Who was the first feline featured in Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous?
   Answer: Morris the Cat.
8. What 1961 movie has Audrey Hepburn note: "Personally, I think it's a bit tacky to wear diamonds before I'm 40"?
   Answer: Breakfast at Tiffany's.
9. What Sinatra signature tune became Elvis Presley's best-selling posthumous hit?
   Answer: My Way.
10. Who played Sid Vicious, Lee Harvey Oswald, Count Dracula and Beethoven in movies?
    Answer: Gary Oldman.
11. What video, the first to cost over $150,000, helped Michael Jackson's Thriller soar?
    Answer: Beat It.
12. Who is the most voluptuous female in Toontown?
    Answer: Jessica Rabbit.
13. What was the first Arnold Schwarzenegger movie to win four Academy Awards?
    Answer: Terminator 2.
14. What actor did author Anne Rice first denounce, then praise in the role of her beloved Lestat?
    Answer: Tom Cruise.
15. Who sang "Things Go Better With Coke" in 1969 before switching to Pepsi in the 1980's?
    Answer: Ray Charles.
16. What movie earned Tom Hanks his third straight Oscar nomination, in 1996?
    Answer: Apollo 13.
17. What Marx Brother's name spelled backwards is the name of a daytime talk show host?
    Answer: Harpo's.
18. What Stephen Foster tune encourages racing enthusiasts to "bet on de bay"?
    Answer: Camptown Races.
19. What James Hilton effort became the first Pocket Book, in 1939?
    Answer: Lost Horizon.
20. What martial artist warbles the theme song for Walker, Texas Ranger?
    Answer: Chuck Norris.
21. Who was the voice behind Woody, the cowboy doll in Toy Story?
    Answer: Tom Hanks.
22. What jazz musician got his aristocratic nickname in high school for his neat attire and fastidious manners?
    Answer: "Duke" Ellington.
23. What talk show hostess gave her guests the fewest opportunities to speak, according to a 1996 MSU survey?
    Answer: Oprah Winfrey.
24. Where do "bluebirds fly", according to a song from the Wizard of Oz?
    Answer: Somewhere over the rainbow.
25. What enduring daytime soap featured Kevin Kline, Don Knotts and Susan Sarandon?
    Answer: Search for Tomorrow.
26. What book did E.B. White base on personal experiences at his farm in Maine?
    Answer: Charlotte's Web.
27. What three words preceded "Land that I love" in a 1938 Irving Berlin tune?
    Answer: "God Bless America".
28. What Oliver Stone movie did the Washington Post dub "Dallas in Wonderland"?
    Answer: JFK.
29. What infomercial diet guru penned the monster bestseller "Never Say Diet"?
    Answer: Richard Simmons.
30. Who was the first solo female host of the Academy Awards Ceremony?
    Answer: Whoopi Goldberg.
31. What happy homemaker chirps on TV: "It's a good thing"?
    Answer: Martha Stewart.
32. What screen character i the world's fastest ice sculptor and topiary artist?
    Answer: Edward Scissorhands.
33. Who died last - Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball, William Frawley or Vivian Vance?
    Answer: Lucille Ball.