Music H-K: 'K' Trivia

1. What was the name of the 2018 debut Vinyl EP release?

From Quiz Kingsley Beat Songs

Answer: Future Giants

The vinyl release went down a storm. When interviewed by the BBC, Kingsley famously told them, 'it's called that because that's what we're going to be.' He later admitted to the NME that he'd seen the words on an Australian freight truck!

From Quiz Israel Kamakawiwoʻole

Answer: IZ

I only know of him as IZ (especially since I cannot pronounce his last name). IZ died in 1997 at the age of 38 but I did not discover him until 2002, on a visit to Hawaii. I have loved his music ever since.

From Quiz A Night on the Tiles with Kenickie

Answer: Lauren Laverne and Johnny X

Singer/guitarist Lauren Laverne and drummer Johnny X are siblings; their real names are Lauren and Pete Gofton. Johnny X is the older of the two. All the band decided to adopt stage names based on cities; Marie du Santiago's real name is Anne Marie and Emmy-Kate Montrose's real name is Emma Jackson (and her dad's name is Michael!) Lauren met Marie in primary school and Emmy-Kate in high school. Kenickie were formed while the girls were at Sixth Form college.

From Quiz Nik Kershaw and his Music

Answer: The threat of nuclear war

The song was initially released in 1983 and reached number 47 in the UK charts. It was re-released in 1984, after Kershaw's second single had increased his popularity, and was much more successful, charting at number two. The song's lyrics reflect Cold War anxieties about the ever-present possibility of nuclear war breaking out between the USA and the Soviet Union and expresses a distrust of politicians in both of these countries.

From Quiz Fela Kuti

Answer: Nigeria

Fela was born in 1938, in what was then British Nigeria and is now part of Ogun State, Nigeria. His mother was a prominent women's rights activist in the country and his father was a schoolteacher and Anglican priest.

From Quiz Elle King

Answer: Rob Schneider

Elle's birth name is Tanner Elle Schneider and she uses her middle name along with the surname of her mother, London King as her stage name. Rob Schneider appeared on "Saturday Night Live" between 1990 and 1994 playing characters such as The Richmeister and Sensitive Naked Guy.

From Quiz Get Down to a Quiz Celebrating Kool & the Gang

Answer: Jungle Boogie

The 1973 song "Jungle Boogie" was a single from Kool & the Gang's album "Wild and Peaceful". The song was the first single by Kool & the Gang to hit the top five on the United States Billboard Hot 100 and the United States Billboard Hot R&B Songs chart. The song has been sampled by Madonna, Janet Jackson and the Beastie Boys.

From Quiz All About Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band

Answer: Cambridge, Massachusetts

Folk music always had a presence in American music but it started achieving a period of widespread popularity in the late 1950s. Boston University student Jim Kweskin met fellow aficionados of acoustic music in the coffee houses of Cambridge, Massachusetts in the late '50s and they began playing together and sharing songs. While some of the new folksingers learned old American and English ballads, Kweskin and his friends gravitated toward songs (often full of double-entendres) originating in America's South in the early 20th century. At the height of the folk revival it wasn't unusual to have someone like Judy Collins or Carolyn Hester playing at Symphony Hall in Boston, singing about Bar'bry Allen and Sweet William, and Kweskin's jug band playing at Club 47 in Cambridge, singing about George Washington playing his ukelele at Valley Forge and which girl was the 'friendliest' in Memphis, Tennessee.

From Quiz Kasabian - Songs

Answer: 1999

Kasabian first formed in Leicestershire, England in 1999. The band was originally made up of Tom Meighan, Christopher Karloff, Sergio Pizzorno, Chris Edwards and Ash Hannis.

From Quiz "Wavin' Flag" and K'Naan

Answer: Keinan Abdi Warsame

He was born in Somalia in 1978. He later moved to New York City and then Canada. He sings hip hop and has collaborated with many famous musicians.

From Quiz Chaka Khan

Answer: Yvette Marie Stevens

Born March 23rd 1953, in the Illinois suburb of Great Lakes. Her sister is singer Taka Boom.

From Quiz Kishore Kumar

Answer: Abhas Kumar Ganguly

Kishore Kumar was born on 4th August 1929 in Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh, India to Kunjalal Ganguly and Gouri Devi. Kishore's elder brother was known in the Hindi film industry as Ashok Kumar and was a well-established star. Abhas Ganguly took the name of Kishore Kumar. He got his first break from music director Khemchand Prakash in 1948 in the movie 'Ziddi'. Apart from his singing career, he also acted in movies and made his debut as a hero in the movie 'Andolan' in 1951. In later years, he was known as a comic hero and acted in hit movies like 'Asha', 'Chalti Ka Naam Ghadi' and 'Half Ticket'.

From Quiz Keb' Mo'

Answer: Kevin Moore

He has been quoted as saying that, growing up, his nickname was largely responsible for his becoming interested in the blues.

From Quiz Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers Lyrics

Answer: Such a Way

"Such a Way" has appeared on three different Stephen Kellogg albums; in 2005 on the band's self-titled album.

From Quiz Kyuss

Answer: Sons of Kyuss

When they first started playing, they called themselves Sons of Kyuss, then they simply shortened it to Kyuss.

From Quiz Josh Kelley- "For The Ride Home"

Answer: "Amazing"

"Amazing" is the first song on this album. It received a lot of airplay on top 40 stations in the United States throughout the summer and fall of 2003.

From Quiz Gladys Knight & the Pips Lyrics (1968-83)

Answer: I Heard it Through the Grapevine

Gladys Knight and the Pips' energetic and very 'soulful' original version of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" was recorded and released a year before Marvin Gaye's # 1 version. Gladys and 'the fellas' hit # 2 on the Pop chart and # 1 on the R & B chart. The song went on to sell over a million copies. By the way, the song was written by the team of Motown songwriters, Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong.

From Quiz K. C. and the Sunshine Band (1973-1980)

Answer: Clubs

This song was a minor hit in the dance clubs of America, and a bigger hit in the United Kingdom.

From Quiz Klaatu - The Elusive Seventies Band

Answer: "The Day The Earth Stood Still"

Michael Rennie starred as the alien visitor Klaatu, who came to Earth along with his 10 foot tall robot, Gort. His basic message was to tell the people to cease their violent behaviour towards each other.

From Quiz The Kidneythieves

Answer: Free

Her full name is Free Dominguez. Bruce is also a member of the band, but he supplies all of the instruments in the studio. Aimee would be Aimee Echo of Human Waste Project fame and currently in theStart. Lacey is the singer for Nocturne.

From Quiz King's X

Answer: The Edge

When Doug, Jerry and Ty first got together, their first band was called The Edge. They were a 4 piece then too. After clubbing as The Edge for a couple of years, they changed their name to Sneak Preview. The Buzz Henshaw band is a takeoff on a group called the Carl Henshaw band that Doug used to play for...well really Carl owned the equipment and had his name stenciled into everything, hence the Carl Henshaw Band.

From Quiz Kingsley Beat Songs

Answer: Feed the Swan

This was apparently the first song that Kingsley wrote when he moved to Walton-on-Thames, a town in Surrey, UK, well-known for its diverse and beautiful water fowl.

From Quiz Israel Kamakawiwoʻole

Answer: Over the Rainbow/Wonderful World

Although ALL of the initial songs are famous Judy Garland songs, I am not aware that Louis "Louie" Armstrong was famous for any of the other songs. The popular version of "Midnight Train to Georgia" is by Gladys Knight and The Pips. Both "Georgia on My Mind" and "The Christmas Song (AKA Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" have been recorded many times but my favorites are Ray Charles and Nat King Cole (respectively).

From Quiz A Night on the Tiles with Kenickie

Answer: Catsuit City

'Catsuit City' is very hard to track down, as Kenickie bought up the rights to prevent it being reissued. Lauren Laverne drew the cover art, which features the band as humanoid cats. It was released in 1995. As for the other choices, 'Skillex' was the band's second EP, 'Killing Fantasy' was a B-side from 'In Your Car' and 'Kamikaze Annelids' was a B-side from 'Millionaire Sweeper'.

From Quiz Fela Kuti

Answer: Afrobeat

Fela blended traditional Nigerian fuji music with American jazz and funk and threw in some Ghanaian highlife as well to create his unique sound. It is a genre still popular today, thanks to artists such as Amakye "Iron Boy" Dede from Ghana, Dele Sosimi from UK and Fela's eldest son Femi Kuti.

From Quiz Elle King

Answer: My Neck, My Back

Khia originally released the track in 2002, but due to the content of the song, couldn't get any airplay until a clean, radio edit was recorded which took the song into the top ten in UK and Belgium. Elle King often performs the song live and it has also been covered by Richard Cheese. The other possible answers are all popular examples of dirty rap, "Magic Stick" was a number two hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2003 for Lil' Kim, "Not Tonight" was an early dirty rap single from 1997, also by Lil' Kim which peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100 and "What's Your Fantasy" was the debut single from Ludacris in 2000.

From Quiz Get Down to a Quiz Celebrating Kool & the Gang

Answer: Hollywood Swinging

The 1974 song "Hollywood Swinging" was a single from the Kool & the Gang studio album "Wild and Peaceful". This was the group's first number one single on the United States Billboard Hot R&B Songs chart. The song also hit the top twenty in the United States and Canada. This song was sampled by DJ Kool in his 1996 single "Let Me Clear My Throat" and by Mase on their 1997 single "Feel So Good".

From Quiz Kay Kyser and his Orchestra

Answer: Ammunition

This song was written by Frank Loesser who constructed it around the story of a U.S. Navy chaplain, LTJG Howell Forgy, who was on duty aboard the U.S.S. New Orleans during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The term "sky pilot" in the lyrics refers to a military chaplain. He was reported to have repeated "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition" to a gang of sailors passing heavy naval artillery rounds hand to hand on board the ship during the attack.

From Quiz All About Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band

Answer: It takes the place of a bass fiddle

Jug bands were formed mostly by very poor musicians. It was very unlikely any could afford a bass fiddle so someone found that if you pursed your lips and blew across the top of a stoneware jug it produced a low, bass tone. A jug was also easier to transport than a bass fiddle. Stoneware jugs were eventually replaced with plastic ones; a lot lighter but lacking in ambience. A variant that most jug bands used was the washtub bass. Turn a washtub over, attach a piece of rope (or a real bass violin string) to the center and to a broom handle used as a fingerboard, and there's your bass.

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