Acts Who Had a Solo Hit, a Hit Duet and a Hit Trio Quiz

Answer: Diana Ross

Diana Ross was a singer who recorded as a solo artist and as a member of the groups the Supremes and the Primettes. She recorded twenty-seven singles that reached the United States Billboard Top 40. Diana Ross and the Supremes were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.

Answer: Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney was a singer who performed as a solo artist and a member of the groups the Beatles and Wings. He also had successful duets with Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder in 1982 and 1983. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Beatles in 1988 and as a solo artist in 1999.

Answer: Barry Gibb

Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb performed as the trio the Bee Gees. The group was actively recording from 1965 through 2001 until Maurice's death. They had fifteen top ten singles on the United States Billboard Hot 100 from 1967 to 1989. In 1997, the Bee Gees were inducted Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Barry Gibb also recorded duets with Barbara Streisand and Olivia Newton-John and a solo album in 1984 called "Now Voyager".

Answer: Phil Collins

Phil Collins was a singer and drummer for the band Genesis from 1978 through 1996 as well as a successful solo artist. Collins had tweleve top ten hits on the United States Billboard Hot 100 as a solo artist, two number one duets on the United States Billboard Hot 100 and seven top ten hits on the United States Billboard Hot 100 with Genesis.

Answer: Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton was a guitarist and singer from England. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three times: as a solo artist in 2000, as a member of Cream in 1993 and as a member of the Yardbirds in 1992.

Answer: Beyoncé Knowles

Beyoncé Knowles was a member of the sining group Destiny's Child from 1990 through 2006. Destiny's Child was a trio when they released the 2004 "Destiny Fulfilled" album. Beyoncé released four solo albums from 2003 through 2011. On April 4, 2008, Beyoncé married rapper Jay-Z in New York City.

Answer: Aretha Franklin

"Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves" was a 1985 hit trio recorded by the British pop duo Eurythmics and American R&B singer Aretha Franklin. The song hit number eighteen on the United States Billboard Hot 100. Aretha Franklin was a singer who began her career in 1956.

She was a pioneer of the soul music genre and was known as the "Queen of Soul". In 1987, Franklin became the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Answer: Annie Lennox

"Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves" was a 1985 hit trio recorded by the British pop duo Eurythmics and American R&B singer Aretha Franklin. The song hit number eighteen on the United States Billboard Hot 100. The Eurythmics had five top twenty hits on the United States Billboard Hot 100 from 1983 through 1986. Annie Lennox had three top forty solo hits on the United States Billboard Hot 100 in 1992 through 1995.

Answer: Bryan Adams

Bryan Adams was a rock singer whose charting success in the United States was from 1983 to 1996. During this time he had success on the the United States Billboard Hot 100 with thirteen solo top twenty hits, two top twenty duets and one hit trio.

Answer: Sting

Sting was a singer who started out his singing career as a member of the rock group the Police. The Police had eight top twenty hits on the United States Billboard Hot 100 from 1980 through 1984. As a solo artist, Sting had eight solo top twenty hits, one top twenty hit duet and one hit trio on the United States Billboard Hot 100 from 1985 through 2000.

Answer: Rod Stewart

Rod Stewart was a singer who came to prominence in the late 1960's and the early 1970's while singing with the Jeff Beck group and Faces. As a solo artist, Rod Stewart had fourteen top ten singles, one top ten duet and a hit trio on the United States Billboard Hot 100 from from 1971 through 1993 with four of these songs reaching number one.

Answer: Kenny Rogers

Kenny Rogers was an American singer-songwriter. Since 1958, he charted over one hundred hits over several musical genres. He collaborated with such acts as Dottie West, Ronnie Milsap, Sheena Easton, Dolly Parton, Kim Carnes and James Ingram.

Answer: Janet Jackson

Janet Jackson was a singer and the youngest child of the singing Jackson family. Her first number one single on the United States Billboard Hot 100 was the 1986 song "When I Think of You".

Answer: Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton was an country singer from Tennessee. She had twenty five number number one hits on the United States Billboard Hot Country Songs chart from 1970 through 2006 including the 1981 hit 9 to 5", the 1983 duet with Kenny Rogers "Islands in the Stream" and the 1987 trio with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt "To Know Him Is To Love Him".

In 1986, Dolly Parton became the co-owner of a theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee named "Dollywood".

Answer: Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill was a singer who recorded mainly as a solo artist or in the trio The Fugees. The Fugees 1996 "The Score" won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album in 1997 and Lauryn Hill's 1998 album "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1999.