FunTrivia Music Mix: Vol 15 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Discouraging

"Home on the Range" is the state song of Kansas (from 1947). It has been used in different ways by different people, including Walt Disney. Many people call it a theme song of the American West and the great expansive spaciousness. Incidentally, it was first written as a poem by Dr. Brewster M. Higley in a poem, "My Western Home."

Question by player Windswept

Answer: Louis Armstrong

Armstrong's unique facial configuration when playing the trumpet (known as embouchure) was his hallmark from the early days and gave him the nick "satchelmouth", which in time got compacted to "satchmo".

Question by player gentlegiant17

Answer: Pussycat

'What's New Pussycat' was a movie theme song in the 1960s. Tom Jones is a popular singer from Wales. His album 'It's not Unusual' was number one in the United Kingdom, and top ten in the United States. He appears often on USA television.

Question by player MyGirl2000

Answer: Georgia

"The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" was written by Bobby Russell in 1972 and recorded by his then-wife Vicki Lawrence. The song hit number one on the U.S. Billboard 100 in 1973, when Lawrence was a regular performer on "The Carol Burnett Show." A 1981 film of the same name loosely inspired by the song starred Kristy McNichol, Dennis Quaid, and Mark Hamill.

Question by player amcoffice

Answer: peaches and cream

Pat Ballard wrote "Mister Sandman" in 1954; it was first recorded by Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra. In it, the singer asks "Make her complexion like peaches and cream; Give her two lips like roses and clover." The covers by the Chordettes (with appropriately changed pronouns) and The Four Aces climbed farther up the charts than Monroe's.

The petition is addressed to the folkloric sandman reputed to bring sleep and dreams. A complexion is compared to "peaches and cream" when it is very fair or pale with rosy cheeks.

Question by player FatherSteve

Answer: Drum Major

A drum major is the standard conductor of a marching band. This person has the highest levels of leadership and responsibility in the band.

Question by player musicgirl12

Answer: Michael Bublé

While he is not Frank Sinatra, Bublé does have a similar style and has performed several covers of Sinatra songs.

Question by player WorldBook14

Answer: David Bowie

"Life on Mars" was a brilliant TV series, mixing sci-fi with police drama. DCI Gene Hunt was the most politically incorrect policeman ever, so the show had a comedic aspect as well.

Question by player witchdog

Answer: The Warsaw Concerto

The film is about a Polish pianist who meets an American reporter in Warsaw as the Germans are invading. He escapes, and meets and marries her in New York before going to Britain to fly with the RAF. After an injury following a crash he suffers from amnesia, but gradually regains his memory by recalling the concerto he was composing when he first met his wife.

The film was re-titled "Suicide Squadron" in the USA. The director wanted music by Sergei Rachmaninoff, but that wasn't possible, so the British composer, Richard Addinsell was asked to compose something similar.

Question by player Lottie1001

Answer: Queen

Queen recorded 17 original albums between 1973 and 1995. Lead singer Freddie Mercury died in 1991 from complications due to AIDS.

Question by player oldmanbacon