FunTrivia Music Mix: Vol 19 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Hell

Lyrics from the song "Jet Airliner" released in April 1977 on the "Book of Dreams" album.

Question by player Teddieboy

Answer: Staying Alive

"Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees was released on the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack in 1977. Apparently, this song's beat is in sync with the recommended pace for chest compressions when administering CPR. If you don't know the tune, it might be worth becoming familiar with it. The song's title makes it easy to remember.

Question by player Coraline11323

Answer: Barbarella

Jane Fonda starred in this 1968 film directed by Frenchman Roger Vadim (her husband at the time). Her super sexy outfits were designed by Paco Rabanne. The character played by Milo O'Shea was "Durand Durand". Rumour has it that the band didn't really know how this was spelt, hence the omission of the final 'D'!

Question by player Raclisbro

Answer: Feline Groovy

Welsh singer Tom Jones sang the title song of the 1965 movie "What's New Pussycat?"; "Eye of the Tiger" was from the 1982 movie "Rocky III", and was performed by Survivor; "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" was originally written in 1939 by Solomon Linda, but made famous as "Wimoweh" by The Weavers (Pete Seegers' band) in 1951, and has since been covered by many artists.

Simon and Garfunkel might have recorded "Feline Groovy", but chose to call it "The 59th Street Bridge Song" instead. There is, however, a compilation album of music for "cool cats" which is called "Feline Groovy"!

Question by player highfells

Answer: Algeria

Macias was born to an Algerian Jewish family; during the Algerian revolution, he was vocally against Algerian independence from France, and he was exiled from the country a year before the end of the war. He has never returned to Algeria since, and one of his more famous songs "Adieu Mon Pays" is a reference to his experiences in exile.

Question by player dim_dude

Answer: Sarah Palin

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins is an adept musician, as apart from singing, she plays guitar, keyboards, bass guitar and percussion instruments.

Question by player VegemiteKid

Answer: Andropov

Andropov is what you do with your kids after "pick up." Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) composed popular symphonies, concertos, ballets and other orchestral works in the Romantic period. Two of his best known works are "Swan Lake" and "The Nutcracker." Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) was a member of "The Mighty Handful," a group of five amateur composers from modest backgrounds who gathered around their mentor Mily Balakirev to become the creators of a specifically Russian national music in the late 1800s. Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) was another great Russian composer, conductor and virtuoso pianist who was active in the late Romantic period and beyond.

Question by player Nealzineatser

Answer: Placido Domingo

Zubin Mehta is the conductor who appeared with the three tenors. Placido Domingo was the tallest at 188 cm, followed by Luciano Pavarotti at about 185 cm, and Jose Carreras was the shortest at about 179 cm. Each had stellar careers in the field of opera, from the 1960's onward.

Question by player merrijig

Answer: Lester Flatt

Flatt and Scruggs performed "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" for the movie "Bonnie and Clyde" as well as "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" for "The Beverly Hillbillies".

Question by player thaibob

Answer: Grace Slick

Released as a single in June 1967, "White Rabbit" was one of the earliest songs written by Grace Slick, who became Jefferson Airplane's vocalist in late 1966, replacing original singer Signe Toly Anderson. Slick wrote the song - inspired by Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" - in late 1965 or early 1966, when she was still a member of the Bay Area band The Great Society. Featured on Jefferson Airplane's second album, "Surrealistic Pillow" (February 1967), "White Rabbit" is one of the band's best-known songs. Reportedly written by Slick after an acid trip, the song has often been associated with the "mind expansion" caused by the use of hallucinogenic drugs. Of the three singers listed as wrong answers, Janis Joplin was also active in the 1960s, while Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders) and Deborah Harry (Blondie) gained recognition in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Question by player LadyNym