Who Was Who in Music Trivia Quiz

Answer: Chubby Checker

Evans' stage name, Chubby Checker, is a sort of play on Fats Domino, the best selling artist of the day. Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino was from New Orleans. "Good Golly, Miss Molly,". Little Richard Wayne Penniman was born in Macon, Georgia. Although Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry, from St. Louis, Missouri had such hits as "Maybelline" and "Johnny B. Goode," his biggest hit ever is the novelty track, "My Ding-a-Ling." Speaking of hits, both "The Twist" and "Let's Twist Again" sold over a million copies worldwide.

Answer: Conway Twitty

Conway Twitty started his career singing rock and roll in the 1950s, but eventually had 40 number one country somgs to his credit. Alvis Edgar "Buck" Owens, Jr started out with honky tonk music and turned it into the Bakersfield sound that he called American Music.

The gentle giant of country music, Don Williams, got started with folk-pop music before going into country. Like Conway, Ronnie Lee Milsap produced 40 number one hits. His early musical training at North Carolina's State School for the Blind was in classical music, but his career began where his interest lay, Country Music.

Answer: Eminem

Eminem, who takes his name from his initials M&M, is considered one of the industry's most controversial artists. Vanilla Ice (Robert Matthew Van Winkle) is perhaps best remembered for his 1990 single "Ice Ice Baby," the first rap single to top the Billboard Hot 100. Beastie Boys' guitarist Adam Horovitz, son of playwright Israel Horovitz, shares his Halloween birthday with Vanilla Ice, who is one year older. Lorenzo Patterson is the birth name of MC Ren, of N.W.A.

Answer: Tina Turner

"What's Love Got to Do with It?" spent three weeks at the top of the charts and won three 1984 Grammy Awards: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female. Of these four lovely ladies, Patricia Louise Holt (AKA Patti LaBelle), Marie Dionne Warrick, Gladys Maria Knight, and Anna Mae Bullock, the latter (Tina Turner) is the eldest.

The least known by many, for "Gladys Knight and the Pips," is only four days younger than Miss Patti LaBelle. It is hard to believe that there are many to whom the wonderful R&B artist Dionne Warwick is known almost exclusively as "Oh, that psychic lady?" due to her infomercials for the Psychic Friends Network during the nineties.

Answer: Englebert Humperdinck

While it may seem a strange stage name (He took it from the German composer) it certainly never hurt his career. With his three-and-a-half-octave range velvet voice and full sideburns, this British balladeer drove his female fans absolutely wild. Welsh born, Sir Thomas Jones Woodward (Tom Jones) may be best known today for songs like "What's New Pussycat?" and "It's Not Unusual," but in the 1960s he was known as quite the sex symbol himself. Humperdinck and Jones have performed literally hundreds of shows in Las Vegas, but the Virginia born Carson Wayne Newton tops them both. With over 25.000 Vegas performances, Wayne Newton is known as Mr. Las Vegas. Donald Ho Tai Kay from Hawaii has also played Vegas, but prefers belting out such tunes as "Tiny Bubbles" at the Waikiki Beachcomber Hotel. Who needs the competition, right?

Answer: 50 Cent

The album that contained "Candy Shop" is "The Massacre," released March 3, 2005. "Get Rich or Die Tryin" was released November 8 of the same year. MCA, a founding member of the Beastie Boys, was born Adam Nathaniel Yauch. As a founding member N.W.A. Antoine Carraby is better known as Yella. Andre Romel Young, better known as Dr. Dre, has become perhaps the most influential producer of hip hop music in America.

Answer: Ringo Starr

After the Beatles broke up, Ringo recorded a few songs on his own, and had a degree of success playing in such comedies as "Caveman." He also played the narrator on "Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends." While Keith Richards has released some solo work, such as "Run Rudolf Run" a 1979 Christmas song, he has remained with the Rolling Stones since the band's inception in 1962. Kiss's Space Ace, Paul Daniel Frehley, left the band in 1982, but the band never officially broke up. Ace even rejoined the band at one point, but during his absence he did produce music both solo and with a new band, Frehley's Comet.

He has also tried his hand at acting with "Remedy" (2005). Drummer Chad Channing, left Nirvana in 1990 due to creative differences; he has since played with such bands as Fireants, The Methodist, East of the Equater, and Redband.

Answer: Johnny Paycheck

In the sixties he took the name Johnny Paycheck but changed the spelling to "PayCheck" in the 90s. Billy Craddock, who earned the name "Crash" as a running back in high school, recorded the 1975 hit "Ruby Baby." Edward Thomas under the name Eddie Rabbit had a hit with "I Love a Rainy Night" in 1980.

He had 26 Number One country hits. Freddie Hart, whose real name was Fred Segres, had his first hit "Easy Loving" after almost twenty years in the business. Persistence does pay off.

Answer: Ice Cube

Ice Cube started out as a member of N.W.A. but has since had considerable success as both a solo artist and actor. Mike D (nee Michael Diamond) was one of the original members of the Beastie Boys. Eric (Eazy-E) Wright, one of the first artist in the genre of Gangsta Rap, died of AIDS in 1995. William Jonathan (Flavor Flav) Drayton, Jr. was with Public Enemy

Answer: The Big Bopper

Jape, as his friends called him, began as a DJ and drew his gimmicky stage name from a dance called "the Bop." While Jerry Lee Lewis did have a modicum of success in 1958, his big hits "Great Balls of Fire" and "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" were released the year before. William John Clifton "Bill" Haley & His Comets are considered by many to be largely responsible for the popularity and success of rock and roll.

It was their 1954 version of "Rock Around the Clock" that set the great rock and roll machine into motion. "The Great Pretender" was a 1959 number one rock and roll hit sung by The Platters.