Ice on the Billboard Charts Trivia Quiz

Answer: Foreigner

"Foreigner" was Foreigner's debut album and contained "Long Long Way From Home", "Feels Like the First Time" and "Cold as Ice". The band formed when various members of other groups united to forge a musical alliance. The name was derived from the fact that the band was comprised of American and British members. Their debut album sold over 4,000,000 copies and their follow-up album, "Double Vision", outsold "Foreigner" the following year.

"Head Games" was a 1979 album. The 1984 "Agent Provocateur" album contained the band's only US Number One hit, "I Want to Know What Love Is".

Answer: Melissa Manchester

Melissa Manchester became one of Bette Midler's Harlettes in 1971. Her first album, "Home to Myself", was released in 1973. In 1976, she broke the US Top Ten with "Midnight Blue" from her 1975 album, "Melissa". In 1979, her single "Theme from Ice Castles (Through The Eyes Of Love)" only reached Number 76 despite significant airplay. She enjoyed Top Ten success again in 1982 and garnered a Grammy for the Number Five hit "You Should Hear How She Talks About You". In 1991 she reunited with Bette Midler in the film "For the Boys".

Among Maureen McGovern's 1979 singles were "Different Worlds" and "Pretty Girls". "Good Friend" was a Top Forty release by Mary MacGregor. "So Good, So Right" was by Brenda Russell.

Answer: False

"In the Heat of the Night" featured Pat's first Top Forty US hit with the Number 23 "Heartbreaker". Two years later her "Precious Time" LP contained the hit single "Fire and Ice". "Fire and Ice" made it to Number 17 and earned Benatar her second of four Grammy Awards in 1981. "Promises in the Dark" and "Take It Any Way You Want It" were also single releases from "Precious Time".

Although Pat is billed as a solo artist, she has maintained a fairly steady core of backing musicians both in the studio and on tour. Lead guitarist Neil "Spyder" Giraldo was Pat's second husband. Long time keyboard player Charlie Giordano joined The E Street band in 2007.

Answer: Michael Franks

Michael Franks released his second album "The Art of Tea" in 1976. It included a song called "Popsicle Toes".

A song titled "Ice Cream Man" was originally written and recorded by Blues artist John Brim. When Van Halen recorded a version on their 1978 debut album "Van Halen", Brim used the royalty proceeds to open "John Brim's House of the Blues Broadway Nite Club" in Chicago.

"Ice Cream Man" is also the title of a song recorded by Tom Waits on his first album, "Closing Time". David Lee Roth re-recorded "Ice Cream Man" on the 2003 "Diamond Dave" album. "Ice Cream Man" was also a song recorded by Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers in 1970.

Answer: Timbaland

Grammy Nominee Omarion was born Omari Ismael Grandberry in California. He became part of a band called B2K and pursued a solo career after the band split with an album titled "O". When he turned 21, he recorded the 2006 album "21" and released "Entourage" as the lead single. The second single, "Ice Box", was produced by Timbaland and reached Number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100. Timbaland also lent his vocals to the song.

Bow Wow and Omarion collaborated on the 2007 "Face Off" project.

Omarion's "Hey Baby" featured samples from LL Cool J's "Going Back To Cali" and the Dream wrote Omarion's "Girlfriend".

Answer: Under Pressure

"Ice Ice Baby" was originally the flip side of a cover version of "Play That Funky Music White Boy". "Ice Ice Baby" started getting airplay and eventually became the first successful mainstream Hip Hop genre record. Although initially denying that he sampled the bass riff from the Queen and David Bowie hit, "Under Pressure", Vanilla Ice later recanted and gave appropriate credit to Queen and David Bowie.

"Walk This Way" was from Aerosmith's 1975 "Toys in the Attic" album and was later covered by Run DMC in 1986. "Between the Sheets" was covered in 1994 by The Notorious B.I.G. in "Big Poppa". Parts of Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman" were allegedly sampled on a parody song by the same name on 2 Live Crew's 1989 "As Clean as They Wanna Be" album. The Supreme Court agreed.

Answer: AC/DC

AC/DC released "Black Ice" in October 2007. They had not released an album since the 2000 release "Stiff Upper Lip". "Black Ice" may have been released earlier, however, bass player Cliff Williams had sustained an injury and the band switched labels since their previous release. The anticipated album sold over a million copies within a week and was nominated for a Grammy award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group 2009. All the album cuts were written by the Young brothers and include "Rock 'N Roll Train", "Big Jack" and "Anything Goes".

"Sonic Boom" was a 2009 KISS album release. In 2004 ZZ Top recorded their "Rancho Texicano" album. Rush released their first eponymous album in 1974 and released "Snakes and Arrows" in 2007.

Answer: Britney Spears

"Break the Ice" was the final single released from Britney Spears' "Blackout" album and made it to Number One on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play charts. "Gimme More" and "Piece of Me" were other singles from the album. "Blackout" was Spears' fifth studio album and the first since her 2003 "In the Zone" album. "Break the Ice" also featured an animated video released in 2008. It was Britney's first animated video.

Madonna released her "Hard Candy" album in 2008. Christina Aguilera released "Light and Darkness" in 2009 and Simpson released "Do You Know" in 2008.

Answer: Yngwie Malmsteen

"Fire and Ice" was the third Yngwie Malmsteen's release of the nineties. "Eclipse" was released in 1990, followed by the 1991 "The Yngwie Malmsteen Collection" and "Fire and Ice" the next year. His first solo release was the 1984 "Rising Force" album. Despite a 1987 accident that left him in a brief coma, Yngwie released the "Odyssey" album in 1988.

Some of the vocalists in Malmsteen's Rising Force band have included former Rainbow singer Joe Lynn Turner, Jeff Scott Soto and Mark Boals.

Jeff Beck earned a Grammy Award for his 2003 album "Jeff". In addition to playing on several releases by other artists, Eric Johnson released his tenth album "Live from Austin, TX" in 2003. Johnny Winter has been releasing albums for over 40 years including the 2004 release "I'm A Bluesman".

Answer: O'Shea Jackson

Los Angeles native O'Shea Jackson took the name Ice Cube and began his musical career with N.W.A., becoming one of the pioneers of Gangsta Rap. He composed rhymes for Easy-E and Dr. Dre for their "Straight Outta Compton" album. He went solo in the early nineties and released "AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted", followed by "Death Certificate". Later in the nineties Cube formed Westside Connection and released an album called "Bow Down", while increasingly devoting time to film work after his appearance in "Boyz N the Hood" (1991).

Shad Gregory Moss is the birth name of rapper Bow Wow. LL Cool J is the stage name of James Todd Smith, and the Dream was named Terius Hagert Youngdell Nash at birth.