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Quiz about The Kings And Queens Of Music Part 2
Quiz about The Kings And Queens Of Music Part 2

The "Kings" And "Queens" Of Music, Part 2 Quiz

Here's ten more honorific titles bestowed upon famous musicians by their adoring fans and peers (and sometimes themselves) for you to guess.

A multiple-choice quiz by UKMikeyA. Estimated time: 3 mins.
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Author
UKMikeyA
Time
3 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
380,913
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Easy
Avg Score
8 / 10
Plays
417
Last 3 plays: Guest 136 (10/10), Guest 82 (7/10), Guest 51 (8/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. Hailing from Butcher Holler, Kentucky, this "Coal Miner's Daughter" is one of several ladies to lay claim to the title "Queen Of Country Music". Known for songs such as "One's On The Way", "You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)" and "Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)", what is her name? Hint


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Question 2 of 10
2. Opera: His recording of Puccini's "Nessun Dorma" was immortalised as an official theme of Italy's 1990 Football World Cup competition, but which of these tenors' dramatic and extensive vocal range caused him to be lauded as "King Of The High C's"? Hint


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Question 3 of 10
3. With an unequalled twenty three gold records to her name, she is the undisputed "Queen of Salsa". Hint


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Question 4 of 10
4. Prior to the plane crash which, tragically, took her life at 22 years of age, this "Princess of R&B" and movie star of "Romeo Must Die" and "Queen Of The Damned" was credited with redefining urban pop music. Hint


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Question 5 of 10
5. Widely acknowledged as the "King of Reggae", this legendary music icon's group The Wailers are the only Jamaican group to achieve worldwide superstar status. His name? Hint


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Question 6 of 10
6. The most famous of the three "Kings of the Blues Guitar", this artist and his guitar "Lucille" reached a new generation of fans when he collaborated with U2 on the single "When Love Comes To Town". Hint


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Question 7 of 10
7. His record-breaking sixty-fifth performance at the legendary venue in 2015 cemented the reputation of this "Piano Man" as the "King of Madison Square Garden".

Famous for "Uptown Girl" and "Just The Way You Are", this singer-songwriter is a native of the Bronx, NYC. Hint


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Question 8 of 10
8. He is celebrated for such rousing tunes as "The Stars And Stripes Forever" and "Liberty Bell" but it was his 1889 composition "The Washington Post March" that led to one journalist calling him "The March King." Name this composer. Hint


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Question 9 of 10
9. Having written over a hundred original pieces of which "Maple Leaf Rag" and "The Entertainer" are probably the best known, this composer (1868-1917) was known at the height of his career as the "King of Ragtime". Hint


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Question 10 of 10
10. This seminal hip-hop duo performed the number "King Of Rock" at the 1985 Live Aid concert but are best known for their cover version of Aerosmith's "Walk This Way" the following year. Together, Joseph Simmons and Daryl McDaniels are more commonly known as...? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Hailing from Butcher Holler, Kentucky, this "Coal Miner's Daughter" is one of several ladies to lay claim to the title "Queen Of Country Music". Known for songs such as "One's On The Way", "You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)" and "Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)", what is her name?

Answer: Loretta Lynn

 Tammy Wynette and Dolly Parton collaborated with Loretta Lynn on the 1993 album "Honky Tonk Angels". She is the female country recording artist who has received the most music awards including ACM Artist of the Decade for the 1970s. Ms. Lynn has sold over 45 million albums around the world and has released 11 number one albums and 24 number one hit singles.
2. Opera: His recording of Puccini's "Nessun Dorma" was immortalised as an official theme of Italy's 1990 Football World Cup competition, but which of these tenors' dramatic and extensive vocal range caused him to be lauded as "King Of The High C's"?

Answer: Luciano Pavarotti

 A native of Modena, Italy, Luciano Pavarotti performed alongside Spanish singers José Carreras and Plácido Domingo for a long and fruitful career as "The Three Tenors".

The legendary American tenor Mario Lanza sadly passed away in 1959, two years before Pavarotti first performed.
3. With an unequalled twenty three gold records to her name, she is the undisputed "Queen of Salsa".

Answer: Celia Cruz

 Awarded the National Medal of Arts by Bill Clinton in 1994, Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso was the most popular Latin music artist of the 20th century. I urge the listener to seek out her transcendent version of "Bamboléo" which opens the 1988 album of the same name by New York's Fania All-Stars.
4. Prior to the plane crash which, tragically, took her life at 22 years of age, this "Princess of R&B" and movie star of "Romeo Must Die" and "Queen Of The Damned" was credited with redefining urban pop music.

Answer: Aaliyah

 Aaliyah Dana Haughton's three albums, "Age Ain't Nothin' But A Number", "One In A Million" and "Aaliyah" collectively sold eight million units in the United States alone.
5. Widely acknowledged as the "King of Reggae", this legendary music icon's group The Wailers are the only Jamaican group to achieve worldwide superstar status. His name?

Answer: Bob Marley

 Despite his death from cancer in 1981 Bob Marley's music hasn't waned in popularity with over 75 million albums sold in the past two decades alone.
6. The most famous of the three "Kings of the Blues Guitar", this artist and his guitar "Lucille" reached a new generation of fans when he collaborated with U2 on the single "When Love Comes To Town".

Answer: B.B. King

 B.B. King, Freddie King and Albert King are known as the "Three Kings of the Blues Guitar". B.B. continued to tour into his seventies appearing at around 200 shows per year.
7. His record-breaking sixty-fifth performance at the legendary venue in 2015 cemented the reputation of this "Piano Man" as the "King of Madison Square Garden". Famous for "Uptown Girl" and "Just The Way You Are", this singer-songwriter is a native of the Bronx, NYC.

Answer: Billy Joel

 When speaking to Sean Lennon and another young friend of his in the studio one day, Billy Joel was told that he had no idea what it was like to be a young adult during a time of great upheaval in world events.

His musical attempt to set the record straight forms the basis of his hit "We Didn't Start The Fire".
8. He is celebrated for such rousing tunes as "The Stars And Stripes Forever" and "Liberty Bell" but it was his 1889 composition "The Washington Post March" that led to one journalist calling him "The March King." Name this composer.

Answer: John Philip Sousa

 Sousa composed over 130 marches, of which "Stars And Stripes Forever" was declared the national march of the United States by a 1987 act of Congress.

His remains are enshrined in the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
9. Having written over a hundred original pieces of which "Maple Leaf Rag" and "The Entertainer" are probably the best known, this composer (1868-1917) was known at the height of his career as the "King of Ragtime".

Answer: Scott Joplin

 Joplin is credited with the invention of "classic rag", which refined and elevated the ragtime genre above its honky-tonk and "cheap bordello" origins resulting in work that the opera historian Elise Kirk described as "more tuneful, contrapuntal, infectious, and harmonically colorful than any others of his era."
10. This seminal hip-hop duo performed the number "King Of Rock" at the 1985 Live Aid concert but are best known for their cover version of Aerosmith's "Walk This Way" the following year. Together, Joseph Simmons and Daryl McDaniels are more commonly known as...?

Answer: Run-DMC

 Alongside DJ Jason "Jam Master Jay" Mizell, Run and DMC achieved the first multi-platinum hip hop record with 1986's "Raising Hell". Hits including "Christmas In Hollis", "Tricky" and the sportswear endorsed "My Adidas" helped ensure their entry into Cleveland, Ohio's Rock 'N' Roll Hall Of Fame - the second hip hop artists to do so behind Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
Source: Author UKMikeyA

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