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Bubblegum pop | The name of what genre has its origin in what producers Jerry Kasenetz and Jeff Katz had in their mouths when they discussed music targeting the younger crowd? |
Hitler salute | In 1934, a regulation promulgated in a certain country required that when the Horst-Wessel-Lied was sung, what gesture must be performed? |
Disney Cruise | "Ships of what cruise line use the tune of ""When You Wish upon a Star"" from Pinnochio as the melody of their horns?" |
Madonna | Whose March 31, 1994 appearance on Late Show with David Letterman resulted in the episode becoming the most censored in American network television talk-show history for obvious reasons? |
Ashanti | Who is the American entertainer who shares her name with a West African Empire known for its symbol of Golden Stool? |
Brahms' | "Whose Symphony No. 1 was called ""Beethoven's Tenth"" by conductor Hans von Bülow?" |
Bengali | India's national anthem is written in what language that is also the national language of one of its neighbors? |
...Nothing Like the Sun | "What album of Sting takes its title from a sonnet he quoted in response to a drunk's query, ""How beautiful is the moon?""?" |
Indonesia | The musical ensemble arrangement called 'gamelan' which often accompanies wayang puppet performances (among others) is a tradition of what Asian country? |
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony | An aversion therapy called the 'Ludovico technique' from the 1971 classic A Clockwork Orange features which composer's music? Kudos if you can name the piece too. |
Mahatma Gandhi | Composer Philip Glass's 'Portrait Trilogy' of operas consists of Einstein on the Beach, Akhnaten and Satyagraha with the last one focusing on whom? |
Devil's Trill sonata | What is the better known name of Violin Sonata in G minor by Giuseppe Tartini that the composer said was played to him in a dream by Satan himself? |
Dominican Republic | In which country did the dictator Rafael Trujillo promote the merengue style of music/dance into the country's national music? |
"""Sweet Home Alabama""" | As its lyrics attest, what 1974 rock classic that celebrates a place was written in response to two songs of Neil Young that were derogatory of the American South? |
"""The End""" | What song by The Doors that has a strong reference to the Oedipus complex got them fired from the Whisky a Go Go nightclub in West Hollywood? |
Calliope | What musical instrument that takes its name from a muse was used in riverboats and in circuses because of its loudness? |
Nirvana's Kurt Cobain | "The phrase ""it's better to burn out than to fade away"" from Neil Young's classic song ""Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)"" became better known after being quoted in whose 1994 suicide note?" |
The anthem Jerusalem | The short poem And did those feet in ancient time by William Blake that features the phrase 'dark satanic mills' is best known in what musical context? |
Jukebox musical | What is the term given to a musical that uses previously released popular songs as its musical score, examples of which are Mamma Mia! and Jersey Boys? |
"""Rhiannon""" | Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac avoided black clothing to distance herself from the dark arts associations surrounding her as a result of which of the band's hit song? |
Ode to Joy | Due to the large number of languages used in the European Union, its anthem is purely instrumental. Despite this, the German lyrics from what work of Friedrich Schiller, connected to Beethoven, are often sung when the anthem is played? |
"""Fingal's Cave"" overture" | Which overture written by Felix Mendelssohn was inspired by the echoes of a Scottish sea cave that he visited in 1829 and was named for it? |
Boston | If the Julliard School is to New York, the Berklee College of Music is to which city? |
Maria Callas | The Italian soprano Renata Tebaldi who is acclaimed as one of the most beloved opera singers of all time was known for her rivalry with which other legendary soprano? |
Cymbals | Clang! The Avedis Zildjian Company is best known for producing and popularizing what musical instruments? |
"""Lady Marmalade""" | Which 1974 song made famous by the girl group 'Labelle' is most famous for its sexually suggestive chorus of 'voulez-vous coucher avec moi (ce soir)?' that translates as 'Do you want to sleep with me (tonight)?'? |
Kraftwerk | 'Kling Klang' is the private music studio of which highly influential electronic music band from Germany? |
Jane's Addiction | The annual music festival 'Lollapalooza' was conceived and created in 1991 by singer Perry Farrell of which band as a farewell tour for his band? |
Lady Gaga | "The Queen song ""Radio Ga Ga"" is said to be the main inspiration behind the name of what current day hit singer?" |
The Lady of the Lake | """Hail to the Chief"", the march primarily associated with the President of the US has verses derived from which narrative poem of Walter Scott?" |
"""St. Louis Blues""" | Which American song that remains a fundamental part of a jazz musicians' repertoire has been called 'the jazzman's Hamlet' and has also been used as an NHL team name? |
Joseph Haydn | Which enormously influential classical composer spent much of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Hungarian aristocratic Esterházy family? |
Traveling Wilburys | Which 1980 supergroup consisting of George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and Bob Dylan decided to use a word with a single 'L' instead of a double 'L' in their name because the band started in America and consisted of three Americans and only two Britons? |
Bayreuth | Which city in Germany is famed for hosting the annual Wagner festival? |
"""For He's a Jolly Good Fellow""" | "According to the Guinness Book of World Records, which song usually sung to congratulate a person is the second-most popular song following ""Happy Birthday to You"" in the English language?" |
Scat singing | In vocal jazz, what is the style in which vocal improvisation is made with random syllables or even without words? |
Payola | In the American music industry, what is the term given to the illegal practice of payment by record companies for the broadcast of recordings on music radio, in which the song is presented as being part of the normal day's broadcast? |
"""Iko Iko""" | "Which much-covered New Orleans song tells of a parade collision between two 'tribes' of Mardi Gras Indians was written under the original title ""Jock-A-Mo"" in 1954?" |
Theremin | Which musical instrument named after its Russian inventor is unique in that it is designed to be played without being touched? |
"""Gloomy Sunday""" | Which song written by the Hungarian pianist and composer Rezső Seress in 1933 was marketed as 'Hungarian suicide song' as it was mistakenly believed to have inspired hundreds of suicides? |
Pizzicato | What is the musical term for a playing technique that involves plucking the strings of an instrument? |
"""Whiskey in the Jar""" | Which famous Irish traditional song about a highwayman (usually in the Cork and Kerry mountains) was given a rock veneer by the rock band Thin Lizzy? |
Ace of Base | Which Swedish pop group went through the names 'Kalinin Prospect', CAD (Computer-Aided Disco) and Tech-Noir before settling on their present name as nobody could remember their previous names? |
Alan Parsons | Which British musician who worked on engineering projects as Paul McCartney's 'Wild Life' and Pink Floyd's' The Dark Side of the Moon' also started an eponymous progressive rock band that was active between 1975 and 1987? |
"""Rock the Casbah""" | Which 1982 song by the London punk rock group 'The Clash' is about Iran's outlawing of rock music, and also become the unofficial anthem for the Armed Forces during the Gulf War conflicts? |
"""Don't Worry, Be Happy""" | Can you connect the singer Bobby McFerrin with the mystic Meher Baba? |
"""Water Music""" | Which collection of orchestral movements were composed by George Frideric Handel in 1717 at the request of King George I? These are also his best known work. |
"""Cop Killer""" | Which controversial 1992 song by the punk band Body Count was co-written by the group's vocalist Ice-T and provoked a national debate about freedom of speech in the US? |
The Wind in the Willows | The first album by the rock group Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967) was named after a chapter in which children's classic? |
"""Ride of the Valkyries""" | Which iconic opera stereotype plays in the background as helicopters swoop in to annihilate a village in one of the opening scenes of the movie Apocalypse Now? |
Allman Brothers Band | The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time was a special issue of Rolling Stone published in 2003 which had Jimi Hendrix at no.1. Which American Southern Rock band was the most represented with 4 of its guitarists making the list? |
"""The Downeaster Alexa""" | What song was written and performed by Billy Joel to underscore the plight of fishermen on Long Island? |
Sex Pistols | "Which punk band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006 but refused to attend the induction calling the museum a ""piss stain""? Maybe they did not find any 'filthy lucre' there!" |
Velvet Underground | A famous remark often attributed to Brian Eno is that while only a few thousand people bought a record of this band, almost every single one of the purchasers was inspired to start their own band. Which influential rock band was Eno referring to? |
Ebola | "In a Oct, 2014 interview to The Guardian, Prof. Peter Piot said the following. What's the missing word? ""In 1976 I discovered ... - now I fear an unimaginable tragedy.""" |
Edwin Hubble | "In a letter written in 1924, who wrote ""You will be interested to hear that I have found a Cepheid variable in the Andromeda Nebula"" and transformed our view of the universe forever?" |
Cured of HIV | In the fall of 2013, The New England Journal of Medicine reported on a certain 'Mississippi Baby' whose case was thought of as a landmark event in medical history. The conclusions made about her were reversed in July 2014. She was in the news for what reason? |
Nuclear fission | Oklo in Gabon, Africa is the only known place in the world where what reaction occurs naturally? |
Flat earth | The Flammarion engraving that can be frequently seen on book covers sought to illustrate what belief system? |
Aurochs | The modern-day cattle breed of 'Heck' came about when it was attempted to bring back what extinct species? |
Artificial Intelligence (AI) | If the Solvay Conferences of the early 1910s set the tone for 20th century physics, the Dartmouth Conferences of 1956 have similar importance for what field of science? |
Coltan | What is the name of the six-letter ore from which niobium and tantalum are extracted and whose mining is said to have fueled many modern day African conflicts? |
Galileo | The 1610 book Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger) that contained several sketches of the moon was published by whom? |
Solar System | The Nice model, named for the French city, seeks to explain the formation of what? |
Meteorites | Usually named for the places where they are found, what are traditionally classified into three types as stony, iron and stony-iron? |
Erwin Schrödinger | Which scientific great's equation is seen in the field of quantum mechanics as the equivalent of Newton's Second Law? |
Fruit fly | Thomas Hunt Morgan won a Nobel Prize for his studies of inheritance and pioneered the use of which tiny organism? |
Big Crunch | The Oscillating Universe Theory combines Big Bang and what other event to make-up a cycle? |
Enigma machines | German engineer Arthur Scherbius invented the first of what machines extensively used during WWII? |
Cholera | English physician John Snow successfully traced the outbreak of what disease to a water pump? |
Stanford prison experiment | Philip Zimbardo of Stanford is best known for what experiment conducted in 1971 that highlighted the behavior of people when assigned roles? |
Parkinson's disease | As seen in a scene inspiring Robin Williams in the movie Awakenings, the chemical L-DOPA is widely used in the treatment of what disease? |
Sickle | James Herrick is credited with the description of a genetic disease in which red-blood cells are in what shape instead of the normal disc shape? |
Prime numbers | The sieve of Eratosthenes is an ancient method used to find what in mathematics? |
Europa | What 'continental' moon of the Solar System has become the focus of extra-terrestrial life studies because its smooth surface suggests the presence of an ocean underneath? |
Neptune | If Jupiter has the Great Red Spot, which planet has the Great Dark Spot? |
Doppler effect | Redshift or blueshift that help us see which stars/galaxies are approaching or receding are determined by what effect named for an Austrian physicist? |
Four-color map theorem | What mathematical theorem, the first major theorem to be solved using a computer, was proven in 1976 by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken with a set of 1936 maps? |
Ivory | Schreger lines are the unique identifiers of what valuable substance whose usage has led to the dwindling numbers of something large? |
Venus flytrap | Which distinctive plant's genus is Dionaea (the mother of Aphrodite in Greek mythology) and species muscipula (Latin for 'mouse-catching device')? |
Monty Hall problem | What probability riddle originally published in American Statistician in 1975 gained popular attention after it was featured in Parade in 1990? |
Matter and antimatter | The baryon asymmetry problem in physics deals with the anomaly of why the universe has any matter at all and why it is not filled with photons only. This is because the Big Bang should have produced equal amounts of what? |
Dugong | Because all species of the manatee use fresh water in varying ways, what is the only strictly marine herbivorous mammal? |
HeLa cell line | What cell line used in research that was taken from an African-American woman who died in 1951 is the oldest and most commonly used human cell line? |
(Pinta Island) tortoise | What type of creature was Lonesome George, who died in 2012 and who gained fame as the rarest creature in the world? (hint: he was aged perhaps more than 100 years) |
Space shuttles | A 15 meter long mechanical arm called the Canadarm was used to maneuver payloads through the 1980s to 2011 on what type of vehicles? |
Kidney stone | Renal calculus is not a branch of mathematics but a fancy name for what painful affliction? |
Charge of an electron | The famed oil drop experiment performed by Millikan and Fletcher in 1909 helped determine what fundamental physical constant? |
Jane Goodall | Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania with its high levels of diversity that includes chimpanzee populations is best associated with which person? |
Transits of Venus | Similar to an eclipse, they are among the rarest predictable celestial phenomena. The last one for the 21st century occurred on 5/6 June 2012. They are historically of great scientific importance as they were used to gain the first realistic estimates of the size of the Solar System. Observation for the first time in 1639 provided an accurate estimate of the distance between the Sun and the Earth. Answer? |
Medusa | The most recognized form of a jellyfish and a basic stage in its life cycle takes the name of what fearsome monster in mythology? (hint: stone!) |
Thalidomide | A 2000s British musical by Mat Fraser whose plot is about the love affair of a guy with phocomelia (a birth defect that causes stunted limbs) is titled after what drug? |
Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto | The spacecraft New Horizons which is expected to be the first spacecraft to flyby Pluto (in 2015) contains on board whose ashes as a tribute? |
Two prime numbers | The Goldbach's conjecture, one of the oldest unsolved problems in mathematics, states that every even integer greater than 2 can be expressed as a sum of what? |
Galaxies | What systems are classified based on their visual appearance by the Hubble sequence? |
"""Star""" | "The 1957 B2FH paper, named after the initials of the scientists that wrote it, is the source of Carl Sagan's famous quote ""We are all ___ stuff."" What is the missing word?" |
Organ transplants | The development of the immuno-suppressant drug ciclosporin in the 1980s gave a fillip to what type of surgeries? |
Comets | What was the subject of astronomer Fred Whipple's 'Dirty Snowball' hypothesis? |
Wormhole | In physics, what is the more common term for the Einstein-Rosen bridge that has fascinating implications for time travel? |
'Little Green Men 1' | When Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish discovered pulsars in 1967, they were baffled by the unnatural regularity of the radio transmissions. Jocularly suggesting that it was the work of extraterrestrials, they initially named their discovery as LGM-1 which expands to what? |
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