Fun Music Quiz Number 45 – Feb 15 2021

1.BLAND BOY is an anagram of the name of which Singer/Songwriter?
2. ‘Hushabye Mountain’ is a song from which Film & Stage Musical?
3. Leslie Sebastian Charles MBE, born in Trinidad in 1950 and still touring, is better known by which stage name?
4. Which chemical element comes before ‘Lady’, ‘Machine’ and ‘Star’, in songs by David Soul, Hawkwind & The Four Seasons?
5. Which Film Musical of 1954 tells the story of two American tourists who accidentally stumble across a mysterious Scottish Village which appears only once every 100 years?
6. Which Welsh Tenor features in the ‘Go Compare’ TV advertisements?
7. Which musical direction means ‘to play at a rapid tempo’?
8. Which Composer wrote the Operetta: ‘The Merry Widow’ which premiered in Vienna in 1905?
9. Which Composer wrote & recorded the instrumental theme tune for the soundtrack to the 1981 Film: ‘Chariots of Fire’?
10. Prior to her career as a TV Personality/Dancer & Judge, Alesha Dixon, was once a member of which Pop Group?

ANSWERS BELOW– JULIE CLARKE


1.BLAND BOY is an anagram of the name of which Singer/Songwriter? BOB DYLAN
2. ‘Hushabye Mountain’ is a song from which Film & Stage Musical? CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG
3. Leslie Sebastian Charles MBE, born in Trinidad in 1950 and still touring, is better known by which stage name? BILLY OCEAN
4. Which chemical element comes before ‘Lady’, ‘Machine’ and ‘Star’, in songs by David Soul, Hawkwind & The Four Seasons? SILVER
5. Which Film Musical of 1954 tells the story of two American tourists who accidentally stumble across a mysterious Scottish Village which appears only once every 100 years? BRIGADOON
6. Which Welsh Tenor features in the ‘Go Compare’ TV advertisements? WYN EVANS
7. Which musical direction means ‘to play at a rapid tempo’? PRESTO
8. Which Composer wrote the Operetta: ‘The Merry Widow’ which premiered in Vienna in 1905? FRANS LEHAR
9. Which Composer wrote & recorded the instrumental theme tune for the soundtrack to the 1981 Film: ‘Chariots of Fire’? VANGELIS
10. Prior to her career as a TV Personality/Dancer & Judge, Alesha Dixon, was once a member of which Pop Group? MYSTIQUE
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