Fun Music Quiz Number 50 – Mar 22 2021

1.WHY SHOUT IN TONE is an anagram of the name of which US singer?
2. Which Composer wrote the Opera: ‘The Pearl Fishers’ which premiered in 1863?
3. Which musical term describes a slightly tremulous effect used to add expression to vocal performance using variations in the larynx?
4. Which recent TV Music Quiz is hosted by Rochelle & Marvin Humes?
5. In the Film & Stage Musical: The Sound of Music, what are the names of the two sons of Captain von Trapp?
6. Which US Jazz Saxophonist was portrayed by Forest Whitaker in the 1988 film biopic: ‘Bird’?
7. Baubles Bangles & Beads, Stranger in Paradise & And this is my Beloved, are all songs from which Film & Stage Musical?
8. DJ, Rapper & Music Producer Norman Cook, born in Bromley in 1963, is better known by what name?
9. Which British Theatre Producer & Impresario, born in 1946, is noted for his association with many recent commercially successful musicals in London’s West End, such as Les Misérables?
10. Which Composer appeared on the reverse of the £20 English banknote between 1999 & 2010?

ANSWERS BELOW JULIE CLARKE


1.WHY SHOUT IN TONE is an anagram of the name of which US singer? WHITNEY HOUSTON
2. Which Composer wrote the Opera: ‘The Pearl Fishers’ which premiered in 1863? GEORGES BIZET
3. Which musical term describes a slightly tremulous effect used to add expression to vocal performance using variations in the larynx? VIBRATO
4. Which recent TV Music Quiz is hosted by Rochelle & Marvin Humes? THE HIT LIST
5. In the Film & Stage Musical: The Sound of Music, what are the names of the two sons of Captain von Trapp? KURT & FRIEDRICH
6. Which US Jazz Saxophonist was portrayed by Forest Whitaker in the 1988 film biopic: ‘Bird’? CHARLIE PARKER
7. Baubles Bangles & Beads, Stranger in Paradise & And this is my Beloved, are all songs from which Film & Stage Musical? KISMET
8. DJ, Rapper & Music Producer Norman Cook, born in Bromley in 1963, is better known by what name? FATBOY SLIM
9. Which British Theatre Producer & Impresario, born in 1946, is noted for his association with many recent commercially successful musicals in London’s West End, such as Les Misérables? CAMERON MACKINTOSH
10. Which Composer appeared on the reverse of the £20 English banknote between 1999 & 2010? EDWARD ELGAR
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