Fun Music Quiz Number 60 – May 31 2021

1.Which US Actor appeared in the Musical Films: Hairspray, High School Musical & The Greatest Showman? 
2. Before her successful solo career, singer Enya was a member of which Celtic Folk Band? 
3. Follies, Sweeney Todd & Merrily We Roll Along, are all Stage Musicals with music & Lyrics written by which Composer? 
4. ‘Eye Level’ recorded by The Simon Park Orchestra in 1972 was the theme tune to which TV Detective Series starring Barry Foster? 
5. TRADE IN MAN is an anagram of the name of which US Crooner? 
6. ‘And when the broken-hearted people living in the world agree’ is a lyric from which song by The Beatles? 
7. Which Film & Stage Musical set in pre-revolutionary Russia, tells the story of Tevye a Jewish peasant trying to marry off his three daughters? 
8. The symphonic tone poem ‘Finlandia’ was written in 1899 by which Composer? 
9. US Musician Larry Adler is most associated with which musical instrument? 
10. Which American Composer born in 1868 was known as the ‘King of Ragtime’. His most notable compositions being ‘The Maple Leaf Rag’ & ‘The Entertainer’? 

ANSWERS BELOW, JULIE CLARKE


1.Which US Actor appeared in the Musical Films: Hairspray, High School Musical & The Greatest Showman?ZAC EFRON
2. Before her successful solo career, singer Enya was a member of which Celtic Folk Band?CLANNAD
3. Follies, Sweeney Todd & Merrily We Roll Along, are all Stage Musicals with music & Lyrics written by which Composer?STEPHEN SONDHEIM
4. ‘Eye Level’ recorded by The Simon Park Orchestra in 1972 was the theme tune to which TV Detective Series starring Barry Foster?VAN DER VALK
5. TRADE IN MAN is an anagram of the name of which US Crooner?DEAN MARTIN
6. ‘And when the broken-hearted people living in the world agree’ is a lyric from which song by The Beatles?LET IT BE
7. Which Film & Stage Musical set in pre-revolutionary Russia, tells the story of Tevye a Jewish peasant trying to marry off his three daughters?FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
8. The symphonic tone poem ‘Finlandia’ was written in 1899 by which Composer?JEAN SIBELIUS
9. US Musician Larry Adler is most associated with which musical instrument?HARMONICA
10. Which American Composer born in 1868 was known as the ‘King of Ragtime’. His most notable compositions being ‘The Maple Leaf Rag’ & ‘The Entertainer’?SCOTT JOPLIN
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