Music Study Guide

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Must-Know (13)

Madonna 14x 7.7% stumper $531 avg J:6 DJ:7 FJ:1

J $100 1998 In April of 1990 she began her worldwide "Blond Ambition" tour to promote her CD "I'm Breathless"

DJ $800 2023 Hip-hip hooray for this superstar who got into the groove as a cheerleader at her Michigan high school

DJ $1,200 2002 A song by Joe Henry, heard here, became a hit recording by this sister-in-law of his"Don't tell me to stop /Tell the rain not to drop /Tell the wind not to blow..."

the piano 13x 23.1% stumper $515 avg J:4 DJ:9

J $200 1984 It sounds different from a harpsichord because its strings are hit, not plucked

DJ $800 1998 The giraffe, an upright type of this keyboard instrument, was shaped somewhat like a giraffe's neck

DJ $1,000 1994 Czerny taught Leschetizky, who taught Paderewski this instrument

Richard Wagner 12x 8.3% stumper $717 avg DJ:12

DJ $400 2000 This German composer's "Flying Dutchman" took off after he expanded it from 1 act to 3

DJ $800 1997 "The Fairies", the 1st completed opera by this "Parsifal" composer, was never performed in his lifetime

DJ $1,000 1995 "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg" was this composer's only comic opera

U2 11x 9.1% stumper $764 avg J:6 DJ:5

J $100 1998 On their 1997 Popmart tour this Irish band covered the Monkees' "Daydream Believer"

J $500 1996 Paul Hewson, better known as Bono, is this group's lead singer

DJ $1,200 2012 "All That You Can't Leave Behind" (2000)

Elton John 11x $491 avg J:7 DJ:4

J $100 1997 Although his 1974 hit "Bennie And The Jets" hit No. 1 in the U.S., it only reached No. 37 in the U.K.

J $600 2022 "Cold Heart", his 2021 hit with Dua Lipa, included lyrics from "Rocket Man"

DJ $1,200 2004 This veteran performer won a 1994 Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal for "Can You Feel the Love Tonight"

Michael Jackson 10x $350 avg J:6 DJ:4

J $100 1999 1983:"Thriller"

DJ $1,200 2013 2009:"This Is It"

J $100 1996 The "Black Or White" video from his "Dangerous" album was directed by John Landis

Bruce Springsteen 10x 10.0% stumper $930 avg J:7 DJ:3

J $100 1996 A "Boss" among singers, in 1985 he reflected on his "Glory Days"

J $500 1998 He recorded his 1982 hit album, "Nebraska", as a series of demos on a 4-track machine at home

DJ $5,800 DD 2002 He had a 1994 hit with "Streets of Philadelphia", from a Tom Hanks film

Bob Dylan 10x 10.0% stumper $770 avg J:3 DJ:7

J $100 1993 "Like A Rolling Stone" was featured on his "Highway 61 Revisited" album, released in 1965

J $800 2022 More like "tangled up in green"! Around 600 songs, selling for $300 million; that's 1/2 million a tune for this singer-songwriter

J $1,000 2008 1997:"Time Out of Mind"

Paul Simon 9x 12.5% stumper $412 avg J:6 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $200 2005 In 2003 he & Art Garfunkel broke their "Sounds of Silence", reuniting for the Grammys & a new tour

J $600 2017 Singer Edie Brickell

J $1,000 2005 In 1977 he was "Slip Slidin' Away" into acting, making his debut as Tony Lacey in Woody Allen's "Annie Hall"

Elvis Presley 9x 11.1% stumper $411 avg J:6 DJ:3

J $100 2001 August 16, 1977 in Memphis, Tennessee

J $700 DD 2000 His "Moody Blue" album entered the Top 40 on July 30, 1977; 17 days later he was dead

J $1,200 DD 1997 In '95 the Lower Keys Underwater Music Festival in Florida had a group of snorkelers impersonating him:[video clue]

Handel 9x 11.1% stumper $744 avg J:3 DJ:6

J $100 1998 This composer of the Hallelulah Chorus also wrote the Hallelujah Concerto

DJ $800 1994 His "Music for the Royal Fireworks" was written originally for wind orchestra; he added the strings later

DJ $1,000 1995 He's considered the inventor of the English Biblical oratorio; his first was "Esther", in 1732

The Rolling Stones 9x 22.2% stumper $567 avg J:4 DJ:5

J $200 1996 It took 30 years & an album called "Voodoo Lounge" for this British group to win its first Grammy

J $800 2002 "Angie", an acoustic ballad was the biggest hit off their "Goats Head Soup" album

DJ $1,200 2016 "Exile on Main St."

Stevie Wonder 8x $950 avg J:4 DJ:4

J $400 2000 This man's hit song "Superstition" was originally written for guitarist Jeff Beck

J $600 2008 1973:"Innervisions"

J $1,000 2002 His No. 1 hit "I Wish" says, "Sneaking out the back door to hang out with those hoodlum friends of mine"

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The Eagles 7x $600 avg J:3 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $200 2024 "Desperado","Hotel California"

DJ $800 2017 "Hell Freezes Over" to culminate this band's unlikely reunion in an MTV special

DJ $1,200 2015 "Common Thread", a tribute to this group, included "Desperado" by Clint Black & "Lyin' Eyes" by Diamond Rio

Spain 7x $486 avg J:2 DJ:5

J $200 2025 Tennis great Rafael Nadal hails from this country whose "La Marcha Real" has no officially approved lyrics

DJ $600 1997 As court singer, the famed castrato Farinelli soothed the melancholia of this country's King Philip V

DJ $200 1996 The Zarzuela of this Iberian country is a musical form similar to other countries' operettas

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 7x 20.0% stumper $420 avg J:4 DJ:1 FJ:2

J $100 1989 The cover of this Beatles album boasts pictures of Shirley Temple, Marilyn Monroe & W.C. Fields

DJ $600 1990 42 members of the London Symphony are heard in "A Day In The Life" on this Beatles album

J $1,000 2019 1967:"Getting Better","Within You Without You"

R.E.M. 7x 28.6% stumper $971 avg J:3 DJ:4

DJ $400 2015 1991:"Losing My Religion"

J $800 2026 This one goes out to an album I love, their 1987 "Document", which features the song "The One I Love"

DJ $2,000 2017 That's them in the corner with "Out of Time"

Irving Berlin 7x 14.3% stumper $671 avg J:4 DJ:3

J $200 2000 He got an Oscar for "White Christmas" & a Medal of Honor for songs like "God Bless America"

J $500 1987 Composer of "Alexander's Ragtime Band", he said it was a song about ragtime not a ragtime song

DJ $1,000 1997 He said his "Alexander's Ragtime Band" was a song about ragtime, not a ragtime song

Gilbert & Sullivan 7x $529 avg J:1 DJ:6

DJ $200 1996 This duo's comic opera of "The Yeomen of the Guard" premiered at the Savoy Theatre on Oct. 3, 1888

DJ $1,000 1989 From "Iolanthe" on, their operettas are known as the "Savoy Operas" after their home theatre

DJ $200 1991 This British pair wrote pieces known collectively as the Savoy Operas

George Gershwin 7x $386 avg J:1 DJ:6

J $100 2001 "Fantasia 2000" presents the Jazz Age with this composer's "Rhapsody in Blue"

DJ $600 1997 This American composed most of "An American In Paris" in Paris

DJ $200 2001 "Embraceable You":Ira Gershwin & ____

"Amazing Grace" 7x $500 avg J:1 DJ:5 FJ:1

J $200 2020 This hymn that says, "I once was lost, but now am found" was written by a slave trader turned abolitionist

DJ $800 2006 "How sweet the sound" of Meryl Streep singing this hymn on the soundtrack to the film "Silkwood"

DJ $1,000 DD 1985 Famous traditional American hymn, or what some call "A View to a Kill's" Ms. Jones

the violin 7x 42.9% stumper $429 avg J:2 DJ:5

DJ $400 2011 Though pianists like Rubinstein might protest, Brahms' 2-player opus 78 is known as this instrument's sonata

DJ $800 1996 David Oistrakh & his son Igor were both famous as soloists on this stringed instrument

J $100 1997 In a standard-size symphony orchestra, 35 of the 100 or more musicians may play this instrument

Pretty in Pink 7x 14.3% stumper $686 avg J:4 DJ:3

J $200 2022 Alecia Moore:This colorful "Get The Party Started" star

J $600 2018 Her "Beautiful Trauma" recently debuted at No. 1

DJ $1,200 2018 You could sayherwhole career has been a high wire act but she performed a literal one at the AMAs

John Philip Sousa 7x $514 avg J:2 DJ:5

DJ $200 1997 He composed the "King Cotton" March in 1897, the same year as "The Stars & Stripes Forever"

J $500 DD 1989 This composer's wind bands helped introduce the saxophone to the U.S. in the 1890s

DJ $1,600 2024 He said composers who lived during peace couldn't write good marches such as his Spanish-American War-inspired "The Man Behind The Gun"

The Who 6x $833 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $100 1994 After the death of Keith Moon in 1978, Kenney Jones became this British group's drummer

J $500 DD 1997 Group heard here, they were originally known as The Detours:

DJ $2,000 2013 1979:"The Kids Are Alright"

The Police 6x $367 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $100 1997 Sting rose to fame in this new wave trio

DJ $800 2022 Their"Synchronicity"

J $200 2008 Arthur Koestler's book "The Ghost in the Machine" inspired the title of a 1981 album by this trio

The Beatles 6x $167 avg J:5 DJ:1

J $100 2000 In January 1962 they topped the first-ever "Mersey Beat" group popularity poll

J $100 1999 Drummer Andy White played on this group's U.S. release of "Love Me Do"; Ringo was heard on the British version

J $100 1998 "Magical Mystery Tour"

Switzerland 6x $1,467 avg J:2 DJ:4

DJ $200 1995 Like "Guillaume Tell", the opera "La Sonnambula" is set in this country

J $800 2003 This country probably isn't neutral about "Schweizer Psalm", its national anthem

DJ $2,000 2025 Its anthem has 4 different titles, in French, German, Italian & Romansch

Rumours 6x $720 avg J:3 DJ:2 FJ:1

DJ $400 2003 A 1977 Grammy winner for Album of the Year, this Fleetwood Mac LP produced the group's first No. 1 single, "Dreams"

J $600 2019 1977:"Second Hand News","You Make Loving Fun"

J $1,000 2002 This Fleetwood Mac album was the top album of 1977

Pink Floyd 6x $783 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $100 1998 This band's 1994 tour was documented in "Pulse", a CD set that had a blinking light on its spine

DJ $800 2016 Good news: "I have become comfortably numb", just as this band's song from "The Wall" says

DJ $1,600 2017 Wisdom from this group: "Money, it's a gas. Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash"

Pearl Jam 6x 16.7% stumper $967 avg J:3 DJ:3

DJ $400 2023 The 11 songs on "Ten" by this Seattle band include "Even Flow" & "Jeremy"

J $800 2002 "Vitalogy"(1994)

J $1,000 2021 "Vitalogy", featuring "Better Man"

Paul McCartney 6x 16.7% stumper $667 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $200 2015 In 1972 he flew moderately "Hi, Hi, Hi" into the Top 40 with Wings; he was in another OK band before that one

J $600 2004 ____ & Wings

DJ $2,000 2022 Though he sang, "Climb on the back & we'll go for a ride in the sky" in his 1974 hit "Jet", the song was named for his dog, Jet

Nevermind 6x $767 avg J:1 DJ:5

J $200 2019 1992:"Drain You","Lithium"

DJ $800 2023 Let's not forget about this breakthrough album for Nirvana, which turned 30 in 2021

DJ $1,200 2022 "Come As You Are" &"In Bloom"(1991)

John Lennon 6x 16.7% stumper $367 avg J:4 DJ:2

J $100 1997 In 1991 an updated version of his "Give Peace A Chance" was released with new lyrics by his son Sean

DJ $1,200 2009 The cover of "Working Class Hero", a tribute to him, features a pair of granny sunglasses

J $100 1997 His song "Starting Over" became a transatlantic hit just after his December 1980 murder

Jimi Hendrix 6x 33.3% stumper $617 avg J:4 DJ:2

J $200 2002 His rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" was a highlight of Woodstock

J $600 2010 1967:"Are You Experienced"

DJ $2,000 2013 Born 1942 in Seattle; died 1970 in London

India 6x 16.7% stumper $717 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $200 1986 An important part of this country's classical music is the raga

DJ $800 1993 A tambura is a lute that serves as a drone when playing the raga melodies of this country

DJ $1,000 1993 Rimsky-Korsakov wrote the "Song of" this Asian country for his opera "Sadko"

Britney Spears 6x 16.7% stumper $800 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $200 2020 1999: "...Baby One More Time"

DJ $1,600 2017 "Circus"(2008)

J $200 2002 Born in 1981, she's the singer heard here

Austria 6x 40.0% stumper $860 avg J:3 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $300 2000 "Land der Berge, Land am Strome"

J $600 2004 The melody of its anthem, "Land der Berge, Land am Strome", was incorrectly attributed to Mozart

J $1,400 DD 1992 Adopted in 1946, the anthem of this country is "Osterreichische Bundeshymne"

Australia 6x 16.7% stumper $767 avg J:2 DJ:4

DJ $200 1992 This continent's Aborigines play the didjeridoo, a type of wooden trumpet

J $800 2005 "Beneath our radiant Southern Cross, we'll toil with hearts & hands"

J $1,000 2009 "Beneath Our Radiant Southern Cross We'll Toil With Hearts And Hands"

"Chopsticks" 6x 16.7% stumper $267 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $200 2001 Dating from the 1800s, it's the simple piano piece heard here

DJ $200 1996 Liszt & Borodin wrote variations on this short, quick piano tune that can be played with 2 fingers

DJ $200 1991 Better known by the name of eating utensils it was first published in 1877 as "The Celebrated Chop Waltz"

Eddie Van Halen 6x 16.7% stumper $650 avg J:4 DJ:2

J $200 2022 Valerie Bertinelli said of this rock icon that she loved him "more than I know how to explain. I loved his soul"

J $600 2008 On the Michael Jackson hit "Beat It", this virtuoso lead guitarist played a solo

DJ $1,200 2014 This group's album "5150" was its first with Sammy Hagar as its lead vocalist

Johann Sebastian Bach 6x 16.7% stumper $933 avg DJ:6

DJ $400 2018 His composing sons fanned out across Europe, from C.P.E. in Prussia to Johann Christian in London

DJ $800 1995 The "clavier-ubung" is an extensive 4-part collection of this composer's keyboard music

DJ $1,200 DD 1993 You'll find a quodlibet, a blend of popular tunes, in his "Goldberg Variations"

the bass 6x $317 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $200 1985 Low-pitched musical instrument & the lowest pitched male voice

J $300 1994 The musical range of a baritone is between a tenor & this lowest type of male voice

DJ $400 1996 The name of this deep voice range is also used to describe a violin, a clef & a tuba

Franz Liszt 6x 16.7% stumper $633 avg J:2 DJ:4

DJ $200 1989 Hungarian whose "Transcendental Studies" are some of the most difficult piano pieces ever written

J $500 1998 Composer who wrote the famous Hungarian Rhapsody No. 15, "The Rakoczy March", heard here

DJ $1,200 2021 In 1867 this wizard of the piano composed the "Hungarian Coronation Mass"

Woody Guthrie 5x $1,400 avg DJ:4 FJ:1

DJ $800 2004 Bob Dylan's first LP had 2 original songs: "Talking New York" & "Song to Woody", a tribute to this folk singer

DJ $1,200 2021 1940s folk supergroup the Almanac Singers included Pete Seeger & this other legend & writer of "This Land Is Your Land"

FJ 2019 Steinbeck called him "just a voice and a guitar" but said his songs embodied "the will of a people to endure and fight against oppression"

Thriller 5x $280 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $200 2016 This album earned Michael Jackson 7 Grammys in 1984, including album of the year

J $200 2015 Michael Jackson:"Beat It" &"Billie Jean"

J $200 2012 Quincy Jones & Michael Jackson took home album of the year Grammys for this 1982 megaseller

the Jonas Brothers 5x $560 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $200 2011 These Disney siblings were out of sight with "The 3D Concert Experience"

J $600 2020 Nominated for 2 awards in 2019, they made their first AMA appearance in more than 10 years with a special performance of "Only Human"

J $400 2024 We're a "Sucker" for this trio whoperformedtogether in 2019, their first awards show in a decade; they'd win 3 awards in 2020:"I'm a sucker for you / You say the word and I'll go anywhere blindly / I'm a sucker for you, yeah / Any road you take, you ...

Taylor Swift 5x $600 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $400 2020 In 2008 & 2009, on the Billboard 200 & Top Country Album charts: "Fearless"

DJ $800 2018 Add it up--her "1989" was No. 1 in 2016

J $1,000 2011 2009:Her "Fearless"

Sting 5x 60.0% stumper $920 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $200 2014 1985, this Police man:"The Dream of the Blue Turtles"

J $600 2009 "Bring On The Night"(1986)

DJ $1,600 2011 In his song "Russians," he wondered "How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy?"

soprano 5x $400 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $200 1997 This high female voice may be classified as lyric, dramatic or coloratura

J $600 2024 Falsetto is used by male singers to reach this vocal register of Jessye Norman & Joan Sutherland

DJ $200 1993 Depending on its tone, this high female voice can be classified as lyric, dramatic or coloratura

Sheryl Crow 5x 20.0% stumper $740 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $400 2016 After years as a backup singer, she hit it big in 1994 with "All I Wanna Do"

J $500 1996 In spring 1996 she visited U.S. military bases in Italy, Germany & Bosnia, singing her hit "All I Wanna Do"

DJ $1,200 2023 Allthissinger-songwriter wanted to do was have some fun her senior year, which included drum majorette & prom princess

Shania Twain 5x $825 avg J:3 DJ:1 FJ:1

J $500 2000 She's the only woman in country music to have 2 albums sell over 10 million copies each

DJ $1,200 2013 This country singer's "Come On Over"

FJ 2012 The bestselling album of all time by a female is a 20 million seller by this woman who started singing at age 8 in Ontario

Scott Joplin 5x $480 avg J:2 DJ:3

DJ $200 1993 In the 1970s Joshua Rifkin became famous for reviving the ragtime music of this composer

J $500 2000 He toured with the Texas Medley Quartette before going solo & becoming the king of ragtime

J $300 1989 Most people don't know that this "King of Ragtime" once composed a ballet, "The Rag-Time Dance"

Prince 5x $640 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $200 2000 ...& the New Power Generation

DJ $800 2019 In 2013 he gave a memorable performance with a rendition of "Let's Go Crazy" followed by "Fixurlifeup"

DJ $1,200 2012 1987:"Sign 'O' the Times"

Nirvana 5x $760 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $200 2021 According to Rolling Stone, the best album of the decade:"Nevermind"

DJ $800 2013 On "Nevermind":"Lounge Act"

DJ $1,200 2020 The cover of "Nevermind", a classic album from this band, featured a baby in a swimming pool reaching for some money

Marvin Gaye 5x 20.0% stumper $1,460 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $500 1997 David Ritz' "Divided Soul" is a biography of this "Sexual Healing" singer

DJ $1,600 2023 Published a year after his death in 1984, "Divided Soul" looks at this singer's spiritual & sexual sides

DJ $1,600 2022 Billboard said this late, great singer "redefined R&B/soul" with "the socially themed 1971 landmark album 'What's Going On"'

Maroon 5 5x 20.0% stumper $520 avg J:2 DJ:3

DJ $400 2024 Still going strong, they released their debut album "Songs About Jane" in 2002

J $600 2026 They headlined the 2019 Super Bowl halftime show

J $400 2020 In 2011 & 2012 this Adam Levine band was honored as the Favorite Pop/Rock Group

Mariah Carey 5x 20.0% stumper $640 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $200 2024 In 2023 she got into the holiday spiritperforming"All I Want For Christmas Is You" for the first time on an awards show:"I just want you for my own / More than you could ever know / Make my wish come true / All I want for Christmas is you!"

J $800 2010 "All I Want For Christmas Is You" from her "Merry Christmas" CD was the first holiday song to sell 1 million downloads

DJ $1,200 2019 This singer played Ms. Weiss in "Precious" & got better reviews than she did in "Glitter"

Kurt Cobain 5x $960 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $200 2009 April 5, 1994 in Seattle

DJ $800 2004 2004 marks the 10th anniversary of the death of this man from Aberdeen, Washington whose music touched the world

DJ $3,000 DD 2013 Born 1967 in Hoquiam, Washington; died 1994 in Seattle

Kanye West 5x $880 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $200 2017 Kim Kardashian

DJ $800 2020 "Yeezus"

J $1,000 2014 Kim Kardashian stars with him in his video for "Bound 2"

Japan 5x $225 avg J:3 DJ:1 FJ:1

J $100 1994 This country's traditional court music, which has been played for centuries, is called gagaku

FJ 2023 The name of this country's national anthem translates as "His Majesty's Reign" & its lyrics come from a 1,000-year-old poem

J $200 2004 This Asian country's national anthem is "Kimigayo", "His Majesty's Reign"

Janis Joplin 5x 20.0% stumper $1,060 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $100 2000 She's the rock & roll legend who died at L.A.'s Landmark Hotel October 4, 1970

J $1,000 2022 Her recording career lasted less than 4 years; her final studio album was 1971's "Pearl", featuring "Me And Bobby McGee"

J $1,000 2009 October 4, 1970 at the Landmark Hotel in Hollywood

Janet Jackson 5x 20.0% stumper $920 avg J:2 DJ:3

DJ $400 2022 Her"Control"

J $800 2020 As the recipient of the 2018 Icon Award, she took "Control" & took to the stage inherfirst live TV performance in nearly a decade"Nasty, nasty boys, lemme see your nasty body move /Oh, you nasty boys..."

J $1,000 2003 Your cat is not superstitious--he loves crossing paths with her 1990 No. 1 hit "Black Cat"

James Brown 5x $240 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $100 1997 "Living In America" from "Rocky IV" helped revive the career of this "Soul Brother Number One"

J $200 2005 This energetic forerunner of funk had "a brand new bag" in 1965

DJ $200 2001 This legendary leader of the Famous Flames is seen here headlining an EMP show

Jamaica 5x $320 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $100 1995 Island that's given us ska & reggae, mon

DJ $800 1991 Ska is a type of music & dance that originated on this island in the late 1950s

J $200 1997 In the musical styles of this island, reggae came after ska & rock steady, mon

Jagged Little Pill 5x $780 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $300 2001 With this 1995 album, Alanis Morissette became the first Canadian woman to top Billboard's album chart

DJ $800 2021 It won Best Rock Album & Album of the Year Grammys in 1996 & featured the Best Rock Song "You Oughta Know"

DJ $1,600 2006 In 1995 Alanis Morissette became one of the youngest to win a Grammy when this was named album of the year

Israel 5x $400 avg J:4 DJ:1

J $200 2014 In 1948 the Palestine Orchestra was renamed the Philharmonic Orchestra of this country

J $600 2005 "Towards the East, an eye looks to Zion"

DJ $400 1995 "Hatikvah" was the Zionist song before being adopted as this country's national anthem

Hungary 5x 20.0% stumper $320 avg J:4 DJ:1

J $200 2015 Tough times in Budapest? This country's anthem includes "the tears of slavery burn, which the eyes of orphans shed"

J $500 1992 Franz Erkel, a noted composer of this country, wrote its nat'l anthem, "Isten Aldd Meg A Magyart"

DJ $200 1996 Bela Bartok & Zoltan Kodaly trekked around the hinterlands of this country collecting Magyar songs

Hotel California 5x 25.0% stumper $700 avg J:1 DJ:3 FJ:1

DJ $400 2007 David Alexander photographed the Beverly Hills Hotel before a pretty sunset for this 1976 album

DJ $800 2017 The pink Beverly Hills Hotel, shot at sunset

FJ 2019 Rolling Stone said this 1976 album had "the best & worst tendencies of L.A.-situated rock" & was an "unflattering portrait of the milieu"

George Harrison 5x 20.0% stumper $1,160 avg DJ:5

DJ $400 2004 Todd Rundgren sings "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on "Songs from the Material World: A Tribute to" this man

DJ $1,000 1998 He went solo to record albums like "All Things Must Pass" & "Dark Horse"

DJ $1,200 2020 (James Taylor presents the clue.) In my new audio memoir "Break Shot" I talk about my early days, including my time in London in the '60s & my association with The Beatles; in fact, my song "Something In The Way She Moves" inspired this Beatle to wri...

Drake 5x $680 avg J:4 DJ:1

J $200 2024 2 of Rihanna's 14 No. 1 hits, "What's My Name?" & "Work", featured this Canadian rapper

J $1,000 2026 He was named Billboard's Artist of the Decade for the 2010s

J $200 2022 In 2021 his "Certified Lover Boy" was certified a No. 1 album

Carole King 5x $580 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $200 2004 She had a 2-sided No. 1 hit with "It's Too Late" & "I Feel the Earth Move"

DJ $800 2023 Her song "You've Got A Friend" came out the year after her pal James Taylor sang of "lonely times when I could not find a friend"

J $300 1999 1971:"Tapestry"

Beethoven 5x $440 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $200 2021 The diatonic scale is widely used in classical music; this composer employed it in the finale of his 1824 9th Symphony

DJ $1,000 1994 Leo Tolstoy based a story on his Kreutzer Sonata

DJ $200 1991 His Piano Concerto No. 5 or "Emperor" was the 1st he couldn't premiere himself, due to deafness

Alanis Morissette 5x $360 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $200 1996 By her 22nd birthday, this Canadian's "Jagged Little Pill" album had sold over 7 million copies

DJ $400 2018 Isn't it ironic her "Jagged Little Pill" went down so well in 1996?

DJ $400 2017 16 million listeners have swallowed her album "Jagged Little Pill"

"Weird Al" Yankovic 5x $450 avg J:2 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $200 2002 1984:His "Eat It"

DJ $800 2017 He won a Grammy for Best Comedy Album for "Poodle Hat"

FJ 2015 With a new release & 8 viral videos to go with it, he had the first comedy album in 50 years to top the Billboard 200

"God Save The Queen" 5x $1,067 avg DJ:3 FJ:2

DJ $600 1988 In Australia, both "Advance Australia Fair" & this anthem are official

DJ $2,000 DD 2016 First performed in 1745, it has been quoted & arranged by composers including Haydn & Britten

FJ 2017 In her memoirs Queen Liliuokalani tells us that before Hawaii had its own national anthem, it used this one

the harpsichord 5x $600 avg J:2 DJ:3

DJ $400 1995 Instrument featured in John Cage's "HPSCHD"

DJ $800 1993 Wanda Landowska initiated the revival of this plucked keyboard instrument in the 20th century

J $1,000 2011 Lurch into this instrument

Yo-Yo Ma 4x $900 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $200 1998 This cellist is the son of a composer from Shanghai & a mezzo-soprano from Hong Kong

DJ $800 2003 On the soundtrack to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", he plays the cello solos

DJ $1,000 1993 Born to Chinese parents in Paris in 1955, this cellist made his debut at Carnegie Hall when he was 9

Whitney Houston 4x 25.0% stumper $400 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $100 1987 She was awarded her 1986 Female Pop Vocal Grammy Award by her cousin Dionne

J $500 DD 1997 Self-titled album including the song heard here:"How will I know if he really loves me /I say a prayer with every heartbeat..."

J $200 1997 Before reaching stardom with "You Give Good Love", she had a short career as a model

Vienna 4x $900 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 2011 100,000 people of this city turned out for the 1849 funeral of beloved bandleader Johann Strauss Sr.

DJ $1,000 1992 This city's 1st school centered around Beethoven, Haydn & Mozart, the 2nd around Berg, Webern & Schoenberg

J $400 1989 Franz Schubert was born in The House of the Red Crab, an inn near this capital

Victor Herbert 4x 25.0% stumper $650 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $300 1990 Born in Ireland, he studied at the Stuttgart Conservatory & composed "Babes in Toyland" in the U.S.

J $500 1995 He wrote many operettas, such as "Babes in Toyland", but only 2 operas, "Natoma" & "Madeleine"

DJ $1,000 1991 Great operetta composer who wrote "Ah! Sweet Mystery Of Life" for "Naughty Marietta"

the Dixie Chicks 4x 50.0% stumper $900 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $400 2008 2006:"Taking the Long Way"

DJ $1,200 2017 "Shut Up & Sing", from a group not ready to make nice

DJ $400 2003 This female trio has gone from singing on the streets of Dallas to the country & pop charts

The Cars 4x 25.0% stumper $1,000 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 1997 Ric Ocasek's head was put on a fly's body in this group's video "You Might Think"

J $600 2003 This New Wave group's album "Shake It Up" begins with the lachrymose "Since You're Gone"

DJ $1,200 2022 Alberto Vargas painted model Candy Moore posing on a Ferrari for this band's "Candy-O"

the Beach Boys 4x $300 avg J:4

J $200 2026 I wish they all could be California bands like this one

J $200 2016 Their 1964 "Christmas Album" includes "Little Saint Nick", called a rewiring of their hit "Little Deuce Coupe"

J $400 2012 5 decades ago, this band invited folks on a "Surfin' Safari", an album also including "Surfin'"--we sense a theme

Tchaikovsky 4x $1,200 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $800 2022 Ms. Rice knows con dolcezza or "with sweetness" is in his 6th symphony, which he conducted in St. Petersburg 9 days before his death

DJ $1,200 2012 In 1990, on this composer's 150th birthday, Itzhak Perlman was fiddling away in Russia in his honor

DJ $800 1996 His sixth symphony is known as the "Pathetique"

Tapestry 4x $1,500 avg DJ:4

DJ $800 2004 Amy Grant contributed "It's Too Late" & Rod Stewart "So Far Away" for this classic album "Revisited"

DJ $1,600 2021 We wonder if Carole King felt "the Earth move" in 2021 when this album of hers turned 50

DJ $1,600 2013 1971: Carole King sits barefoot on a window ledge with her cat

Schubert 4x $1,500 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 1996 His "Unfinished" symphony wasn't discovered until 1865, long after his death

DJ $1,200 2009 Happily, he found the time to finish the "trout" quintet, heard here

DJ $400 1985 This composer's 2-movement symphony is always performed in its "Unfinished" state

Rod Stewart 4x 25.0% stumper $1,100 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $400 2013 2012: "Rod: The Autobiography"

J $1,000 2011 "Fly Me to the Moon" is Volume V in the "Great American Songbook" series by this British rocker

J $1,000 2002 "Every Picture Tells a Story"(1971)

Ravi Shankar 4x $533 avg DJ:3 FJ:1

DJ $200 1993 This sitarist wrote the music for "Samanya Kshati", a ballet based on a poem by Rabindranath Tagore

DJ $600 1996 In the early '70s this sitarist taught at the California Institute of the Arts

FJ 1995 In the 1950s he composed the scores for Satyajit Ray's brilliant "Apu" trilogy of films

Radiohead 4x $1,300 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $400 2026 Tune into this band, pioneers of alternative rock

DJ $1,200 2007 "Pablo Honey","OK Computer","Hail to the Thief"

DJ $1,600 2023 Their "Kid A" is frequently ranked among the top albums of the 2000s

Phil Collins 4x 25.0% stumper $750 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $600 1998 His 1985 album "No Jacket Required" produced the No. 1 hits "One More Night" & "Sussudio"

DJ $800 2018 No, he said, "In The Air Tonight" was not a real story about someone drowning, it was him being angry about his divorce

J $800 2014 1981, the Genesis of his solo career:"Face Value"

Paula Abdul 4x $575 avg J:3 DJ:1

DJ $400 1996 This former Lakers cheerleader had the first debut album with 4 No. 1 hits

J $500 1999 1989:"Forever Your Girl"

J $600 2009 "Greatest Hits: Straight Up!" (2007)

New Orleans 4x $725 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $100 1987 "There is a house in" this city "& it's called the rising sun"

DJ $800 2019 The 2001 edition of this city's Jazz Fest, commemorating Louis Armstrong's centennial, drew 650,000 fans

DJ $1,200 2021 At the beginning of the 20th century, jazz flourished in Storyville, the red light district of this southern city

Meat Loaf 4x $850 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $200 2002 "Bat Out of Hell"(1978)

DJ $1,200 2017 He returned--& then left?--with "Bat Out Of Hell II: Back Into Hell"

DJ $400 2026 1977:"Bat Out of Hell"

Leonard Bernstein 4x 25.0% stumper $600 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 1991 This late N.Y. Philharmonic director wrote a "Mass" to open the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

DJ $600 1991 This American composer & conductor wrote the 1-act opera "Trouble in Tahiti"

DJ $1,000 2001 "Maria":Stephen Sondheim & ____

Led Zeppelin 4x $2,400 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:1

J $600 2012 This group saw the writing on the wall in 1975 with "Physical Graffiti"

DJ $1,600 2009 "Encomium", a tribute to these rockers, features Sheryl Crow doing "D'yer Mak'er"

FJ 2014 This band used a picture of the Hindenburg disaster on the cover of its eponymous debut album

Kenny G 4x $533 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:1

J $200 2006 This saxophonist's "Miracles: The Holiday Album" is one of the bestselling Christmas albums of all time

J $600 2010 This saxophonist's "Miracles: The Holiday Album" is said to be the bestselling Christmas album of all time

FJ 2000 His 1998 "Greatest Hits" album made him the first instrumentalist to have 7 consecutive multi-platinum albums

Johnny Cash 4x $1,000 avg J:1 DJ:1 FJ:2

J $400 1996 His No. 1 country song "A Boy Named Sue" was recorded live at San Quentin Prison

DJ $1,600 2015 2007:"God's Gonna Cut You Down"(a country legend)

FJ 2020 On July 26, 1972 he testified before a Senate subcommittee on national penitentiaries

John Williams 4x $650 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $400 2023 The "Jaws" theme was composed by this multiple Oscar winner

DJ $600 1984 He succeeded Arthur Fiedler directing the Boston Pops

DJ $1,200 2003 If you're humming a movie theme, chances are good it's by this "Jaws" & "Star Wars" composer

jazz 4x $467 avg DJ:3 FJ:1

DJ $200 1993 Bop & bebop, which emerged in the 1940s, are styles of this type of music that debuted decades earlier

DJ $800 1995 In 1954 a festival for this type of music was founded in Newport, Rhode Island

FJ 2009 Before it acquired its musical meaning in the early 20th century, it was baseball slang for "pep" or "energy"

Guns N' Roses 4x 25.0% stumper $950 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $200 2010 1987:"Appetite For Destruction"

DJ $800 2018 They shot the lights out with "Appetite for Destruction"

DJ $1,200 2022 One of the bestselling debut albums of all time, "Appetite for Destruction"

Greece 4x $375 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 1992 This country's "Hymn to Liberty" was based on a poem by Dionysios Solomos

J $500 1989 This country's "Ymnos Pros Tin Elephterian" is a hymn to liberty, not tin elephants or even grape leaves

J $400 2010 A hand drum called the toumbeleki originated on the islands of this country

glissando 4x 25.0% stumper $975 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $500 1990 Sliding one finger across all the harp strings, or drawing a fingertip over all the white piano keys

J $1,000 2024 Similar to a portamento, it's the glide between notes heard here

DJ $800 1997 On a piano it's sweeping a finger up the white keys; on a harp, drawing the finger across the strings

Garth Brooks 4x 25.0% stumper $650 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 1999 1991:"Ropin' the Wind"

DJ $600 1996 In 1992 this country superstar's "The Chase" entered the country & pop album charts at No. 1

J $1,000 2006 He's had 4 albums sell more than 10 million, including "Ropin' the Wind"

fortissimo 4x 25.0% stumper $775 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 1989 If the sheet music says "forte", you play loudly, & if it says this, very loudly

DJ $600 1994 On scores "f" is an abbreviation for forte & "ff" is an abbreviation for this

DJ $2,000 2002 Shades of softness & loudness range from pp, pianissimo to ff, this

Eric Clapton 4x $675 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $300 2000 At 10 million, the top-selling "Unplugged" album is this guitarist's

J $600 2017 On "461 Ocean Boulevard", his album & onetime address, this blues master went reggae with "I Shot The Sheriff"

DJ $1,200 2020 "Slowhand"

Eminem 4x $550 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 2022 1999's "The Slim Shady LP"

J $600 2024 Among his awards in 2011 were Top Male Artist, Top Rap Artist & Top Rap Song for "Love The Way You Lie" with Rihanna

DJ $400 2017 If he'd used his full birth name, he'd have released "The Marshall Bruce Mathers III LP"

David Bowie 4x $625 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $100 1997 He released "Earthling" in 1997, 25 years after telling us of Ziggy Stardust

DJ $1,600 2002 "Shake It" is the last song on his 1983 album "Let's Dance"

J $400 2017 Supermodel Iman

Cyndi Lauper 4x $600 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $400 1989 This redhead wore blue lipstick & a skirt made of newspaper on her "True Colors" album

J $600 2016 In 1983 she had the aptly titled album "She's So Unusual"

DJ $600 1997 This performer's mother appeared in her 1984 video "Girls Just Want To Have Fun"

Cole Porter 4x 50.0% stumper $700 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $400 2004 He wrote the song that says, "I get no kick from champagne"

J $800 2002 (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from the Waldorf Astoria.) I'm playing a song by this composer on his piano at the Waldorf"I get no kick from champagne..."

DJ $1,200 2003 He wrote the words & music to "I Happen to Like New York" & "I Love Paris"

Coldplay 4x 50.0% stumper $1,550 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $1,000 2010 2000:"Parachutes"

DJ $1,600 2013 On "Viva la Vida":"Death And All His Friends"

DJ $1,600 2012 2003, Best Group Video: "The Scientist" (those Brits give us chills)

Chicago 4x $325 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 2002 This jazz-rock group gave us the songs "25 or 6 to 4" & "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?"

J $500 1986 Elvis' 1969 hit "In The Ghetto" takes place in the ghetto of this city

J $200 1985 Geographically named rock group that's named 16 of their albums after themselves

Bob Marley 4x $700 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $400 2022 Fans the world over celebrate this reggae legend on February 6, his birthday

DJ $800 2013 Born 1945 in St. Ann, Jamaica; died 1981 in Miami

DJ $1,200 2020 A 1975 album captured this reggae legend & the Wailers on their Natty Dread Tour

bluegrass 4x $1,050 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $200 2017 Known for his "high lonesome" sound, Del McCoury was a leader in this"colorful" music genre

DJ $1,600 2021 The Grammys' American Roots music field includes album awards for blues, folk & this Kentucky-named music

DJ $400 2013 Bill Monroe is known as the "Father of" this "colorful" music genre

Billy Joel 4x 25.0% stumper $1,200 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $600 2011 1979:His "52nd Street"

J $1,000 2017 In 1978 this singer-songwriter parked "Big Shot" & "Honesty" on "52nd Street"

DJ $1,600 2006 His 1978 album "52nd Street" was named for a NYC area famous for its jazz scene

Billie Eilish 4x $450 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 2020 Making her AMA debut in 2019, sheperformed "All The Good Girls Go To Hell" & also won the award for New Artist of the Year

DJ $800 2026 2019:"When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?"

DJ $400 2021 Appropriately, the last track of her "When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?" is "Goodbye"

Benny Goodman 4x $667 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $200 1996 This Big Band clarinetist's 1939 autobiography was titled "The Kingdom of Swing"

DJ $600 1987 Bartok & Copland wrote works specifically for this American clarinetist

DJ $1,200 DD 1991 In 1947, he commissioned a clarinet concerto from Aaron Copland

Aretha Franklin 4x $325 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 1987 Still occasionally soloing for her father's choir, this Queen of Soul gets lots of "R-E-S-P-E-C-T"

J $300 1997 She sang her hit song "Think" in 1980's "The Blues Brothers Movie"

DJ $400 2022 From 2021,"Respect":her

an aria 4x $325 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $100 1993 The da capo type of this operatic solo was extremely popular from about 1650 to 1750

J $400 2022 Sorbetto is one type of this solo song in an opera; the audience would get sorbets as a supporting character sang

DJ $400 2014 It's an elaborate solo song--not just in operas but also cantatas & oratorios

Amy Winehouse 4x $950 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 2015 Her death on July 23, 2011 in London was attributed to alcohol poisoning

DJ $800 2017 Tony Bennett's "Duets II" had a posthumous appearance by this British soul singer, 2 months after her death

J $1,000 2020 After she said, "They tried to make me go to rehab & I told them no no no", her producer told her, "We should turn that into a song"

Adele 4x $650 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 2025 In 2012 she was rolling in the Grammys with 6 wins including Album of the Year, Record of the Year & Song of the Year

DJ $800 2020 In 2016 this British woman had a hit with "Water Under The Bridge"

J $1,000 2012 Her sophomore album "21" featured her hit "Rolling In The Deep"

"Rhapsody in Blue" 4x $675 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 2016 Naturally, blue notes are a characteristic of this 1924 Gershwin concert piece

DJ $700 DD 1989 Gershwin classic written for piano & jazz band & later arranged for symphony orchestra

DJ $800 2017 Legend has it, having forgotten about a 1924 deadline, George Gershwin wrote this piece in 3 weeks

"O Canada" 4x $400 avg DJ:2 FJ:2

DJ $400 2003 It's traditionally heard before games between the Hamilton Tiger-Cats & the Winnipeg Blue Bombers

FJ 2022 "Terre de nos aïeux" follows the title in the French version of this anthem

FJ 2019 With lyrics by Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier, it debuted on June 24, 1880, at a celebration of St. Jean Baptiste Day

"La Marseillaise" 4x $500 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $400 2016 After the Nazis sing "Die Wacht Am Rhein" in "Casablanca", Laszlo tells the band to play this French anthem

DJ $800 2016 This anthem of France has also been an anthem of international revolutionary movements

J $400 2015 "They come right to our arms to slit the throats of our sons, our friends!" is from this anthem of France

Wolfgang A. Mozart 4x 25.0% stumper $850 avg DJ:4

DJ $200 1998 Composer baptized with the given names Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus

DJ $600 1989 It's not known how his last symphony came to be called the "Jupiter Symphony"

DJ $2,000 DD 1998 In 1772 he composed his Symphony No. 17 in G Minor, K-129

The Magic Flute 4x $400 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 1987 English translation of the Mozart title "Die Zauberflote"

DJ $600 1992 It's the instrument associated with Jean-Pierre Rampal

J $400 2021 "Die Zauberflöte" in German, this Mozart opera premiered in 1791, just months before the composer's death

the harp 4x 25.0% stumper $625 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $300 1994 A penillion is a type of Welsh song accompanied by this instrument associated with Ireland

DJ $800 2025 Mildred Dilling pioneered the solo recital on this instrument & gave some tips to a Marx Brother

DJ $1,000 DD 2009 A 1996 sonata by Lowell Lieberman is for flute & this, also a popular pairing at weddings

the banjo 4x $600 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 1994 Scruggs-picking is a playing technique developed for this stringed instrument

DJ $800 2013 Ralph Stanley is renowned for his "high lonesome" vocals & his "clawhammer" picking style on this instrument

DJ $400 2002 The unique sound of this instrument derives in part from the use of a skin membrane

a piccolo 4x 25.0% stumper $900 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 2003 This small woodwind is known for its high pitch, & its name is Italian for "small"

J $600 2010 An octave higher than the flute, this instrument has the highest pitch of the woodwinds

DJ $1,000 DD 1990 The English word for this instrument means "small" in Italian

Bruno Mars 4x $550 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $200 2022 His "24K Magic" was good as gold & a Grammy winner for Album of the Year

DJ $1,200 2012 Part of the successful production team the Smeezingtons:Bruno ____

DJ $400 2019 He opened the 2016 AMAs with aperformanceof his golden megahit "24K Magic"

a libretto 4x $550 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $400 1986 From Italian diminutive of "book", the book of an opera or musical company

DJ $800 2019 Meaning "little book", it's the words of an opera

J $400 1985 From Italian for "little book", it's the text of an opera

Gregorian chants 4x $425 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $400 2021 The Benedictine monks of Santo Domingo de Silos had a surprise 1994 international hit with an album of Gregorian these

J $800 2024 These liturgical songs of the Catholic Church bear the name of a 6th century pope said to have formulated & organized them

DJ $400 1993 Types of this vocal music include Ambrosian, Byzantine & Gregorian

a fugue 4x 25.0% stumper $775 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $200 1995 As you might expect, a fughetta is a little one of these

J $600 2021 Compositions by Bach include "Toccata &" this "in D minor" as well as "The Art of the" this

DJ $2,000 2025 The canon, like "Row Row Row Your Boat" with voices coming in sequentially, developed into this highest form of Baroque composition

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