NationStates Jolt Archive

Come one, come all! Here's your chance to stump your fellow NSers with bits of random obscure music trivia. Post questions, and then, below the questions, post the answers as a spoiler. For instance, you might do something like this:

1) Which band was Courtney Love never in?
a) Hole
b) Faith No More
c) L7
d) Babes In Toyland

2) Which Seattle-area musician did not die from a heroin overdose?
a) Andrew Wood (of Mother Love Bone)
b) Stefanie Sargent (of 7 Year Bitch)
c) Mia Zapata (of the Gits)
d) Kristen Pfaff (of Hole)

3) Actress Shirley Temple's daughter, Lori, played bass for which band?
a) L7
b) The Runaways
c) Helmet
d) The Melvins

1c 2c 3d

1) Which band was Courtney Love never in?
a) Hole
b) Faith No More
c) L7
d) Babes In Toyland

2) Which Seattle-area musician did not die from a heroin overdose?
a) Andrew Wood (of Mother Love Bone)
b) Stefanie Sargent (of 7 Year Bitch)
c) Mia Zapata (of the Gits)
d) Kristen Pfaff (of Hole)

3) Actress Shirley Temple's daughter, Lori, played bass for which band?
a) L7
b) The Runaways
c) Helmet
d) The Melvins

1: What was the first album i ever purchased?
a) Melon Cholie and the Infinite sadness-Smashing Pumpkins
b) Fairweather Johnson-Hootie and the Bluefish
c) That earlier Hootie album
d) Uplift Mofo something arather..-Red Hot Chili Peppers

2: Did myself and my friends convince our repsective sisters we wrote songs for famous bands?
a) yes
b) no, but it was funny
c) We convinced ourselves
d) I actually do

3: Is Dark Side of the Moon deliberatly linked to the Wizard of OZ from the 3rd roar of the lion in the opening MGM sequence?
a) yes
b) no
c) Atom Heart Mother is
d) Myrth

ZOMG WHITE TEXT!
1;a,2;b/c,3;b

Come one, come all! Here's your chance to stump your fellow NSers with bits of random obscure music trivia. Post questions, and then, below the questions, post the answers as a spoiler. For instance, you might do something like this:

1) Which band was Courtney Love never in?
a) Hole
b) Faith No More
c) L7
d) Babes In Toyland



C. I remember finding out she was in Faith No More as a big 'what the fuck?' moment.

a) Name a playing card which is an opera. Who was the composer?
b) Name two playing cards that feature in a rhyme.
c) Name a playing card which features in a Disney film with 'its' own song. What book was the film based on, and who was the author?
d) Name a playing card which is a sogn by a 20th century band. Name that band.

Answers
a) the Queen of Spades by Tchaikovsky
b) The Queen of Hearts and the Knave of Hearts (french name for the Jack of Hearts)
c) The Queen of Hearts. The books was 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll
d) The Ace of Spades by Motorhead

Which is an Opera by Tchaikovsky?
a) The Queen of Hearts
b) The Ace of Spades
c) The Knave of Hearts
d) The Queen of Spades *

The correct answer has a white star to the right of it.

He wrote it as a companion piece to Motorhead's Ace of Spades.

Come one, come all! Here's your chance to stump your fellow NSers with bits of random obscure music trivia. Post questions, and then, below the questions, post the answers as a spoiler. For instance, you might do something like this:

1) Which band was Courtney Love never in?
a) Hole
b) Faith No More
c) L7
d) Babes In Toyland

2) Which Seattle-area musician did not die from a heroin overdose?
a) Andrew Wood (of Mother Love Bone)
b) Stefanie Sargent (of 7 Year Bitch)
c) Mia Zapata (of the Gits)
d) Kristen Pfaff (of Hole)

3) Actress Shirley Temple's daughter, Lori, played bass for which band?
a) L7
b) The Runaways
c) Helmet
d) The Melvins

1c 2c 3d

You got me on 1), but I knew the other two. Mia Zapata was raped and shot, or something, wasn't she?

EDIT - raped, beaten and strangled, apparently. :(

Which is an Opera by Tchaikovsky?
a) The Queen of Hearts
b) The Ace of Spades
c) The Knave of Hearts
d) The Queen of Spades *

The correct answer has a white star to the right of it.

The Ace of Spades, isn't that the song he did with Motörhead?

Ugh, beaten to it. :(

Which of these men have never managed the Beatles?

A) Allen Klein
B) Brian Epstein
C) Peter Brown
D) Lee Eastman*

Answer has teh white star.

How many overtures did Beethoven write for his opera, Fidelio?

a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4*

Which Pink Floyd album is sometimes described as "The Anti-Wall"?

1. Ummagumma
2. The Final Cut
3. The Division Bell *
4. A Momentary Lapse of Reason

1) How many members who played on Napalm Death's debut album, Scum are currently in the band?
a) 3
b) 2
c) 1
d) 0

2) Which was the first UK punk band to release an album?
a) The Clash
b) The Damned
c) The Sex Pistols
d) The Slits

1d, 2b

Which composer invented the so-called Tristan Chord?

1) Beethoven
2) Tchaikovsky
3) Wagner *
4) Kurt Cobain

Which musical interval has been called the "diabolus in musica"?

1) Octave
2) Tritone *
3) Power chord
4) Minor third

Which of these works was written by J.S. Bach?

1) Symphony no. 40 in G minor
2) Hotel California
3) Canon and Gigue in D
4) The Art of Fugue *