Loaded Questions 3/3/22 - Pop Music
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1. Katy Perry had "Firework", and Bruno Mars had "Grenade". Whose 2011 song "Dynamite" won a Billboard Music Award?
2. What English rock band with Ian Gillan, Jon Lord, and Roger Glover is best known for their 1973 song "Smoke on the Water", which apparently was inspired by a Frank Zappa concert?
3. "Freddie's Dead" is a track from the 1972 soundtrack album for the film "Superfly", written by what musician, who got his musical start playing the 60s group The Impressions, where he wrote the social awareness song "People Get Ready"?
4. Daddy Yankee is known as the "King of" what genre of music from Puerto Rico, first made popular in the 1990s?
5. "Twas in the darkest depths of Mordor / I met a girl so fair" is a line from what 1969 Led Zeppelin song?
6. Rob Tyner, Wayne Kramer, and Fred Smith is the main lineup of what proto-punk band that formed in Detroit, and had the biggest hit "Kick Out the Jams"?
7. What 1973 song by the Spanish band Mocedades has an English version named "Touch the Wind"?
8. "Too High", "Living for the City", and "Golden Lady" are songs from what 1973 album by Stevie Wonder, now considered one of the greatest albums ever made?
9. Bobby Darin's hit "Beyond the Sea" was taken from the song "La Mer", originally written in 1945 by what French singer-songwriter, whose song "Que reste-t-il de nos amours?" was played in English as "I Wish You Love"?
10. What connects the titles of the 2013 songs "Beautiful" by Mariah Carey and "thatPower" by will.i.am?
11. Destiny's Child had two hits whose titles were the same word repeated three times: "Bills, Bills, Bills" and what 1998 song, the group's first hit single?
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1. Katy Perry had "Firework", and Bruno Mars had "Grenade". Whose 2011 song "Dynamite" won a Billboard Music Award? Taio Cruz
2. What English rock band with Ian Gillan, Jon Lord, and Roger Glover is best known for their 1973 song "Smoke on the Water", which apparently was inspired by a Frank Zappa concert? Deep Purple
3. "Freddie's Dead" is a track from the 1972 soundtrack album for the film "Superfly", written by what musician, who got his musical start playing the 60s group The Impressions, where he wrote the social awareness song "People Get Ready"? Curtis Mayfield
4. Daddy Yankee is known as the "King of" what genre of music from Puerto Rico, first made popular in the 1990s? Reggaeton
5. "Twas in the darkest depths of Mordor / I met a girl so fair" is a line from what 1969 Led Zeppelin song? Ramble On
6. Rob Tyner, Wayne Kramer, and Fred Smith is the main lineup of what proto-punk band that formed in Detroit, and had the biggest hit "Kick Out the Jams"? MC5
7. What 1973 song by the Spanish band Mocedades has an English version named "Touch the Wind"? Eres Tu
8. "Too High", "Living for the City", and "Golden Lady" are songs from what 1973 album by Stevie Wonder, now considered one of the greatest albums ever made? Innervisions
9. Bobby Darin's hit "Beyond the Sea" was taken from the song "La Mer", originally written in 1945 by what French singer-songwriter, whose song "Que reste-t-il de nos amours?" was played in English as "I Wish You Love"? Charles Trenet
10. What connects the titles of the 2013 songs "Beautiful" by Mariah Carey and "thatPower" by will.i.am? Begin with a hashtag #
11. Destiny's Child had two hits whose titles were the same word repeated three times: "Bills, Bills, Bills" and what 1998 song, the group's first hit single? No, No, No