Brain Strain - Feb 28th

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February 28, 2005 Podcast Download - mp3

Previous Music Trivia Questions & Answers (Feb 27, 2005):
Q: What group took its name from Georgia blues musicians Floyd Council and Pink Anderson?
A: Pink Floyd

Q: In what year did Dion and the Belmonts hit the Top 10 as they ask, Why Must I Be A Teenager In Love?
A: 1959

Q: What group did Phil Collins stop banging drums for to go solo?
A: Genesis


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Brain Strain - Feb 27th

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February 27, 2005 Podcast Download - mp3

Previous Music Trivia Questions & Answers (Feb 26, 2005):
Q: Where did Gladys Knight and The Pips take a midnight train to?
A: Georgia

Q: In what year did Rod Stewart marry George Hamilton's ex-wife Alana in a Beverly Hills ceremony?
A: 1979

Q: What was Paul Anka's first No. 1 record?
A: Lonely Boy


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Brain Strain - Feb 26th

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February 26, 2005 Podcast Download - mp3

Previous Music Trivia Questions & Answers (Feb 25, 2005):
Q: Where did Bobby McGee slip away?
A: Somewhere near Salinas

Q: In what year did Motown celebrate its 25th anniversary?
A: 1983

Q: What name did Eric Clapton and friends assume for their 1972 hitLayla?
A: Derek and The Dominoes


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Brain Strain - Feb 25th

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February 25, 2005 Podcast Download - mp3

Previous Music Trivia Questions & Answers (Feb 24, 2005):
Q: What was Don McLean's followup hit to American Pie?
A: Vincent

Q: In what year did Bobby Day, use bird sounds to help his Rockin' Robin reach No. 2 on the charts?
A: 1958

Q: What one song's production was the straw that broke The Beatles' back?
A: The Long and Winding Road


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Brain Strain - Feb 24th

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February 24, 2005 Podcast Download - mp3

Previous Music Trivia Questions & Answers (Feb 23, 2005):
Q: How many No.1 hit singles has James Brown had?
A: None

Q: In what year did The Beatles' last concert apprearance take place at Candlestick Park in San Francisco?
A: 1966

Q: What song vaulted Glen Campbell into the limelight after a career as a session musician?
A: Gentle on My Mind


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Brain Strain - Feb 23nd

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February 23, 2005 Podcast Download - mp3

Previous Music Trivia Questions & Answers (Feb 22, 2005):
Q: What Grammy - winning song rescued 42-year-old Charlie Rich from obscurity in 1974?
A: Behind Closed Doors

Q: In what year did Boy George, singer and slave to women's fashion, become Britain's top pop export to the U.S.?
A: 1984

Q: What was Anita Bryant's first and biggest hit?
A: Paper Roses


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Brain Strain - Feb 22nd

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February 22, 2005 Podcast Download - mp3

Previous Music Trivia Questions & Answers (Feb 21, 2005):
Q: What day of the week did The Mamas and The Papas cop a 1966 gold record for singing about?
A: Monday

Q: In what year did R&B singer Jackie Wilson hit the pop charts with Lonely Teardrops?
A: 1959

Q: What song, Harry Nilsson's second hit, was rejected for use in Midnight Cowboy?
A: I guess the Lord Must Be in New York City


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Brain Strain - Feb 21st

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February 21, 2005 Podcast Download - mp3

Previous Music Trivia Questions & Answers (Feb 20, 2005):
Q: What was Wilson Picketts first major hit?
A: In The Midnight Hour

Q: In what year did God Save The Queen shoot to number 2 on the Britsh charts for punk rocker Johnny Rotten & The Sex Pistols?
A: 1977

Q: Whose first major album was Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars?
A: David Bowie's


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Brain Strain - Feb 20th

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February 20, 2005 Podcast Download - mp3

Previous Music Trivia Questions & Answers (Feb 19, 2005):
Q: What record company threw out The Beatles after George Harrison sang The Sheik of Araby?
A: Decca

Q: In what year did the Ray Stevens' novelty tune, The Streak, get lots of exposure at the top of the charts for three weeks?
A: 1974

Q: What 1959 smash did Frankie Avalon call "the only record I've ever recorded"?
A: Venus


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Brain Strain - Feb 19th

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February 19, 2005 Podcast Download - mp3

Previous Music Trivia Questions & Answers (Feb 18, 2005):
Q: What was Simon & Garfunkel's first hit?
A: Sounds Of Silence

Q: What year was The Kinks' You Really Got Me released in England. Clue: Van Halen recorded it 14 years later.?
A: 1964

Q: Whose mother did Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show sing about in 1972?
A: Sylvia's


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Brain Strain - Feb 18th

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February 18, 2005 Podcast Download - mp3

Previous Music Trivia Questions & Answers (Feb 17, 2005):
Q: What singer was Bob Dylan addressing in singing: "It ain't me babe"?
A: Joan Baez

Q: After 20 years with Motown, in what year did Diana Ross make an exclusive deal with RCA Records?
A: 1981

Q: Where shouldn't you go if you were lookin' for a wife?
A: Wolverton Mountain


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Brain Strain - Feb 17th

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February 17, 2005 Podcast Download - mp3

Previous Music Trivia Questions & Answers (Feb 16, 2005):
Q: What port was the sloop John B. docked on?
A: Nassau

Q: In what year did Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer win an Oscar for the movie song, Days Of Wine And Roses?
A: 1962

Q: What group stood up and sang I second That Emotion in 1968?
A: Smokey Robinson and The Miracles


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Brain Strain - Feb 16th

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February 16, 2005 Podcast Download - mp3

Previous Music Trivia Questions & Answers (Feb 15, 2005):
Q: What Simon & Garfunkel LP was Britain's biggest selling album of the '70s?
A: Bridge Over Troubled Water

Q: In what year did singer songwriter Jim Croce, age 30, die in a plane crash en route to a concert?
A: 1973

Q: What 1977 Rita Coolidge hit did Singapore ban because they thought it was about drugs?
A: Higher and Higher


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Brain Strain - Feb 15th

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February 15, 2005 Podcast Download - mp3

Previous Music Trivia Questions & Answers (Feb 14, 2005):
Q: What was the title of the compilation that sparked the medley craze in 1981?
A: Stars On 45

Q: In what year did Jan & Dean move from the surf to the highway with The Little Old Lady From Pasadena?
A: 1964

Q: Who had a 1965 hit with Marvin Hamlisch's Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows?
A: Lesley Gore


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Brain Strain - Feb 14th

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February 14, 2005 Podcast Download - mp3

Previous Music Trivia Questions & Answers (Feb 13, 2005):
Q: What Jan & Dean hit featured a race between a Stingray and an XKE?
A: Dead Man's Curve

Q: The commercial pop group, The McCoys, released it's number one record Hang On Sloopy in what year?
A: 1965

Q: Which of the Wilson brothers drew the drum-banging assignment for The Beach Boys?
A: Dennis


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Brain Strain - Feb 13th

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February 13, 2005 Podcast Download - mp3

Previous Music Trivia Questions & Answers (Feb 12, 2005):
Q: What was the name of the first Beatles Album released in North America, on July 23, 1963?
A: Introducing The Beatles

Q: What did Lola's champagne taste like?
A: Cherry Cola

Q: What 1959 tune was The Miracles' response to The Silhouettes hit Get A Job?
A: Got A Job


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Brain Strain - Feb 12th

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February 12, 2005 Podcast Download - mp3

Previous Music Trivia Questions & Answers (Feb 11, 2005):
Q: In what year did popular DJ Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots score a platinum record with Disco Duck (Part 1)?
A: 1976

Q: In what year did Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles, die at age 32 of an overdose of sleeping pills?
A: 1967

Q: In what year did Bobby Brown's Don't be Cruel take honors as Billboard's Top Pop Album of the Year?
A: 1989


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'Brain Strain' - Feb 11th

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February 11, 2005 Podcast Download - mp3

Previous Music Trivia Answer (Feb 10, 2005):
1965
1972
1983


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