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Quiz Ending December 2011


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Jason from Columbia, MD is this month's quiz winner and will receive a cool and comfortable

SongFacts t-shirt :coolio:

Here are the answers:

1. What singer had three U.S. #1 albums before the age of 18?

Justin Bieber

Lee Ann Rimes

2. Who wrote a hit song after reading a bad review of her 2010 Grammy performance?

Taylor Swift - "Mean"

3. What was the most-listened-to song on the radio in the U.S. in 2008?

"No One" by Alicia Keys

According to Nielsen's Most-Listened-To Radio Songs chart, her song was heard by an estimated 3.08 billion listeners.

4. What hit song was used in a movie where a guy plays it from a Boom Box he holds up outside a girl's window?

"In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel.

It plays in the 1989 movie, Say Anything.

5. Who had a U.S. #1 album in 2011 released on an independent label?

Mac Miller - Blue Slide Park

The rapper's #1 debut album was released on independent record label, Rostrum Records.

Cake - Showroom Of Compassion

The group's #1 album was released on independent record label Upbeat Records.

6. What singer or band played to the largest crowd ever gathered for a Rock concert?

Rod Stewart

On New Year's Eve, 1994, about 3.5 million people saw him perform a free concert at Copacabana Beach in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. He was exhausted by the end of the show and was taken away in an ambulance.

7. What singer released seven consecutive singles that hit #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart?

Whitney Houston

Starting in 1985 and ending in 1988, they were, in order:

"Saving All My Love For You"

"How Will I Know"

"Greatest Love Of All"

"I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)"

"Didn't We Almost Have It All"

"So Emotional"

"Where Do Broken Hearts Go"

8. What is the best-selling group whose name is a palindrome?

Abba

9. What famous band has a member who was a top-ranked junior tennis player?

Metallica

Lars Ulrich moved from Denmark to California to work on his game, but ended up playing the drums.

10. What is the best selling album of the '00s that shares it's name with a popular American '80s TV show?

St. Elsewhere by Gnarls Barkley

The album has sold over 5.8 million in worldwide sales.

Congratulations to Jason and thanks to all who entered the Mighty Songfacts Trivia Quiz. :thumbsup:

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