MUSIC QUIZ OF THE YEAR
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1. Whose final album was released on January 8, two days before his death?
2. Which member of the Eagles died in January?
3. Name the duo who presented the 2016 Brit Awards in February.
4. Whose ‘Life of Pablo’ was released exclusively on Tidal on Valentine’s Day?
5. Who won ‘Album of the Year’ for a second time at the 58th Grammys in February?
6. Whose sixth studio album, released in April, was called ‘Lemonade’?
7. How many words make up the title of The 1975’s 2016 album?
8. Who contributed guest vocals to Charlie Puth’s ‘We Don’t Talk Anymore’?
9. In August, it was revealed that Ozzy Osbourne was undergoing ‘intense’ therapy for (a) alcohol addiction; (b) drug addiction; (c) sex addiction?
10. Who returned in August to present the 13th season of ‘X Factor’, having been replaced by Caroline Flack for season 12
11. Name the band who had Irish hits with ‘Parachute’ and ‘Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello (Petrol)’ and are back on the road again.
12. Whose debut single ‘Pillowtalk’ reached number one in both the UK and US?
13. Who was the most streamed artist on Spotify in 2016, for the second year in a row? 14. What is Sia’s surname? 15. Which of the following acts did not appear at Glastonbury in 2016: (a) Adele; (b) Taylor Swift; (c) Ellie Goulding?
16. Time magazine named whose ‘Can’t Stop The Feeling’ the worst song of the year?
17. Who performs the theme song to hit US sitcom ‘The Big Bang Theory’?
18. The UK/Ireland ‘Now That’s What I Call Music!’ series reached which number in November ? 19. Who won X Factor in December? 20. And who wrote the X Factor Christmas single ‘When Christmas Comes Around’?
21. Which country won the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest in May?
22. Who represented Ireland at the Eurovision?
23. Spice Girls reunited in 2016… without two of the original members. Name the missing pair.
24. Which member of One Direction released his debut solo single ‘This Town’ in September?
25. Whose third album ‘Starboy’ was released in November and reached number one in over 80 countries?
26. What did Justin Bieber achieve with ‘Sorry’ and ‘Love Yourself’ in the US charts that Usher managed in 2004, and the Beatles achieved in 1964 with ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’ and ‘She Loves You’?
27. Name the band whose four members and manager all died when their car plunged off a bridge in Sweden in February.
28. Whose ‘Hello’ was named BBC Song of the Year for 2016?
29. Who sent a letter to the Nobel Academy expressing his regret that due to pre-existing commitments, he would not be able to collect his Nobel Prize in Literature in person?
30. Which Irish band featured in the opening sequence for Amazon’s first instalment of The Grand Tour, with Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond?
31. ELP, King Crimson and ‘I Believe In Father Christmas’ singer who died in December?
32. Which Irish singer’s cover of Chris Isaak’s ‘Wicked Game’ was used in the official trailer for the sixth season of Game Of Thrones?
33. Louis Walsh is a native of which county: a) Mayo; b) Dublin; c) Kerry?
34. Who announced at the start of October that their ‘A Headful of Dreams Tour’ will come to Dublin next July?
35. Which band’s ‘Nevermind’ was 25 years old in September?
36. Which singer, who died in 2016, named his residence and recording studio complex Paisley Park?
37. True or false? Rita Ora was invited perform at the Vatican at a ceremony to mark the canonisation of Mother Teresa.
38. Who sang ‘Still Falling For You’ in hit movie Bridget Jones’s Baby?
39. And whose ‘Better Love’ graced The Legend of Tarzan soundtrack?
40. What’s the name of Bressie’s band?
41. What was the name of the ‘fifth Beatle’ who passed away in March?
42. In a US copyright lawsuit, which Marvin Gaye song was Ed Sheeran accused of plagiarising on ‘Thinking Out Loud’?
43. Whose ‘57th and 9th’, released in November, was billed as ‘his first rock album in over a decade’?
44. What had Pete Burns, Merle Haggard, and Leonard Cohen in common in 2016?
45. What name is Abel Makkonen Tesfaye better known as?
46. And which country is he a native of?
47. With which song did Lukas Graham become the highest charting Danish act in the US in 55 years?
48. Collectively, who are Jade Thirlwall, Perrie Edwards, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, and Jesy Nelson?
49. Who teamed with Rihanna on ‘Work’?
50. True or false: Solange Knowles is older than her sister Beyonce?