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Ipanema - Antonio Carlos Jobim wrote the song. His heirs unsuccessfully sued Pinheiro when she opened a boutique called Garota de Ipanema (Girl from Ipanema).Per the 1964 song she inspired, the "tall and tanned and young and lovely" Heloisa Pinheiro made the men she passes go "ahh" on what Brazilian beach?


The Music Man - He also loudly courts Marian the Librarian in her library.In what musical does Harold Hill warn that we've got trouble, right here in River City?


Wedding - Queen Victoria's daughter, also called Victoria, is credited with popularizing the use of these songs.At what ceremony are you most likely to hear Wagner beforehand and Mendelssohn afterwards?


Mozart - It was brought on by a rheumatic fever epidemic.According to the University of Maryland's medical school, what composer was probably killed not by Salieri, but by congestive heart failure?


Franz Schubert - That turned out to be controversial, so they ended up accepting any composition. A Swede, Kurt Atterberg, won for his Sixth Symphony.The 1928 International Columbia Graphophone Competition was originally designed as an international contest to finish whose "Unfinished" Symphony?


Calypso - From 1945, it was played on steel drums, originally modified and tuned oil drums, along with guitars and maracas.What Caribbean music shares its name with a mythological sea nymph who kept Odysseus a virtual prisoner for seven years?


Insane Clown Posse - In 2010, Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope announced that they were evangelical Christians.For a guy who dresses like a clown, he sure isn't cheerful. What band included Violent J?


Tubthumping - The chorus is sometimes misheard as, I get knocked down, but I get up again. What was the name of Chumbawumba's 1998 hit?


Elton John - With Simple Life, a 1992 hit, he broke Elvis's record for most straight years with a Billboard Top 40 hit.Who had at least one US Billboard Top 40 hit in each of 30 straight years, from 1970's "Your Song" to a 1999 duet with LeAnn Rimes called "Written in the Stars"?


Igor Stravinsky - Fantasia was the first movie with a stereo soundtrack.Of the composers used in Disney's "Fantasia", only one was alive when it was released. Who could have seen dinosaurs cavorting to his "Rite of Spring"?


The Buggles - The song was actually about the end of the Golden Age of Radio. At 12.10 AM of August 1, 1981, MTV launched with "Video Killed the Radio Star". By whom?


Martha Reeves - She had been discovered in 1961 at Detroit's Twenty Grand Club.Who may have had "Nowhere to Run" when she started out doing secretarial work in Motown's A and R department?


Tommy Chong - He recorded it with Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers, the house band at Elegant Parlour, a club that Chong had bought in Vancouver. One of Motown's minor hits was a song called "Does Your Momma Know About It". What Canadian-born comedian wrote that song?


Subterranean Homesick Blues - It was a video segment used in the Dylan concert film 'Don't Look Back', and it was shot in an alley behind the Savoy Hotel in London.Get jailed, jump bail, join the army, if you fail, read some of the signs Bob Dylan flips in a proto-video for which song?


Judas Priest - The drummer's girlfriend saw him play. The story inspired the Mark Wahlberg movie Rock Star. Halford came back and Owens joined Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force.Before replacing Rob Halford as lead singer, Tim "Ripper" Owens used to play in British Steel, a tribute band that covered what band's songs?



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