Nicknamed the 'Queen of Disco,' which singer scored a huge hit with the moaning 1975 track 'Love to Love You Baby'?
Player handout 70s Music QuizFrom disco floors to rock arenas: a pub quiz tour of the 1970s in music. Scan to open this quiz 21 audio questions are play-online only and left off this sheet. The 23 questions below are numbered 1–23. Round 1 Disco & Funk1. Nicknamed the 'Queen of Disco,' which singer scored a huge hit with the moaning 1975 track 'Love to Love You Baby'? 2. Which legendary Manhattan nightclub, opened in 1977, became the epicenter of celebrity disco culture? 3. John Travolta's white suit and dance moves made which 1977 film's soundtrack a disco-defining blockbuster? 4. George Clinton masterminded which sprawling funk collective known for the Mothership stage prop and albums like 'Mothership Connection'? 5. Which trio of brothers wrote and sang 'Stayin' Alive' and 'Night Fever' with soaring falsetto harmonies? 6. Costumed as a cowboy, cop, and construction worker, which group performed the campy disco hit 'Y.M.C.A.'? 7. At Comiskey Park in 1979, what infamous promotional event saw disco records blown up between baseball games? Round 2 70s Rock Anthems8. Tom Scholz's guitar-driven debut single introduced what band with the line 'I'm not looking back'? 9. Which Eagles classic opens with the line 'On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair'? 10. Recorded shortly before Bon Scott's death, what AC/DC anthem declares 'I'm on the highway to hell'? 11. Born out of the band's own breakups, what 1977 Fleetwood Mac album gave rock its 'Go Your Own Way'? 12. Which Aerosmith anthem, later famously covered by Run-D.M.C., first appeared on their 1975 album 'Toys in the Attic'? Round 3 Singer-Songwriters13. Whose 1971 album 'Blue' is often ranked among the most influential singer-songwriter records of all time? 14. Which British singer-songwriter of 'Wild World' and 'Peace Train' converted to Islam in 1977 and took the name Yusuf Islam? 15. Which Canadian singer-songwriter recorded 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,' a 1976 ballad about a Great Lakes shipwreck? 16. Neil Young's stripped-down 1972 album featuring 'Heart of Gold' and 'Old Man' shares its name with which farm animal-related word? 17. Which singer-songwriter's 1975 hit 'At Seventeen' candidly addressed teenage insecurity and social exclusion? 18. Don McLean's 1971 epic 'American Pie' famously refers to which tragic 1959 event as 'the day the music died'? ![]() Round 4 One-Hit Wonders of the 70s19. Featuring a fuzzed-out guitar riff and gospel-inspired lyrics, 'Spirit in the Sky' was the sole hit for which singer-songwriter? 20. Vicki Lawrence, better known as a comedic actress, scored a 1973 number one with which murder-mystery ballad? 21. Whose sultry 1973 single 'Midnight at the Oasis' became her only major crossover hit? 22. Which trio's 1974 single 'Rock the Boat' helped kick the disco era into gear? ![]() 23. A Swedish band's 'ooga-chaka' cover of a B.J. Thomas song, 'Hooked on a Feeling', gave which group its lone US number one? |