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Nicknamed the 'Queen of Disco,' which singer scored a huge hit with the moaning 1975 track 'Love to Love You Baby'?
AnswerDonna Summer
NoteThe album version of 'Love to Love You Baby' ran nearly 17 minutes.
Host sheet 70s Music QuizFrom disco floors to rock arenas: a pub quiz tour of the 1970s in music. 21 audio questions are play-online only and left off this sheet. The 23 questions below are numbered 1–23. Round 1 Disco & Funk2. Which legendary Manhattan nightclub, opened in 1977, became the epicenter of celebrity disco culture? AnswerStudio 54 3. John Travolta's white suit and dance moves made which 1977 film's soundtrack a disco-defining blockbuster? AnswerSaturday Night Fever 4. George Clinton masterminded which sprawling funk collective known for the Mothership stage prop and albums like 'Mothership Connection'? AnswerParliament-Funkadelic 5. Which trio of brothers wrote and sang 'Stayin' Alive' and 'Night Fever' with soaring falsetto harmonies? AnswerBee Gees 6. Costumed as a cowboy, cop, and construction worker, which group performed the campy disco hit 'Y.M.C.A.'? AnswerVillage People 7. At Comiskey Park in 1979, what infamous promotional event saw disco records blown up between baseball games? AnswerDisco Demolition Night NoteThe event ended in a near-riot and forced the White Sox to forfeit the second game. Round 2 70s Rock Anthems8. Tom Scholz's guitar-driven debut single introduced what band with the line 'I'm not looking back'? AnswerBoston (song: More Than a Feeling) NoteScholz built much of the recording gear himself in his home basement studio. 9. Which Eagles classic opens with the line 'On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair'? AnswerHotel California 10. Recorded shortly before Bon Scott's death, what AC/DC anthem declares 'I'm on the highway to hell'? AnswerHighway to Hell 11. Born out of the band's own breakups, what 1977 Fleetwood Mac album gave rock its 'Go Your Own Way'? AnswerRumours 12. Which Aerosmith anthem, later famously covered by Run-D.M.C., first appeared on their 1975 album 'Toys in the Attic'? AnswerWalk This Way Round 3 Singer-Songwriters13. Whose 1971 album 'Blue' is often ranked among the most influential singer-songwriter records of all time? AnswerJoni Mitchell 14. Which British singer-songwriter of 'Wild World' and 'Peace Train' converted to Islam in 1977 and took the name Yusuf Islam? AnswerCat Stevens 15. Which Canadian singer-songwriter recorded 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,' a 1976 ballad about a Great Lakes shipwreck? AnswerGordon Lightfoot 16. Neil Young's stripped-down 1972 album featuring 'Heart of Gold' and 'Old Man' shares its name with which farm animal-related word? AnswerHarvest 17. Which singer-songwriter's 1975 hit 'At Seventeen' candidly addressed teenage insecurity and social exclusion? AnswerJanis Ian 18. Don McLean's 1971 epic 'American Pie' famously refers to which tragic 1959 event as 'the day the music died'?  AnswerThe plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper 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? AnswerNorman Greenbaum 20. Vicki Lawrence, better known as a comedic actress, scored a 1973 number one with which murder-mystery ballad? AnswerThe Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia 21. Whose sultry 1973 single 'Midnight at the Oasis' became her only major crossover hit? AnswerMaria Muldaur 22. Which trio's 1974 single 'Rock the Boat' helped kick the disco era into gear?  AnswerThe Hues Corporation 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? AnswerBlue Swede |