SSP
2024 IN MUSIC
RHYME TIME
POTPOURRI
100

"P3" stands for this title.

What is the Performance-based Payment Policy Group?

100

When she wasn’t busy on an international tour or attending NFL games, this pop singer-songwriter found time to release her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department.

Who is Taylor Swift?

100

A thick baseball stick.

What is a fat bat?

100

This is the next U.S. federal holiday.

What is Veterans Day? (11/11)

200

This is the name of the biweekly newsletter that CMS distributes to Accountable Care Organizations?

What is Spotlight?

200

One of the largest songs of summer 2024, this Sabrina Carpenter hit references a certain caffeinated drink.

What is "Espresso"?

200

The invoice for one’s prescription tablets.

What is a pill bill?

200

From the Greek for "label," it's a course outline of a school class.

What is a syllabus?

300

The mailing address of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Baltimore office is this.

What is 7500 Security Boulevard?

300

Legendary musician and producer Quincy Jones, who passed away earlier this week, produced these bestselling Michael Jackson albums (name one).

What is [Off the Wall / Thriller / Bad]? (all acceptable)

300

One who chooses the alcohol.

What is a liquor picker?

300

This biographical epic from Christopher Nolan won the 2024 Academy Award for Best Picture.

What is Oppenheimer?

400

This was the year the Shared Savings Program was established.

What is 2012?

400

This pop and R&B superstar went country in early 2024, releasing an album entitled Cowboy Carter.

Who is Beyonce?

400

Groups where one can study eyewear.

What are glasses classes?

400

These two crew members were on the Apollo 11 mission alongside Neil Armstrong (we’ll take either).

Who are Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins?

500

This calendar year was the only one of the last five that was split into two performance years.

What is 2019 (2019 and 2019-A)?

500

What 2024 breakout pop singer was born Kayleigh Rose Amstutz? We’ll be generous on pronunciation of her stage name.

Who is Chappell Roan?

500

Almost every 365 days.

What is nearly yearly?

500

This female writer has had the most books adapted for film, with a total of 48 (as of 2023).

Who is Agatha Christie?