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100

What 1978 movie features the song You're the One That I Want?
A) Saturday Night Fever
B) Dirty Dancing
C) Grease
D) Footloose

Grease.

100

Which musical features the song Memory?
A) Cats
B) Les Misérables
C) Phantom of the Opera
D) Evita

Cats

100

Who sang Dancing in the Dark?
A) Billy Joel
B) David Bowie
C) Bruce Springsteen
D) Bob Dylan

Bruce Springsteen

100

"Now we go steady to the pictures
I always get chocolate stains on my pants
And my father he's going crazy
He say's I'm living in a trance."

Dancing in the Moonlight Thin Lizzy 

100

What Irish band had a hit with Breathless in 2000?

A) The Corrs
B) B*Witched
C) Westlife
D) The Cranberries

The Corrs

200

Who sang I Will Always Love You which is featured in The Bodyguard?
A) Whitney Houston
B) Mariah Carey
C) Toni Braxton
D) Aretha Franklin

Whitney Houston

200

What is the name of the main character in The Sound of Music?
A) Eliza
B) Mary
C) Maria
D) Annie

Maria

200

What 1970s band featured Lindsey Buckingham?
A) Fleetwood Mac
B) The Eagles
C) The Bee Gees
D) ABBA

Fleetwood Mac

200

"Poor old Johnnie Ray
Sounded sad upon the radio
Moved a million hearts in mono

Our mothers cried
Sang along, who'd blame them?"

Come on Eileen, Dexys Midnight Runners

200

Which group is famous for the rebel song Come Out Ye Black and Tans?

A) Wolfe Tones
B) The Dubliners
C) Planxty
D) The Fureys

Wolfe Tones

300

What song do Uma Thurman and John Travolta dance to in Pulp Fiction?
A) Son of a Preacher Man
B) Misirlou
C) Jungle Boogie
D) You Never Can Tell

You Never Can Tell 

300

Which artist turned their album Jagged Little Pill into a stage musical?
A) Alanis Morissette
B) Madonna
C) Shania Twain
D) Celine Dion

Alanis Morissette

300

Pete Townshend was a guitarist and songwriter for which rock band? 

(a) The Rolling Stones

(b) Thin Lizzy

(c) Pink Floyd

(d) The Who

The Who


300

"Now, here you go again
You say you want your freedom
Well, who am I to keep you down?"

Dreams, Fleetwood Mac

300

Who wrote “The Town That I Loved So Well” about their home town? 

A)Paul Brady

B)Luke Kelley

C)Enya
D) Phil Coulter

Phil Coulter

400

In Back to the Future, what song does Marty play on the guitar?
A) Twist and Shout
B) Great Balls of Fire
C) Johnny B. Goode
D) Rock Around the Clock

Johnny B. Goode

400

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat was written by which composer duo?
A) Elton John & Tim Rice
B) Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice
C) Rogers & Hammerstein
D) Benny & Björn

Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice

400

Before embarking on his solo career Phil Collins was a drummer and front man for which band? 

(a) Black Sabbath

(b) Genesis

(c) Leviticus 

(d) King Crimson

Genesis

400

"See, my old man's got a problem
He lives with a bottle, that's the way it is
He says his body's too old for workin'
His body's too young to look like his"

Fast car, Tracey Chapman

400

Long haired Bray singer Andrew Byrne is better known by what name? 

Hozier 

500

Which John Hughes movie ended with the song "Don't you (forget about me)?

(a) Ferris Bueller's Day Off

(b) The Breakfast Club

(c) Sixteen Candles

(d) Planes Trains and Automobiles

The Breakfast Club

500

Which musical tells the story of Jean Valjean?
A) Chicago
B) Les Misérables
C) Rent
D) West Side Story

Les Misérables

500

From which city does Bruce Springsteen hail?

(a) New Jersey 

(b) Washington

(c) New York

(d) Philadelphia 

New Jersey

500

"I remember '62
I was 16 and so were you
And we lived next door
On the avenue "

Rock and Roll Kids, Charlie McGettigan and Paul Harrington

500

Which Irish singer won the 2008 Oscar for best original song in a motion picture for his song "Falling Slowly"?

Glen Hansard.