Australian Music

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1. What Australian artist had the best selling album in the UK in 1988?
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2. Who hosted the first season of the Australian X Factor?
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3. Who replaced Dicko as the new mean judge on Australian Idol in 2005?
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4. Which Australian actor wrote a song in tribute to his wife in 2005 called Weight of a Man?
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5. What are winning artists presented with at the Tamworth Country Music Festival?
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6. What was the first single released by Australian Idol winner Guy Sebastian?
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7. Eagle Rock is a classic song by which 70s Australian band?
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8. Whos 1973 album, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was voted Australias most successful Album of all time in 2004?
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9. Which Beatles song stayed at No. 1 in Australia for 15 weeks?
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10. What was Peter Allens only number 1 song in Australia?
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11. What group sings The Supernanny theme song Johnny be Good?
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12. In 2005, what Australian launched her first album in 4 years entitled Counting Down the Days?
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13. Who is Silverchair singer Daniel Johns married to?
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14. Who sang the farewell song Well Be One at the Closing Ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Olympics?
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15. What singer/songwriter used to have a back-up band call The Coloured Girls?
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16. What flower was the trade mark of performer Mark Holden in the 1970s?
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17. Name the Hoodoo Gurus first album, released in 1984.
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18. In what town are the annual Australian Country Music Awards held?
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19. What is the title of the musical about the life of entertainer Peter Allen?
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20. What family group hosted the 2005 Australian MTV Music Awards?
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21. In the Slim Dusty song theres-a nothing so lonesome, morbid, or drear as … what?
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22. Name the Australian punk band who recorded the 1970s single Im Stranded.
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23. Which Aussie group did Judith Durham and Ken Ray front?
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24. What Aussie group had a number 1 hit with ‘Jump in my car’ in 1972?
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25. What is the name of the all girl best selling string quartet featuring two Australian and two British members?
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26. What country was Aussie rocker Jimmy Barnes born in?
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27. What Australian won the 2004 Male Vocalist of the Year at Americas Annual Academy of Country Music Awards.
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28. What Australian vocal group achieved two of the top ten best-selling singles in the US during the 1970s?
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29. In the recording industry, does a gold or platinum record indicate the most sales?
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30. What do you call the five horizontal lines on and between which musical notes are written?
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31. What was the name of AC/DCs chauffeur who became their lead vocalist when their singer, Dave Evans, refused to go on-stage?
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32. How many beats are there in a semibreve?
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33. What is the most common first word of pop song titles?
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34. What 1972 song has the lines: I am strong, I am invincible?
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35. During her breast cancer ordeal, which royal sent Kylie Monogue a message urging her to Be strong. Rest. And get well.?
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36. What does the word fine (finee) on a piece of sheet music indicate?
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37. What is the musical definition of the word presto?
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38. What does the term Pianissimo mean in music?
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39. What was the 2004 theme song of Australias NRL football, written and performed by the Hoodoo Gurus?
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40. What Australian band named themselves after a song on Paul McCartneys solo 1973 album Band on the Run?
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41. Who was the 2003 inductee into the Aria Hall of Fame?
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42. Who sang an Australian Christmas song about six white boomers?
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43. The song The Easter Bilby was recorded by which Australian country star?
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44. Name Australias original mean judge on Australian Idol.
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45. Name the first group formed from the Australian reality show Popstars.
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46. What is the full name of the Australian Idol singer they call The Fro 
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47. From which film was the Bee Gees song Stayin Alive the theme song?
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48. In what year was the first ever ARIA awards ceremony held?
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49. Jeff Fatt and Anthony Fields from the Wiggles played in which popular Australian band in the 1980s?
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50. Lead singer of INXS, Michael Hutchence was found hanged in which city?
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51. Name the Australian band who wear masks and sing songs such as (Hell never be an) Old Man River.
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52. Name the Australian rock band whose only Top 40 hit in the U.S. was the 1967 song Friday On My Mind.
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53. Name the Australian rock group who recorded the album Three Legged Dog?
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54. Name the lead singer of the Australian rock group You am I.
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55. Reg Mombassa from band Mental as Anything is also an artist for which Australian clothing brand?
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56. What Australian band does singer Daniel Johns front?
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57. What Australian band had the hit song On my Mind in 2003?
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58. What Australian group earned more than Kylie Minogue in 2003 and are the worlds most successful tribute band?
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59. What band was headed by the legendary Doc Neeson?
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60. What city are the band Regurgitator from?
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61. What international chart topping-group, who reached the height of their fame in 1998, were from Logan City, Brisbane?
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62. What is the name of Kylie Minogues underwear brand?
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63. What US reality show did Kylie Monogue borrow cast members from, for a remake of her video clip Slow?
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64. Which Australian band are Jack Housden and Warwick Hornby members of?
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65. Which singer in 2004 equalled John Farnhams chart record for most time spent by an Australian act at No 1 ?
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66. Who presented Hugh Jackman with his Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical in 2004?
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67. Who replaced Glen Shorrock in the Little River Band?
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68. What is Cazalys first name in the famous AFL song Up There, Cazaly?
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69. Which Australian group achieved a number one record in the US in 1981?
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70. What was the group Australian Crawl’s first hit single called?
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71. ‘Most People I Know’ is the biography of which Australian pop star?
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72. What patriotic Australian jingle produced a number 1 hit for the Mojo Singers in 1979?
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73. Breakfast at Sweethearts’ was a hit song and album for which band?.
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74. Name the lead singer of the Aussie group ‘Killing Heidi’.
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75. What group is Katie Noonan, who sang the National Anthem at the 2004 NRL final, the lead singer for?
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76. What Aussie singer released his second album called ‘Beautiful Life’?
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77. What was the first single that Kylie Minogue ever recorded?
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78. Australian Idol Shannon Noll’s song ‘What about me’ was originally released by what Australian band?
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79. In 2004 who re-released the song ‘Black Betty’ previously performed by artists such as Nick Cave and Tom Jones?
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80. Which group were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2004?
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81. What Little Eva song was covered by Kylie Monogue in 1988 and Atomic Kitten in 2001?
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82. John Farnham toured Australia with whom in Febuary 2005?
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1. In Australian slang, what type of food is a cackleberry?
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2. If you are referred to as a Sandgroper, which Australian state do you come from?
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3. If you have fallen A over T, what do the A and T stand for?
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4. In Australian slang, if you are about to have a Dad and Dave, what are you about to do?
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5. In Australian slang, what are you doing if you are having a Captain Cook?
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6. In Australian slang, what are you doing if you Put something on the Never Never?
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7. In Australian slang, what are you supposed to do like a Bondi tram?
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8. In Australian slang, what are your Reg Grundys?
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9. In Australian slang, what is a Brass Razoo?
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10. In Australian slang, what is a Dunny Budgie?
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11. In Australian slang, what is a Yank Tank?
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12. In Australian slang, what type of food is underground mutton?
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13. In Australian slang, what type of profession is a leckie?
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14. The term Dag is often used in affection, where would you find a real Dag?
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15. What is a fag in Australian slang?
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16. How many litres of beer are there in a Darwin Stubbie?
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