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Music by Year, 1930–1949 - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 2,557 times
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- The average score is 9 of 20
Answer Stats
| Year | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| 1942 | Christmas favorite recorded by Bing Crosby, estimated by some to be the best-selling single of all time | White Christmas | 81%
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| 1946 | Blue-eyed crooner who recorded his first #1 hit: "Give Me Five Minutes More" | Frank Sinatra | 79%
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| 1938 | Song from "Snow White" which was one of the year's most popular | {Whistle} While You Work | 77%
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| 1937 | What young country singer Hiram Williams changed his name to | {Hank} Williams | 73%
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| 1943 | Musical, named after a U.S. state, which was the first collaboration between Rodgers and Hammerstein | Oklahoma! | 72%
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| 1936 | Musical fairy tale composed by Sergei Prokofiev | Peter and the {Wolf} | 58%
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| 1947 | Now-censored Disney movie which introduced the song "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" | Song of the {South} | 57%
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| 1930 | Songwriting brothers who composed "I Got Rhythm" | George & Ira {Gershwin} | 56%
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| 1945 | Trumpeter who dropped out of Julliard to join Charlie Parker's quartet | Miles Davis | 53%
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| 1940 | Folk singer who wrote the lyrics to "This Land is Your Land" | Woodie Guthrie | 45%
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| 1935 | Hollywood dancer who recorded the chart-topping song "Cheek to Cheek" | Fred Astaire | 44%
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| 1933 | Song by Ethel Waters which was the best-selling recording of the year | {Stormy} Weather | 44%
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| 1939 | Jazz singer who recorded the anti-lynching protest song "Strange Fruit" | Billie Holiday | 39%
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| 1944 | Bandleader who disappeared over the English Channel while traveling to entertain U.S. troops in France | Glenn Miller | 37%
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| 1949 | Famous jazz club, named after Charlie Parker, which opened in NYC | {Bird}land | 35%
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| 1931 | Singer who released his signature song "Minnie the Moocher", also known as "Hi De Hi De Hi De Ho". | Cab Calloway | 28%
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| 1932 | Bandleader who recorded "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" | Duke Ellington | 23%
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| 1934 | Composer whose musical "Anything Goes" debuted on Broadway | Cole Porter | 21%
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| 1941 | Jazz-loving youths who the Nazi regime cracked down on, later memorialized in a 1993 Hollywood movie | {Swing} Kids | 19%
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| 1948 | Italian maestro who conducted the first TV production of Beethoven's 9th | Arturo Toscanini | 8%
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