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Becky's Island Music Trivia Quiz #179- 7/28/04

Rock and Religion

Answers

1.Appropriately, one of her biggest hits was "Like a Prayer": Madonna
2. The French called her "Soeur Sourire" when she recorded "Dominique;" we knew her by this name in the United States
: The Singing Nun
3. It's where Norman Greenbaum says we're gonna go when we die
: "Spirit in the Sky"
4. Gospel group who hit with "Respect Yourself" and "I'll Take You There"
: The Staple Singers
5. He played a Baptist minister in the 1980 movie "The Blues Brothers"
: James Brown
6. She asked, "What if God was one of us?" in 1996
: Joan Osborne
7. Contemporary Christian singer who recorded "The Next Time I Fall" with Peter Cetera
: Amy Grant
8. The religion Michael Jackson grew up in and Prince now practices
: Jehovah's Witnesses
9. This soul singer, now a preacher in Memphis, returned to secular music last year with "I Can't Stop"
: The Reverend Al Green
10. He played a rabbi's son in the remake of "The Jazz Singer" in 1980
: Neil Diamond
11. He hit with "Crying in the Chapel" in 1965 and later won a Grammy for his gospel singing
: Elvis Presley
12. This Beatle was the leading advocate of Hinduism in the Western world
; George Harrison
13. Betty Madigan's "Dance Everyone Dance" was based on this Jewish standard
: "Hava Nagila"
14. Sister Janet Mead had a hit in 1974 with this musical prayer
: The Lord's Prayer
15. This was the Doobie Brothers' second Top 40 hit, from 1973
: "Jesus Is Just Alright"
16. He said Eleanor Rigby's funeral mass
: Father MacKenzie
17. She starred as the original Mary Magdalene in "Jesus Christ Superstar" and later had a big hit on the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack
: Yvonne Elliman

Bonus: The first Christian martyr, and the patron saint of all Deadheads: Saint Stephen

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