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Becky's Island Music Trivia Quiz #193 - 11/3/04

TV Theme Songs - The 50s and 60s

Answers

1. Lalo Schifrin composed this odd-metered theme to a 60s spy show.: "Mission Impossible"
2. John Williams wrote the theme to this 60s space show long before becoming the "Star Wars" composer.
: "Lost in Space"
3. The Blues Brothers sang this Western theme when they wanted to calm down the crowd at Bob's Country Bunker.
: "Theme from the TV show Rawhide..."
4. "There's a holdup in the Bronx, Brooklyn's broken out in fights" is the start of what 60s TV theme?
: "Car 54, Where Are You?"
5. The Marketts took this one-word 60s TV theme into the charts, peaking at number 17.
: Duh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh Duh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh BATMAN!
6. What monstrous 60s TV theme featured snapping fingers?
: "The Addams Family"
7. Who's "the most effectual" and "intellectual" and "the indisputable leader of the gang?"
: Top Cat
8. Most women run away from the TV when they hear "Three Blind Mice." Why?
: It's the theme from "The Three Stooges"
9. This favorite 50s sitcom had a theme written by Eliot Daniel and Harold Adamson, not by Desi Arnaz.
: "I Love Lucy"
10. "Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale" is the beginning of what TV theme?
: Oh, please, you know this!
11. Who had a 1966 Top Ten hit with the theme from "Secret Agent?"
: Johnny Rivers
12. And who had a 1969 Top Ten hit with the theme from "Hawaii Five-O?"
: The Ventures
13. "You're My Greatest Love," composed by Jackie Gleason, was the theme to what show?
: "The Honeymooners," of course
14. This macabre show used Gounod's "Funeral March of a Marionette"as its theme.
: "Alfred Hitchcock Presents"
15. And this spy/superhero show adapted Rimsky Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee" for its theme.
: "The Green Hornet"
16. This show's theme song, "The Fishin' Hole," was whistled.
: "The Andy Griffith Show"
17. The theme to this 50s show about two boys and their parents is titled "The Toy Parade."
: "Leave it to Beaver"

Bonus: Bela Fleck has credited the theme to this 60s show for inspiring him to take up the banjo. : "The Beverly Hillbillies"

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