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Becky's Island Music Trivia Quiz #488 - 6/30/10

The Name Game: George

Answers

1. Leader of Parliament and Funkadelic: George Clinton
2. Culture Club's lead singer - and what was really so strange about his appearance, anyways?
: Boy George
3. Delaware Destroyers leader who's "Bad to the Bone"
: George Thorogood
4. Wham's lead singer who went solo
: George Michael
5. Hungarian-born pianist and conductor who led the Chicago Symphony for many years
: Sir Georg Solti
6. Composer of the "Hallelujah Chorus"
: George Frederick Handel
7. Lead vocalist and guitarist of Little Feat
: Lowell George
8. Legendary country singer who was once married to Tammy Wynette
: George Jones
9. "Rock Your Baby" singer
: George McCrae
10. The real name of the "Brown Eyed Girl" singer
: George Ivan Morrison
11. He's had more country Number One hits than anyone else; "All My Exes Live in Texas" was just one
: George Strait
12. Jazz guitarist and singer who often sang along with his guitar solos; his Breezin' album topped the charts in 1976
: George Benson
13. Anglo-American blind jazz pianist
: George Shearing
14. His solo songs included "My Sweet Lord," "Living in the Material World" and "When We Was Fab"
: George Harrison
15. Comedian who hit the country charts with "I Wish I Was 18 Again" in 1980
: George Burns
16. Jazz pianist who recorded several albums with Stanley Clarke
: George Duke
17. He composed "Rhapsody in Blue" and wrote many standards with his brother Ira
: George Gershwin

Bonus: "Pygmalion" playwright who began his career as a music critic: George Bernard Shaw

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