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1.	Someone or something called Spotify had a big impact on music during 2011. Who or what is Spotify?
		It's a rap-country crossover supergroup
		It's a music streaming service
		It was Green Day's controversial college campus tour
		It's the vocal group that won America's Got Talent

2.	Grown damn men prance around in elephant costumes during in the video for this song:
		Just Can't Get Enough by The Black Eyed Peas
		Good Life by One Republic
		Paradise by Coldplay
		For the First Time by The Script

3.	This band executed a terrific idea, as they launched a Garage Tour, playing gigs in the actual garages of fans:
		Foo Fighters
		Arcade Fire
		Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
		Mumford and Sons

4.	Judges from NBC's singing competition The Voice collaborated on this single:
		Pretty Girl Rock
		What's My Name?
		Moves Like Jagger
		What the Hell

5.	The radio edit of Foster the People's Pumped Up Kicks omitted these two words:
		Supremacy and revenge
		Bitch and Christ
		Gun and bullet
		Whore and suicide

6.	If you're grooving to some jams from Watch the Throne, then you're enjoying the joint musical talents of which two people?
		Kanye West and Pitbull
		Jay-Z and Kanye West
		Kid Rock and Kanye West
		Eminem and Jay-Z

7.	It would have been easier to survive a zombie apocalypse than to have escaped the clutches of LMFAO's Party Rock Anthem during 2011. The duo is made up of men of this relation:
		Brothers
		Fraternity brothers
		Uncle/nephew
		Father-in-law/son-in-law

8.	Like it or not, Katy Perry continues to be a force in popular music. Last Friday Night became hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the fifth single from Teenage Dream to top the chart. This feat had only been accomplished one time before, by:
		The Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack
		Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation1814
		Garth Brook's Ropin' the Wind
		Michael Jackson's Bad

9.	So what does pop culture pariah Lindsay Lohan have to do with music in 2011? Not much, though she did sue this artist for using her name in his song Give Me Anything:
		Pitbull
		Kanye West
		Justin Bieber
		Chris Daughtrey

10.	Rihanna's unexpected toplessness during a video shoot motivated the owner of ____________, where the shoot was being held, to object and shut down the proceedings:
		Santa Monica car wash
		Abandoned amusement park
		Hawaiian estate
		Farmland in Ireland

11.	Rolling Stone magazine continues to publish. Three of these was a cover of the magazine that hit the newsstands in 2011. Which is the odd one out?




		*By way of explanation.....* Jay Z's issue is dated 6/24/10

12.	This singer had a pretty decent year. He married a Argentine model, starred in a network TV holiday special and had the top-selling Christmas album. His friends call him:
		Michael Buble
		Adam Lambert
		Kid Rock
		Fred Durst

13.	Adele enjoyed a monster year, largely on the momentum of her ultramega smash single Rolling in the Deep. It ruled the charts, earned the adoration of critics, was named song of the year, on and on.....So, at some point, during the year, you found out what Adele's last name is, right?
		Pettigrew
		Brandywine
		Adkins
		Kodis

14.	"Well, well, well … if it isn't James Van Der Douche..." The star of Dawson's Creek makes an unexpected appearance in the video for this woman's single:
		Ke$ha
		Christina Perri
		Shakira
		Beyonce

15.	To the delight of possibly dozens, October 3, 2011 marked the return of this video music-related show to the airwaves:
		120 Minutes
		Headbanger's Ball
		Yo! MTV
		Pop-Up Video

16.	Peal Jam fans delighted in the Cameron Crowe-directed rockumentary about the band, known commonly as:
		Five Against the World
		PJ20
		Back and Onward
		Dave Abbruzzese's Lament

17.	If you're dancing at the edge of the Hollywood sign, then you are living out the lyrics to:
		Mr. Know It All by Kelly Clarkson
		Dirt Road Anthem by Jason Aldean
		Grenade by Bruno Mars
		Tonight Tonight by Hot Chelle Rae

18.	Earning approximately one bazillion dollars, the top-grossing concert tour of 2011 was the continuation of one launched in 2009. The artist involved? Put your hands together for:
		Bon Jovi
		The Jonas Brothers
		The Rolling Stones
		U2

19.	See, there was this sitcom TV show. And then there was an actor on it. Anyway, he signed a record deal under the name Childish Gambino, and then released this album caused Camp that's supposed to be good or something. Soooooo, what is the TV show that featured the dude who became Childish Gambino?
		The Big Bang Theory
		Community
		Two and a Half Men
		Mike and Molly
		*By way of explanation.....* Childish Gambino is the stage name of one Donald Glover, who plays Troy Barnes on Community

20.	Cee Lo Green's Fk You peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 at #2 on March 5. Which of the below also hit #2 in February with a song title that also contained a form of the vulgarity?**
		Gwen Stefani
		Kelly Clarkson
		Miranda Lambert
		Pink

21.	This hip hop artist made tried to get all pharmaceutical, as he arrested in Miami for having ecstasy and illegally possessing Viagra:
		Big Boi
		Nas
		Lupe Fiasco
		T.I.

22.	If you, on occasion, to whip your hair back and forth (just whip your hair), then your life is based to an annoying degree on the song sung by:
		A former MTV VJ
		An NFL star
		Train
		The daughter of a music/film star
		*By way of explanation.....* 2011 is very, very sorry for unleashing this Willow (son of Will) Smith gem upon the populace

23.	Being associated with The Muppets confers automatic coolness. Therefore, this band, which cut a single of The Muppet Show Theme Song, is cool:
		Lady Antebellum
		OK Go
		Radiohead
		Smashing Pumpkins

24.	Sabi's synth-accompanied "La la la la la" provides the unmistakable intro for which song?
		Colbie Caillat's Brighter Than the Sun
		Gym Class Hero's Stereo Heart
		Cobra Starship's You Make Me Feel
		Gavin DeGraw's Not Over You

25.	The album Lulu was the unexpected and generally pretty crappy collaboration between Lou Reed and which other act?
		NKOTBSB
		Metallica
		Iron Maiden
		Nine Inch Nails