The Week’s Christmas quiz: looking back on 2022
How much can you remember from the past 12 months?
Music
1. Which The Mamas & the Papas song contains the lyrics “All the leaves are brown / And the sky is grey”?
2. In what year did the Spice Girls spring to fame with Wannabe?
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3. “We love coughs and wheezes / And diseases called incurable” is a line from a song from which musical? And for a bonus point, which performer, later to find global renown as a Melbourne housewife, sang it in the original West End production?
4. Beyoncé became famous as part of which R&B girl group?
5. “Oh, we were born within one hour of each other. Our mothers said we could be sister and brother. Your name is...” Who was Jarvis Cocker’s childhood crush in 1995’s Disco 2000?
6. Birth of the Cool was a 1957 album by which jazz great?
7. What did Beethoven call his sixth symphony? And by what name is his 14th piano sonata better known?
8. Which composer wrote his unnumbered Manfred Symphony between his Fourth and Fifth Symphonies?
9. Charles Wesley wrote most of the lyrics for Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, but which famous composer wrote the cantata that was adapted to be its music?
Answers
1. California Dreamin’
2. 1996
3. Oliver!; Barry Humphries
4. Destiny’s Child
5. Deborah
6. Miles Davis
7. Pastoral; Moonlight Sonata
8. Tchaikovsky
9. Felix Mendelssohn
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