FREE IQ COMPETITIONS, FREE MASTERMIND QUIZ QUESTIONS

1. Shostakovitch is not the only musician to have been banned and the Soviet Union is not the only territory on which banning has occurred. The Marseillaise was banned in France, for example, under the First Empire and the Restoration. Which band was banned by the BBC in 1988 for claiming in song that the Birmingham Six (and the Guildford Four) were innocent?
   In November 1988 the BBC banned 'Birmingham Six', a song from the Pogues' album 'If I should fall from grace with God' -
   There were six men in Birmingham
   In Guildford there's four
   That were picked up and tortured
   And framed by the law
   And the filth got promotion
   But they're still doing time
   For being Irish in the wrong place
   And at the wrong time
   
   
2. What was the name of the band whose last gig, on Thanksgiving Day 1976 at the San Francisco Winterland, was filmed by Martin Scorsese as 'The Last Waltz' and featured a host of solo performers such as Bob Dylan (with whom they were particularly associated), Neil Young, Dr John, Muddy Waters, Joni Mitchell and Eric Clapton?
   The Band was their short and to-the-point name - Robbie Robertson, Richard Manuel, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Rick Danko.
   
   
3. And still with last gigs - which band played possibly the most famous last gig in history on 15 April 1912 with a personnel that comprised Wallace Henry Hartley (bandmaster), Theodore Brailey, Roger Bricoux, J.Fred Clarke, Jock Law Hume, George Krins, Percy Taylor and JW Woodward?
   The ship's band of RMS Titanic (ship went down at 14.30 on the morning of 15 April after striking berg at 11.40 in the evening of 14 April)
   
   
4. Which band lost a significant portion of its support among country music fans following comments made by band member Natalie Maines about George W.Bush immediately prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq?
   Dixie Chicks - other members Emily Robison, Martie Maguire
   
   
5. Uncontroversially, which band was particularly associated with the conducting career of Sir John Barbirolli?
   The Hallé Orchestra
   
   
6. Which band backed Bruce Springsteen, usually without attribution, especially during the period 1972-1989 but then on subsequent and even relatively recent occasions?
   The E-Street Band
   
   
7. Following the invasion by Nazi forces in 1941, which Russian band was evacuated to Siberia, for which excellent reason it was then unavailable to play in any first performance of a wartime symphony partly composed in, dedicated to and named after its home city - even though the composer almost certainly had this particular band in mind?
   Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra (the symphony being Shostakovitch's Symphony No. 7 'Leningrad')
   
   
8. Robin Williamson + Mike Heron (and originally + Clive Palmer) = what band?
   The Incredible String Band (albums The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion, The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter)
   
   
9. The band, it is said, that stopped the Vietnam war - Country Joe and the……?
   Fish (albums I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die, Electric Music for the Mind and Body)
   
   
10. In 1932, Alma Rosé, the niece of composer Gustav Mahler, founded the Wiener Walzermädeln (the Viennese Waltz Girls), an all-female orchestra that acquired a European reputation for excellence. Between 1943 and her death in 1944, however, she led another all-female band of a totally different complexion in what infamous location?
    The women's orchestra of Auschwitz-Birkenau (das Mädchenorchester von Auschwitz - there was also an all-male orchestra, some of the players being said to have been of soloist standard)