The Den of Geek Weekly Quiz! Movie & TV Music

Music, movies and TV go together like ramma-lamma-lamma-ka-dingity-da-dinga-dong. Together forever like shoo-wop-sha-whada-whadda-yippidy boom-da-boom. Chang-chang, changity-chang-shoo-bop.

At least, that’s how I’ve always seen it.

This edition of the The Den of Geek Weekly Quiz (every Wednesday at 7am ET, or 12pm BST) is celebrating screen music and songs by asking questions like: who put the bomp in the bomp bomp bomp? Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong? Who put the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop? And finally, who put the dip in the dip da dip da dip?* Get all those right, and you can call yourself a quiz maestro. Test your knowledge of movie and TV songs and scores with our 12-question quiz above, and let us know how you got on below.

*Not actual quizplay.

Movie & TV Music

1. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, which movie song is the best-selling single of all time?

a) (Everything I Do) I Do It For You by Bryan Adams
b) White Christmas by Bing Crosby
c) I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston
d) You’re the One That I Want by John Travolta and Olivia Newton John

2. “Laura’s Theme” by Angelo Badalamenti features on the soundtrack of which US TV show?

a) Twin Peaks
b) Battlestar Galactica
c) Little House on the Prairie
d) Invitation to Love

3. Four animated Disney movies won the Oscar for Best Original Score between 1990 and 1995. Which of these movies did NOT win it?

a) Aladdin
b) The Little Mermaid
c) Beauty and the Beast
d) Pocahontas

4. Before he was in rock band Led Zepplin, Jimmy Page was a session guitarist who played on which Bond theme song?

a) Goldeneye
b) Diamonds are Forever
c) Moonraker
d) Goldfinger

5. Why was Nino Rota’s Oscar nomination for The Godfather original score in 1972 revoked?

a) He’d already used it for a previous movie
b) He stole it from a pizza ad
c) There is no score on The Godfather (1972)
d) It turned out to be the Sicilian national anthem

6. What song – which appears on the second best-selling movie soundtrack album of all time – is recommended to help first aiders time their compressions during resuscitation?

a) My Heart Will Go On
b) Stayin’ Alive
c) (I’ve Had) The Time of My Life
d) I Will Always Love You

7. He’s won five, but how many Oscars has movie composer and frequent Spielberg collaborator John Williams been nominated for (to date)?

a) 5
b) 54
c) 78
d) 27

8. Which British TV drama uses Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ “Red Right Hand” as its main theme song?

a) Downton Abbey
b) Slow Horses
c) Peaky Blinders
d) Baby Reindeer

9. It’s a banging theme song, and the title of a 1985 Brat Pack film, but what actually IS St Elmo’s Fire?

a) A luminous electrical discharge that emanates from objects elevated above the Earth’s surface
b) A sexually transmitted disease
c) A ninth circle of hell punishment for sinners, as featured in Dante’s “Inferno”
d) The failed follow-up to hit toy “Tickle Me Elmo”

10. Before Danny Elfman composed scores for Tim Burton movies, he was in which band?

a) Radiohead
b) Pop Will Eat Itself
c) Oingo Boingo
d) Nine Inch Nails

11. A different artist sings Tom Waits’ “Way Down in the Hole” in each of the five seasons of which acclaimed US TV drama?

a) The Wire
b) Breaking Bad
c) Boardwalk Empire
d) The Walking Dead

12. Who is the only composer to have scored live-action Batman films for two different directors (Christopher Nolan and Zack Snyder)?

a) Elliot Goldenthal
b) Danny Elfman
c) Michael Giacchino
d) Hans Zimmer

Answers!

Correct answers: 1b, 2a, 3d, 4d, 5a, 6b, 7b, 8c, 9a, 10c, 11a, 12d

0-4 You may need a little tune-up

5-8 Almost a smash hit!

9-12 You deserve a standing ovation!