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Exploring the Grammy Awards: A Quiz on Music's Prestigious Honors

Test your knowledge about the Grammy Awards, their history, and notable winners with this engaging quiz.

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1 Where does Grammy Award come from?

2 With 31 Grammy Awards, Sir ________ is the male artist with the most Grammy wins.

3 Ballots are tabulated secretly by the major independent accounting firm ________.

4 [1] ________ bought the rights in 1973 after moving the ceremony to Nashville, Tennessee; the American Music Awards were created for ABC as a result.

5 The ________ (2010) ceremony was held at the Los Angeles' Staples Center, broadcast live on the East Coast and on tape delay on the West Coast.

6 ________ (U2) was critical of the Grammys early in his career, but later [12] he began to appreciate their inclusiveness:

7 Grammy Awards at ________ (wins and noms in film/TV-related awards)

8 ________, lead singer of progressive metal band Tool, did not attend the Grammy Awards ceremony to receive one of their awards.

9 [8] U2, with 22, holds the record among bands,[9] and the ________ holds the record for any musical group with 60 wins.

10 The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards)—or Grammys—are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the ________ for outstanding achievements in the music industry.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • singer Amy Winehouse (pictured) gained entry to the Guinness World Records in 2009 for having the most Grammy Awards won by a British female act.
  • eclectic and non-traditional Quartet San Francisco has been nominated five times for Grammy Awards, most recently for QSF Plays Brubeck, the first all-Dave Brubeck string quartet recording.
  • Gary Baker and Frank J. Myers, who won a Grammy for writing the crossover song "I Swear", recorded an album in 1995 as the duo Baker & Myers.
  • Sugar Blue, the American Grammy Award winning blues harmonicist, took his stage name from Sidney Bechet's track, "Sugar Blues".
  • singles from Stone Sour's self titled debut album received two Grammy Award nominations in consecutive years.
  • the Australian hard rock band AC/DC has never won a Grammy Award despite receiving four nominations during their career.
  • two of cellist Jeffrey Solow's recordings were nominated for a Grammy Award.
  • the rock band Matchbox Twenty received two Grammy Award nominations in 2004.
  • the Grammy Award for Best Disco Recording was first presented at the 22nd Grammy Awards in 1980, but eliminated by 1981.
  • Paul Worley, a Grammy Award-winning country music record producer and guitarist, got his start in the 1970s playing guitar for Janie Fricke and Eddy Raven.
  • Mamadou Diabaté (pictured), a Malian kora player, was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2005, but lost to his cousin Toumani Diabaté.
  • Shenandoah and Alison Krauss' "Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart" won a Grammy Award in 1995, and its b-side "Darned If I Don't (Danged If I Do)" was also nominated for one.
  • Green Day's Grammy Award winning concept album American Idiot has been adapted for the stage by the band members and two Tony Award winners.
  • Grammy-nominated CCM musician Ayiesha Woods was the first female to receive a "Producer of the Year" award at the Gospel Music Marlin Awards.
  • Akon received five Grammy Award nominations in 2008, including Best Contemporary R&B Album for his album Konvicted.
  • The Notorious B.I.G., who was killed in 1997 from a drive-by shooting, received three Grammy Award nominations posthumously.
  • British singer Adele was nominated for four 2009 Grammy Awards for "Chasing Pavements", winning in the Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance categories.
  • Slipknot has been nominated for six Grammy Awards and won their first for Best Metal Performance with "Before I Forget" in 2006.
  • American schoolteacher Rita Abrams and the fourth-grade class in her school recorded an album which featured a Billboard Hot 100 hit and saw her being nominated for a Grammy.
  • American folk blues guitarist and Grammy-winning music historian Elijah Wald is the son of prominent biologists Ruth Hubbard and Nobel laureate George Wald.
  • 2007 Grammy Award winning single Eyes of the Insane by American thrash band Slayer had two alternative endings filmed for its war-themed music video.
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