Billie Holiday Quiz - 39 Trivia Questions!

Celebrate the hauntingly beautiful voice of Billie Holiday, the jazz and blues legend known for her emotionally charged performances and timeless songs like 'Strange Fruit.'

Which song by U2 was written as an homage to Billie Holiday?

The Last of the Summer Wine
Angel of Harlem
Mysterious Journey
Love me, Love my dog

Which singer made a secret visit to Billie Holiday's hospital bedside in June 1959?

Bette Davis
Adelaide Hall
Billy Holiday
Linda Ronstadt

In which 1935 film did Billie Holiday sing Saddest Tale?

A Girl's Best Friend
Symphony in Black
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Big Parade

What was the title of Billie Holiday's last album, released in 1958?

The Last of the Summer Wine
A Good Old Woman
A Good Woman
Lady in Satin

What was the name of the man who raped Eleanora Holiday in 1926?

Wilbur Rich
William Howard Taft
George Washington
Robert Johnson

In which US city was jazz singer Eleanora Fagan born in 1915?

Minneapolis
Detroit
Los Angeles
Philadelphia

Which jazz critic wrote the sleeve notes for Billie Holiday's 1961 album 'Summertime'?

Peter Rowley
Charles Wilson
Robert Palmer
Nat Hentoff

In which US city was singer Billie Holiday arrested for drug possession in 1949?

San Francisco
New York
Philadelphia
Detroit

In which US city is there a statue of Billie Holiday?

New York
Los Angeles
Baltimore
San Francisco

Which tenor saxophonist was the accompanist of Billie Holiday?

Charlie Parker
George Duke
Joe Cocker
Lester Young

What was the title of the only major film starring Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday?

The Best Years of Our Lives
The Jazz Singer
New Orleans
The Great Gatsby

Who was the first female singer to top Billboard's annual college poll of 'Girl Singers' in 1947?

Mary Ford
Nancy Sinatra
Jo Stafford
Joan Baez

Who was the first white bandleader to employ a black female vocalist?

Joe Cocker
Ray Charles
Artie Shaw
The Dukes

What was the name of singer Billie Holiday's dog when she was released from jail in 1948?

Mister
Sally
Black Beauty
Little Billie

Who was the mother of the blues singer Eleanora Holiday?

A singer
Her husband
Betty
Eva Miller

Who was the band leader for the last recording of Billie Holiday?

Billie Holiday's son
Ray Noble
Billie Holiday
Ray Ellis

Which instrument did Skip Layton and Murray McEachern play in the Monty Kelly Big Band?

guitar
Trombones
Horns
Jazz guitar

Which famous singer was influenced by the performance of 'Madame Butterfly' on 52nd Street in New York in the 1950's?

Elvis Presley
George Gershwin
Frank Sinatra
Louis Armstrong

Which record label did Billie Holiday record for?

Decca
Bluebird
Mercury
Atlantic

What was the title of Diana Ross's 1972 film starring as 'Bernadette Holiday'?

My Best Friend
A Night in New York
Lady Sings the Blues
Black Beauty

Which magazine first published the US Hot 100 charts in 1940, a precursor to the 'Hot 100'?

Billboard
The Week
The New York Times
Entertainment Weekly

With which band did singer Billie Holiday perform in the late 1930s and early 1940s?

Big Bill Broonzy
The Big Bopper
Count Basie
The New York Dolls

Who was the pianist with Billie Holiday and Al Dunn?

The Count Basie Orchestra
Bobby Tucker
Billie Holiday
Billy Joe

What was the title of Billie Holiday's first solo hit?

My Old School
The First Lady
My Favorite Things
Lover Man

What was the title of the 1949 hit record by Billie Holiday?

A Big Old Party
Crazy He Calls Me
The Way We Were
Love me, Love My Baby

What drug caused the death of singer Billie Holiday in 1959?

Methadone
Oxycodone
Cocaine
heroin

What was the title of Judy Garland's first Broadway show in 1948?

Holiday on Broadway
The Little Colonel
Judy's Wonderful World
Judy's New York

Which song by Abel Meeropol was recorded by Billie Holiday in 1939?

The Best Old Time
The Little Old Man
The First Lady
Strange Fruit

Who had a hit in 1944 with the song 'I'll Be Seeing You'?

Elvis Presley
Bing Crosby
Harry Nilsson
The Grasp Brothers

What was Billie Holiday's first solo album, recorded in 1954 in Basel, Switzerland?

Blues For My Mother
Lady Love
My Girl
The Best Years of My Life

What was the name of the Catholic reform school where Sadie Hawkins was sent when she was nine years old?

House of the Good Shepherd
The Children's Home
House of the Good Samaritan
The Little Orphan Annie's Home

Who duetted with Billie Holiday on the hit 'What a Little Moonlight Can Do'?

Teddy Wilson
Billie Holiday
Joe Wilson
The Four Seasons

What was the only number one hit for Billie Holiday in the UK in 1937?

The Old Man and the Woman
Carelessly
Happy Birthday
A Little Too Much

Which jazz singer was born Eleanora Fagan in 1915?

Dolly Parton
Bette Davis
Billie Holiday
Bessie Smith

Who was the estranged husband of singer Billie Holiday?

Her brother
Louis McKay
The Duke of Orleans
George Lewis

Billie Holiday is the central character in which musical?

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
A Little Night Music
My Favorite Things
The Lion King

What was the title of singer Billie Holiday's first hit?

Love Me Do
My Little Miss Marker
Riffin' the Scotch
I'm in Love

Who was the announcer at Billie Holiday's 1956 concert at the New York Times?

Gilbert Millstein
George Pepia
Charles Dickens
Billy Holiday

Who duetted with Billie Holiday on the 1942 hit 'Trav'lin' Light'?

Paul Whiteman
Joe Cocker
Billie Holiday's husband
Billy Holiday
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