100 Greatest Music Artists Quiz (3)

[D] Red Hot Chili Peppers | L.A. funk-rock acrobats who fuse slap-bass grooves with stadium-sized adrenaline.

[C] Otis Redding | Soul shouter who poured Memphis grit into timeless heartbreak.

[A] Earth, Wind & Fire | Horn-powered groove architects of cosmic disco and uplifting horns.

[D] Tom Petty | Heartland bard whose jangling anthems echo open roads and restless dreams.

[B] The Supremes | Motown queens in sequins who spun teenage love into polished pop gold.

[B] George Gershwin | Jazz-age symphonist who painted Manhattan skylines with blue-note melodies.

[C] Willie Nelson | Braided outlaw whose gentle twang and jazz chords redefined country.

[C] Buddy Holly | Horn-rimmed pioneer who packed rock’s future into three-minute story songs.

[D] Hans Zimmer | Synth-orchestral alchemist scoring modern epics with thunder and whisper.

[A] Sam Cooke | Velvet-voiced civil-rights crooner who turned gospel into pop seduction.

[C] R.E.M. | Athens jangle-mystics who made college-rock cryptic and universal.

[B] Paul Simon | Urban folk poet threading world rhythms into wistful American vignettes.

[A] Elo | Orchestral pop dreamers marrying Beatlesque hooks to space-age strings.

[B] Igor Stravinsky | Russian firebrand who detonated classical harmony with savage rhythms.

[A] Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | Laurel-Canyon harmony supergroup preaching protest and cosmic love.

[B] Blondie | New York punk siren who surfed disco, rap, and pop without smearing her lipstick.

[D] Stevie Nicks | Gypsy-rock enchantress draping witchy tales in velvet scarves and reverb.

[B] Heart | Sister-led hard-rock sirens balancing acoustic dreams with Zeppelin-sized riffs.

[D] The Jackson 5 | Motown prodigies whose teenage funk exploded with unstoppable joy.

[C] The Cranberries | Irish dream-rockers cloaking rebellion and longing in Dolores’s keening lilt.

[A] Adele | Tottenham powerhouse reviving torch-song grandeur for the Spotify age.

[A] Luciano Pavarotti | Tuscan tenor whose golden high C’s shook opera houses and stadiums alike.

[C] John Denver | Gentle folk troubadour serenading Rockies and simple goodness.

[A] Leonard Cohen | Baritone poet laureate of sacred longing and broken hallelujahs.

[B] Patsy Cline | Velvet country chanteuse who turned heartbreak into timeless Nashville elegance.

[C] Duke Ellington and His Orchestra | Harlem’s suave jazz aristocrats painting nightscapes in indigo and brass.

[A] Smokey Robinson | Silk-voiced Motown architect of tender miracles and teenage symphonies.

[B] Glenn Miller | Swing-era maestro whose moonlit saxophones defined World-War-II romance.

[D] Franz Liszt | Piano virtuoso who turned the keyboard into volcanic poetry and groupie mania.

[B] Joseph Haydn | Father of the symphony who tricked elegance with playful wit.

[A] Sergei Rachmaninoff | Russian romantic whose vast hands poured melancholy into piano cathedrals.

[B] Franz Schubert | Viennese song-spinner distilling winter nights into intimate melodies.

[D] AC/DC | Aussie riff locomotives in schoolboy shorts delivering high-voltage rock ’n’ roll.

[A] The Carpenters | Sibling duo wrapping velvet melancholy in soft-focus AM gold.

[C] Ennio Morricone | Spaghetti-Western maestro whistling epic solitude across dusty soundtracks.

[B] Muddy Waters | Delta-born slide sorcerer who plugged blues into Chicago electricity.

[A] Richard Strauss | German tone-poet conjuring Alpine sunrises and decadent fin-de-siècle drama.

[A] Aretha Franklin | Queen of Soul whose gospel roar demanded R-E-S-P-E-C-T.

[C] Tears for Fears | Synth-pop philosophers wrestling inner demons into widescreen choruses.

[D] Giuseppe Verdi | Italian dramatist whose arias thunder with love, fate, and patriotic fire.