Statistics for Music by Year, 1930–1949

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Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1942	Christmas favorite recorded by Bing Crosby, estimated by some to be the best-selling single of all time	White Christmas	82%
1946	Blue-eyed crooner who recorded his first #1 hit: "Give Me Five Minutes More"	Frank Sinatra	80%
1938	Song from "Snow White" which was one of the year's most popular	{Whistle} While You Work	78%
1937	What young country singer Hiram Williams changed his name to	{Hank} Williams	73%
1943	Musical, named after a U.S. state, which was the first collaboration between Rodgers and Hammerstein	Oklahoma!	70%
1936	Musical fairy tale composed by Sergei Prokofiev	Peter and the {Wolf}	59%
1930	Songwriting brothers who composed "I Got Rhythm"	George & Ira {Gershwin}	57%
1945	Trumpeter who dropped out of Julliard to join Charlie Parker's quartet	Miles Davis	52%
1947	Now-censored Disney movie which introduced the song "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah"	Song of the {South}	52%
1935	Hollywood dancer who recorded the chart-topping song "Cheek to Cheek"	Fred Astaire	45%
1933	Song by Ethel Waters which was the best-selling recording of the year	{Stormy} Weather	43%
1940	Folk singer who wrote the lyrics to "This Land is Your Land"	Woodie Guthrie	42%
1939	Jazz singer who recorded the anti-lynching protest song "Strange Fruit"	Billie Holiday	37%
1944	Bandleader who disappeared over the English Channel while traveling to entertain U.S. troops in France	Glenn Miller	36%
1949	Famous jazz club, named after Charlie Parker, which opened in NYC	{Bird}land	33%
1931	Singer who released his signature song "Minnie the Moocher", also known as "Hi De Hi De Hi De Ho".	Cab Calloway	26%
1932	Bandleader who recorded "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"	Duke Ellington	22%
1934	Composer whose musical "Anything Goes" debuted on Broadway	Cole Porter	21%
1941	Jazz-loving youths who the Nazi regime cracked down on, later memorialized in a 1993 Hollywood movie	{Swing} Kids	19%
1948	Italian maestro who conducted the first TV production of Beethoven's 9th	Arturo Toscanini	8%