Grammy Awards quiz

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1. 1 Easy

   Name the special Grammy honor that preserves historic recordings at least 25 years old.

   Answer: Grammy Hall of Fame

   Why: Recordings do not need to have won a regular competitive Grammy to qualify for induction into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

2. 2 Medium

   Which former President won a Grammy for the book My Life?

   Answer: Bill Clinton

   Why: A year earlier he had won a Grammy for narrating Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf alongside Mikhail Gorbachev and Sophia Loren.

3. 3 Hard

   How many Grammy nominations did Quincy Jones receive during his career?

   Answer: Eighty

   Why: His first nomination came at the 3rd Grammy Awards in 1961, and he was still winning in 2019, for the Netflix documentary Quincy.

4. 4 Easy

   Who is the only artist to win four Album of the Year Grammys?

   Answer: Taylor Swift

   Why: Fearless, 1989, Folklore and Midnights won it, breaking a tie at three held by Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon and Stevie Wonder.

5. 5 Medium

   Which actress won a Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album in 2018?

   Answer: Carrie Fisher

   Why: She won it posthumously for narrating her memoir The Princess Diarist, drawn from diaries she kept while filming the first Star Wars.

6. 6 Hard

   How many categories were awarded at the first Grammy ceremony?

   Answer: Twenty-eight

   Why: That first ceremony was not even televised, and with no rock and roll category, Elvis Presley won nothing at all.