Question: What type of music are AC stations noted as playing less of versus hits of the past?
Answer: newer music

Question: What is lite AC otherwise known as?
Answer: soft AC

Question: What is Christian AC a subgenre of?
Answer: contemporary Christian music

Question: Along with hot, soft, urban and Christian AC, what is another prominent time of adult contemporary music?
Answer: rhythmic AC

Question: From what decade of easy listening radio does adult contemporary trace its heritage?
Answer: 1960s

Question: Generally speaking, what percentage of music on easy listening stations was instrumental?
Answer: 70-80%

Question: On what date was the Billboard easy listening chart first published?
Answer: July 17, 1961

Question: How many songs were on the first Billboard easy listening chart?
Answer: 20

Question: Who performed the first #1 on the easy listening chart?
Answer: Brook Benton

Question: Along with Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Johnny Mathis, Nat King Cole, and Perry Como, who was a prominent early adult contemporary radio artist?
Answer: Connie Francis

Question: What type of covers of pop and rock songs were usually played on adult contemporary?
Answer: instrumental

Question: What songs from the 1940s and 1950s would adult contemporary stations play?
Answer: big band-era recordings

Question: What chart did the Easy Listening chart begin to diverge from?
Answer: the Hot 100 chart

Question: In what year did the Easy Listening and Hot 100 charts begin to diverge?
Answer: 1965

Question: Along with Roger Miller and Barbra Streisand, who was a successful Easy Listening artist in this era?
Answer: Bobby Vinton

Question: Why did the crossover between Hot 100 and Easy Listening decrease?
Answer: rock music continued to harden

Question: During what decade did rock and roll music first rise to popularity?
Answer: 1950s

Question: What does the acronym MOR stand for?
Answer: middle of the road

Question: Along with pre-rock standards, what type of older songs did MOR stations play?
Answer: big band titles

Question: What was another term for easy listening stations?
Answer: beautiful music

Question: Easy listening was predominately what type of music?
Answer: instrumental

Question: What types of tracks from popular artists did adult contemporary radio play?
Answer: hit singles and album cuts

Question: What type of format were adult contemporary and easy listening stations meant to share?
Answer: lite

Question: As of what year was hard rock a mainstream type of music?
Answer: 1965

Question: Along with soft rock, what type of music made up mainstream rock music in the late 1960s?
Answer: hard rock

Question: What type of instruments were prominent in soft rock? 
Answer: acoustic

Question: What genre of music was soft rock descended from?
Answer: folk rock

Question: Along with Barbra Streisand, Carole King, Cat Stevens and Bread, who was a prominent soft rock artist of this era?
Answer: James Taylor

Question: At the end of what decade did the Hot 100 and Easy Listening charts begin to converge?
Answer: 1960s

Question: During the middle and early parts of what decade did the similarity of Easy Listening and Hot 100 increase?
Answer: 1970s

Question: How did Top 40 radio what ifmusic change during this era?
Answer: began to soften

Question: With Elton John and the Eagles, what was a prominent adult contemporary artist in this period?
Answer: Chicago

Question: During what period was adult contemporary its most commercially successful?
Answer: the mid-to-late 1970s

Question: What artist released the best selling album of the 1970s?
Answer: Fleetwood Mac

Question: In what year was the best selling album of the 1970s released?
Answer: 1977

Question: What radio stationed owned by NBC played only soft rock?
Answer: WYNY

Question: Who was a prominent figure at NBC's radio division?
Answer: Walter Sabo

Question: What genre of music was was listening to by a different demographic than hard rock?
Answer: disco

Question: In what decade did genres begin to diverge on the basis of demographic groups?
Answer: 1970s

Question: Along with Linda Ronstadt, Elton John, Rod Stewart and Elvis Presley, what rock musician sometimes had songs featured on adult contemporary radio?
Answer: Billy Joel

Question: During what period were artists like Anne Murray and Barbra Streisand featured on Top 40 radio?
Answer: the early 1970s

Question: Along with rock and roll, what genre of music was sometimes featured on Easy Listening radio?
Answer: R&B

Question: What genre of music was surprisingly successful on adult contemporary radio?
Answer: disco

Question: What type of musicians were artists such as Diana Ross, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Carole King and Janis Ian?
Answer: singer-songwriters

Question: When did the Adult Contemporary chart receive its current name?
Answer: April 7, 1979

Question: What was the Adult Contemporary chart previously known as?
Answer: the Easy Listening chart

Question: Along with rap/hip-hop, what genre of music were aging listeners not as interested in?
Answer: heavy metal

Question: During what decade did adult contemporary become a very popular format for radio?
Answer: 1980s

Question: Along with Richard Marx, Bonnie Tyler, George Michael, Phil Collins, and Laura Branigan, what artist was also frequently played on Contemporary Hit Radio stations?
Answer: Michael Jackson

Question: What television station was responsible for the increasing success of Contemporary Hit Radio artists on the AC charts?
Answer: MTV

Question: Along with Barbra Streisand, the Carpenters, Dionne Warwick, Barry Manilow and Olivia Newton-John, what adult contemporary staple found it more difficult to score chart hits in the 1980s?
Answer: John Denver

Question: Who did Allmusic refer to as "one of the most successful pop and adult contemporary singers of the '80s and beyond"?
Answer: Phil Collins

Question: In the 1970s, what two genres were not particularly successful on the adult contemporary charts?
Answer: disco or new wave

Question: What genres, featured on the CHR radio format, were rarely found on adult contemporary radio?
Answer: hip-hop and harder rock music

Question: During what decade did hip-hop begin to be featured on the radio?
Answer: 1980s

Question: Along with electronic pop, what type of music was the most successful in the 1980s?
Answer: ballad-oriented rock

Question: What genre did the music of Billy Ocean belong to?
Answer: soft rock

Question: What was the longest that a song spent at #1 on the adult contemporary charts in the 1980s?
Answer: six weeks

Question: In what year did Lionel Richie record "You Are"?
Answer: 1983

Question: Aside from the adult contemporary chart, on what other chart did Lionel Richie's "Hello" reach the top spot?
Answer: Hot 100

Question: What artist issued the album known as "the first true Adult Contemporary album of the decade"?
Answer: Linda Ronstadt

Question: In what year was the album Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind released?
Answer: 1989

Question: What male singer featured on several songs from Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind?
Answer: Aaron Neville

Question: What certification did Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind receive?
Answer: Triple Platinum

Question: Along with "Don't Know Much," what single won a Grammy?
Answer: "All My Life"

Question: What decade saw the emergence of alternative rock?
Answer: 1990s

Question: What happened to urban R&B in the early 1990s?
Answer: softening

Question: The resurgence of traditional pop was one of the factors that led to what change in the music market?
Answer: widening of the market

Question: Mainstream artists from what decade generally did not have success on the adult contemporary charts?
Answer: 1980s

Question: Along with All-4-One, Boyz II Men, Rob Thomas, Christina Aguilera and Backstreet Boys, what 90s artists were notable in the pop/R&B genre?
Answer: Savage Garden