Question
Musical numbers from The Sound of Music have worked their way into a lot of different pop songs. For 10 points each:
[10e] Rodgers and Hammerstein were paid 90% of the songwriting royalties for this Ariana Grande song, which features her listing “Breakfast at Tiffany’s and bottles of bubbles” among her favorite things.
ANSWER: “7 Rings”
[10h] This other pop singer yodels along to The Sound of Music’s “The Lonely Goatherd” on her track “Wind It Up.” This artist interpolates a song from Fiddler on the Roof on a track from her album Love Angel Music Baby.
ANSWER: Gwen (Renée) Stefani (that song is “Rich Girl”, which interpolates “If I Were a Rich Man”)
[10m] This pop legend references “Do-Re-Mi” with the lines “when you know the notes to sing / you can sing most anything” in “Deeper and Deeper”, a single off her 1992 album Erotica.
ANSWER: Madonna [or Madonna Louise Ciccone]
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Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 HONK! @ Waterloo | 2024-08-03 | Y | 6 | 26.67 | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| 2025 HONK! @ Online | 2025-03-09 | Y | 9 | 24.44 | 100% | 100% | 44% |