According to the Guinness Book of World Records, which movie song is the best-selling single of all time?

White Christmas by Bing Crosby(Everything I Do) I Do It For You by Bryan AdamsI Will Always Love You by Whitney HoustonYou’re the One That I Want by John Travolta and Olivia Newton John

“Laura’s Theme” by Angelo Badalamenti features on the soundtrack of which US TV show?

Twin PeaksBattlestar GalacticaLittle House on the PrairieInvitation to Love

Four animated Disney movies won the Oscar for Best Original Score between 1990 and 1995. Which of these movies did NOT win it?

PocahontasThe Little MermaidBeauty and the BeastAladdin

Before he was in rock band Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page was a session guitarist who played on which Bond movie theme song?

GoldfingerDiamonds are ForeverMoonrakerGoldeneye

Why was Nino Rota’s Oscar nomination for The Godfather as Best Original Score in 1972 revoked?

He’d already used it for a previous movieHe stole it from a pizza adThere is no score on The Godfather It turned out to be the Sicilian national anthem

What song, which appears on the second best-selling movie soundtrack album of all time, is recommended to help first aiders time their compressions during resuscitation?

Stayin’ Alive – Saturday Night FeverMy Heart Will Go On – Titanic(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life – Dirty DancingI Will Always Love You – The Bodyguard

Composer of the scores for Schindler’s List (1993), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001), among others, which individual has received the second-most Oscar nominations ever?

John WilliamsJohn Barry Hans ZimmerEnnio Morricone

Which British TV drama uses Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ “Red Right Hand” as its main theme song?

Peaky BlindersDownton AbbeySlow HorsesBaby Reindeer

It’s a banging movie song, and the title of a 1985 Brat Pack film, but what actually IS St Elmo’s Fire?

A luminous electrical discharge that emanates from objects elevated above the Earth’s surfaceA sexually transmitted diseaseA ninth circle of hell punishment for sinners, as featured in Dante’s “Inferno”The failed follow-up to hit toy “Tickle Me Elmo”

Before Danny Elfman composed scores for Tim Burton movies, he was in which band?

Oingo BoingoPop Will Eat ItselfRadioheadNine Inch Nails

A different artist sings Tom Waits’ “Way Down in the Hole” in each of the five seasons of which acclaimed US TV drama?

The WireBreaking BadBoardwalk EmpireThe Walking Dead

Who is the only composer to have scored live-action Batman films for two different directors (Christopher Nolan and Zack Snyder)?

Hans ZimmerDanny ElfmanMichael GiacchinoElliot Goldenthal

Music, movies and TV go together like ramma-lamma-lamma-ka-dingity-da-dinga-dong. Together forever like shoo-wop-sha-whada-whadda-yippidy boom-da-boom. Chang-chang, changity-chang-shoo-bop. That’s the way it should be.

At least, that’s how I’ve always seen it.

This edition of the The Den of Geek Weekly Quiz (every Wednesday at 7am ET, or 12pm BST) is celebrating screen music and songs by asking questions like: who put the bomp in the bomp bomp bomp? Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong? Who put the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop? And finally, who put the dip in the dip da dip da dip? Get all those right, and you can call yourself a quiz maestro. Test your knowledge of movie and TV songs and scores with our 12-question quiz above, and let us know how you got on below.

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