Play Smooth Operator Knowledge Quiz: How Well You Know Sade
Smooth Operator Knowledge Quiz: How Well You Know Sade
Discover how well you know Sade Adu with this engaging quiz—test your knowledge of her timeless music, soulful voice, and career highlights to see if you're a true fan!
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<ul><li>As stated by film production expert Eve Light Honthaner in <i>The Complete Film Production Handbook</i> (Focal Press, 2001, p. 211.):<br>"Publicity photos (star headshots) have traditionally not been copyrighted. Since they are disseminated to the public, they are generally considered public domain, and therefore clearance by the studio that produced them is not necessary."</li>
<li>Nancy Wolff, in <i>The Professional Photographer's Legal Handbook</i> (Allworth Communications, 2007, p. 55.), notes:<br>"There is a vast body of photographs, including but not limited to publicity stills, that have no notice as to who may have created them."</li>
<li>Film industry author Gerald Mast, in <i>Film Study and the Copyright Law</i> (1989, p. 87), writes:<br>"According to the old copyright act, such production stills were not automatically copyrighted as part of the film and required separate copyrights as photographic stills. The new copyright act similarly excludes the production still from automatic copyright but gives the film's copyright owner a five-year period in which to copyright the stills. Most studios have never bothered to copyright these stills because they were happy to see them pass into the public domain, to be used by as many people in as many publications as possible."</li>
<li>Kristin Thompson, committee chairperson of the Society for <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="//cmstudies.org">Cinema and Media Studies</a> writes in the conclusion of a 1993 conference of cinema scholars and editors<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="//web.archive.org/web/20131004004521/http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/links/cached/chapter7/link7.59b.fairusageandfilmstills.html">[1]</a>, that:<br>"[The conference] expressed the opinion that it is not necessary for authors to request permission to reproduce frame enlargements... [and] some trade presses that publish educational and scholarly film books also take the position that permission is not necessary for reproducing frame enlargements and publicity photographs."</li></ul>](https://d3le1x71fx28bd.cloudfront.net/30fd0fe0-4420-4065-9b4a-cbe0323ab6fe/9d1af8fa-e090-4313-abc6-fec93ab0bba3.jpg "Image in QuizMyDay Smooth Operator Knowledge Quiz: How Well You Know Sade trivia quiz featuring This is a <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Publicity_still\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:en:Publicity still\">publicity still</a> taken and publicly distributed to promote the subject or a work relating to the subject.
<ul><li>As stated by film production expert Eve Light Honthaner in <i>The Complete Film Production Handbook</i> (Focal Press, 2001, p. 211.):<br>\"Publicity photos (star headshots) have traditionally not been copyrighted. Since they are disseminated to the public, they are generally considered public domain, and therefore clearance by the studio that produced them is not necessary.\"</li>
<li>Nancy Wolff, in <i>The Professional Photographer's Legal Handbook</i> (Allworth Communications, 2007, p. 55.), notes:<br>\"There is a vast body of photographs, including but not limited to publicity stills, that have no notice as to who may have created them.\"</li>
<li>Film industry author Gerald Mast, in <i>Film Study and the Copyright Law</i> (1989, p. 87), writes:<br>\"According to the old copyright act, such production stills were not automatically copyrighted as part of the film and required separate copyrights as photographic stills. The new copyright act similarly excludes the production still from automatic copyright but gives the film's copyright owner a five-year period in which to copyright the stills. Most studios have never bothered to copyright these stills because they were happy to see them pass into the public domain, to be used by as many people in as many publications as possible.\"</li>
<li>Kristin Thompson, committee chairperson of the Society for <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"//cmstudies.org\">Cinema and Media Studies</a> writes in the conclusion of a 1993 conference of cinema scholars and editors<a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external autonumber\" href=\"//web.archive.org/web/20131004004521/http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/links/cached/chapter7/link7.59b.fairusageandfilmstills.html\">[1]</a>, that:<br>\"[The conference] expressed the opinion that it is not necessary for authors to request permission to reproduce frame enlargements... [and] some trade presses that publish educational and scholarly film books also take the position that permission is not necessary for reproducing frame enlargements and publicity photographs.\"</li></ul>")
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Fans nailed Sade's iconic song 'No Ordinary Love' with a perfect 100% success rate, yet completely blanked on which band she came from before forming Sade — with 0% correctly identifying 'Pride', proving fans know the music but not the origin story.
When asked about Sade's Grammy-winning song, a whopping 67% of fans wrongly chose 'Like a Tattoo' over the actual winner 'Soldier of Love' — meaning the crowd was more confident in the wrong answer than the right one.
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Based on community quiz performance
Q:What percentage of fans correctly named Sade's musical genre?
A:Only 33% got it right — Smooth jazz and soul.
Two-thirds went for Hip hop and R&B instead! Sade's silky soul sound clearly defies easy labeling, even for her biggest fans.
Q:How many fans correctly identified Sade's debut album year?
A:67% correctly said 1984.
A solid two-thirds knew Diamond Life dropped in '84, though 33% guessed 1988 — perhaps mixing it up with a later classic era.
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Which title by Sade Adu won Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal Grammy award in 2010?
Song by Sade Adu
In what year was Sade's debut album 'Diamond Life' released?
Which band was Sade a member of before forming Sade?
What genre best describes Sade's musical style?
