WYCHCROFT MUSIC QUIZ 2004

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1.Music Trivia (5 marks each)

a) What time is it in the night club when Frank Sinatra sings “One for my Baby”?

b) If you look at a left handed flute player in the mirror, which arm is nearest to the left shoulder? Left or Right? 

c) Who Composed “the Flight of the Bumble Bee”?                                                    

d) Which opera ends with the roof crashing in on one of the principals?

e) Schubert wrote music for an “Arpeggione”. Is this instrument Brass, Strings, Woodwind or Percussion?

f) Which instrument has only three strings?

g) Who played the title role in the film “The Glenn Miller Story”

h) In which Broadway musical does a principal propose to wash her hair in public?

i) Which Gilbert and Sullivan opera includes a song mentioning Teutonic clergymen who preach from mid morning till teatime?                            

j) Reginald Kenneth Dwight, a huge star in British popular music, changed his name. What is his name today?  

 

2. “Golden Oldie” Film Music.

The following films use a well know classical piece of music as background.

Name the work (5 marks each) and the composer (5 marks each).                    Composer        Work

a) Brief Encounter                                                                                             ....................    ……………..

b) Death In Venice                                                                                           ....................    ……………..

c) The Ladykillers                                                                                             ....................    …………….. 

d) The Silence of the Lambs                                                                              ....................    ……………..

e) Sunday Bloody Sunday                                                                                 ....................    ……………..

 

3. Instrumentalists.

Name each musician below (5 marks each) and their instrument (5 marks each).

     

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4. Pop Music Trivia (5 marks each)

a) Who has recorded the theme tune for the recent James Bond film 'Die Another Day'?          

b) The Beatles song 'All You Need Is Love' begins with part of the national anthem

of which country?                                                                                                        

c) Can you unscramble the artist and title of this song by solving the anagram?

 'BOGEY OGRE - THY GREEN MAGIC                                                                  

d) Of which band are Gem Archer and Andy Bell members?                                        

e) Which band's recent album is called 'A Rush Of Blood to the Head?                                     


 

5. Concert Halls. Where are they? Name the City (5 marks) and the Country (5 marks)

 

        

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6. “Name that Tune”

Tunes from famous symphonies. Who wrote them (5 marks)? And which Symphony (5 marks)?

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