1.Music Trivia (5 marks each)

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

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

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

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

e) Schubert wrote music for an “Arpeggione”. How would you classify this instrument?Brass, Strings, Woodwind or Percussion ?
Strings, (sorry, got this one wrong at Wychcroft!, Pam's team gets 5 extra marks!)

f) Which instrument has only three strings?                                                                    
The Balalaika

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

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

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

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

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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                                                                                             Rachmaninov P.Concerto 2

b) Death In Venice                                                                                           Mahler             Symphony 5

c) The Ladykillers                                                                                             Boccarini         Minuet.

d) The Silence of the Lambs                                                                              Bach    Goldberg Variations

e) Sunday Bloody Sunday                                                                                 Mozart. Cosi fan Tutti

3. Instrumentalists.

Name each musician below (5 marks each) and the instrument they play (5 marks each).

 Answers Left to right

Name; Armstrong      Brymer             du-Pre                         Segovia                       Kennedy

Inst;.    Trumpet          Clarinet           Cello                            Guitar                         Violin  

4. Pop Music Trivia

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

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

  France

c) Can you unscramble the artist and title of this song?  'BOGEY OGRE - THY GREEN MAGIC'
Boy George, the Crying Game

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

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

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

Albert Hall- London - England , La Scala Milan – Italy, Manaus – Amazon -  Brazil

Paris - France, Santa Cruz – Tenerife – Spain, Sydney - Australia

 

6. “Name that Tune”

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

 Beethoven’s 5th

 Brahms 1st

 Dvorak New World

 Tchaikovsky 4th

Schuberts’s 8^th “Unfinished”