Music Quiz Questions and Answers
Quiz Questions
Music Quiz Questions Part 1
Music Quiz 1 – 10
1) Name the Austrian musician who composed the famous Waltz ‘On the Beautiful, Blue Danube’ in 1866?
Answer: Johann Strauss (the younger)
2) Which eminent German family produced musicians over seven generations?
Answer: Bach family.
3) Name the famous German composer who continued writing musical pieces even after he turned deaf?
Answer: Ludwig Van Beethoven.
4) Name the Russian born musician who composed the ballet ‘The Firebird’ in the year 1910?
Answer: Igor Stravinsky.
5) Which musical instrument is reputed to be the oldest in the world?
Answer: The Drum.
6) Who considered as the father of Ghazals in Indian music?
Answer: Mirza Ghalib.
7) What is the name of the Chinese guitar?
Answer: Pipa-pa.
8) The highest attainable male voice in music is called?
Answer: Alto.
9) To which country does the musical stringed instrument ‘Balalaika’ belongs?
Answer: Russia.
10) Which is the national musical instrument of Japan?
Answer: Koto (a kind of zither)
Music Quiz Questions Part 2
Music Quiz 11 – 20
11) Which instrument is a keyboard reed-organ, powered by foot pedals and used in American churches in 1800?
Answer: Harmonium.
12) Which instrument has 47 strings and seven pedals, and was introduced in to the orchestra in the 19th century?
Answer: Concert harp.
13) Which instrument‘s name translates literally as ‘soft sound’?
Answer: Pianoforte (piano)
14) What were performed at La Scala, Milan and at auditorium in Convent Garden, London?
Answer: Operas.
15) Which composer wrote 27 piano songs, 23 string quarters, 35 violin sonatas and more than 50 symphonies?
Answer: Mozart.
16) Which Barodian opera was completed by Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov after the composer’s death?
Answer: Prince Igor.
17) What is the title of only one opera of Beethoven?
Answer: Fidelio.
18) Which symphony did Dvorak write during his time as director of the National Conservatory in New York?
Answer: The ‘New World’ Symphony.
19) For which British king did Handel compose the ‘Water Music’ in 1717?
Answer: George I.
20) Which composer transcribed sound of birds and incorporated it into much of his work?
Answer: Messiaen.
Music Quiz Questions Part 3
Music Quiz 21 – 30
21) Which British conductor founded ‘The Proms’ in 1895?
Answer: Sir Henry Wood.
22) What was the surname of the Austrian who catalogued Mozart’s works with K-numbers?
Answer: Kochel.
23) Who composed the ‘Enigma Variations’?
Answer: Elgar.
24) What does the musical term ‘fortissimo’ mean?
Answer: Very loud.
25) Which rock and soul singer’s real name is Annie Mae Bullock?
Answer: Tina Turner.
26) Charlie Watts, the drummer belong to which group?
Answer: The Rolling Stones.
27) What was the title of Paul Simon’s record which topped the album charts in 1986?
Answer: Graceland.
28) What is the stage name of the rock singer Reg Dwight?
Answer: Elton John.
29) Which Canadian singer/song writer recorded the albums ‘Blue’ and ‘Hejira’ ?
Answer: Joni Mitchell.
30) Which English rock group had a stage show that often ended up with them destroying their instruments?
Answer: The Who.