Humanities Music Quiz #1

Question 1

Who composed the 5th Symphony?

Answer 1

Beethoven

Question 2

What nationality was Beethoven?

Answer 2

German

Question 3

Who composed the Unfinished Symphony?

Answer 3

Schubert

Question 4

What nationality was Schubert?

Answer 4

Austrian

Question 5

Who composed the New World Symphony/Going Home?

Answer 5

Dvorak

Question 6

What nationality was Dvorak?

Answer 6

Czech

Question 7

Which one sounds like 101 Dalmatians, then a waltz?

Answer 7

Tonight We Love

Question 8

Who composed the Grand March?

Answer 8

Verdi

Question 9

What nationality was Verdi?

Answer 9

Italian

Question 10

Who composed Tonight We Love?

Answer 10

Tchaikovsky

Question 11

What nationality was Tchaikovsky?

Answer 11

Russian

Question 12

Which one is like the Nutcracker mice?

Answer 12

5th Symphony

Question 13

Which one is like Sleeping Beauty and then turns kind of happy kind of creepy and abrupt then a slow waltz? same beginning as swan lake but has a “running up” of sorts

Answer 13

Unfinished Symphony

Question 14

Which one sounds like a march?

Answer 14

Grand March

Question 15

Who composed Swan Lake? (same beginning as unfinished symphony, just a little faster - creepy sort of beginning)

Answer 15

Tchaikovsky

Question 16

Who composed the Toreador’s Song?

Answer 16

Bizet

Question 17

What nationality is Bizet?

Answer 17

French

Question 18

Which song is spritely and seems to have jingle bells or something of the sort in it?

Answer 18

Toreador’s Song

Question 19

Who composed Rhapsody On a Theme of Paganini? (sounds like piano, la da da di da; soft and familiar)

Answer 19

Rachmaninoff

Question 20

What nationality is Rachmaninoff?

Answer 20

Russian

Question 21

Who composed the Blue Danube Waltz? (Sounds like classical waltz with violins, slow then speeds up)?

Answer 21

Straus II

Question 22

What nationality is Straus II?

Answer 22

Austrian