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by Budroe
Rated: E · Quiz · Music · #1215570
An extreme Quiz on your musical knowledge, from the classics to the top ten!
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Hello, Trivians! The Holiday Season is fast approaching, and the Trivia Master is looking to add several hundred questions to the quiz throughout the Holidays--until the precise time of the birthday of the Trivia Master. (Your correct answer to this question will impress the Trivia Master, and you will be amply rewarded immediately upon the receipt of your correct response. For the 2015 Holiday Season, The Trivia Master has designed a very special, and extremely exclusive award for the first correct guess to this special trivia quiz question! There's only one try per person allowed, so you may want to do some surreptitious research before attempting to answer this most important question. Email me with your guess. If you get a reply, you have won. The winner will be announced in THIS space.

This is an extreme quiz that will test all aspects of your musical knowledge, covering all aspects of music and musicians. All eras and genres of the musical form will be potential fodder for the Trivia Master. New questions are added each week, so play often!

You will find rare tidbits, lyrics, historical oddities, and a lot of fun here, as you take on the quest to become the new Musical Trivia Master. This is NOT your average trivial pursuit! So warm up your pipes, engage your brain, and play your part well, as we create the harmony of musical excellence in this quiz.

Impress the Trivia Master with your musical trivia knowledge, and you just might orchestrate a sudden crescendo of GP for your efforts! Stay tuned for regular and special events, contests, and new puzzles each month. I hope you enjoy this little Trivia Challenge. If you have any comments, complaints,suggestions, recommendations, bands, artists, or special areas of musical knowledge used in the Challenge, please send them to me via email at kybudman@writing.com.

The awards from previous years (before 2015) have been removed and archived. The Trivia Master hopes you have visited those ports, and said "Hello!" in your own special way to those wonderful writers who visit the quiz. Winners all, these are the choice of WDC.

Awards From The Trivia Master!


Winner of the Year: 2015


This could be YOU! Have you mastered The Trivia Quiz yet? Your score must be a perfect 100--or better!


Winner of the Year: 2010


I wish to thank all those who took the quiz in 2010, and hope you will be playing again in 2011. I have a goal to add two new questions per day this year. If you would like to submit potential questions for inclusion in the question bank, please do so (with your five answer options, indicating the correct answer) via email. Those whose questions are included in the quiz will receive an award of either reviews, GPs, AwardIcons, Merit Badges, or other special prizes! Remember: the more questions in the bank, the closer we come to making the quiz what it truly should be: Extreme!

It is my personal hope that every visitor to this quiz will visit the ports of our yearly winners (and every participant who appears on this page). Review their work, Sign their Guestbook. Drop off some GPs, or award work you find worthy. Send them a CNote of congratulations, or simply an email. They have earned your recognition and good words.

During the year of 2010, there were a total of 430 quiz-takers. The average score was 50%, so if your score(s) were above 50%, you should be thrilled! *Bigsmile* However, one participant really stood out this past year. Of his seventeen quiz attempts, this seasoned player scored a total of eight perfect scores of 100%!

Please help me congratulate our 2010 Player of the Year, kmurray. Prizes are on the way. Your Name will be posted on the Triva Mster's Wall of Fame shortly, along with other special "goodies". You have risen to the top and are #1 for the entire year! Thank you for participating in the quiz. I hope you will visit and play often in 2011.

Winner of the Year: 2009


Please help the Trivia Master congratulate the 2009 quiz winner of the year! (Drum roll, please Maestro!)
PSanta-I'm ba-ack! took this extreme quiz more times, with a higher combined average score, than any other WDC member during 2009! The Trivia Master is very impressed. A Success MB and GPs are on the way. PSanta-I'm ba-ack! will be permanently recognized in the Trivia Master's Extreme Musical Trivia Quiz Wall of Fame for his accomplishment! Stay tuned for a link to the WoF, to be posted soon! Please stop by his port and let him know you are impressed with his amazing accomplishment!

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1. "The Orchestra":
 Which of the following is not a member of the Reed winds family of the Orchestra?
       English Horn        
       Bassoon        
       Clarinet        
       Oboe        
       None of the above        
2. "And the Award Goes To...":
 Who hosted the 2007 Grammy Awards (repeat host)?
       Phil Specter        
       Prince        
       Casey Casum        
       There was no host.        
       Phil Keagey        
3. "The Orchestra":
 The leader of the Orchestra is usually called the Conductor. What implement does he usually use to lead the players when they perform?
       A Stick        
       A Piano        
       A Baton        
       A Horn        
       A Violin        
4. "O Brother, Where Art Thou?":
 This brother went solo, and in 1983, using a back-up band which included Mark Knopfler (Guitarist for "Dire Straits"), Terry Williams (drummer for "Rockpile"), and Pete Wingfield (Session player at Evergreen Studios), released one of his most successful recordings ever. Recorded in London, which Brother found solo success with "Louise" and a re-mixed version of "All I Have To Do Is Dream"--considered to be the very best version ever made of that song?
       Bill Medley        
       Bobby Haddon        
       Don Everly        
       Phil Everly        
       Barry Medley        
5. "The Wall of Sound!":
 The world's largest "portable" music sound system was created by sound/acoustics engineer Owsley "Bear" Stanley, and required its own stage! For which Psychodelic rock band was it created?
       Cream        
       The Monks        
       The Grateful Dead        
       Mother Mckree's Uptown Jug Champions        
       The Warlocks        
6. "A Whiskey WHAT??":
 In vocal music, there are basically four singing parts, two for the women and two for the men. What is the name of the higher of the two men's voices called?
       Treble        
       Tenor        
       Castrati        
       Baritone        
       Tremolo        
7. "Front Man!":
 The Trivia Master's favorite musical is "The Music Man". The original cast production opened at the Majestic Theatre in New York City on December 19th, 1957. The same amazing person played the starring role in both the 1,375 stage performances (his musical debut) and the movie of the same name in it's original release, in 1962. Of all the musicians who have starred in this role, who played the role first-twice?
       Robert Merrill        
       Vaughan Monroe        
       Jim Nabors        
       Bill O'Hurlahee        
       Robert Preston        
8. "I Wish I'd Said That!":
 "The drummer's playing in 4/4, the saxophone player is playing 5/4, the guitar player is picking his nose" ... What musical legend responded to a reporter's question about the goings on with his band?
       Sir Elton John        
       Lyle Lovvitt        
       Bill Gaither        
       Frank Zappa        
       Stevie Ray Vaughn        
9. "Counting Coux":
 Everybody knows that an "Octave" is a musical span that stretches from any one given note, to the next occurence of that note lying higher (or lower) from it. But, how many non-chromatic tones apart IS an octave?
       11        
       7        
       8        
       13        
       9        
10. "The Orchestra":
 Which of the following is usually not present in the Orchestra, but may be found in a Band?
       Tuba        
       Glockenspiel        
       Tympani        
       Cymbals        
       None of the above        
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