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Music Trivia Questions and Answers
Here are 65 music trivia questions with answers, from easy to impossible, and every answer stays hidden until you tap it.
The list has 13 easy, 29 medium, 17 hard, and 6 impossible questions, so it works for music lovers, families and quiz nights. They were written and fact-checked by the Quiz Zoomies team in the same easy-to-impossible format as the Quiz Zoomies videos. Tap Reveal all answers to check everything at once, print the page for a game night, or play the questions as a scored quiz.
65 music trivia questions
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Which instrument has 88 black and white keys?
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Piano Easy question
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How many strings does a standard guitar have?
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6 Easy question
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What do we call two people singing or playing music together?
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A duet Easy question
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What is the person who leads an orchestra called?
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A conductor Easy question
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What is the thin stick a conductor waves called?
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A baton Easy question
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Which large stringed instrument with a tall triangular frame is plucked with the fingers?
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The harp Easy question
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What do you draw across a violin's strings to play it?
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A bow Easy question
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What do we call a gentle song sung to help a baby fall asleep?
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A lullaby Easy question
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What is the official national song of a country called?
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An anthem Easy question
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Which country is most famous for the Great Highland bagpipes?
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Scotland Easy question
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Which of these is a brass instrument?
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Trumpet Easy question
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What is a group of three musicians called?
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A trio Easy question
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In the do, re, mi scale, which syllable comes right after sol?
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La Easy question
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How many lines are in a standard music staff?
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5 Medium question
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Which of these is a woodwind instrument?
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Flute Medium question
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Which is the biggest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in an orchestra?
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Double bass Medium question
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Which small four-stringed instrument was developed in Hawaii?
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Ukulele Medium question
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What do musicians call the speed of a piece of music?
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Tempo Medium question
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How many different notes are in a major scale, not counting the repeated top note?
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7 Medium question
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Which composer lost his hearing but kept composing, finishing his Ninth Symphony in 1824?
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Ludwig van Beethoven Medium question
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Which composer wrote The Four Seasons?
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Antonio Vivaldi Medium question
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Which instrument did Frédéric Chopin write most of his music for?
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The piano Medium question
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Which instrument family includes the oboe and the bassoon?
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Woodwind Medium question
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Which instrument family includes the xylophone, cymbals and timpani?
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Percussion Medium question
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Which is the highest standard female singing voice?
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Soprano Medium question
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Which brass instrument uses a sliding tube to change notes?
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Trombone Medium question
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Which is the largest and lowest-pitched brass instrument in an orchestra?
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Tuba Medium question
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The sitar is a traditional instrument from which country?
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India Medium question
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The didgeridoo is a traditional instrument of which country?
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Australia Medium question
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Which music genre grew up in New Orleans in the early 1900s?
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Jazz Medium question
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Which music and dance style from Brazil is the heartbeat of Rio's Carnival?
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Samba Medium question
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Which dance and music style is most closely tied to Buenos Aires?
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Tango Medium question
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Flamenco music and dance come from which country?
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Spain Medium question
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What does a metronome help musicians keep?
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A steady beat Medium question
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Which small device helps musicians check that their instrument plays the right pitch?
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A tuner Medium question
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In which decade did rock and roll first become popular?
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1950s Medium question
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Which band's 1964 arrival in the United States kicked off the British Invasion?
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The Beatles Medium question
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Which English city is the hometown of The Beatles?
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Liverpool Medium question
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What do we call a stage work that tells a story mostly through singing with an orchestra?
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Opera Medium question
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A symphony is usually written to be played by what?
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An orchestra Medium question
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In which country is the opera house with sail-shaped roofs that opened in 1973?
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Australia Medium question
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Which large keyboard instrument has pedals and pipes and is often found in concert halls?
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Pipe organ Medium question
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What Italian word on sheet music tells you to play loudly?
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Forte Hard question
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As an instruction on sheet music, what does the word piano mean?
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Play softly Hard question
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How many semitones, or half steps, are in one octave?
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12 Hard question
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Which composer wrote his first symphony when he was about 8 years old?
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Hard question
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In which city was Mozart born?
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Salzburg Hard question
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Who composed The Blue Danube waltz?
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Johann Strauss II Hard question
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In which country was the composer Frédéric Chopin born?
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Poland Hard question
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Which composer wrote the opera The Magic Flute?
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Hard question
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How many music trivia questions are on this page?
There are 65 music trivia questions in this list (13 easy, 29 medium, 17 hard, and 6 impossible), spread over 2 pages. Every question has its answer right below it, hidden until you tap Show answer.
Do these music questions include song lyrics?
No. The questions are about instruments, composers, music history and theory, so there are no lyrics to finish.
What are 10 good music trivia questions?
1) Which instrument has 88 black and white keys? Piano. 2) What do you draw across a violin's strings to play it? A bow. 3) How many lines are in a standard music staff? 5. 4) Which composer lost his hearing but kept composing, finishing his Ninth Symphony in 1824? Ludwig van Beethoven. 5) Which is the largest and lowest-pitched brass instrument in an orchestra? Tuba. 6) Flamenco music and dance come from which country? Spain. 7) A symphony is usually written to be played by what? An orchestra. 8) Which composer wrote his first symphony when he was about 8 years old? Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. 9) Which tuned steel drum instrument comes from Trinidad and Tobago? Steelpan. 10) What does an a cappella group sing without? Instruments.
What is the hardest music trivia question here?
One of the hardest is: Which composer wrote Peter and the Wolf to introduce children to the instruments of the orchestra? The answer is Sergei Prokofiev. 6 questions in this list are rated impossible, the top level in the Quiz Zoomies videos.
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