T93 INSTRUMENTAL QUIZ
Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 6:09 pm1 Which 1972 album by Elton John included the track Crocodile Rock?
DONT SHOOT ME IM ONLY THE PIANO PLAYER
2 Beethoven’s Fifth is said to be the first symphony to include which musical instrument?
TROMBONE
3 Which song penned by Bob Dylan was a chart topper for The Byrds?
MR. TAMBOURINE MAN
4 Which 2001 film starring Nicolas Cage was adapted from a novel by Louis de Bernieres?
CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN
5 Which TV show is introduced by an instrumental theme entitled Approaching Menace?
MASTERMIND
6 Who created the oriental villain Fu Manchu?
SAX ROHMER
7 What did Jim Reeves hear the sound of in a posthumous 1966 hit?
DISTANT DRUMS
8 Which instrument’s name translates into English as jumping flea?
UKELELE
9 A bansuri in India and a khlui in Thailand are both types of what?
FLUTE
10 What is the French name for the English horn?
COR ANGLAIS
11 Which instrument derived from the Aboriginal people of the Kakudu region of Australia?
DIDGERIDOO
12 76 Trombones in a Big Parade. How many cornets followed right behind?
110
13 What type of harp is named after the Greek god of the wind?
AEOLIAN HARP
14 Which song contains the line,” Let me hear your balalaikas ringing out”?
BACK IN THE USSR
15 Crash, hi-hat, ride, splash and zil are all types of what?
CYMBALS
16 Which Irish born musician is known as the Man with the Golden Flute?
JAMES CALLWAY
17 Which instrument did Acker Bilk play on the hit single Stranger on the Shore?
CLARINET
18 What instrument is known as a fagotto in the Italian language?
BASSOON
19 On which part of the bagpipes is the melody played?
THE CHANTER
20 Which instrument’s name derives from the Greek for beautiful sounding?
EUPHONIUM
21 What is plucked with a mezrab?
SITAR
22 What instrument does Lisa Simpson play?
SAXOPHONE
23 Who became known as the Man with the Golden Trumpet?
EDDIE CALVERT
24 What is sometimes referred as a tin sandwich?
HARMONICA
25 Bartolomeo Christofori is credited with inventing which modern day instrument?
PIANO
DONT SHOOT ME IM ONLY THE PIANO PLAYER
2 Beethoven’s Fifth is said to be the first symphony to include which musical instrument?
TROMBONE
3 Which song penned by Bob Dylan was a chart topper for The Byrds?
MR. TAMBOURINE MAN
4 Which 2001 film starring Nicolas Cage was adapted from a novel by Louis de Bernieres?
CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN
5 Which TV show is introduced by an instrumental theme entitled Approaching Menace?
MASTERMIND
6 Who created the oriental villain Fu Manchu?
SAX ROHMER
7 What did Jim Reeves hear the sound of in a posthumous 1966 hit?
DISTANT DRUMS
8 Which instrument’s name translates into English as jumping flea?
UKELELE
9 A bansuri in India and a khlui in Thailand are both types of what?
FLUTE
10 What is the French name for the English horn?
COR ANGLAIS
11 Which instrument derived from the Aboriginal people of the Kakudu region of Australia?
DIDGERIDOO
12 76 Trombones in a Big Parade. How many cornets followed right behind?
110
13 What type of harp is named after the Greek god of the wind?
AEOLIAN HARP
14 Which song contains the line,” Let me hear your balalaikas ringing out”?
BACK IN THE USSR
15 Crash, hi-hat, ride, splash and zil are all types of what?
CYMBALS
16 Which Irish born musician is known as the Man with the Golden Flute?
JAMES CALLWAY
17 Which instrument did Acker Bilk play on the hit single Stranger on the Shore?
CLARINET
18 What instrument is known as a fagotto in the Italian language?
BASSOON
19 On which part of the bagpipes is the melody played?
THE CHANTER
20 Which instrument’s name derives from the Greek for beautiful sounding?
EUPHONIUM
21 What is plucked with a mezrab?
SITAR
22 What instrument does Lisa Simpson play?
SAXOPHONE
23 Who became known as the Man with the Golden Trumpet?
EDDIE CALVERT
24 What is sometimes referred as a tin sandwich?
HARMONICA
25 Bartolomeo Christofori is credited with inventing which modern day instrument?
PIANO
