Top 50 Music Trivia: Test Your Knowledge! (Easy, Medium, Hard)

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Easy Music Trivia Questions

  1. Who is often called the "King of Pop"?

    Answer: Michael Jackson

  2. Which British band sang "Hey Jude"?

    Answer: The Beatles

  3. What type of instrument is a guitar?

    Answer: String instrument

  4. Which female artist sang "Rolling in the Deep"?

    Answer: Adele

  5. What does the acronym "DJ" stand for?

    Answer: Disc Jockey

  6. What is the title of Elvis Presley's mansion?

    Answer: Graceland

  7. Which country is the band ABBA from?

    Answer: Sweden

  8. What is the name of the annual music awards show featuring a golden gramophone?

    Answer: The Grammy Awards

  9. Which song by Queen features the lyrics "We are the champions"?

    Answer: We Are the Champions

  10. What is the lead instrument in a standard orchestra?

    Answer: Violin

Medium Music Trivia Questions

  1. What was the name of Nirvana's iconic 1991 album?

    Answer: Nevermind

  2. Which instrument did Jimi Hendrix famously play?

    Answer: Electric guitar

  3. What is the musical term for a sequence of notes that is pleasing to the ear?

    Answer: Melody

  4. Which singer-songwriter released the album "Tapestry" in 1971?

    Answer: Carole King

  5. What is the name of the famous music festival held annually in Pilton, Somerset, UK?

    Answer: Glastonbury Festival

  6. Which genre of music originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s?

    Answer: Reggae

  7. What is the name of the debut album by The Strokes, released in 2001?

    Answer: Is This It

  8. Which classical composer wrote "Für Elise"?

    Answer: Ludwig van Beethoven

  9. What is the term for singing without instrumental accompaniment?

    Answer: A cappella

  10. Which iconic 1980s album featured the songs "Billie Jean" and "Beat It"?

    Answer: Thriller by Michael Jackson

  11. What is the name of the lead singer of the band Coldplay?

    Answer: Chris Martin

  12. Which musical has songs like "Defying Gravity" and "For Good"?

    Answer: Wicked

  13. What is the standard tuning for the six strings of a guitar (from lowest to highest)?

    Answer: E-A-D-G-B-e

  14. Which band released the album "The Dark Side of the Moon"?

    Answer: Pink Floyd

  15. What is the name of the handheld percussion instrument consisting of a frame with pairs of small metal jingles?

    Answer: Tambourine

Hard Music Trivia Questions

  1. What is the birth name of the artist known as Stevie Wonder?

    Answer: Stevland Hardaway Morris

  2. Which opera features the famous aria "Nessun Dorma"?

    Answer: Turandot

  3. What was the name of the short-lived supergroup featuring Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page?

    Answer: The Yardbirds

  4. In music theory, what is the term for a chord consisting of three notes built on consecutive intervals of a major third?

    Answer: Augmented triad

  5. Which jazz musician is credited with popularizing the "scat singing" technique?

    Answer: Louis Armstrong

  6. What is the title of Kate Bush's experimental 1982 album featuring the track "Running Up That Hill"?

    Answer: The Dreaming

  7. Which composer is known for his "Brandenburg Concertos"?

    Answer: Johann Sebastian Bach

  8. What is the name of the electronic musical instrument invented by Léon Theremin?

    Answer: Theremin

  9. Which punk rock band released the album "Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols"?

    Answer: Sex Pistols

  10. What is the term for a gradual increase in tempo in a piece of music?

    Answer: Accelerando

  11. Which member of the Wu-Tang Clan produced most of their early albums?

    Answer: RZA

  12. What is the name of the musical scale that contains only five notes?

    Answer: Pentatonic scale

  13. Which influential blues guitarist was known as "King of the Delta Blues Singers"?

    Answer: Robert Johnson

  14. What is the name of the signature guitar riff in Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water"?

    Answer: The riff is based on four descending notes: G, D, E flat, C

  15. Which contemporary classical composer is known for his minimalist works, such as "Music for 18 Musicians"?

    Answer: Steve Reich

  16. What is the name of the wind instrument that is a double-reed woodwind and is often used in orchestras?

    Answer: Oboe

  17. Which hip-hop group released the album "The Low End Theory"?

    Answer: A Tribe Called Quest

  18. In musical notation, what does "staccato" indicate?

    Answer: That the notes should be played short and detached

  19. Which iconic album by The Velvet Underground featured a banana on its cover designed by Andy Warhol?

    Answer: The Velvet Underground & Nico

  20. What is the term for a recurring musical phrase or idea associated with a particular person, idea, or situation, especially in Wagnerian opera?

    Answer: Leitmotif