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

Who is often called the 'King of Pop'?

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Easy Level

  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 Level

  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 Level

  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