How much do you really know about music? There’s no better way to find out than answering these 55 music questions straight from the popular game show Jeopardy!. You’ll find a mix of easy clues about pop music and challenging ones about music theory. You may do better if you have an education in music, but there’s no harm in trying either way! Turn these clues into a trivia quiz and play with friends or answer the questions on your own. Click the button under each clue to reveal the correct answer. Good luck!
1. Keyboard specialist Domenico Scarlatti spent years making church music for this basilica, specifically for its Julian Choir.
2. Unlike Vivaldi, Philip Glass left it up to the listener which time of year it was in his composition “The American” these.
3. This type of musical mass for the dead has a Latin name; Benjamin Britten wrote a “War” one incorporating poetry & Latin prayers.
4. His 7th Symphony premiered in 1813 at a benefit after a battle & its second movement is seen as a funeral march.
5. Rihanna sang of this title treat, “can’t wait to blow my candles out.”
6. Warrant had a Top 10 hit with this song about a dessert (really), “put a smile on your face, ten miles wide.”
7. Kendrick Lamar quoted a folk saying when he sang, “The blacker the berry,” then this result.
8. Jane’s Addiction singer Perry Farrell got the name for this Chicago music festival from the Three Stooges.
9. Her “My Heart Will Go On” went on the Billboard charts in February 1998 & stayed on for another 20 weeks.
10. His “Blinding Lights” was Billboard’s No. 1 song of 2020.
11. In the 1970s 2 different songs called “Best Of My Love” topped the charts, one by The Emotions & one by this group.
12. “You cut me open, and I” keep doing this, sang Leona Lewis in a 2008 hit.
13. “A Taste Of Honey” & “Zorba the Greek” were 2 of many ’60s pop hits for this trumpeter & The Tijuana Brass.
14. Andre Gretry, “the Moliere of music,” composed a 1784 opera about this crusading king.
15. Classical music greats Horowitz & Rostropovich each put out an album of tunes they used as these crowd-pleasers.
16. In 2023 friends including Kelsea Ballerini helped her complete the Judds farewell tour.
17. In 2020 Natalie Maines, Emily Strayer & Martie Maguire dropped the first part of their trio’s name & now go simply as this.
18. Before this music hall opened in 1932, a N.Y. newspaper glowed, “The whole theatre interior lends itself to effect of sunrise.”
19. Selling more than 10 million copies each, her “Up!”, “The Woman In Me,” & “Come on Over” albums have all been certified diamond.
20. In 2023 this queen of country took to the chair as a new coach on “The Voice.”
21. There’s only one consonant in the name of this woodwind that tunes the orchestra by playing a long-sustained A.
22. In 1953 he became the first American to conduct at La Scala in Milan; 4 years later, he helped tell a “West Side Story.”
23. We could drone on & on about this Aussie Aboriginal wind instrument–that it’s a 5′-long pipe made of eucalyptus wood, sounds cool…
24. In 1814 this Viennese composer put music to a Goethe poem & innovated the German lied, or art song.
25. Jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington composed the music for this Netflix documentary film about Michelle Obama.
26. In music this term means mandatory, to be played without omission; it often refers to an instrumental accompaniment.
27. A countertenor is an adult male voice that mostly lies within this female register.
28. As a symbol, it means the next note should be lowered by a semitone; as a disparaging word, it’s applied to out-of-tune singers.
29. Haydn’s “The Creation” is a famed one of these large-scale compositions for solo singers, chorus & orchestra.
30. Italian for “going,” it means to play at a walking pace–not too fast, not too slow.
31. You can use the black notes on a keyboard to play this common 5-note scale.
33. It was all about “Love” as this crooner from British Columbia was on top of the jazz albums chart in 2019.
34. Mozart’s Serenade No. 13 in G major has this nickname that includes the time of day it was intended for.
35. This “Fly By Night” power trio formed in Toronto in 1968; Neil Peart joined in ’74 (cue the drum solo).
36. The Judds wanted him to “take me back to yesterday” & “tell me ’bout the good old days.”
37. In their first No. 1 hit, the Zac Brown Band served up “A Little Bit Of” this, “& cold beer on a Friday night.”
38. In a song that was very close to her heart, Loretta Lynn sang, “Yeah, I’m proud to be” this.
39. “The Music Man” takes place “right here in” this fictional Iowa city.
40. In 2021 she became the youngest artist to debut at No. 1 on the Hot 100 with her song “drivers license.”
41. In 1988 Tracy Chapman had a hit with this auto tune; 35 years later, Luke Combs’ cover of it is a country hit.
42. Ice Spice & this singer whose fans are called Barbz are fittingly on the “Barbie” soundtrack with “Barbie World.”
43. Yannick Nézet-Séguin goes beyond the usual Verdi familiar works as music director since 2018 of this NYC organization.
44. In 2018 Jaap van Zweden left the Dallas Symphony to become the maestro of this Big Apple band.
45. A string quartet typically has 2 of these instruments.
46. “Grosso” sometimes follows this word-o for a type of composition.
47. Johann Pachelbel was considered one of the great masters of this instrument before the generation of J.S. Bach.
48. The theme of the piece is the true mystery of these “Variations” by Edward Elgar.
49. The opposite of staccato, it’s a direction to play music smoothly.
50. This country star Carrie-d on, singing “I close my eyes & I kiss that frog… the more boys I meet, the more I love my dog.”
51. This country singer & TV star used his voice to tell us about “Ol’ Red,” “a 4-legged tracking machine” of a prison guard dog.
52. This band sang, “I don’t practice Santeria” & also let us know “I love my dog,” a tune on a “Best of” album in 2008.
53. This male voice range falls between tenor & bass.
54. A direction to singers, the term “bouche fermée” literally means that your mouth should be this.
55. German for “song,” it’s a German folk or art song.
Final Words
Now those trivia questions are music to any lyrically logical geeks’ ears! For even more musical trivia, check out these 55 Jeopardy! questions about Broadway musicals, the 8 best music trivia games to try next, our ranking of 10 music board games, and more. And for more Jeopardy! questions inspiration, check out these 57 Surprising Animal Jeopardy! Questions, 55 Fascinating Jeopardy! Science Questions, 55 Really Cool Jeopardy! Movie Questions, 55 Tantalizing Food Questions for Jeopardy!, 55 Fun Holiday Jeopardy! Questions, 55 Really Fun Pop Culture Jeopardy! Questions, 55 Jeopardy! Questions Perfect for Kids, 55 Jeopardy! Questions and Answers Perfect for Families, 55 Jeopardy! Questions Perfect for Couples, 55 Really Fun Christmas Jeopardy! Questions, and more!
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