Music Quiz

Which is the instrument currently playing?

• Violin

• Gadulka

• Bagpipe

• Accordion

Answer explanation

The gadulka (Bulgarian: гъдулка) is a traditional Bulgarian bowed string instrument. Its name comes from a root meaning "to make noise, hum or buzz". Only the main melodic strings are touched by the player's fingers and the strings are never pressed all the way down to touch the neck. The gadulka is held vertically, with the bow held perpendicular in an under-hand hold.

What instrument does he play?

• None, he's an impostor!

• Theremin

• Vibraphone

• Marimba

Answer explanation

The Theremin s an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the thereminist (performer), invented by Leon Theremin, who patented the device in 1928.

The instrument's controlling section usually consists of two metal antennas that sense the relative position of the thereminist's hands and control oscillators for frequency with one hand, and amplitude (volume) with the other. The electric signals from the Theremin are amplified and sent to a loudspeaker.

In 1969, Brian Jones, funding member of Rolling Stones, tragically die in his swimming pool. How did the other band members pay tribute to Jones in live concert?

• Unfurled a banner of Jones

• Sang his favorite song a capella

• Released thousands of butterflies

• Released a white dove

Answer explanation

The Stones give an homage to Brian Jones and play a cover of "I'm Yours and I'm Hers".

(Hyde Park Free Concert 1969)

Eleni Foureira participated in the Eurovision song contest 2018 arriving second. Which country was she representing with her song Fuego?

• Greece

• Cyprus

• Turkey

• Macedonia

Answer explanation

Eleni Foureira is a Greek singer and dancer. She represented Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 with the song "Fuego". On 8 May 2018 she qualified from the first semi-final to the grand final, where she finished second with 436 points, the best result Cyprus has ever achieved in the contest.

What is the first music video clip ever broadcasted on MTV?

• Strawberry field forever

• Satisfaction

• Video Killed the Radio Star

• Good bye, blue sky

Answer explanation

At 12:01am on August 1, 1981, history was made when MTV, the first 24-hour video music channel, launched onto our television sets and literally changed our lives with the birth of the music video. The first video ever played on the network was quite ironic — “Video Killed The Radio Star” by The Buggles

Vamos a la playa was released in 1983 by?

• Miguel Lobomos

• Righeira's brothers

• Beach boys

• Miguel Santos

Answer explanation

"Vamos a la playa" (English: "Let's go to the beach") is a song by the Italian italo disco duo Righeira. It was issued as a single in 1983. Despite its ostensibly innocuous beach theme, the song actually talks about the explosion of an atomic bomb.

Which is the music Hall of fame band who announced they break up with a video called Epilogue?

• Oasis

• Daft Punk

• The Libertines

• Arctic Monkeys

Answer explanation

Daft Punk the Parisian duo responsible for some of the most popular dance and pop songs ever made, have split. They broke the news with an 8-minute video titled “Epilogue,” excerpted from their 2006 film Electroma. Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo formed Daft Punk in Paris in 1993, helping to define the French touch style of house music.

Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter and poet, released in 1952 "le gorille". The song is:

• In favor of zoophily

• Against the death penalty

• In defense of animal rights

• None of them

Answer explanation

"Le gorille" – tells, in a humorous fashion, of a gorilla with a large penis (and admired for this by ladies) who escapes his cage. Mistaking a robed judge for a woman, the beast forcefully sodomizes him. The song contrasts the wooden attitude that the judge had exhibited when sentencing a man to death by the guillotine with his cries for mercy when being assaulted by the gorilla.

• Time

• Money

• Space

• Satellites

Answer explanation

"Money" is a song by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd from their 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon. Written by Roger Waters, it opened side two of the original album.

What's Emanuele playing?

• Iron Man

• Black Dog

• Black Door

• Steel Man

Answer explanation

"Black Dog" is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin, the opening track on their fourth album "Led Zeppelin IV" in 1971. The title is a reference to a nameless black Labrador Retriever that wandered around the Headley Grange studios during recording.