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• Disco Era

Which 1978 film won the Academy Award for Best Original Song with “Last Dance”?

Answer

Thank God It’s Friday

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Disco Era

Which group released “Le Freak,” the best-selling single in Atlantic Records’ history at the time?

Answer

Chic

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Disco Era

Which singer recorded the 1978 disco anthem “I Will Survive”?

Answer

Gloria Gaynor

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• Disco Era

Which 1977 film used the Bee Gees’ songs to popularize disco worldwide?

Answer

Saturday Night Fever

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Music Instruments

In Hindustani classical music, which bowed string instrument is held vertically and played with a bow?

Answer

Sarangi

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Music Instruments

How many drones does the Great Highland bagpipe traditionally have?

Answer

3

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What is the earliest surviving piano by Bartolomeo Cristofori dated to?

Answer

1720

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• Music Instruments

How many strings does a standard concert pedal harp have?

Answer

47

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Which ancient Greek instrument, a double-reed ancestor of the oboe, was called the aulos?

Answer

Aulos

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Which bowed string instrument is the lowest-pitched member of the standard string quartet?

Answer

Cello

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Which 20th-century instrument, invented by Maurice Martenot, uses a keyboard and a sliding wire to control electronic pitch?

Answer

Ondes Martenot

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Which instrument did Adolphe Sax patent in 1846 as a metal-bodied, single-reed woodwind?

Answer

Saxophone

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