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Question 1

A piece written for a specific instrument, but featuring orchestral accompaniment, is known as?

Accepted Answer

concerto

Question 2

Which of the following instruments is a member of the string family?

Accepted Answer

sitar

Question 3

What type of painting is represented by many of Winslow Homer's works including The Gulf Stream

Accepted Answer

Seascape

Question 4

Which choice below is an example of an organic shape?

Accepted Answer

leaf

Question 5

A dancer would most likely perform a jete in which dance style below?

Accepted Answer

ballet

Question 6

Which choice below names a passage that ends a musical movement or piece?

Accepted Answer

coda

Question 7

Sportin Life and Crown are characters in what George Gershwin opera, set on Catfish Row?

Accepted Answer

Porgy and Bess

Question 8

The group of actors who perform in a play are known as what?

Accepted Answer

cast

Question 9

Which word below is associated with the musical element timbre, sometimes called tone color?

Accepted Answer

brassy

Question 10

Who adapted a concert tuba into his namesake instrument, which is perfect for marching bands?

Accepted Answer

John Philip Sousa

Question 11

Which choreographer incorporated American themes and styles into routines for Rodeo & Oklahoma?

Accepted Answer

Agnes de Mille

Question 12

Which one of the following characters appears in Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker?

Accepted Answer

the Mouse King

Question 13

Which of the following dancers frequently partnered with Margot Fonteyn?

Accepted Answer

Rudolf Nureyev

Question 14

Michel Fokine choreographed the ballet solo "The Dying Swan" for which dancer below?

Accepted Answer

Anna Pavlova

Question 15

The final rehearsal before a play's opening shares its name with what piece of clothing?

Accepted Answer

dress

Question 16

What Pharaoh is believed to be responsible for the building of the Great Pyramids?

Accepted Answer

Khufu

Question 17

One of the highpoints of their career was the choreography for The Dying Swan for Anna Pavlova.

Accepted Answer

Michel Fokine

Question 18

Which element of music can be definite or indefinite and is based on an instrument's size?

Accepted Answer

pitch

Question 19

What element in drama is defined simply as "one of the persons who appears in a play"?

Accepted Answer

character

Question 20

Which one of the following movements is non locomtor?

Accepted Answer

swaying

Question 21

Which keyboard instruments below is most likely to rely on pipes for sound production?

Accepted Answer

organ

Question 22

Ave Maria and Unfinished Eighth Symphony are two of what Romantic composer's best known workds?

Accepted Answer

Franz Schubert

Question 23

Which Southern city lent its name to a 1920s dance consisting of foot twists and knee bends?

Accepted Answer

Charleston

Question 24

In 2016, Pope Francis canonized which figure, who worked with Calcutta's poor?

Accepted Answer

Saint Teresa

Question 25

Level, direction, and size are all part of which dance element?

Accepted Answer

space

Question 26

This winter adventure tells about a boys search for snow, name it.

Accepted Answer

Wintuk

Question 27

This board has a tumbhole that an artist holds. On what tool do artists mix their pigments?

Accepted Answer

palette

Question 28

Which hero below has x-ray vision and the ability to fly, and was born on the planet Krypton?

Accepted Answer

Superman

Question 29

Belafonte popularized what musical genre, developed from 19th century Trinidadian folk songs?

Accepted Answer

calypso

Question 30

A con man and librarian are the main characters in what musical featuring 76 Trombones?

Accepted Answer

The Music Man

Question 31

What type of artwork shows mostley inanimate subject matter in an artificial posed setting?

Accepted Answer

Still Life

Question 32

What form of dance is choreographed in The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky?

Accepted Answer

Ballet

Question 33

All of the instruments below are made of brass. Which one is a woodwind and requires a reed?

Accepted Answer

saxophone

Question 34

Rapid steps characterize what folk dance, that gained popula in England, Scotland, and Ireland?

Accepted Answer

jig

Question 35

The King and I, Fiddler on the Roof, and West Side Story were all choreographed by whom?

Accepted Answer

Jerome Robbins

Question 36

What is the title of Grant Wood's painting that has a farmer standing beside with a pitchfork?

Accepted Answer

American Gothic

Question 37

Name the dance where the dancer has his right hand to his forehead as if "looking out to sea"?

Accepted Answer

Hornpipe

Question 38

What ballerina married George Balanchine and was given the honorific name Wa-Xthe-Thomba?

Accepted Answer

Maria Tallchief

Question 39

Andy Warhol produced screen prints of three of the following celebrities. Which one was NOT?

Accepted Answer

Bob Marley

Question 40

Which of the following theatrical elements is NOT considered spectacle?

Accepted Answer

dialogue

Question 41

Born Cassius Marcellus Clay, this famous Kentuckian is a 3 time World Heavyweight Champion.

Accepted Answer

Muhammad Ali

Question 42

He was well known for his tap and ballroom dancing, who starred with Ginger Rogers?

Accepted Answer

Fred Astaire

Question 43

Which medium of art uses a pigment mixed with linseed, poppy seed, or walnut oils?

Accepted Answer

oil paint

Question 44

What fairy tale is about a boy who makes a bad decision about the sale of the family cow?

Accepted Answer

Jack and the Beanstalk

Question 45

A colonial workman who made or repaired wooden casks, tubs, or barrels was called what?

Accepted Answer

cooper

Question 46

Which Renaissance master painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?

Accepted Answer

Michelangelo

Question 47

Which of the following is NOT a member of the brass family of instruments?

Accepted Answer

Cymbals

Question 48

George Seurat, the painter of A Sunday on La Grand Jatte, was co-founder of what artistic style

Accepted Answer

pointillism

Question 49

This Dutch artist is famous for his Biblical works andpainted The Artist in his Studio in 1629?

Accepted Answer

Rembrandt

Question 50

An acappalla ensemble with tight harmonies and syncopated rhythm is known as a barbershop what?

Accepted Answer

quartet

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