1930s Review!

Question 1

This piano player, bandleader, and writer of "Jumpin&#x27; at the Woodside" helped bring jazz to Kansas City

Accepted Answer

Count Basie

Question 2

This jazz singer was nicknamed "Lady Day" and was an excellent improviser. She struggled with addiction and died at 44.

Accepted Answer

Billie Holiday

Question 3

This trombone player and bandleader had more #1s than Elvis or the Beatles with songs like "In the Mood."

Accepted Answer

Glenn Miller

Question 4

This dictator ruled Germany from 1933-1945 and was the biggest contributor to the Holocaust.

Accepted Answer

Adolph Hitler

Question 5

This song is based on a poem about a lynching in the South and is considered the first Civil Rights protest song.

Accepted Answer

Strange Fruit

Question 6

He wrote the orchestral classic "Carmina Burana" and developed one of the most popular elementary music teaching methods

Accepted Answer

Carl Orff

Question 7

This Jazz Orchestra piano player and band leader played songs like "Take the A Train" & "Satin Doll" at the Cotton Club:

Accepted Answer

Duke Ellington

Question 8

This President is the only one to serve more than two terms. He beat Hoover in a landslide and created "The New Deal."

Accepted Answer

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Question 9

What was the most popular style of music during the 1930s?

Accepted Answer

Jazz

Question 10

He&#x27;s one of the few to write the music & lyrics. He wrote the musical Anything Goes, & "I Get a Kick Out of You."

Accepted Answer

Cole Porter

Question 11

This Sergei Prokofiev symphony for children used a different instrument for each character and was made a movie in 1946

Accepted Answer

Peter and the Wolf

Question 12

After the stock market crash of 1929 millions were out of jobs and were struggling to survive during this time called:

Accepted Answer

The Great Depression

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