Audacity Basics
Audacity file format for saving projects.
What is .AUP?
What tool is used to select and highlight audio in Audacity?
What is the Selection Tool?
What is the standard sampling rate for CD-quality audio?
What is 44100 kHz?
Track by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars that spent multiple weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 starting in January 2025.
What is "Die with a Smile"?
This country icon sang "Jolene" and "9 to 5". She is known for her big blonde hair and bubbly personality.
Who is Dolly Parton?
Tool used to adjust volume over time.
What is the Envelope tool?
How can you remove background noise from a recording?
What is using the Noise Reduction effect?
The process turning a sound wave into digital data by taking regular snapshots?
What is sampling?
Song by SZA and Kendrick Lamar includes the lyrics '30 for 30, we don't need no sleep' and charted in the top ten in 2025
What is 30 for 30?
This 1960s British rock band wrote "Hey Jude" and "Let it Be". They are know for having changed the world with their music.
Who are the Beatles?
What menu would you use to export an audio file as an MP3?
What is the file menu?
How can you split an audio track at a specific point?
What is Ctrl + I (or Command + I on Mac)?
Uncompressed format that retains all audio data and has a large file size.
What is WAV (Waveform Audio File)?
Ariana Grande's song with the lyrics 'We can't be friends, wait for your love,' debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 2024?
What is 'We Can't Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)'
This pop star released "Bad Guy" in 2019 and is know for her unique style and musical experimentation.
Who is Billie Ellish?
What is Mix and Render?
Tool that lets you adjust the pitch of your voice to make it sound cartoonish, like a chipmunk.
What is the Pitch effect?
Unit that measures how loud a sound is?
What is a decibel (dB)?
Rapper, whose real name is Aubrey Graham, made waves in the top 10 with his song 'Search & Rescue' in 2024.
Who is Drake?
This female rapper is known for her colorful style and hit songs like "WAP".
Who is Cardi B?
Where is the Project Rate Dropdown (to set sample rate) located in the audacity window?
Where is the bottom left corner?
What tool allows you to adjust the start and end of a selected audio clip?
What is the Trim Tool?
Term that refers to the number of cycles per second of a sound wave and is measured in Hertz (Hz). It determines the pitch of a sound.
What is frequency?
The classic hit with the famous lyrics "We are the champions my friend)" and top the charts in the 1970s was song by who?
Who is Queen?
Who wrote the song that includes the lyrics "I hear the train a comin', it's rollin 'round the bend."
Who is Johnny Cash? The song is "Folsom Prison Blues?