Misc.
Movies and Actors
Composers
Instruments
Name That Song!
200
What is the population? (Estimate)
About 9,000,000
200
This musical movie is about a nun becoming a governess and escaping Austria from the Nazis.
200
String Quartet No. 2 wrote in 1908 is one of this composer masterpieces, who is he?
Arnold Schoenberg
200
This instrument is similar to the harmonica and piano. It has either buttons on both sides, or piano keys on one side and buttons on the other.
Accordion
200
This song goes like this...
Do, a deer, a female deer
Re, a drop of golden sun
Do, a Dear from the "Sound of Music"
400
What official language do Austrians speak?
German
400
This 1930s-1950s actress has started in many American movies including I Take This Women. (HINT: She was a judge on Eureka!)
Hedy Lamarr
400
This composer was friends with Beethoven, and he studied with him from 1800 to 1803. He is known for his work on the piano
A. Mozart
B. Anton Webern
C. Ed Sheeran
D. Karl Czerny
Karl Czerny
400
This percussion instrument is hit with a hammer and is similar to the glockenspiel.
Strohfeidel or Continental Xylophone
400
This song was inspired by a river in Austria and was composed by Johann Strauss
Blue Danube
600
What is their money unit?
Euro
600
This Austrian born actor played the original Captain von Trapp on Broadway
A. Robin Williams
B. Theodore Bikel
C. Lin Manuel-Miranda
B.Theodore Bikel
600
This Austrian composer wrote A Waltz Dream in 1907 and A Chocolate Soldier in 1908. Who is it?
Oscar Straus
600
This smooth, flat, wooden box, with 30 or more strings is called a
A. Zither
B.Harp
C. Guitarron
A. Zither
600
This yodeling song is about goats, it goes like this, High on a hill was a lonely goatherd
The Lonely Goatherd
800
What does the flag look like?
A. Blue stripe, white stripe, then red
B. Has stripes of red, white, then back to red
C. Red with an eagle in the center
It has stripes of red, white, then back to red
800
This Austrian born actor starred in "Jingle All the Way" as the main character, he has a very thick accent, along with many other movies including Kindergarten Cop (Detective John Kimble)
Alfred Schwarzenegger
800
Who made the song The Surprise Symphony?
A. Franz Schubert
B. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
C. Joseph Haydn
C. Joseph Haydn
800
This woodwind instrument can be up to 10-13.5 feet long and is played for mainly communication
Alpine horn
800
This song by the one of the most famous composers in the 1900s is named...
A. Dance of the Bumblebee
B. String Quartets No. 2
C. Fugue in D Minor
B. String Quartets No. 2
1000
What is the climate like? (name at least one)
1. mild to warm summers
2.cold winters
3.moist though the rest of the year
1000
PLUS 500 POINTS
A. Yay!
B. Oh thanks
C. I'm already in the lead
D. No thanks
A. Yay!
B. Oh, thanks
C. I'm already in the lead
1000
This composer is linked to another composer in this category, (this composer was the student and the other was the teacher) who is the student?
A. Bach
B. Arnold Schoenberg
C. Ms. Frizzle
D. Robert
B. Arnold Schoenberg
1000
This instrument creates sound by cranking a lever and playing it with a bow, similar to the violin.
Hurdy-gurdy
1000
What song has lyrics that go like this: Small and White, Clean and Bright, you look happy to meet me.
Edelweiss from The Sound of Music