Live Music
Record Players
Radio
Cassettes and CDs
Miscellaneous
100
The definition of Live Music?
One person or many people playing or singing music in real time, often for an audience (ex. concerts, music played on instruments at home, church, etc.)
100
What is another name for a record (hint: what it is made out of)?
Vinyl
100
True or False: the 3 main categories of radio broadcasts today are Music, News and Talk Shows.
True.
100
Cassettes are better known as what name? Hint: it's something that might be on a desk in an office.
Tapes
100
Name of the ship that famously sunk due to nobody answering their radio distress signal?
The Titanic
200
Ancient Greece
200
True or False: Records on record players were the dominant method of listening to music for the 20th century (1900-1999)?
True.
200
What is the most common place people listen to the radio in today?
In cars
200
True or False: Cars used to have cassette and CD players.
True (and some still do today!)
200
True or False: the first version of the iPod debuted on November 10, 2001.
True
300
Which American music artist had the best-selling live music tour of 2024?
Taylor Swift (The Eras Tour)
300
What happens to the plate the record rests on when you lift the needle on a record player?
The plate spins.
300
The telegraph was the first radio equipment that sent messages across the world by tapping the device in what language?
Morse Code
300
What do the letters stand for in CD?
Compact Disc
300
True or False: the Apple iPod is the best-selling music device of all time?
True
400
According to ethnomusicologists (archaeologists for music), what is the oldest instrument in human existence?
Your voice!
400
What is the material vinyl is made out of?
Wax
400
True or False: WITHOUT using the Internet or Satellite, a radio in Chicago can tune to a station channel in Alaska?
False
400
This was the first portable music device for listening to music from tapes or CDs on the go! Hint: you might see this on Stranger Things!
Walkman
400
What year did the Cassette Player come out? I will give you + or - 10 years.
1962
500
The oldest physical instruments excavated by ethnomusicologists so far are an early version of flutes carved from animal bones. How old are they (I'll give you a range of + or - 5,000 years).
42,000 years old!!
500
What year was the record player invented (I will give you + or - 10 years)?
1877
500
What year was the box radio (for playing music in homes) invented? I will give you + or - 10 years.
1895
500
What year did the CD player come out? I will give you + or - 10 years.
1982
500
Put all of the devices, including Live Music, that we have learned about in order from oldest to newest. There are 5 total (hint: no Apple products).
Live Music, Record Player, Radio, Cassette Player, CD Player