Jazz Facts
The hi-hat is most commonly pressed on these two beats.
What are beats 2 and 4?
This is the name of the equation a2+b2=c2.
What is the Pythagorean theorem?
This is the most streamed artist on Spotify.
Who is Drake?
This term means to play softly.
What is piano?
This is the first president of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
This style of jazz is characterized with the first eighth note being longer than the second.
What is swing?
This is the ratio of the circumfrence over the diameter.
What is Pi?
This musician is commonly known as the "King of Rock and Roll."
Who is Elvis Presley?
What is rallantendo?
These are the colours of the Swedish flag.
What are yellow and blue?
This decade was known as the "Jazz Age."
What is the 1920's?
This is the sum of all the angles in a triangle.
What is 180o.
Louis Armstrong was a master at this instrument.
This tempo marking means to play slowly.
"Bobby" is a popular shortening of this name.
What is Robert?
This city is where the jazz genre was born.
Where is New Orleans?
This is the name of the numerical sequence going 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, ...
What is the Fibonacci Sequence?
This jazz singer is known as the "First Lady of Jazz."
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
This describes a note that is neither sharp or flat.
What is natural?
What is 300?
This instrument was the defining instrument of the swing era and popularly known as the "licorice stick."
What is the clarinet?
This famous physicist invented calculus because the math he wanted to use did not already exist.
Who is Isaac Newton?
Who is George Gershwin?
This term describes music where no key can be establisted.
What is atonal?
The line "To be or not to be" comes from this Shakespearian play.
What is Hamlet?