KC trivia
This river forms the northern boundary of Kansas City, Missouri, and influenced early trade routes.
What is the Missouri River?
A solo vocal piece in an opera.
What is an opus?
This large choral symphony by Beethoven includes “Ode to Joy.”
What is Symphony No. 9?
This NBC musical drama featured a fictional choir director named Will Schuester.
What is Glee?
This is the only mammal capable of true sustained flight.
What is a bat?
This historic jazz district in Kansas City was home to Count Basie.
What is the 18th & Vine District?
A large-scale dramatic musical work involving choir, soloists, and orchestra, often religious.
What is an oratorio?
A mass for the dead, often set to music for choir and orchestra.
What is a Requiem?
This viral a cappella group gained fame with a Daft Punk medley and won The Sing-Off.
Who is Pentatonix?
This element has the highest melting point of any metal.
What is tungsten?
This university in Kansas City houses a renowned conservatory whose choirs frequently perform major choral-orchestral works.
What is the University of Missouri–Kansas City (UMKC)?
A musical direction meaning to play or sing one octave higher or lower.
What is ottava?
This lesser-known Bach motet includes the chorale “Jesu, meine Freude.”
What is Jesu, meine Freude (BWV 227)?
This 1992 film starred Whoopi Goldberg as a lounge singer turned convent choir director.
What is Sister Act?
This planet has the fastest rotation in the solar system, completing a day in about 10 hours.
What is Jupiter?
This Kansas City concert hall, home to the Kansas City Symphony Chorus, is named after a Midwestern insurance company.
What is Helzberg Hall?
In Baroque sacred music, this “O” term refers to optional instrumental parts that embellish a vocal line.
What is obbligato?
This choral work by Benjamin Britten juxtaposes the Latin Mass for the Dead with World War I poetry.
What is the War Requiem?
This movie features a cappella college groups competing in singing competitions.
What is Pitch Perfect?
This language has the most native speakers in the world.
What is Mandarin?
This Kansas City philanthropist and newspaper editor helped fund the construction of a major performing arts center.
Who is William Rockhill Nelson?
A Renaissance musical term referring to improvised embellishment of a melody.
What is ornamentation?
This Renaissance composer wrote the 40-part motet Spem in alium.
Who is Thomas Tallis?
This composer created iconic choral-heavy film scores for movies like The Lord of the Rings.
Who is Howard Shore?
This is the smallest bone in the human body.
What is the stapes?