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100

This professional orchestra is composed primarily of Black and Latino musicians and tours nationally.

What is Sphinx Virtuosi

100

This singer's real first name is Destiny Hope.

Who is Miley Cyrus

100

The Berklee Cafe is named after which famous jazz artist?

Who is Duke Ellington?

100

The six solo sonatas and partitas for violin, BWV 1001–1006, contain this famous movement that has inspired hundreds of arrangements and analyses.

What is the Chaconne?

100

This is the only continent located entirely in the Southern Hemisphere.

What is Australia?

200

This professional is the Chief Programming Officer of the Sphinx Organization.

Who is Andre Dowell?
200

This figure skater performed to “Stateside” by Zara Larsson and later won Olympic gold.

Who is Alysa Liu?

200

This instrumental conductor is an administrator at BOCO and is our point of contact with the University.

Who is Matthew Marsit.

200

This composer wrote Eine kleine Nachtmusik and died at the age of 35 in 1791.

Who is Mozart?

200

This gas makes up about 78% of Earth’s atmosphere.

What is nitrogen?

300

In the 90's, while an undergraduate at this university’s School of Music, Theatre & Dance, Aaron P. Dworkin founded the Sphinx Competition to support talented young string musicians.

What is the University of Michigan?

300

Elvis Presley is often cited as the “King of Rock and Roll,” and Michael Jackson as the “King of Pop,” but neither holds the top global position in total recorded music sales, that distinction goes to this band formed in 1960 in England.

Who are the Beatles?

300

Ana Abrantes, Sphinx's Director of Education, is rooting for which country to win the World Cup?

What is Brazil?

300

this composer wrote the Afro-American Symphony, which was the first symphony by a Black composer performed by a major U.S. orchestra.


Who is William Grant Still?

300

This river is the longest in the world by many traditional measurements, though some debate exists with the Amazon.

What is the Nile River?
400

This initiative within the Sphinx Organization focuses on developing emerging arts leaders through mentorship, placements, and professional training in the classical music field.

Sphinx LEAD

400

This short-form video trend involves creators rapidly transforming from “before” to “after” versions of themselves or others, often set to a beat drop and heavily tied to editing transitions and filters.

What is a 'Glow Up'.

400

This year marks the merger of Berklee College of Music and Boston Conservatory into a single institution known today as Boston Conservatory at Berklee.

what is 2017

400

This term describes a texture where multiple independent melodic lines occur simultaneously.

What is polyphony?

400

This event in 1969 is often cited as a defining achievement of the Cold War space race between the United States and the Soviet Union.

What is the Apollo 11 Moon landing?

500

The Sphinx Organization was founded in the late 1990s. In 2027, it will have been in existence for exactly how many years?

What is 30 years?

500

This 2023 film became a global cultural moment, pairing a fantasy world with a real-world consumer brand aesthetic that dominated social media, fashion, and memes simultaneously.

Barbie

500

During our orientation meeting, Ana used this word to describe a career in music. 

What is a Portfolio Career

500

In 1829, this 20-year-old violinist conducted a historic revival of Bach's St. Matthew Passion, helping spark renewed interest in Bach's music.

Who is Felix Mendelssohn?

500

What number comes next in the sequence?

1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, ___

49

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