Hip Hop
Rap Artists
Guitar Pop
Spanish Fun
Miscellaneous Music
100
Run-D.M.C. collaborated with rock musicians Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, of Aerosmith, on a rap remake of which of their band’s songs?
What is Walk This Way
100
Rap, which originated in African American communities in New York City, came to national prominence with “Rapper’s Delight” by this artist in (1979).
Who is The Sugar Hill Gang
100
A British musician, singer, and songwriter, who gained fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles, one of the most important and influential bands in the history of rock music.
Who is George Harrison
100
What type of guitar is pictured here?
What is a Flamenco Guitar
100
This instrument pictured here is most commonly referred to as a ___________
What is a lute
200
Which Brooklyn-born rapper’s 1994 album Illmatic features the songs "N.Y. State of Mind" and "It Ain’t Hard to Tell"?
Who is Nas
200
Rap’s early stars included Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Run-D.M.C., LL Cool J, and the Beastie Boys but this Rap Group was known for its radical political messaging.
Who is Public Enemy
200
A Mexican-born American guitarist whose popular music combined rock, jazz, blues, and Afro-Cuban rhythms with a Latin sound.
Who was Carlos Santana
200
A flamenco guitar is a guitar similar to a classical guitar but the top of the guitar is_______
What is thinner
200
A perfect storm of technology brought this instrument into the forefront of America’s melting pot of people, music, and culture.
What is the American Guitar
300
Which singer has been called the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul?
Who is Mary J Blige
300
American rapper and songwriter who became one of the best-known figures in gangsta rap in the 1990s and was for many the epitome of West Coast hip-hop culture.
Who is Snoop Dogg
300
This famed guitarist helped break down the artificial barriers between black and white artists on the radio and in the emerging format of music videos on television.
Who was Eddie Van Halen.
300
A classical guitar and a flamenco guitar look very much alike on the outside but on the inside a flamenco guitar has _____________ ______________.
What is less bracings
300
In 1919 this famous company developed a steel reinforced guitar neck, to aid in steel stringed instruments neck strength.
Who was Gibson
400
Ginuwine’s "Pony," Jay-Z’s "Big Pimpin’," Missy Elliott’s "Work It," and Nelly Furtado’s "Promiscuous" were all produced by whom?
Who is Timbaland
400
This American producer, rapper, and fashion designer who parlayed his production success in the late 1990s and early 2000s into a career as a popular, critically acclaimed solo artist.
Who is Kanye West
400
This musical instrument innovator developed the first mass-produced solid-body electric guitar, in 1948.
Who was Leo Fender
400
What is this strumming technique called in the Flamenco style of playing?
What is Rasgueado
400
This instrument is the most notable of the struck stringed instruments, employing a hammer mechanism linked with the keyboard for producing its wide range of sounds.
What is the Piano
500
The title of the worldwide hit "Gangnam Style" (2012) refers to a neighborhood in which city?
Where is Seoul
500
They were a staple of the earliest hip-hop shows in the Bronx and Harlem, and nonrapping member ______________ was credited with being an inventor and innovator of many of the techniques and performing gimmicks associated with hip-hop deejaying.
Who is Grandmaster Flash
500
An American guitarist born April 26, 1938, New York, responsible for one of rock music’s elemental sounds we refer to as "twang."
Who is Duane Eddy
500
Who is the famous Flamenco Guitarist pictured here?
Who is Paco Pena
500
Pictured here is the icon who was dubbed with the title ___________________________
What is the King of Rock and Roll