Guitar
50s-60s
70s-80s
Music Eras
Instruments
100

How many strings does a typical acoustic guitar have?

What is 6? 

100

What two countries combined musical influences during the British Invasion? 

What are the United States and Great Britain? 

100

What is the common name for the genre of popular music? 

What is Pop?

100

Which composer's death signified the end of the Baroque Era? 

Who is J. S. Bach? 

100

What vibrates to create sound on a brass instrument? 

What are your chops? 

200

What piece of technology do electric guitars and electric basses need to produce sound? 

What is an amplifier? 

200

Who is considered the King of Rock n' Roll? 

Who is Elvis Presley?

200

Who is considered the King of Pop?

Who is Michael Jackson? 

200
Which composer continued to compose music after becoming deaf? 

Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?

200

What instrument is designed to be a cross between a brass and woodwind instrument? 

What is a saxophone? 

300

Name four types of guitars.

What are acoustic guitars, classical guitars, electric guitars, and electric basses?

300

Who is considered the Queen of Soul? 

Who is Aretha Franklin? 

300

What was the first song to include the genre name reggae? 

What is "Do the Reggae"?

300

The sackbut is the Renaissance version of what modern instrument?  

What is a trombone? 

300

What instrument is the predecessor to the pianoforte?  

What is a harpsichord?

400

What are the pitches on the open strings of the guitar listed from string 6-1?

What are E, A, D, G, B, E?

400

In the genre of Rock n' Roll, what instrument was replaced by the electric bass? 

What is a double bass?

400

What was the nickname used for punk rock bands? 

What are Garage Bands? 

400

What invention provided greater access to music? 

What is the Gutenberg Printing Press?  

400

What woodwind instrument contains both single and double reeds? 

What are the bagpipes? 

500

What are the pitches in an A7 chord?

What are A, C#, E, G? 

500

What type of radio was handheld and portable? 

What is a transistor radio? 

500

What is David Bowie's alter ego? 

Who is Ziggy Stardust? 

500

What composer won a fencing competition while sick with pneumonia and then wrote an opera for his nurses? 

Who is Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges?

500

One of the oldest discovered version of this instrument was made out of a hollowed out bone from a bird? 

What is a flute?