What song was playing when Corporal A.D. Pankhurst returned to his barn?
A) My Old Kentucky Home
B) Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay
C) The End of a Perfect Day
D) Turkey in the Straw
C) The End of a Perfect Day
100
What was used as a term for a kind of entertainment, not just a kind of theater?
A) Jim Crow
B) Minstrel Shows
C) Music Hall
D) Ethiopian Delineators
C) Music Hall
100
During Harry Houdini's Chinese water torture act, how long did he have to hold his breath?
A) 10 minutes
B) 3 minutes
C) 1 minute and 45 seconds
D) 2 minutes and 30 seconds
B) 3 minutes
100
About how many military bands did America have in 1889?
A) 500
B) 1 million
C) 10 thousand+
D) Anywhere from 500 to 3 thousand
C) 10 thousand+
100
Who conducted "The March of the Women" with a toothbrush while in prison?
A) Emmeline Pankhurst
B) Dame Ethel Smyth
C) Frances Scott Key
D) Woodrow Wilson
B) Dame Ethel Smyth
200
What poem did Thomas Edison record onto tinfoil in 1877?
A) Mary Had a Little Lamb
B) The Tell Tale Heart
C) Jack and Jill
D) The Itzy Bitzy Spider
A) Mary Had a Little Lamb
200
What city did opera originate?
A) Venice
B) Rome
C) New York City
D) Liverpool
A) Venice
200
Where was Harry Houdini from?
A) Australia
B) Russia
C) France
D) Hungary
D) Hungary
200
Which one of these instruments could women play?
A) Flute
B) Violin
C) Clarinet
D) Women could not play any instruments
B) Violin
200
In 1916, who named "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the national song for military use?
A) Frances Scott Key
B) Carlos III
C) Charles Ives
D) Woodrow Wilson
D) Woodrow Wilson
300
When did Lee De Forest make the first radio broadcast?
A) January 12,1910
B) January 13,1910
C) January 12 and 13, 1911
D) Both A and B
D) Both A and B
300
Who visited America and studied African Americans?
A) Jim Crow
B) Charles Matthews
C) Thomas Dartmouth Rice
D) Stephen Foster
B) Charles Matthews
300
How much were admission tickets to Vaudeville shows?
A) Anywhere from a nickel to a dollar
B) 10 cents
C) Anywhere from 50 cents to a dollar
D) 75 cents
A) Anywhere from a nickel to a dollar
300
What was the national march of the United States?
A) The Stars and Stripes Forever
B) My Country 'Tis of Thee
C) The Star Spangled Banner
D) To Anacreon in Heav'n
A) The Stars and Stripes Forever
300
Which song(s) were competing to be the national song?
A) To Anacreon in Heav'n
B) La Marseillaise
C) Kaiserhymne
D) All of the Above
A) To Anacreon in Heav'n
400
Which company created the Trench Model gramophone?
A) Apple
B) Decca
C) Nokia
D) Android
B) Decca
400
Who was America's finest composer in the nineteenth century?
A) Jim Crow
B) Jack Benny
C) W.C. Handy
D) Stephen Foster
D) Stephen Foster
400
Which one of these entertainers never performed on vaudville?
A) Judy Garland
B) Johnny Cash
C) Three Stooges
D) Bob Hope
B) Johnny Cash
400
What kind of music did hymn melodies most resemble?
A) Classical
B) Jazz
C) Marches
D) Rap
C) Marches
400
When did France adopt "La Marseillaise" as its anthem?
A) 1797
B) 1732
C) 1795
D) 1723
C) 1795
500
Why did the U.S. pass the Radio Act of 1912?
A) Updates on the War
B) Boats can tell people when they have reached their destination
C) Titanic distress calls weren't heard
D) Entertainment
C) Titanic distress calls weren't heard
500
What were the people who made skits imitating African Americans called?
A) Ethiopian Dictators
B) Black Bobs
C) Ethiopian Delineators
D) Bonquisha
C) Ethiopian Delineators
500
What was a "turn"?
A) A stage direction
B) A theater
C) A long series of acts
D) Two of the same acts in a row
C) A long series of acts
500
Who was America's most famous bandleader?
A) Francis Scott Key
B) Dame Ethyl Smyth
C) Emmeline Pankhurst
D) John Phillip Sousa
D) John Phillip Sousa
500
What was the original name of the anthem for suffragettes in Great Britain?
A) Songs of Sunrise
B) The March of the Women
C) Gay Nineties
D) Angels we Have Heard on High