Motown
Soul
Psychedelic Rock
California Country
Actual Test Questions
100

Motown was founded in this city

What is Detroit?

100

Soul Music rose during this political/cultural movement

What is the Black Pride Movement?

100

Psychedelic Rock was centered in this city

What is San Francisco?

100

California Country musicians were inspired by this earlier country style

What is the Bakersfield Sound?

100

This instrument defined Psychedelic Rock

What is the electric guitar?

200

This individual founded Motown

Who is Berry Gordy?

200

African Americans begin calling their food this

What is Soul Food?

200

The hippie district of San Francisco was called this

What is Haight-Ashbury?

200

Laurel Canyon was known for this

What is a singer-songwriter community?


200

A group of elite Los Angeles studio musicians known for recording many hit songs in the 1960s and 1970s?

Who was the Wrecking Crew?

300

This famous Motown studio was where almost all artists recorded their music during this time

What is Hitsville U.S.A.?

300

This tragic event fueled Black empowerment in 1968

What is the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.?

300

This drug was most associated with Psychedelic Rock

What is LSD?

300

This music agent created Asylum Records

Who is David Geffen?

300

These themes defined protest songs

What were peace, civil rights, equality, social change, freedom, or justice?

400

This all female group, who featured Diana Ross as lead singer, became one of Motown’s top acts

Who are The Supremes?

400

Aretha Franklin known by this nickname

What is the Queen of Soul?

400

This major 1967 event defined the culture of Pyschedelic Rock

What is the Summer of Love?

400

This war shaped the mood of California Country

What is the Vietnam War?

400

This Motown group was known for hits like My Girl and smooth choreography

Who are the Temptations

500

Motown’s success helped this movement/cause in the 1960's

What is the Civil Rights Movement?

500

This legendary soul studio was located in a small Alabama town

What is Muscle Shoals?

500

The deaths of these individuals ended the psychedelic era symbolically

Who are Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison?

500

This group became known for California Country harmony

Who are The Eagles?

500

FINAL JEOPARDY: This 1969 music festival became a symbol of peace, counterculture, and the height of the hippie movement, drawing hundreds of thousands of people to a farm in New York.

What is Woodstock?