How's Your Italian?
Mrs. Bilotta
Name That Tune
The Piano Keys
Piano Lab Memories
100

The Italian word for loud

What is forte?

100

Mrs. Bilotta's first name

Who is Tammy?

100

Name this song


What is "In The Hall Of The Mountain King?"

100

The number of keys on a full sized piano keyboard

What is 88?

100

The name of the very first song learned from the purple beginning book in 6th grade

What is "Two Black Ants?"

200

The Italian word for very soft.

What is pianissimo?

200

The type of dog Mrs. Bilotta has at home

What is a Golden Retriever?

200

The composer of this famous tune

Who is Beethoven?

200

The lowest key on the piano keyboard

What is A?

200

The place where our yearly Piano Lab Contest is held

What is Bethel College (or Bethel University)?

300

The Italian word that means to gradually get softer.

What is decrescendo (or diminuendo)?

300

The number of years Mrs. Bilotta has taught at Discovery

What is 5?

300

Name this tune.

What is The Tempest?

300

The Italian word for gliding your finger up or down in a continuous slide along the piano keys

What is a glissando?

300

The name of the theatre we attended for the field trip to see STOMP

What is the Morris Performing Arts Center?

400

The Italian word that means to play quick and lively.

What is allegro?

400

The age Mrs. Bilotta is turning in August

What is 50?

400

The Motivational Monday song whose main character in the video was a tree.

What is "Story Of My Life?"

400

The keys D# and Eb are examples of these types of notes

What are enharmonic notes?

400

The names of the three 7th and 8th grade students who played solos at the Discovery Coffeehouse in April

Who are Mustafa Siddiqui, Jackson Arter, and Eshaal Kizilbash?

500

The Italian word for finish or the end.

What is fine?

500

The number of years Mrs. Bilotta has been playing the piano (answers within 4 years accepted)

What is 44 years? (40-48 years accepted)

500

Beethoven most likely wrote "Fur Elise" for one of these two women.

Who is Elisabeth Röckel (friend and opera singer he loved) or Therese Malfatti (woman he loved & proposed to who turned him down)?

500

The number of white keys and black keys on a full sized piano keyboard

What is 52 white keys and 36 black keys?

500

The number of pumpkins that survived our Pumpkin Challenge in the month of October

What is 30?