Classical Music
This is the most common device used by conductors to keep time and indicate the speed of a piece.
What is a baton?
Name one of the three secondary colors.
What is green, orange, or purple (or violet)?
The most recognizable symbol of ancient Egypt, these massive structures were built as tombs for pharaohs.
What are the pyramids?
The general term for the written text of a play.
What is the script?
The use of humor, irony, or exaggeration to ridicule people's vices or foolishness.
What is satire?
This instrument is known as the "king of instruments" and features multiple keyboards and a complex system of pipes.
What is the organ?
This is the term for a portrait where the artist uses themselves as the subject.
What is a self-portrait?
This type of material, made from water, aggregate, and cement, became widely used by the ancient Romans and in modern construction.
What is concrete?
In theater, this is the area where the actors perform, often covered by a curtain.
What is the stage?
A story that teaches a moral lesson, often using animals as characters.
What is a fable?
The term for a group of four musicians or singers, often performing chamber music.
What is a quartet?
The general term for a piece of art created by carving, sculpting, or modeling, like a statue or figurine.
What is sculpture?
The name of the famous French cathedral in Paris that was severely damaged by a fire in 2019.
What is Notre Dame Cathedral?
This famous Hollywood director is known for blockbuster films like E.T., Jurassic Park, and Jaws.
Who is Steven Spielberg?
This literary device refers to a narrator or character stopping the flow of the narrative to recount an event that happened at an earlier time.
What is a flashback?
This Italian term is used to tell a musician to play the music loudly.
What is forte?
This famous statue by Michelangelo depicts a perfect human form and is named after a Biblical shepherd.
What is David?
This structure in India was built by the Emperor Shah Jahan as a mausoleum for his favorite wife.
What is the Taj Mahal?
This famed director is known for his signature use of suspense and cameos in films like Psycho and The Birds.
Who is Alfred Hitchcock?
A type of irony where the audience knows something the characters do not, often used to build suspense.
What is dramatic irony?
This very famous German composer is associated with the Baroque era and wrote The Brandenburg Concertos.
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
This famous painting by Edvard Munch depicts a figure holding its face and screaming, using swirling colors.
What is The Scream?
This famous New York City skyscraper, completed in 1931, was for decades the tallest building in the world.
What is the Empire State Building?
The term for an actor's sudden speech to the audience that no other characters on stage can hear, common in Shakespearean plays.
What is an aside?
This figure of speech is the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences.
What is anaphora?