Gen Z vs Millienials
This platform was an American social networking short-form video hosting service where users could share six or seven second-long, looping video clips.
What is Vine?
This piece was the first major symphony to feature trombones.
What is Beethoven's Symphony No. 5?
This political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This common Jazz form originating from field hollers has a I-IV-V-I progression.
What are the blues?
The name of NEC's Green Room Cafe... before it was called the Green Room Cafe.
What is the Bistro?
First made in 2002, this fun rubber band bracelet hit the market in 2008, and by 2010, became a must have for kids of all ages.
What are Silly Bandz?
Known as the biggest flirt in opera. This character is recorded to have seduced 1001 Spanish, 640 Italian, 231 German, 100 French, and 91 Turkish women?
Who is Don Giovanni?
Now named Nubian Square, this bus station was formerly named after this colonial magistrate who served several terms as governor.
Who is Thomas Dudley?
This artist was the first African American to win a Grammy.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
In 1968, NEC became the first traditional music conservatory to offer degrees in this genre.
Jazz/ African-American Music
First released in 2002 and re-released in 2007, this phone was originally known as the “Danger Hiptop.” It’s notable sliding design revealed a QWERTY keyboard that you can 'kick' out in order to text. It was one of the first of its kind.
What is a Sidekick?
This 1982 six-movement chamber piece by Philip Glass was his successful attempt at a pop-oriented, accessible, “Walkman-suitable” work. This studio album gave Glass widespread name recognition.
What is Glassworks? (1982)
This train line runs from South-East to North-West from Dorchester to Harvard.
What is the Red Line?
These composers created the commonly known African American national anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing."
Who are J. Rosamond Johnson and James Weldon Johnson?
This NEC president was also the leading man in the Third Stream movement.
Who is Gunther Schuller?
These American styled terracotta figurines were used to sprout chia, where the chia sprouts grow within a couple of weeks to resemble the animal's fur or hair.
What are chia pets?
The name of Mozart's older, more talented, and seldomly remembered sibling.
Who is Anna Maria Mozart?
This former president was born and raised in Brookline, MA.
John F. Kennedy
Sister Rosetta Tharpe is best known for being the God Mother of this popular genre.
What is Rock n Roll?
The full government name of the newest building on campus.
What is the Student Life and Performance Center?
"Saturday Night Live" for a Nickelodeon audience. That's the basic premise of this show a Saturday night staple on Nick's lineup for a decade. This show featured the likes of Kenan Thompson, Amanda Bynes, Kel Mitchell, Jamie Lynn Spears, and Nick Canon.
What is "All That?"
These Classical Era musicians were a famous pair known for copying each other’s music and then dedicating that copied music to each other.
Who are Mozart and Haydn?
This prolific Civil Rights activist, known for pioneering Black Empowerment and representing The Nation of Islam spent his late teenage years in Boston.
Who is Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz)?
These five siblings from Detroit were known for bringing Gospel into a new age through complex harmony and contemporary features.
Who are the Clark Sisters?
Timed! 15 seconds on the clock.
How many performance halls are there on NEC’s campus?
8: What are Jordan, Williams, Brown, Keller, Plimpton Blackbox, Pierce, Burnes, and Eben Jordan.