The Beatles
Instruments
Movies and Musicals
Music Theory
Impossible (triple points)
100

This is the number of members in the Beatles

4

100

This is the name for the device used to play the strings of a violin or cello

Bow

100

This Disney animated film includes the songs "Friend Like Me," "One Jump Ahead," and "A Whole New World."

Aladdin

100

This is the number of lines on a music staff

5

100

In the popular Christmas song " The 12 days of Christmas," the singer received 7 of these on the 7th day.

Swans-a-swimming

200

This Beatles song, which translates to "ayer" in Spanish, is the most covered song in the history of recorded music. It's also the name of a movie related to the Beatles.

"Yesterday"

200

This is the name for the vibrating piece of cane that is attached to the mouthpiece of many woodwind instruments.

Reed

200

This hip-hop inspired historical musical written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, details the political life of the United States' first Secretary of the Treasury

Hamilton

200

This is the symbol found at the beginning of a staff that indicates that the music is written for higher notes

Treble clef

200

What instrument family does a dizi belong to?

Woodwind

300

In addition to singing and songwriting, Paul McCartney is know for playing this instrument.

Bass Guitar

300

This instrument is comparable to a smaller version of a tuba.

Baritone/Euphonium

300

This Disney musical includes the lyrics "Aue, aue, nuki i mua, te manulele e tataki e."

Moana

300

This is the symbol at the beginning of a staff indicating the number of beats in each measure and what type of note gets the beat

Time signature

300

This is the number of strings on a harp

47

400

The first televised Beatles performance was on the Ed Sullivan Show, where they performed this song.

"I Want to Hold Your Hand"

400

This is the number of strings on a guitar plus the number of string on a bass

10 (6+4)

400

Leonard Bernstein's "West Side Story" is a modernized retelling of what Shakespearean love story?

Romeo and Juliet

400

This is the number of half-notes that would fit in a measure of 10/4 time

5

400

What song includes these lyrics: "On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep, where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes"?

The Star Spangled Banner (second verse)

500

The Beatles' last album, Let It Be, included a fifth member, Billy Preston, who played this instrument.

Piano/Keyboards

500

Ibanez, Gibson, and Fender are know for being manufacturers of this instrument

Guitar

500

With over 13,000 performances, this Andrew Llyod Weber musical has the record for the longest continual run on Broadway. Its success even inspired a sequel, "Love Never Dies"

Phantom of the Opera

500

This is the note on the middle line of the treble clef staff

B

500

Latin jazz bandleader Tito Puente was famous for playing this instrument.

Timbales