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100

One of the "three Bs of classical music" along with Bach and Beethoven, this composer wrote a famous lullaby and "A German Requiem," among many other works

Who is Brahms?


100

This pandemic plays an important role in the musical Rent.

What is AIDS/HIV?

100

This city is considered the birthplace of Jazz. 


What is New Orleans?


100

“In New York, concrete jungle ___ __ ___ ____ __.”


What is “where dreams are made of?”


100

In the song “Mr. Grinch,” the pole that the singer wouldn’t touch Mr. Grinch with is ___ ___ __ long.


What is thirty-nine-and-a-half feet?


200

This composer wrote three ballets in their lifetime, one of which was the Nutcracker.


Who is Tchaikovsky?


200

The name of Annie’s dog, in the musical Annie.

What is Sandy?


200

This singer is often referred to as the “Queen of Jazz”.


Who is Ella Fitzgerald? 


200

“Life was a willow and it ____ ____ ___ ____ ___.”


What is “bent right to your wind”?


200

Alvin the Chipmunk wants this in “The Chipmunk Song” for Christmas.


What is a hula hoop?


300

This composer revolutionized the classical world, and brought us into the romantic period. His fifth symphony has a famous opening often heard around halloween.

Who is Beethoven?

300

This musical, ____ ___ ___ ____, has been performed 13,981 times on Broadway.

What is the Phantom of the Opera?

300

What kind of singing did Louis Armstrong popularize?


What is Scat?


300

“He was a boy, she was a girl, can I make it any more obvious? He was a ______, she did ballet what more can I say?"

What is a “punk?”


300

The singer in “The 12 Days of Christmas” receives this many gifts.


What is 364 gifts?


400

This composer wrote his “Toccata and Fugue in D minor” for organ, a popular spooky theme that anyone can recognize.


Who is Bach?


400

This was Disney’s first Broadway musical.

What is Beauty and the Beast?

400

This jazz musician was known for playing a bent trumpet.


Who was Dizzy Gillespie?


400

“Wake me up before you go-go don’t leave me hanging on like _ _____.”

What is a “yo-yo?”


400

This Irish band had a hit single, titled “Zombie”.


Who is The Cranberries?


500

This composer is often called “The father of the symphony” and was one of, if not the, most prolific composers of the classical period.

Who is Haydn?


500

This is considered to be the first musical performed on Broadway.

What is The Black Crook?

500

This trumpet player founded the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, and was considered a prodigy on his own instrument.


Who is Wynton Marsalis?


500

“I really really really wanna ____”


What is “zig-a-zig ah?”


500

This film features the song “This is Halloween”.


What is The Nightmare Before Christmas?