Pop Music
Terms
Rock N' Roll
Pop Artists
Soul Artists
100

This was the country that pop music originated from.

What is Britain?

100

It means a "repeating section within a song consisting of a fixed melody and lyric that is repeated exactly each times it occur."

What is a chorus?

100

This was the year that rock n' roll originate.

What are the 1940s and 1950s?

100

This "Fallin" pop star is a classically trained pianist. 

Who is Alicia Keys? 

100

This "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" soul artist was known for his singing and "feverish" dancing. 

Who was James Brown? 

200
This was the year that pop music began in America.

What is 1950?

200

This term is a group of lines of "poetic text, often rhyming."

What is a verse?

200
This "Here Comes the Sun" rock group was founded in Britain. They features the names: John, Paul, George, and Ringo.

Who are the Beatles?

200

This "Thriller" pop star, known as the "King of Pop" died on June 25, 2009 from an overdose.

Who is Michael Jackson?

200

This "R-E-S-P-E-C-T" soul artist died in 2018 and was well-known all over the world. 

Who was Aretha Franklin?

300

This pop music star died in 2012 and was known to sing on the hit movie "The Bodyguard" singing "I Will Always Love You."

Who is Whitney Houston?

300

This term means the "words of a song"

What are lyrics?

300

This song helped bring Rock N' Roll into the mainstream culture.

What is Rock Around the Clock?

300

This pop star was born as Onika Tanya Maraj in the Port of Spain in 1982. 

Who was Nicki Minaj?

300

This "Purple Rain" soul singer died in 2016. 

Who is Prince?

400

This was the term that was derived from the abbreviation of pop music.

What is popular?

400

This term is subordinate music to support a principle voice or instrument. 

What is accompaniment?

400

This "Good Golly Miss Molly" and "Tutti Frutti" rock star was known for his flashy clothing, outrageous make up, and pounding of the piano. 

Who is Little Richard? 

400

This "Hit Me Baby One More Time" pop star was born in McComb, MS. 

Who was Brittney Spears?
400

Soul music was popular in one of two of these years.

What are the 1950s and 1960s?

500

Name one of the two characteristics of pop music.

It has a mixture of different styles of music and/or it uses sheet music.

500

This term is pop music of Jamaican origin (soul and rock).

What is Reggae?

500

This "Can't Help But Falling in Love With You" rock star was known as the "Father of Rock N Roll. He was born in Tupelo, MS and died of heart failure in 1977.

Who was Elvis Presley?

500

This "Hello" pop star was born in the United Kingdom. 

Who was Adele?

500

This term means "the characteristic quality of a sound of a voice or instrument." 

What is timbre?