Music Theory
This simple time signature has two beats per measure, with the quarter note getting the beat.
What is 2/4?
This is Allen's primary instrument. (choose from flute, violin, cello, and clarinet)
What is a clarinet?
The brass instrument with a long slide instead of valves is this.
What is the trombone?
In Spirited Away, the character's Japanese name, Kaonashi, literally translates to this in English.
What is “Faceless” or "No-Face"?
This spice, harvested from the dried stigma of a crocus flower, is the most expensive in the world by weight.
What is saffron?
From C up to G is this interval.
What is a perfect fifth?
This is the year Allen graduated from Harvard. (choose from 1980, 1982, 1986, and 1992)
When is 1986?
Founded in 1842, this New York–based group is the oldest symphony orchestra in the United States.
What is the New York Philharmonic?
Tiana is the first Disney Princess to have this distinctive quality regarding her family.
What is having both parents alive at the start of her story?
This Netflix series about a 1980s kids’ group facing monsters became one of the platform’s biggest cultural phenomena.
What is Stranger Things?
This interval is sometimes called a “tritone” because it divides the octave evenly in half.
What is an augmented fourth (or diminished fifth)?
What house was Allen in when he attended Harvard?
What is Mather House?
This Classical composer, often called the “Father of the Symphony,” wrote 104 symphonies that helped shape the modern orchestra.
Who is Joseph Haydn?
The line “I have a bad feeling about this” appears in nearly every Star Wars film. But in The Empire Strikes Back, this character is the one who says it.
Who is Princess Leia?
This is the date when Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announced their engagement on Instagram.
When is August 26, 2025?
What is the key signature of an A sharp minor scale (name each flat/sharp to gain credit)?
What are F♯, C♯, G♯, D♯, A♯, E♯, and B♯?
What is Allen's email?
afeinstein@erols.com
This instruction tells string players to strike the strings with the wood of the bow.
What is col legno?
John Powell was nominated for an Academy Award for his score to How to Train Your Dragon. He lost to this film’s score.
What is The Social Network (by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross)?
This is the only sea on Earth with no coastline.
What is the Sargasso Sea?
Arnold Schoenberg developed this 20th-century system in which all twelve chromatic pitches are arranged in a series, preventing any one pitch from dominating.
What is twelve-tone (dodecaphonic or serial) technique?
Name one musical/film/score/piece Allen has created.
What is At Swim Two Boys, Where Are My Children?, Dramatic Agitato No. 37, Concerto for euphonium and orchestra, or Three Dances for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano?
This Italian marking, literally “as if speaking,” tells singers or instrumentalists to deliver a passage in a half-spoken, half-sung style.
What is Sprechstimme?
This was the working title of Tangled before it was renamed for broader marketing appeal.
What is Rapunzel Unbraided?
This is the only bone in the human body that is not connected to another bone.
What is the hyoid bone?