Acoustics Anonymous
This wooden instrument with six strings is held in your lap and played by strumming or picking.
What is a guitar?
This 2017 Spanish-language megahit by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, featuring a remix with Justin Bieber, became the first mostly non-English song to top the Billboard Hot 100 in over 20 years.
What is "Despacito"?
This Canadian singer was discovered on YouTube at age 12, had a massive hit with 'Baby' in 2010, and married Hailey Baldwin in 2018
Who is Justin Beiber?
This popular East-Asian genre mixes pop, rap, and dance- with notable artists like BTS, SHINee and TWICE.
What is K-Pop?
Finish the lyric: "We will, we will -"
What is "Rock you"?
These Indian hand drums are played in pairs—one for high pitches, one for low.
What are Tabla?
This 2016 Nigerian afrobeats hit by Wizkid featuring Drake spent weeks on the Billboard Hot 100.
What is "One Dance"?
This 2023 girl group’s song ‘Ditto’ broke records with its Y2K-inspired nostalgia and double music videos.
Who are NewJeans/NJS?
Born in the American South, this genre uses banjos and lyrics about heartbreak.
What is Country?
This famous music award is shaped like a gramophone and shares its name with a bug.
"This large, round metal instrument from Asia makes a deep, booming sound when you hit it with a mallet, often used in ceremonies and orchestras."
What is a Gong?
This 1975 Queen song's operatic sections were recorded across 3 weeks using 180 vocal overdubs.
What is "Bohemian Rhapsody"?
This Swedish pop group, formed in Stockholm in 1972, won Eurovision with 'Waterloo' and sold over 150 million records worldwide.
Who are ABBA?
This style of music from a Carribean Island often uses steel-pan drums and talks about unity, peace, and love.
What is Reggae?
This 1996 Los del Río song started a worldwide dance craze with its 'hey!' chants.
What is "Macarena"?
This reed instrument, historically banned after the 1746 Battle of Culloden, requires constant arm pressure to maintain airflow through its drones and chanter.
What are Bagpipes?
This 2015 Anirudh song became India's first viral meme song in 'Tanglish' (Tamil+English).
What is "Why this Kolaveri Di"?
This Thai-language rapper's 2022 hit 'Mirror Mirror' sampled traditional music, blending it with trap beats about self-confidence.
Who is MILLI?
This Japanese microgenre, named after a 1980 Music Magazine column. Its defining album, Ride on Time, was recorded with session musicians from Southern All Stars but initially flopped—only to resurge when a 2017 Plastic Love bootleg surpassed 50M YouTube views.
What is Citypop?
This Belgian artist's 2013 hit Papaoutai sampled a Congolese rumba guitar line from Zaïko Langa Langa while critiquing absentee fathers—a theme inspired by his own Rwandan father's death in the genocide.
Who is Stromae?
This monophonic drone instrument uses lip vibrations to create harmonic overtones from a single fundamental pitch. Traditionally made from termite-hollowed eucalyptus, This instrument from the continent of Oceania requires circular breathing to maintain its continuous drone, which can exceed 40 minutes.
What is a Didgeridoo?
This 2003 Moldovan pop song by O-Zone, featuring the infectious chorus 'Ma-ia-hii,' became Europe's summer anthem and spawned the viral 'Numa Numa' internet meme despite being sung entirely in Romanian.
What is Dragostea Din Tei?
This Japanese virtuoso guitarist, nicknamed 'The Hawaiian Shirt Samurai,' fused jazz fusion with samba on his 1979 album An Insatiable High, recorded while suspended 50 meters above a Rio de Janeiro beach via helicopter.
Who is Masayoshi Takanaka?
This fast-paced 1990s electronic genre from the UK mixes reggae basslines with sped-up breakbeats and ragga vocals, later evolving into drum and bass.
What is Jungle?
They sampled an iconic flute riff for their 1981 hit "Down Under". They also wrote "Who can it be now?"
Who is Men at Work?