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10 Tricky Teasers: Music
Answer ten potentially challenging multiple choice questions on the subject of music.
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Last updated: December 5, 2025
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1. Which of these is a prestigious annual music prize awarded to the 'best' studio album released by a British or Irish artist within the past year?
Mercury Prize
Venus Prize
Mars Prize
Uranus Prize
2. In music production, what does DAW stand for?
Danger! Amps Wailing!
Digital Audio Workstation
Direct Acoustic Widget
Drumming Arrangement Workshop
3. Which of these musicians is NOT in the band Muse?
Nicky Wire is the bassist of Manic Street Preachers.
Matt Bellamy
Dom Howard
Nicky Wire
Chris Wolstenholme
4. In music theory, what comes next in this sequence of modes: Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, __________?
Aeolian
Ioanian
Locrian
Mixolydian
5. Which of Radiohead's songs is their highest charting UK single, having reached no. 3?
Creep peaked at 7, Just peaked at 19 and Pyramid Song peaked at 5.
Creep
Just
Paranoid Android
Pyramid Song
6. Which of these notes is a hemidemisemiquaver?
In order, the notes are 1. Quaver (1/8 note) 2. Semiquaver (1/16 note) 3. Demisemiquaver (1/32 note) 4. Hemidemisemiquaver (1/64 note).
7. In Electric Six's 2002 hit Danger! High Voltage!, which of these locations is NOT mentioned in the lyrics as being on fire?
Gay Bar was the band's other (and more famous) hit single, where the singer wants to take you to a gay bar where he will start a nuclear war, put something in you, and spend all your money!
Gates of Hell
Disco
Gay bar
Taco Bell
8. Indian Classical musician Ravi Shankar is best know for playing which instrument?
Tanpura
Harmonium
Sitar
Tabla
9. What is the name of a movement in Western Classical music containing three sections: exposition, development, and recapitulation?
Santana is a famous guitarist, sultanas are grapes, and Sontarans are a fictional alien race in Doctor Who.
Santana Form
Sultana Form
Sontaran Form
Sonata Form
10. Which of these female names does NOT appear in the lyrics of Lou Bega's Mambo No. 5?
Monica
Nina
Mary
Jessica
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