| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| How many valves will a typical trumpet have? | 3 | 97%
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| What instrument family does the trumpet belong to? | Brass | 97%
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| What key is the trumpet most commonly pitched in? | B flat | 94%
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| What instrument, which is similar to the trumpet and often uses the same sheet music, has conical bore and is thus more closely related to the horn and saxhorn instruments? | Cornet | 77%
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| Which black American jazz musician played the trumpet and sang, recording songs like "What a Wonderful World?" | Louis Armstrong | 71%
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| What is the name of the instrument similar to the natural trumpet, commonly used in the military to send signals? | Bugle | 63%
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| What is the name, reminiscent of a certain high woodwind instrument, of the instrument similar to the trumpet but pitched one octave higher? | Piccolo Trumpet | 63%
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| What American jazz musician was famous for playing a bent trumpet and recorded songs like "A Night in Tunisia?" | Dizzy Gillespie | 40%
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| A trumpet will normally have what type of valves? | Piston | 37%
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| What type of bore does a trumpet have? | Cylindrical | 26%
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| Which final Biblical book describes seven trumpets, which are blown by the angels in God's heavenly throne room? | Revelation | 26%
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| What type of shells were some of the oldest trumpets made out of? In Greek mythology, Triton owns a trumpet made of this shell. | Conch Shells | 23%
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| A trumpet with what type of mechanical pitch-altering devices, invented shortly before 1800, was the precedent to the modern valved trumpet? | Keys | 9%
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| What was the name of the high-pitched natural trumpet used in the Middle Ages and Renaissance? | Clarion | 3%
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| What author wrote the book The Trumpet of the Swan, about a swan born without a voice, but who learns to play trumpet instead? | E. B. White | 3%
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