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Classical Connections

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Fun Trivia : Quizzes : Classical Music
Classical Connections game quiz
"See if you can pick the connection between each piece of classical music and...well, just about anything else."

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  



1. There's an intimate connection between Handel's 1724 opera "Tamerlane" and...
    ...the Great Fire of London, 1666
    ...the then Austrian province of Bohemia
    ....Ghenghiz Khan
    ...."Timber Lane" in Glasgow


2. Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time" (1941) couldn't have been written without...
    ...the tenth chapter of the biblical book of Revelations.
    ...the Dordogne region of France
    ...Prince Esterhazy, Haydn's patron
    ...Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of Russia on June 22nd 1941


3. You'd definitely mention these two in the same breath: the second movement of Samuel Barber's String Quartet op.11 (1936) and...
    ...Paris, Texas
    ...the viol, predecessor of the violin
    ...Jack Ruby
    ...Hitler's remilitarisation of the Rhineland


4. "Les Sauvages" from Rameau's 1728 "New book of pieces for harpsichord" has an intimate connection with...
    ...all of these
    ...the French annexation of Louisiana in 1682
    ...a sausage machine
    ...Michael Joseph Savage, Prime Minister of New Zealand 1935-1940


5. William Byrd's verse anthem "Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes" is the inevitable consequence of...
    ...York Minster
    ...the new English colony of Virginia in America
    ...the religious reformer John Calvin
    ...the unseasonably wet summer of 1529


6. The song "There'll be bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover" wasn't possible without...
    ...German general Albert Kesselring
    ...Scotland
    ...the Nazi SS anthem "The Horst Wessel Lied"
    ...the V1 and V2 attacks on London, 1944 and 1945


7. No-one could mistake the connection between Handel's aria "I know that my Redeemer liveth" from his oratorio "Messiah" and...
    ...William Pitt the elder
    ...the abolition of public execution by hanging in England in 1868
    ...Boston, Lincolnshire, England
    ...Big Ben in the Houses of Parliament, London


8. The last movement of Beethoven's 9th Symphony in D minor, the "Choral", is just like...
    ...Henry Cowell's piano piece "The Tides of Manaunaun" (1911-12)
    ...the first movement of Jean-Fery Rebel's ballet "Les Elemens" (1737)
    ...the 4th station of Franz Liszt's Stations of the Cross, "Via Crucis" for organ or piano and small choir (1879)
    ...all of these


9. Bruckner's 9th Symphony in D minor couldn't possibly have been written without...
    ...Linz, Austria.
    ...the Louisiana purchase, 1803.
    ...the ophicleide.
    ...God.


10. Handel's "Chandos Anthems" are intimately connected with...
    ...Handel's grave in Westminster Abbey, London
    ...the Battle of Culloden, April 16th, 1746
    ...somewhere in a galaxy far, far away
    ...Jane Austen


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Compiled Jun 28 12