Guitar, Banjo or Ukulele Trivia Quiz

Answer: Guitar

"Johnny Guitar" (1954) is a western, starring Joan Crawford as a saloon owner and suspected murderer. Sterling Hayden plays her friend Johnny "Guitar" Logan, who becomes embroiled in her conflict with the townspeople.

Answer: Guitar

The Big Golden Guitar is 12 metres tall (nearly 40 feet!) in Tamworth, New South Wales, and is one of Australia's best known roadside attractions. Other places have sported big guitars, including Bristol, Tennessee, though their Grand Guitar (a building) has been torn down.

Answer: Guitar

"Guitar Hero" is actually a series of video games, played with a guitar-shaped controller as players attempt to master the performance of a given list of songs. First made available in 2005, the game is available to play on a number of platforms.

Answer: Banjo

Andrew Barton Paterson (1864-1941), better known, perhaps, as "Banjo" Paterson, was an Australian poet, journalist and author, known for writing the lyrics for "Waltzing Matilda" and the poem "The Man from Snowy River" amongst other works. The nickname came from his use of the pseudonym "The Banjo", after a favourite horse, when publishing some of his works.

He served as a war correspondent during the Second Boer War and the Boxer Rebellion, and as an ambulance driver during World War I. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1938.

Answer: Banjo

The movie is "Deliverance", and the duel is "Dueling Banjos" which was composed by a man named Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, who called it "Feudin' Banjos". The duel in the film is actually between a man on guitar and a local boy on banjo (though the boy didn't really play), despite the name of the piece.

Answer: Banjo

"Banjo-Kazooie" is a series of video games released between 1998 and 2008, for use on a number of platforms. Banjo is a bear and Kazooie is his female red bird friend. Together they embark on various adventures, such as saving Banjo's sister Tooty from a wicked witch.

Answer: Banjo

The singer of Stephen Foster's 1847 minstrel song "Oh, Susanna!" is travelling between Alabama and Louisiana, carrying with him his banjo. The chorus goes a bit like this:

"Oh, Susanna, don't you cry for me
cos' I come from Alabama
With my banjo on my knee."

Answer: Ukulele

Arlo Guthrie's rendition of the old song "Ukulele Lady" is easy to find on the internet, if you'd like to listen to it. It appeared on his 1972 album "Hobo's Lullaby". It was written much earlier, in 1925 to be exact, by Gus Kahn and Richard A. Whiting, and has been recorded or performed by artists from Bing Crosby to Bette Midler over the years.

Answer: Ukulele

George Formby (1904-1961) was an English music hall and recording artist in the 1920s, who became a successful movie star beginning with 1937's "Boots! Boots!" and including "It's in the Air" (1938), "Turned Out Nice Again" (1941) and several others.

His trademark was accompanying himself on the ukulele (or sometimes banjolele) as he sang comedic, sometimes bawdy, songs, such as "Leaning on a Lamppost" and "When I'm Cleaning Windows". He was inducted into the Ukulele Hall of Fame in Cranston, RI in 2004.

Answer: Ukulele

"Yooka-Laylee" is a video game series that is available on a number of platforms, and is described as the "spiritual successor" to "Banjo-Kazooie", as many of the development team worked on both series. Gameplay is also similar (or so I'm led to believe). Yooka is a chameleon, and Laylee is his bat friend, a female.

Their adventures involve battles against an evil corporation. I have not found an actual ukulele in any sources, and surmise that the name is more an homage to the earlier game series than a reference to the musical instrument.