Whether you're a seasoned Tuesday Trivia pro or a first-time player, you're in the right spot to test your classical chops! Each week, we bring together five classical trivia questions ranging from common knowledge to the obscure (and no matter how you score, the chance to learn something new makes everyone a winner).
RULES: Tuesday Trivia is open to everyone, but prizes will only be awarded to residents of the United States. To qualify, responses must be received by 12 p.m. (Noon) on the Thursday after each week’s Tuesday Trivia is released. A winner will be randomly selected from the pool of participants who score the highest for that week.
The score to the 1989 film Field of Dreams, written by film composer _______, borrows cues from Aaron Copland’s ballet Rodeo.
Commonly referred to as the tritone, this dissonant interval was once seen as “evil” or “dangerous.”
This acclaimed soprano worked as a social worker before her professional debut, balancing a caseload of over 100 while training to become an opera singer.
True or false: The strings in an average piano exert a combined tension of 15-20 tons on a cast iron frame.
The B-A-C-H motif is one of the most frequently used examples of a musical ______, a sequence of notes used to encode extra-musical text.
