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Bar Trivia: Music Round: Printable Round

Hosting a trivia night at a bar, at school or at home? Print this round of 10 questions for your quizmaster, with an answer key on its own page. Read the choices aloud for an easier round, or hide them for a tougher one. Prefer to play? Take the quiz online.

Questions

  1. How many strings does a standard guitar have?

    1. Twelve
    2. Seven
    3. Four
    4. Six

  2. The Beatles formed in which English city?

    1. Birmingham
    2. Manchester
    3. Liverpool
    4. London

  3. Which singer is known as the Queen of Soul?

    1. Aretha Franklin
    2. Tina Turner
    3. Whitney Houston
    4. Diana Ross

  4. What is the name of Elvis Presley's famous mansion in Memphis, Tennessee?

    1. Paisley Park
    2. Sun Haven
    3. Graceland
    4. Neverland

  5. Which instrument did jazz legend Louis Armstrong famously play?

    1. Trombone
    2. Trumpet
    3. Clarinet
    4. Saxophone

  6. Which 1977 Fleetwood Mac album won the Grammy for Album of the Year?

    1. Tusk
    2. Mirage
    3. Rumours
    4. Tango in the Night

  7. Berry Gordy founded which famous record label in Detroit in 1959?

    1. Stax
    2. Motown
    3. Chess
    4. Atlantic

  8. The 1969 Woodstock festival was held on a dairy farm in which state?

    1. Vermont
    2. New York
    3. New Jersey
    4. Pennsylvania

  9. Queen frontman Freddie Mercury was born on which island?

    1. Mauritius
    2. Sri Lanka
    3. Zanzibar
    4. Madagascar

  10. Johnny Cash recorded a famous 1968 live album at which California prison?

    1. Folsom State Prison
    2. Pelican Bay State Prison
    3. Alcatraz
    4. Soledad State Prison

Answer key

  1. Six (D)

    In standard tuning, the strings from lowest to highest are E, A, D, G, B and E.

  2. Liverpool (C)

    Before Beatlemania, the band played hundreds of shows at Liverpool's underground Cavern Club.

  3. Aretha Franklin (A)

    In 1987 she became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

  4. Graceland (C)

    It opened to the public in 1982 and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2006.

  5. Trumpet (B)

    He first learned the cornet, the trumpet's close cousin, as a boy in New Orleans.

  6. Rumours (C)

    The band made it while two couples within the group were breaking up.

  7. Motown (B)

    Its first headquarters, a converted house nicknamed Hitsville U.S.A., is now a museum.

  8. New York (B)

    Despite the name, it took place near Bethel, more than 40 miles from the town of Woodstock.

  9. Zanzibar (C)

    He was born Farrokh Bulsara in 1946 and spent much of his childhood at boarding school in India.

  10. Folsom State Prison (A)

    He had written a hit song about the prison more than a decade before he ever performed there.

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