Art & Music quiz for grades 5 to 13

250 Art & Music questions across three grade bands. In the game you pick the subject and the band, and every duel draws questions you haven't had yet. Here are six examples, two from each band.

Play Art & MusicGrades 5–7: 100 · Grades 8–10: 100 · Grades 11–13: 50

Sample questions

Grades 5–7 · Instruments

What do you call a large group of musicians who play classical music together?

  1. AChoir
  2. BQuartet
  3. COrchestra
  4. DBand
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C: Orchestra

Grades 5–7 · Music history

Which country was the composer Ludwig van Beethoven born in?

  1. AGermany
  2. BAustria
  3. CItaly
  4. DFrance
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A: Germany

Grades 8–10 · Music theory

Which clef is usually used for low instruments such as the tuba or double bass?

  1. ATreble clef
  2. BAlto clef
  3. CTenor clef
  4. DBass clef
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D: Bass clef

Grades 8–10 · Composers

Which composer wrote the famous art song “The Trout”?

  1. ARobert Schumann
  2. BJohannes Brahms
  3. CFranz Schubert
  4. DFelix Mendelssohn
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C: Franz Schubert

Grades 11–13 · Art movements

Which 18th-century art period is seen as a playful, lighter continuation of the Baroque?

  1. ANeoclassicism
  2. BBaroque
  3. CRococo
  4. DArt Nouveau
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C: Rococo

Grades 11–13 · Architecture

What are the projecting supports called that hold Gothic cathedrals up from the outside?

  1. AKeystones
  2. BCapitals
  3. CButtresses
  4. DVaults
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C: Buttresses