Music Trivia Jeopardy

Rock legends, pop icons, one-hit wonders, and more face off across six genres. Copy the board for free and turn every phone in the room into a buzzer.

6 categories · 30 clues · Final Jeopardy · everyone buzzes in from their phone

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Rock Legends

$200
This British rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960, included John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
Who are the Beatles?
$400
This rock band fronted by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards has been touring since forming in London in 1962.
Who are the Rolling Stones?
$600
This American rock band fronted by singer Freddie Mercury performed the six-minute operatic epic Bohemian Rhapsody.
Who is Queen?
$800
This American guitarist, known for his 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival, died in 1970 at age twenty-seven and is regarded as one of the greatest guitarists in rock history.
Who is Jimi Hendrix?
$1,000
This Led Zeppelin guitarist co-wrote most of the band's catalog alongside singer Robert Plant.
Who is Jimmy Page?

Pop Icons

$200
Known as the King of Pop, this performer released the albums Off the Wall and Bad in addition to his best-selling Thriller.
Who is Michael Jackson?
$400
Known as the Queen of Pop, this performer topped the charts through the 1980s with hits like Like a Virgin and Material Girl.
Who is Madonna?
$600
This performer, sometimes called the Queen of Soul, delivered a landmark rendition of Respect in 1967.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
$800
This singer-songwriter's 1971 album Blue is frequently cited by critics as one of the greatest albums of all time.
Who is Joni Mitchell?
$1,000
This performer, known for hits like Rolling in the Deep and Someone Like You, won Album of the Year at the Grammys for both 21 and 25.
Who is Adele?

Hip-Hop and R&B

$200
This artist, widely regarded as a pioneer of hip-hop lyricism, released the genre-defining album Illmatic in 1994.
Who is Nas?
$400
This Compton-born rapper and producer's 1992 album The Chronic helped popularize the G-funk sound.
Who is Dr. Dre?
$600
This singer's 1998 solo debut album, exploring love, motherhood, and faith after her time with the Fugees, won the Grammy for Album of the Year.
Who is Lauryn Hill?
$800
This artist, born Shawn Carter, built a music and business empire before marrying singer Beyoncé in 2008.
Who is Jay-Z?
$1,000
This R&B and soul singer, sometimes called the Godfather of Soul, was known for his energetic stage performances and the hit I Got You (I Feel Good).
Who is James Brown?

Country and Folk

$200
This singer, known as the Man in Black, recorded the live album At Folsom Prison in 1968.
Who is Johnny Cash?
$400
This singer-songwriter wrote I Will Always Love You in 1973, a song later made into a hit by Whitney Houston.
Who is Dolly Parton?
$600
This folk singer-songwriter wrote Blowin' in the Wind and The Times They Are a-Changin' in the early 1960s.
Who is Bob Dylan?
$800
This singer, known as the Coal Miner's Daughter, rose from poverty in rural Kentucky to become a country music legend.
Who is Loretta Lynn?
$1,000
This singer's raspy voice and outlaw image defined 1970s country on albums like Red Headed Stranger, and he co-founded Farm Aid in 1985.
Who is Willie Nelson?

Classical and Jazz

$200
This Austrian composer, a child prodigy, wrote over six hundred works before his death at age thirty-five in 1791.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
$400
This American jazz trumpeter and bandleader, nicknamed Satchmo, was known for his gravelly singing voice and the hit What a Wonderful World.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
$600
This German composer, born in 1685, wrote the Brandenburg Concertos and was a master of Baroque counterpoint.
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
$800
This jazz pianist and bandleader, known as the Duke, led his orchestra for nearly fifty years and composed Take the A Train.
Who is Duke Ellington?
$1,000
This Russian composer wrote the ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker.
Who is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky?

One-Hit Wonders

$200
This band's only major U.S. hit, Come On Eileen, topped the charts in 1983.
Who are Dexys Midnight Runners?
$400
This family band's 1997 hit MMMBop made three young brothers overnight teen stars.
Who are Hanson?
$600
This 1996 dance single by the Spanish duo Los Del Rio became a global sensation and one of the best-selling singles of all time.
What is "Macarena"?
$800
This one-hit wonder band's 1981 hit Whip It featured members wearing red flowerpot-shaped hats called energy domes.
Who are Devo?
$1,000
This American band's 1979 power-pop hit My Sharona reached number one on the Billboard chart for six weeks.
Who are The Knack?

Final Jeopardy — Classical Composers

By the 1824 premiere of his Ninth Symphony, this German composer was so profoundly deaf he had to be turned around to see the audience applauding.

Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?

How to run this board

Everyone thinks their era had the best music, so let the buzzer decide. Six columns cover rock legends, pop icons, hip-hop and R&B, country and folk, classical and jazz, and the beloved graveyard of one-hit wonders.

The setup is a TV for the board and a phone per player or team. Because the categories cross generations, mixed-age parties work especially well; grandparents own the early columns and teenagers own the late ones.

A hosting tip: resist the urge to hum. Descriptions only, and save your singing voice for the celebration afterward.

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