Ex.10. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ
1. Who wrote The Four Seasons in XVIII century?
a) Antonio Vivaldi b) Arcangello Corelli c) Antonio Lotti
2. Who wrote the Water Music also in XVIII century?
a) John Pachelbel b) Johann Sebastian Bach
c) George Friedrich Handel
3. Who wrote the opera Don Giovanni (1787) about a man who loved many women and in the end went to Hell?
a) Christof Willibald Gluck b) Carl Maria von Weber
c) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
4. Who wrote the opera La Traviata (1853) from a book by Alexander Dumas? It tells the story of a dying young woman who fell in love.
a) Gioacchino Rossini b) Giacomo Puccini c) Giuseppe Verdi
5. Who wrote La Mer (The Sea)in 1905?
a) Frederic Chopin b) Johannes Brahms c) Claude Debussy
6. Who wrote The Firebird for Sergey Diaghilev’s ballet company ‘The Ballets Russes’ in 1910?
a) Igor Stravinsky b) Sergey Prokofiev c) Jan Paderewski
7. Who wrote the music for the musical West Side Story (1957) about a modern Romeo and Juliet who live in New York?
a) George Gershwin b) Richard Rogers c) Leonard Bernstein
8. Who performed the song Hotel California in 1976?
a) The Eagles b) The Byrds c) The Yardbirds
9. Who wrote the Oscar-winning music for the 1981 film Chariots of Fire?
a) Mikis Theodorakis b) Vangelis c) Manos Hadjidakis
10. Who wrote more than 600 pieces of music between the age of seven and his death at 35?
a) Mozart b) Bach c) Beethoven d) Chopin
11. Frederic Chopin wrote and played music for the piano. Where did he live for most of his life?
a) Paris b) Venice c) Warsaw d) Copenhagen
12. Nessun Dorma is a song from Puccini’s opera Turandot. It became famous when Luciano Pavarotti sang it in:
a) 1992, at the Olympic Games in Barcelona
b) 1991, at the opera season at La Scala, Milan
c) 1990, at the Football World Cup in Rome
d) 1989, at the fall of the Berlin Wall
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