Music Quizzes
5 free quizzes to play — pick one below.
Name the composer, period, form, technique, famous work or instrument from a description.
Name the act, genre, movement, landmark record, term or event from a description.
Name the player, style, instrument role, famous song, term or event from a description.
Name the act, producer, label, genre, landmark record, term or event from a description.
Name the instrument, family, part, technique, acoustic idea or maker from a description of how it works.
About Music Quizzes
Music is the art of organised sound, and this SuperCategory explores it in depth: the classical tradition and its composers, the story of rock and pop, hip-hop, soul, jazz, blues and folk, the instruments of the world, opera and the musical stage, the workings of music theory, and the records, awards and festivals that mark the popular song. Each quiz holds eighty questions in three packs, and every question describes a figure, a work, a genre, a term or an instrument and asks you to name it from four choices, then explains the story, the technique or the controversy behind it.
The wrong options are always the same kind of thing as the answer, a composer against composers, a form against forms, a genre against genres, so the game rewards genuine recognition rather than a lucky guess. Where a picture is used it is a deliberately neutral one, a concert hall, a keyboard, a score page, an orchestra pit, that does not hand over the answer, because a portrait, an album cover or a title page almost always would.
The quizzes assume no formal training and define their terms as they go, so a curious listener can play them as readily as a musician. Facts, dates and attributions have been checked against reference sources, and several popular myths, from Salieri poisoning Mozart to Mozart recordings making babies clever, are set straight along the way. Coverage aims to balance the famous with the genuinely important, and to give the traditions of every region their due rather than treating one country's music as the default.