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Was there life before rock ’n’ roll? In some form, yes, just like there was life before the Neolithic Revolution, 10,000 years ago, that allowed humans to settle down in one place. What did people listen to and was it any good? Well, like the eternal debate over whether R.E.M.’s Green album represented the beginning or the end of their brilliant contribution to alternative music, it depends on whom you ask. There are those who believe humans have never come close to the achievements of the eighteenth century in music and those who can’t fathom needing more than three chords and the truth. In the twentieth century alone, however, jazz, swing, big band, gospel, blues, folk, country, and bluegrass all did more than merely entertain. They brought people together, told stories, broke boundaries, and paved the way for a musical revolution.

1. Which orchestral piece, composed by Sir Edward Elgar, is played at almost every graduation in the United States?

Points: 1

2. Long before heavy metal, industrial or goth, which movement from New Orleans (which gave rise to such greats as Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong) was initially marginalized as “the Devil’s music”?

Points: 1

3. Match the artist with the genre:

Swing	Bessie Smith
Baroque	Joan Baez
Bebop	Johann Sebastian Bach
Classical	Charlie Parker
Folk	Glenn Miller
Blues	Joseph Haydn

Points: 1/2 point for each correct match

4. Chuck Berry, considered by many to be the father of rock ’n’ roll, was famous for walking while playing guitar in a way that resembled which animal?

Points: 1

5. Which type of record has the longest playing time?

a) LP (Long Play)

b) EP (Extended Play)

c) single

Points: 1

6. George Gershwin is famous for his Rhapsody in what color?

a) Ruby

b) Indigo

c) Blue

d) Yellow

e) Marigold

Points: 1

7. The first Gold Record award was given in 1942 to which artist to celebrate over one million sales of “Chattanooga Choo Choo”?

Points: 2

8. Which U.S. city was given the first commercial FM license in the country in 1941?

a) Nashville

b) Chicago

c) New York

d) San Francisco

e) St. Louis

Points: 2

9. Frustration with Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America” inspired Woody Guthrie to write the lyrics to this famous protest song in 1944. (Hint: Picture the Redwood Forest.)

Points: 1

10. “White Christmas” (which songwriter Irving Berlin is known to have modestly called “the best song that anybody’s ever written”) was a hit single for Bing Crosby and is naturally associated with the 1954 movie of the same name. But the song that became the world’s greatest-selling single came onto the scene quietly in a 1942 film, also starring Bing Crosby. What was it called?

a) Country Girl

b) Blue Skies

c) Going My Way

d) Holiday Inn

e) High Time

Points: 2

11. Thomas Edison’s phonograph, the first machine capable of storing sound, used a cylinder wrapped in what common household material?

a) wax

b) paper towel

c) tin foil

d) plastic wrap

e) linoleum

Points: 1

12. The first collaboration between Rodgers and Hammerstein resulted in this 1943 musical named after a state “where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain.” Which one is it?

Points: 1

13. What was the longest-running musical on Broadway in New York City?

Points: 3

14. What was the longest-running musical in London’s West End?

Points: 3

15. Who did Frances Ethel Gumm play in The Wizard of Oz (1939)?

Points: 2

Pre-rock ’n’ roll score ___/25