Pub Quiz For Classical Music Nerds

Soho The Dog sadly hasn’t had a quiz up since the autumn and starting a meme just seemed like too much work. Brilliant single ideas are always more difficult than multiple passable ones. The solution seemed to be a wee quiz of Miss Mussel’s own creation.

Answers will be posted at the end of the day. Likely around 5pm EST. Remember, the thing about pub quizzes is that they usually take place at a pub where the intertubes are not an option. Unless you are cheating with your phone and then you are just the sad sack cheating on the pub quiz. It’s up to you.

String Theory
(fill in the blanks and name that string player)

1. J _ _ _ _ _ H _ _ _ _ _ _
2. M _ _ _ _ _ B _ _ _ _ _
3. L _ _ _ _ _ T _ _ _ _ _
4. M _ _ _ _ _ M _ _ _ _ _
5. E _ _ _ _ F _ _ _

Order Up
Arrange the following in ascending order of composition date.
1. Quartert For The End of Time
2. Four Last Songs
3. Four Seasons
4. Fur Elise
5. Quartet in F major (Ravel)

Arrange the following composers in order of death, earliest to latest. Remember Googlers are sad sacks in the corner with no friends.
1. Britten
2. Shostakovich
3. Prokofiev
4. Messaien
5. Stravinsky

It’s a Job
Match the organist with his main church gig
1. Franck a) St Suplice, Paris
2. Messiaen b) La Trinité, Paris
3. Guillou c) L’Église Saint-Eustache
4. Vierne d) Notre Dame, Paris
5. Widor e) St Clotilde Basilica, Paris
Bonus Question(5 points) Which organist held his post for the longest? For another five points, how many years exactly?

What A Way To Go
Here is a list of ways composers have died. Who died of each complication…or at least is rumoured to have?
1) an insect bite
2) a lip boil
3) riding a bike into a wall
4) smoking a cigar
5) getting whacked in the head while riding in a taxi.

Total up your score out of 25 plus bonuses and boast about it all weekend. Speaking of which, have a good one. If you really fancy boasting, leave your score in the comments, where it will be recorded for all of eternity.

Go read the answers

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