Artist and Genre Trivia Quiz

Answer: Hip Hop

Hip hop music burst onto the scene in the 1970s and often involves sampling music from a different genre and rapping over the top of the beat. Although it originated in the American inner cities, its influence has spread over the world and hip hop artists can now be found in places such as Israel, Tanzania and Russia illustrating the global popularity of this genre.

Answer: Rock

Rock music is an amalgamation of 50s rock and roll music with blues and rhythm and blues. Many artists of the classic rock period of the 1970s have recorded cover versions of the songs that influenced them, for example Led Zeppelin covered Willie Dixon's "You Shook Me" and "I Can't Quit You Baby", while in 2016, the Rolling Stones released "Blue And Lonesome", an entire album of cover songs.

Answer: Pop

Pop music is a mixture of many different genres and usually features a catchy, repetitive chorus. The majority of chart music would probably be classified as pop, short for popular music.

Answer: Heavy Metal

Heavy metal is a harder, faster form of rock music, often characterised by extended guitar solos. There are many branches of heavy metal, such as death metal, thrash metal, black metal and symphonic metal.

Answer: House

House is a sub genre of electronic dance music (EDM) and first became popular in the 1980s as a stripped down, more electronic form of disco. The beat is extremely important in house music and many tracks have no lyrics. There are several sub genres of house, including acid house, jump house and euro house.

Answer: Trance

Trance is another form of EDM (electronic dance music) and is viewed as a more melodic form of house music. Trance is usually instrumental and will often blend musical genres such as house, ambient and pop together.

Answer: New Wave

New wave music filled the gap between rock and pop when it appeared in the late 1970s, taking elements of both and combining them. The use by many new wave artists of a keyboard, eventually gave rise to the synth pop movement in the 1980s.

Answer: Country

Country has its roots in folk music and the blues and first became popular in North America following WWI. It is still incredibly popular in North America, with a limited following in UK.

Answer: Blues

Blues music developed from spiritual songs in the late 19th century and traditionally a simple rhymed narrative with lines often repeated. Early blues songs were often about challenges faced by African Americans, such as racial discrimination.

Answer: Gospel

As it name suggests, gospel music is usually a Christian based genre, often with many harmonies and sung a capella. It can be traced back to the 17th century and will often feature a "call and response" style of singing.