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Jazz Giants Trivia Quiz

If you dig the great jazz giants, this quiz is for you,cat!

A multiple-choice quiz by tjoebigham. Estimated time: 3 mins.

Author
tjoebigham

Time
3 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
23,395

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
2397

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. Name the jazz trumpeter who became later became best identified with ballooning cheeks and a tilted bell on his trumpet. Hint

Glenn Miller

Louis Armstrong

Dizzy Gillespie

Tommy Dorsey

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Question 2 of 10

2. Which jazz cornet player was portrayed by Danny Kaye in a movie biography? Hint

Glenn Miller

Red Nichols

Benny Goodman

Gene Krupa

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Question 3 of 10

3. What hit Swing song did Ziggy Elman adapt from an old Jewish folk tune? Hint

Nature Boy

Hooray For Captain Spaulding

If I Were A Rich Man

And The Angels Sing

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which Count Basie composition was used on the infamous Gong Show? Hint

Jumping at the Woodside

Take the A Train

April In Paris

Backstage at Stuff's

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Question 5 of 10

5. Which jazzman met success despite the loss of an arm? Hint

Lester Young

Pete Kelly

Red Nichols

Wingy Manone

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Question 6 of 10

6. Who composed the jazz standard "Misty"? Hint

Benny Goodman

Count Basie

Fats Waller

Erroll Garner

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Question 7 of 10

7. Which pianist co-wrote "Round Midnight"? Hint

Fats Waller

Thelonius Monk

Meade Lux Lewis

Eddy Duchin

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Question 8 of 10

8. Name Dave Brubeck's best-known tune. Hint

Le Souk

Theme from Mr. Broadway

Unsquare Dance

Take Five

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Question 9 of 10

9. What was Duke Ellington's real name? Hint

Glenn

Thomas Fats

Edward Kennedy

Benjamin

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Question 10 of 10

10. Who is considered the "Father of the Blues"? Hint

W. C. Handy

R. Nathaniel Dett

Scott Joplin

Charlie Patton

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Name the jazz trumpeter who became later became best identified with ballooning cheeks and a tilted bell on his trumpet.

Answer: Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy was a pioneer in bebop jazz; Miller was a big band trombonist!

2. Which jazz cornet player was portrayed by Danny Kaye in a movie biography?

Answer: Red Nichols

Miller,Goodman and Krupa were played by (in order) James Stewart, Steve Allen and Sal Mineo. Kaye played Eugene "Red" Nichols, whose band supplied the fim's title: "The Five Pennies".

3. What hit Swing song did Ziggy Elman adapt from an old Jewish folk tune?

Answer: And The Angels Sing

Elman, a trumpeter for Benny Goodman, adapted an old fralich(Jewish dance) for his composition, which later became the title of a 40's Paramount musical starring Betty Hutton.

4. Which Count Basie composition was used on the infamous Gong Show?

Answer: Jumping at the Woodside

Basie's "Woodside" played, as you might remember, every time "Gene Gene the Dancing Machine" did his "dance"(HAH!)

5. Which jazzman met success despite the loss of an arm?

Answer: Wingy Manone

Though he lost part of an arm when a child, Manone was a renowned trumpeter-vocalist in the 40's jazz scene. (Pete Kelly was a fictional character created by Jack "Dragnet" Webb!)

6. Who composed the jazz standard "Misty"?

Answer: Erroll Garner

Garner's jazz classic, as Eastwood fans know, got into the latter's "Play Misty For Me".

7. Which pianist co-wrote "Round Midnight"?

Answer: Thelonius Monk

Though he wrote many compositions, "Round Midnight" is Monk's best-known.

8. Name Dave Brubeck's best-known tune.

Answer: Take Five

Ironically, saxophonist Paul Desmond wrote "Take Five", though Brubeck wrote many others(including the ones mentioned here).

9. What was Duke Ellington's real name?

Answer: Edward Kennedy

Ellington brought great range, variety and style to jazz.

10. Who is considered the "Father of the Blues"?

Answer: W. C. Handy

With such tunes as "St. Louis Blues", Handy laid the foundation for blues and jazz. Joplin was the Ragtime King, and Dett was a classical pianist-composer born in Canada(!)

Source: Author tjoebigham

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