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Becky's Island Music Trivia Quiz #577 - 3/14/12

Musical Instruments - The Harp

Answers

1. The harp is the symbol of what country?: Ireland
2. How many strings are found in a standard orchestral harp?
: 46
3. What Bible character is famous for playing the harp?
: King David
4. Mozart wrote a celebrated concerto for harp and what other instrument?
: Flute
5. What song from Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band begins with the harp?
: "She's Leaving Home"
6. What European airline has a harp on the tails of its planes?
: Ryanair
7. American harpist Adolph Marx is better known by what name?
: Harpo
8. A very famous harp passage can be found in the introduction to what section of Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker?"
: "Waltz of the Flowers"
9. What KC and the Sunshine Band song features the harp in the fade-out?
: "Please Don't Go"
10. Who went into battle with "his wild harp slung behind him?"
: "The Minstrel Boy"
11. Down to the Moon and Dancing With The Lion are just two of this Swiss jazz harpist's albums.
: Andreas Vollenweider
12. The harp features in the slow introduction to what Heatwave disco song?
: "Boogie Nights"
13. What beer brand has a harp in its logo?
: Guinness
14. What Grateful Dead song includes the line, "And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung?"
: "Ripple"
15. At what time were "angels bending near the earth to touch their harps of gold?"
: Midnight
16. This Dion song, memorializing several great leaders who were assassinated, features harps at the end.
: "Abraham, Martin, and John"
17. The USA International Harp Competition takes place on the campus of what university?
: Indiana University

Bonus: Beneath the Twilight was the first album release by this Manx harpist and singer, in 1994.Emma Christian

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