MCQ Questions
Q.1.
What city is considered to be the birthplace of jazz music?
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    London
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    New York
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    New Orleans
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    Los Angeles
Q.2.
What was the first ever jazz record to be released commercially?
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    The Ragtime Volunteers Are Off to War
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    Livery Stable Blues
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    King of the Bungaloos
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    Cleopatra Had a Jazz Band
Q.3.
Jazz is characterized by...
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    Blue notes
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    Improvisation
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    Polyrhythms
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    All of the above
Q.4.
Who is often named the 'Queen of Jazz'?
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    Aretha Franklin
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    Lena Horne
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    Billie Holiday
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    Ella Fitzgerald
Q.5.
What instrument did Miles Davis play?
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    Piano
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    Saxophone
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    Clarinet
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    Trumpet
Q.6.
Which trumpeter had to develop a new embouchure due to a mouth injury?
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    Chet Baker
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    Louis Armstrong
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    Miles Davis
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    Lee Morgan
Q.7.
Jazz pianist Spencer Williams inspired which dance craze?
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    Lindy Hop
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    Electric Slide
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    Charleston
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    Shimmy
Q.8.
What instrument did John Coltrane pick up before the end of his career?
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    Guitar
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    Flute
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    Drums
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    Violin
Q.9.
Which of these was the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize?
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    Blood on the Fields
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    Angel's Bone
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    Whispers out of Time
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    On the Transmigration of Souls
Q.10.
What type of jazz did clarinet player Benny Goodman popularize in the 1930s?
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    Bebop
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    Swing
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    Dixieland
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    Ragtime
Q.11.
Who joins Ella Fitzgerald on the track 'Cheek to Cheek'?
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    Duke Ellington
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    Dizzy Gillepsie
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    Nat King Cole
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    Louis Armstrong
Q.12.
'So What' is the opening track to which Miles Davis album?
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    Round About Midnight
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    Milestones
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    Birth of the Cool
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    Kind of Blue
Q.13.
Louis Armstrong popularized what kind of singing?
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    Scat
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    Swing
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    Blues
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    Bebop