Varsity SS Superset

burl

In woodworking, what term describes the knotty, rounded or irregular wood grain that creates a beautiful surface?

Kachina (dolls) (ka-CHEEN-a)

Name the wooden miniatures carved by Hopi Indians to represent important spirits in the religious rituals?

Poetry of ceramics

With what art form are the terms "jibbers" and "saggers" associated?

Hatchings

Name the term for lines, either parallel or crossed, by means of which the modeling of objects in indicated in engraving.

Cameo

What kind of engraving on hard stones or gems is the reverse of intagilio?

Inlay or inlaid

Name the term for placing wood into a surface to create an artful design or decoration.

Logo

What is a graphic symbol of a company name or trademark called?

Any two: apple grapes gooseberries cluster of leaves

Name at least two of the four items pictured in the logo for the Fruit of the Loom trademark.

Tinkerbell

Which Disney character did Marilyn Monroe serve as the model for?

Margaret BOURKE-WHITE

Name the photographer, who lived from 1904 to 1971, whose photos often served sa the cover for "Life" magazine.

Lead Oxide

What material is used in high quality crystal in order to provide its exceptional clarity and luster?

Michelangelo

Who designed the oldest known uniforms in the world, those worn by the Vatican's Swiss Guards, a style still in use today?

Ansel Adams

What famous photographer began his career with stunning wilderness shots of Yosemite Valley, the Grand Tetons, and the redwood forests of California?

A Docent (dough-cent)

What is the person called who leads informative tours in an art museum?

Chinese

What is civilization's oldest script that was developed more than 4000 years ago and employs over 50,000 characters?

Expressionism

Name the art movement by German artists artists suffering over and depicting the deep anguish they felt because of World War I, which communicates strong emotions.

Daguerreotype (do not accept tin type which is a different type)

What was the name for the early photographic process named for its inventor in which pictures were made on silver-plated copper exposed to light?

Form

What is a term which describes the three dimensional volume of an object which can be measured in height, width, and depth?

Philosophy

Identify the term that comes from the Greek, meaning "love of wisdom" and is a subject that considers questions stemming from reflections on everyday life.

Transcendentalism

Identify the 1830's philosophical movement that condemned society's materialism and promoted individual freedom, the worth and goodness of humanity, and the need to commune with nature.

Costume Jewelry

Identify the term used to designate inexpensive, mass produced jewelry.

Trompe l'oeil (trom-LOYe)

Give the French term meaning to "deceive the eye," involving the suggestion of three dimensions where there are only two, so that for a moment one believes a painted object if real.

Lascaux (lah-SCOE)

Name the cave discovered in 1940 in south-central France whose "Hall of the Bulls" has been called "The Sistine Chapel of Prehistory"

The Von Trapp's

Identify the family of singers whose story was portrayed in the 1965 musical "The Sound of Music"

Gargoyle

What term, derived from a French word meaning throat, applies to the spouts placed usually on the roof gutters of Gothic building for the purpose of carrying the rain water far from the walls.

Plasticity

Give the term for the three-dimensionality of an object.

(John) DEWEY

Name the philosopher and educational reforer of the arly Twentieth Century whose approach has been summarized as "learning by doing."

Leitmotif

What is the term for a short recurring theme that is always associated whit a particular person, sentiment, or situation particularly found in Wagner's operas?

(Thomas) HOBBES

What English materialist argue in his LEVIATHAN that because men are selfish by nature, a powerful absolute ruler is necessary?

Logic

What is the science of inferences called?

Chinese

What is civilization's oldest script that was developed more than 4000 years ago and employs over 50,000 characters?

Navajo

Which American Indian tribe uses sand paintings as part of its religious and cultural heritage?

Pixar

What company partnered with Disney to make the computer-animated movies Toy Story, Toy Story II and Monster, Inc.?

Kilt

What is the name of the knee-length, woolen skirt worn by men in the Scotland?

Limited Edition

What term indicates an edition of a print which is restricted in quantity to increase the value of each copy?

Tin Pan Alley

Give the term for the area of New York City which promoted popular music, publishers, and song writers in the early 20th century.

Pan, also accept Panning

What term is used in movie making for moving the camera from side to side?

"Time long past"

The traditional Scottish song, "Auld Lang Syne," is often sung on New Year's Eve. What does this title mean?

Lute

What guitar-like instrument was brought to Western civilization by the Moors in 711 AD and became very popular throughout Europe during the Renaissance?

Call and response (also accept "question and answer")

What is the term for the technique in African vocal music heard in the fields and workplaces and later incorporated into spirituals and gospel music?

Amen cadence

What is the more common term for the plagal (Play-gul) cadence, a resolution of the subdominant chord to the tonic?

Symphony

What term for an instrumental composition is derived from the Latin phrase meaning "sounding together?"

Bridge

Name the piece of wood that supports the strings on a violin and transmits their vibrations to the sound box.

Fugue (fewg)

Which term, derived from Latin for "flight," designates a musical composition in which several voices or instruments repeat a number of melodies with slight variation?

ostinato (ah-stih-NAH-doh)

What is the musical term for a repeated melody, bass line, or rhythmic pattern in a composition?

Piano, violin, and cello (in any order)

What three instruments comprise a piano trio?

Germany

The English horn originated in France. In which country did the French horn originate?

rag (or ragtime)

With what style of music are Eubie (YEW-bee) Blake, Jelly Roll Morton, and Scott Joplin associated?

French horn

What conical brass instrument has a wide bell with about 11 feet of coiled tubing and 3 or 4 valves?

xylophone

What percussion instrument, originally called "the wooden clatter," was developed in Europe in 1511and consists of wooden bars mounted over tubular resonators and played with mallets?

balalaika (bah-lah-LIKE-ah)

Name the Eastern European instrument which has a triangular body and three strings.

pipe organ (ask to be more specific if they answer "organ")

Name the instrument that includes such parts as stops, ranks, bellows, pedals, reeds, and keys.

dominant

What is the name given to the fifth tone of the major or minor diatonic scale?

Ukulele

What is the name of a small, 4-stringed guitar imported from Portugal developed in Hawaii?

Cantor

Give the name for a singer employed by a cathedral or monastery who leads the choir and the congregation in songful prayer.

Flute, piccolo or recorder

Name a woodwind instrument which does not use a vibrating reed to produce its sound.

Postlude

Give the term for the closing piece of music usually played at the end of a church service when the congregation is leaving.

Metronome

Name the mechanical device invented in 1815 that determines the time interval of the beat in music.

First chair violin

What position in an orchestra is traditionally played by the concertmaster?

Accordion, Clarinet, Harmonica (respectively)

Identify the musical instruments known as a "squeeze box," a "licorice stick," and a "mouth organ."

Barbershop music or Barbershop (Do not accept Barbershop quartet)

What is the common name for a style of music which is made up of four voice parts, close harmony, and a cappella singing?

Syncopation

What name is given to a rhythmic pattern that places emphasis on beats that are not normally accented?

Tenuto (te-NOO-to)

Give the musical term that directs the performer to hold a note or chord for its full value.

Perfect pitch or Absolute pitch

What is the two-word musical term used to describe a person's ability to identify and reproduce a note without reference to a tuned musical instrument?

Fanfare

Give the name used in orchestral music for a flourish of trumpets.

Acoustics

What is the science of sound called?

French horn

What instrument is used in both brass and woodwind ensembles?

Banjo

What instrument with four to nine strings has a soundboard of skin stretched around a shallow frame?

Fife

What small musical instrument related to the piccolo has a high, piercing tone and is used mainly in military bands?

soliloquy (pronounced: so-lil-o-qwe)

What is the term for an actor's thinking aloud to himself while he is alone on stage?

The harp and the piano

What are the two most common unbowed stringed instruments found in a symphony orchestra?

motif

In music, which word is used to designate a recurring passage out of which a whole composition is developed?

Hi-hat, Crash, and Ride

Name the three kinds of cymbals often part of a typical percussion trap set.

Pizzicato

In playing the violin, if one plucks the strings instead of bowing them, what is this technique called?

carillon

Name the large instrument that may consist of up to 70 bells and is played with a manual and pedal keyboard, similar to that of an organ.

G, D, A, E

Name the four strings on a violin.

triplet

What term refers to a group of three notes that are performed in the space normally allotted for two of the same kind of note?

Harp

Which orchestral instrument uses pedals the change the key of the instrument?

Concert grand

What term is defined as "a grand piano of the largest size?"

Mandolin

What stringed instrument has five pairs of strings, is related to the lute, and is used to produce bluegrass music?

Key Signature

What is the collective name given to the flats and sharps written on the staff immediately after the clef at the beginning of a piece of music?

1) Damper pedal (or sustaining OR loud) 2) soft pedal (OR una corda) 3) sostenuto (sos te NOO toe) (OR solo sostenuto)

What are the names of the three pedals commonly found on most pianos?

(Claudio) Monteverdi (Monta-VER-di)

Name the Italian composer of the first modern opera, L'Orfeo (lore-FAY-oh)?

47

How many strings are there on a harp?

Reggae

Name the type of popular Jamaican music, drawing on Afro-American traditions and influenced by rock that is usually accompanied by electric guitars, piano, organ, and drums.

Julliard School

What venerable music school, located next to Lincoln Center in New York City, is one of the nation's finest and recently celebrated its 94th birthday?

Dixieland

What is the name of the style of jazz, which originated in New Orleans and combines the elemnts of ragtime and blues?

Intermezzo

What name is given to the short movement played between the more extended parts of a symphony or sonata?

Blues

What form of music begun in the 1880's, first gained white audiences in the 1920's when it was made popular by such singers as Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Leadbelly, and Robert Johnson?

Avery Fischer Hall

In what concert hall does the New York Philharmonic play when at home?

Perfect pitch

What is the term for the ability to distinguish and identify any given note without any musical or tonal support?

Counterpoint

Name the music type in which two or more parts move together with such freedom that they seem to be independent, each one with a design of its own.

cadenza

What musical term is given to the long soloist's passage within a concerto?

Monophonic

What term describes music made up of a single unaccompanied melodic line?

Mandolin

Name the instrument which is closely related to the lute but is smaller, with a pear shaped body, a straight, fretted neck, and four to six pairs of strings.

Piano

Identify the solo instrument invented by Bartolommeo Cristofori that didn't emerge in its modern form until 1830 when pedals were added.

didgeridoo

What Australian instrument is an end-blown straight natural trumpet?

spiccato

What term is used for violins to indicate playing with short, crisp strokes of the bow?

Terpsichore (ter-SIH-koh-ree)

Identify the muse of dancing and choral music.

A passion

Identify the term for a musical composition which deals with the suffering and death of Jesus.