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1.  Brass is an alloy of which two metals?Copper and Nickel

•      Copper and Iron
•      Copper and Zinc (https://www.dictionary.com/browse/brass)
•      Nickel and Zinc
•      None of the above

 
2.  On a trumpet, the lead pipe isAnother name for the tuning slide

•      A possible murder weapon in “Clue”
•      The section of tubing that runs from the mouthpiece to the tuning slide

                  (http://thevault.musicarts.com/whats-difference-reverse-non-reverse-leadpipe-trumpet/)

•      The last section of tubing leading to the bell
•      A nickname for the lead trumpeter’s instrument in a jazz band

3.  Which notes within the staff can you play with a Bb trumpet when no valves are depressed?

• ​     F, Bb, and D
•      G, C, and E

​                    (https://sites.google.com/site/ohmusicstudent/band-instruments/trumpet/trumpet-fingering-chart)

•      G and C
•      E, G, and C#

​4.  Which of the following was Miles Davis’ biggest-selling album (4x Platinum)?

•      Round About Midnight
•      Seven Steps to Heaven
•      The Man with the Horn
•      Kind of Blue (https://www.npr.org/programs/jazzprofiles/archive/miles_kob.html)
•      Amsterdam Concert

 
5.   Malcolm McNab (guest performer at the TCTE’s November 2019 concert) has performed on how many
​       movie soundtracks?

•       Over 2,000 (https://www.malcolmmcnab.com/biography)
•       1,520
•       786
•       223
•       None of the above

 
6.   In which of the following movies was a trumpet used as a murder weapon?

•       The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)
•       The Trumpet Blows (1934)
•       Murder by Music (1969)
•       Dark Passage (1947) (Bogart and Bacall) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Passage_(film)​) ​
•       Trumpet on the Cliff (2016)

​7.   Which of the following composers have written a concerto for trumpet?

•      Johann Hummel
•      John Williams
•      Georg Philipp Telemann
•      Alexander Arutunian
•      All of the above (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpet_concerto)

 
8.   Joseph Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto in E-flat Major was written in 1796. When was it first publicly performed?

•      1796
•      1797
•      1800 (https://www.musikalessons.com/blog/2016/03/haydn-trumpet-concerto/)
•      1821
•      1901

 
9.   Triple tonguing can be represented by the syllables

•      Ka-Ka-Ka
•      Ta-Ta-Ta
•      Ta-Ta-Ka (http://www.thetrumpetblog.com/brass-articulation-triple-tonguing/)
•      Ta-Ka-Ta-Ka
•      Trrrrr-Trrrrrr

 
10.  Trumpet playing was once part of the ancient Olympic games, with the trumpeters being judged
        not for musicality, but for the volume of sound they could produce.

•      True   https://tapsbugler.com/history-of-the-bugle/
•      False