1. Jazz Jeopardy 10 20 30 40 50 Final Jeopardy Musicians Vocabulary
Jazz History
Instruments
Grab Bag 10 20 30 40 50

2. Louis Armstrong played this instrument.
Musicians– 10 points
Louis Armstrong played
this instrument.
Category

3. Musicians– 20 points Duke Ellington played this instrument.
Category

4. Musicians– 30 points
Billie Holiday played
this instrument.

5. Musicians– 40 points
Benny Goodman played
this instrument.

6. Musicians– 50 points
Ella Fitzgerald played
this instrument.

7. Vocabulary– 10 points
This is when you play or sing
music that you are making up
on the spot.

8. Vocabulary – 20 points
A small jazz group, usually
with a rhythm section plus a
few solo instruments.

9. Vocabulary– 30 points
This is a large jazz group
with multiple players per
instrument.

10. Vocabulary – 40 points
A type of singing where
singers use nonsense syllables
instead of words to improvise.

11. Vocabulary– 50 points
This is a repeated pattern of
chord changes typical to both
jazz and blues music.

12. Jazz History – 10 points
The piece of technology
that brought jazz into homes
across the country in the 1920’s.

13. Jazz History– 20 points
The style of music that Elvis
Presley helped make more
Popular than jazz in the 1950’s.

14. Jazz History– 30 points
Jazz is known to have started
in this city.

15. Jazz History– 40 points
Two kinds of music that
that influenced the creation
of jazz.

16. Jazz History– 50 points
A time in American history
in the 1930’s when many
people lost jobs and couldn’t
afford to buy records.

17. Instruments– 10 points
Besides trumpet, another
brass instrument used in jazz.

18. Instruments– 20 points
The number of instruments
usually in the rhythm section.

19. Instruments– 30 points
The keyboard instrument
used in jazz.

20. Instruments– 40 points
Very large string instrument
(usually used in the orchestra)
in the rhythm section.

21. Instruments– 50 points
The two typical woodwind
instruments used in jazz.

22. Grab Bag– 10 points
This famous jazz singer
was also well known for
playing trumpet.

23. Grab Bag– 20 points
This singer auditioned to
be a dancer first, but that
didn’t work out.

24. Grab Bag– 30 points
Rhythm where the accent
is off the beat (used in jazz
a lot!).

25. Grab Bag– 40 points
Unusual characteristic
of Dizzy Gillespie’s trumpet.

26. Grab Bag– 50 points
The dance floor in the
Savoy Ballroom had to be
replaced this often due to
heavy use.

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28. FINAL JEOPARDY Question:
Louis Armstrong’s nickname.