AcDec Music Quiz

David Bowman, Frank Poole, and the HAL 9000 are all characters in

• 2001: A Space Odyssey

• A Trip to the Moon

• E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

• Metropolis

• Dune

__________ composed the piece that accompanies the title sequence of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

• Gyorgy Ligeti

• Richard Strauss

• Gottfried Huppertz

• John Williams

• Toto

Max Steiner composed the influential score to _____, an important early film in demonstrating the value of custom scores.

• Metropolis

• Citizen Kane

• King Kong

• White Christmas

• The Jazz Singer

__________ cards are shots of text that are inserted into films, such as to convey dialogue during the silent film era.

• Subtitle

• Caption

• Superscript

• Closed caption

• Intertitle

Which of the following films includes a quote from the Dies irae, an ancient Catholic funeral chant?

• 2001: A Space Odyssey

• A Trip to the Moon

• E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

• Metropolis

• Dune

__________ composed the soundtrack to Metropolis.

• Gyorgy Ligeti

• Richard Strauss

• Gottfried Huppertz

• John Williams

• Toto

The _____ era of music is associated with the nineteenth century.

• Renaissance

• Romantic

• Modernist

• Classical

• Baroque

__________ was used to synchronize the sound in The Jazz Singer.

• Dolby Vision

• THX

• Phonocast

• Vitaphone

• Technicolor

__________ composed the soundtrack to E. T.: The Extra-Terrestrial.

• Gyorgy Ligeti

• Richard Strauss

• Gottfried Huppertz

• John Williams

• Toto

The __________ brothers were early pioneers of films as well as film technology.

• Huppertz

• Welles

• Kane

• Olivier

• Lumiere