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In Touch With Your Inner Tuba

I have a co-worker that is a internet trivia fan, after I brought
in Doughnuts, Croussants, and Coffee for the whole office to
celebrate International Tuba Day [and Cinco De Mayo] on Friday
she researched and unleased this Tuba trivia on her online trivia friends,
should not be too hard for this crowd!!!
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#1

1) The tuba is part of which musical instrument group: A) brass, B) woodwinds, C) strings or D) percussion?

2) International Tuba Day is celebrated on the first Friday of what month?

3) The tuba was introduced in 1835 in what modern-day European country?

4) What composer's "Symphonie Fantastique" is often credited with being the first major work to be orchestrated for the tuba?

5) Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Tuba Concerto in ___ Minor" premiered in 1954. [single letter]

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#2

1) Tuba City is located in Coconino County in what southwestern U.S. state?

2) Tuba is a municipality in the province of Benguet, which is part of what island nation in Asia?

3) Comedic composer Peter Schickele "invented" an instrument that he called the 'tuba mirum' - which was, in fact, merely an
uncooked piece of which pasta: A) macaroni, B) ziti, C) linguini or D) manicotti?

4) Which term most closely refers to the substance known as 'verde uba tuba': A) a species of algae, B) a type of granite, C)
a green dye or D) a variety of rubber?

5) TÜBA, the Turkish Academy of Sciences (Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi), was established in what year?

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#3

1) "Tubby the Tuba" was nominated for the 1947 Academy Award for Short Subject (Cartoon), but lost to a film featuring the antics of what Warner Brothers bird?

2) The first incarnation of this brother-sister group was as a trio - featuring the brother on piano, the sister on drums
(and occasional vocals) and a classmate on bass and tuba.

3) Among the non-cinematic pieces written by this award-winning composer was his 1985 "Tuba Concerto", which was dedicated to the principal tuba player of the Boston Pops.

4) Though this big band musician/arranger was better known for his trumpet work (esp. w/Glenn Miller), his first instrument
was the tuba - which had been recommended as therapy for asthma during his childhood.

5) Name any one of the items dropped by the Pink Panther into the instrument of an annoying musician in the 1971 animated
short "Pink Tuba-Dore".

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#4

1) In what 1936 Frank Capra film does a humble tuba player from Vermont suddenly come into a very large inheritance?

2) In what 2000 film (based on a novel by Michael Chabon) does Tobey Maguire's character say, "Now, that is a big trunk. It holds a tuba, a suitcase, a dead dog, and a garment bag almost perfectly"?

3) James Earl Jones (during a cameo in "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult") --- "It looks like _____ throwing up into a tuba." [talk-show host]

4) In the 1991 film "L.A. Story", what actress starred opposite Steve Martin as a British journalist who also plays the tuba?

5) From NBC's short-lived "Freaks and Geeks", said of a girl playing tuba in the high school band --- "That's not playing an
instrument! That's like blowing into a _____!"

Answers arrive tomorrow

And now the answers

Tuba or not tuba, that is the suggestion...

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#1

1) The tuba is part of which musical instrument group: A) brass, B) woodwinds, C) strings or D) percussion?
A) brass

2) International Tuba Day is celebrated on the first Friday of what month?
May

3) The tuba was introduced in 1835 in what modern-day European country?
Germany

4) What composer's "Symphonie Fantastique" is often credited with being the first major work to be orchestrated for the tuba?
Hector Berlioz

5) Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Tuba Concerto in ___ Minor" premiered in 1954. [single letter]
F
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#2

1)Tuba City is located in Coconino County in what southwestern U.S. state?
Arizona

2) Tuba is a municipality in the province of Benguet, which is part of what island nation in Asia?
the Philippines

3) Comedic composer Peter Schickele "invented" an instrument that he called the 'tuba mirum' - which was, in fact, merely an uncooked piece of which pasta: A) macaroni, B) ziti, C) linguini or D) manicotti?
D) manicotti

4) Which term most closely refers to the substance known as 'verde uba tuba': A) a species of algae, B) a type of granite, C) a green dye or D) a variety of rubber?
B) a type of granite

5) TÜBA, the Turkish Academy of Sciences (Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi), was established in what year?
1993
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#3

1) "Tubby the Tuba" was nominated for the 1947 Academy Award for Short Subject (Cartoon), but lost to a film featuring the antics of what Warner Brothers bird?
Tweety

2) The first incarnation of this brother-sister group was as a trio - featuring the brother on piano, the sister on drums (and occasional vocals) and a classmate on bass and tuba.
The Carpenters (Richard and Karen Carpenter)

3) Among the non-cinematic pieces written by this award-winning composer was his 1985 "Tuba Concerto", which was dedicated to the principal tuba player of the Boston Pops.
John Williams

4) Though this big band musician/arranger was better known for his trumpet work (esp. w/Glenn Miller), his first instrument was the tuba - which had been recommended as therapy for asthma during his childhood.
Billy May

5) Name any one of the items dropped by the Pink Panther into the instrument of an annoying musician in the 1971 animated short "Pink Tuba-Dore".
Potted plant, bubble gum, cement, soap and water
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#4

1) In what 1936 Frank Capra film does a humble tuba player from Vermont suddenly come into a very large inheritance?
"Mr. Deeds Goes To Town"

2) In what 2000 film (based on a novel by Michael Chabon) does Tobey Maguire's character say, "Now, that is a big trunk. It holds a tuba, a suitcase, a dead dog, and a garment bag almost perfectly"?
"Wonder Boys"

3) James Earl Jones (during a cameo in "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult") --- "It looks like _____ throwing up into a tuba." [talk-show host]
Phil Donahue

4) In the 1991 film "L.A. Story", what actress starred opposite Steve Martin as a British journalist who also plays the tuba?
Victoria Tennant

5) From NBC's short-lived "Freaks and Geeks", said of a girl playing tuba in the high school band --- "That's not playing an instrument! That's like blowing into a _____!"
toilet

2) The first incarnation of this brother-sister group was as a trio - featuring the brother on piano, the sister on drums (and occasional vocals) and a classmate on bass and tuba.
The Carpenters (Richard and Karen Carpenter)

Here's another related bit of trivia:
Who was that tuba player? (it's not someone obscure)

tubaman5150 wrote:

2) The first incarnation of this brother-sister group was as a trio - featuring the brother on piano, the sister on drums (and occasional vocals) and a classmate on bass and tuba.
The Carpenters (Richard and Karen Carpenter)

Here's another related bit of trivia:
Who was that tuba player? (it's not someone obscure)

The answer is Wes Jacobs! [Thank God for Google!]

OK, I got a few more than half of them (without looking!). Do I get a piece of pie?

Tuba-G Bass wrote:

tubaman5150 wrote:

2) The first incarnation of this brother-sister group was as a trio - featuring the brother on piano, the sister on drums (and occasional vocals) and a classmate on bass and tuba.
The Carpenters (Richard and Karen Carpenter)

Here's another related bit of trivia:
Who was that tuba player? (it's not someone obscure)

The answer is Wes Jacobs! [Thank God for Google!]

Correct!
If you look hard enough, there are a few recordings floating around of the Carpenters as the jazz trio.

Would it be trivial to point out that the title of this thread left out the "i" in trivial(trival)?

tubaman5150 wrote:

2) The first incarnation of this brother-sister group was as a trio - featuring the brother on piano, the sister on drums (and occasional vocals) and a classmate on bass and tuba.
The Carpenters (Richard and Karen Carpenter)

Here's another related bit of trivia:
Who was that tuba player? (it's not someone obscure)

I missed this question while I was away last week. I wouldn't have needed to Google it. Wes Jacobs went to Cal State Long Beach and he was mentioned quite a bit in stories about the Carpenters, as they were starting. That's common local knowledge.