Trivia Quiz on Ballet

1. In the classical format there are strictly only five positions - what

A) Tango

B) Hip-hop

C) Salsa

D) Ballet

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2. In ballet, a pose in which one leg is raised in back or in front with knee bent, usually with one arm raised.

A) Pirouette

B) Attitude

C) Arabesque

D) Jeté

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3. A leap from one leg to the other in which one leg is thrown to the side, front or back.

A) Assemblé

B) Jeté

C) Pirouette

D) Fouetté

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4. A spectacular movement in which the dancer propels himself or herself around a supporting leg with rapid movements of the other leg while remaining in a fixed spot.

A) Pirouette

B) Fouetté en tournant

C) Grand jeté

D) Chaînés

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5. What ballerina is known by her peers as "the body"

A) Misty Copeland

B) Natalia Osipova

C) Cynthia gregory

D) Darcey Bussell

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6. A turn on one leg, with the toe of the other leg touching the knee of the turning leg.

A) Passe

B) Grand jeté

C) Pirouette

D) Arabesque

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7. In ballet, shifting weight from one foot to the other.

A) Piqué

B) Jeté

C) Dégagé

D) Grand battement

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8. What would you be if you were a coryphée

A) Jazz dancer

B) Ballet Dancer

C) Ballroom dancer

D) Contemporary dancer

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9. It's now the Birmingham Royal Ballet but it used to be what

A) Saddlers Wells Opera

B) Sadler's Wells Opera

C) Birmingham Royal Opera

D) Royal Ballet of Birmingham

E) English National Opera

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10. An unfolding of the leg in the air.

A) Développé

B) Grand jeté

C) Piqué

D) Tendu

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11. Who founded the Ballets Russe in 1909

A) Marius Petipa

B) Anna Pavlova

C) Michel Fokine

D) Serge diaghilev

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12. A beating movement of the legs.

A) Jeté

B) Grand jeté

C) Fouetté

D) Battement

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13. A bending of the knees in any of the five positions.

A) Plié

B) Grand battement

C) Relevé

D) Pirouette

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14. Who, or what, is Petrushka in Stravinsky's ballet of the same name

A) A puppet

B) A ghost

C) A wind-up toy

D) The Moor

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15. Who was the composer of 'The Nutcracker' ballet? (Handel, Bach, Tchaikovsky, Schubert)

A) Handel

B) Bach

C) Schubert

D) Tchaikovsky

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16. For What Is Dame Margott Fonteyn Famous

A) Ballet Dancing

B) Opera Singing

C) Acting in Plays

D) Sculpting

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17. What Is The Name Of The Russian National Ballet

A) The Kirov Ballet

B) The Bolshoi Ballet

C) The Mariinsky Ballet

D) The Kremlin Ballet

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18. What Is Tthe Ballet Term For Spinning On One Foot

A) A Piroutte

B) Arabesque

C) Grand jeté

D) Pique turn

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19. Who Composed The Ballet (The Nutcracker)

A) Igor Stravinsky

B) Maurice Ravel

C) Johann Strauss II

D) Tchaikovsky

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20. Who Composed The Ballet (Romeo & Juliet)

A) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

B) Prokofiev

C) Igor Stravinsky

D) Ludwig Minkus

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