Trivia Quiz on British Composers
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
A ready-made music and history quiz that you can use in virtual and in-person events (Zoom, Teams, YouTube Live, Twitch, conferences, meetings, classrooms, etc.)
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From Elgar and Vaughan Williams to Britten and Andrew Lloyd Webber, this quiz celebrates the sounds of Britain across concert halls, opera houses, and cinema. Expect questions on symphonies, operas, marches, film scores, and musical theatre.
Tune in to the sounds of Britain with a team-based challenge spanning iconic marches, sweeping symphonies, evocative film scores, and landmark operas by composers such as Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Holst, Britten, Delius, and more. Designed for groups, this trivia works beautifully as a classroom warm‑up, a culture‑night icebreaker, a rehearsal room energizer, or a pub‑quiz style showdown. It’s equally at home in online meetings and livestreams—run it on Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, YouTube Live, Twitch, or in-person on a big screen. Mix and match rounds, play rapid‑fire, or keep it measured for thoughtful discussion. Difficulty ranges from accessible crowd-pleasers to specialist gems, so every team member can contribute. Duplicate and share with a click, then let the music history face‑off begin.
1. Who composed the opera Billy Budd in 1951 (both names)
A) Benjamin Britten
B) Gustav Holst
C) Benjamin Britain
D) Sir Malcolm Arnold
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2. Who wrote the 'The Dam Busters March' for the 1954 film of that name
A) Malcolm Arnold
B) William Walton
C) Miklós Rózsa
D) Eric coates
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3. Who composed The Dream of Gerontius
A) Gustav Holst
B) Ralph Vaughan Williams
C) Charles Villiers Stanford
D) Edward Elgar
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4. Which English composer wrote a Sea symphony
A) Ralph Vaughan Williams
B) Edward Elgar
C) Gustav Holst
D) Benjamin Britten
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5. Whose final opera was called Death in Venice
A) Gustav Mahler
B) Georges Bizet
C) Giacomo Puccini
D) Benjamin Britain
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6. What Was The Very First Andrew Lloyd Webber Musical To Be Filmed
A) Cats
B) Evita
C) The Phantom of the Opera
D) Jesus Christ Superstar
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7. What composer wrote the Pomp and Circumstance marches
A) Gustav Holst
B) Camille Saint-Saens
C) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
D) Edward Elgar
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8. Who composed the Overture to the Wasps
A) Edward Elgar
B) Gustav Holst
C) Benjamin Britten
D) Vaughan Williams
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9. Who composed "Sinfonia Antartica"
A) Ralph vaughan williama
B) Benjamin Britten
C) Gustav Holst
D) Edward Elgar
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10. What nationality was the composer Delius
A) German
B) Norwegian
C) British
D) French
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11. Who Composed The Enigma Variations
A) Sir Edgar Elgar
B) Ludwig van Beethoven
C) Johann Sebastian Bach
D) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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12. Which Suffolk town was the birthplace of Benjamin Britten?
A) Lowestoft
B) Ipswich
C) Bury St Edmunds
D) Southwold
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13. Who Wrote The Music To Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar & Phantom Of The Opera
A) Claude-Michel Schönberg
B) Andrew Lloyd Webber
C) Tim Rice
D) Stephen Sondheim
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14. Which Musician Actually Created Mantovani's Unique Sound
A) Nelson Riddle
B) Eric Coates
C) Andre Previn
D) Ronald Binge
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15. The opera Peter Grimes was written by whom
A) Gustav Holst
B) Igor Stravinsky
C) Benjamin britten
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16. What piece of music commemorates military action that took place on 16th May 1943
A) The Dambusters March
B) Chastise March
C) Dam Raid Suite
D) The dam busters
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17. Who wrote the music for the 1948 film 'Scott of the Antarctic' and made a symphony out of it
A) William Walton
B) Vaughan Williams
C) Gustav Holst
D) Benjamin Britten
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