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Essentials in
History
A quick round of Barbershop Trivia
Updated: 5/9/2003 4:56:00 PM
Trivia Questions
1. In what year was Geoffrey O’ Hara’s, “A Little Close Harmony” published?
2. What year did Phil Embury become International President?
3. What quartet did Frank H. Thorne sing in?
4. What year was the Interpretation category instituted?
5. Who was responsible for developing the Interpretation category?
6. Who replaced Bill Spangenberg as bass of the Buffalo Bills?
7. Where did the Schmitt Brothers start singing?
8. Who was President of the Society in 1953-54?
9. Who was the first chorus to hold the title of international champion?
10. Who directed the Singing Capital Chorus?
11. In what year was the concept of barbershop taught as a craft?
12. What was Dr. Harold W. Arberg’s nickname ?
13. Who invented the term “barbershop craft”?
14. What was the Society’s first folio of songs in barbershop style called?
15. Who was the author of the regular column on Old Songs, “Do You remember?” in The Harmonizer?
Answers:
1. (1921)
2. (1944)
3. Elastic Four, 1942 International champs
4. (1971)
5. Howard Mesecher, Ken Williams and Phil Winston
6. Jim Jones
7. In their mother’s home, in Two Rivers, Wisconsin
8. John Means
9. Singing Capital Chorus of Washington, D.C.(The Great Lakes Chorus of Grand Rapids, Mich., had won an earlier invitation only chorus contest, but it was not considered ”int’l championship
10. Lew Sims
11. (1988)
12. “Bud”, he was the chorus director of the Alexandria Harmonizers.
13. Dr. Harold (Bud) W. Arberg
14. Harmony Heritage Songs
15. George O’Brien
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