Q 01/05

Flamenco developed within the gitano subculture of which Spanish region?

A) Andalusia

B) Catalonia

C) Galicia

D) Castile

Answer · why

A) Andalusia

It also has a historical presence in Extremadura and Murcia, but its style is uniquely Andalusian.

Q 02/05

In 2010, UNESCO added flamenco to which list?

A) The World Heritage Sites list

B) Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage

C) The Memory of the World Register

D) The Global Geoparks Network

Answer · why

B) Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage

The declaration came on 16 November 2010, more than two centuries after the first written record of flamenco music in 1774.

Q 03/05

What is the oldest written record of flamenco music?

A) Cervantes's Don Quixote (1605)

B) Goya's notebooks (1799)

C) José Cadalso's Las Cartas Marruecas (1774)

D) Washington Irving's Tales of the Alhambra (1832)

Answer · why

C) José Cadalso's Las Cartas Marruecas (1774)

The Moroccan Letters were published decades before the word flamenco was applied to the music genre in an 1847 newspaper article.

Q 04/05

Historically, the Spanish word "flamenco" was used to identify which group of people?

A) The Romani (gitanos) of Spain

B) Flemish merchants

C) Moorish converts

D) Andalusian farm labourers

Answer · why

A) The Romani (gitanos) of Spain

The English traveller George Borrow reported in the 1830s that gitanos were also called Flemish, apparently because German and Flemish were confused.

Q 05/05

What are the individual styles or forms of flamenco called?

A) Coplas

B) Falsetas

C) Tercios

D) Palos

Answer · why

D) Palos

There are more than 50 of them, classified by rhythm, mode, chord progression, stanza form and where they came from.