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

Andalusia: there Romani newcomers, Moors and Sephardic Jews lived side by side for centuries, and flamenco grew out of the slow fusion of their music.

Q 02/05

UNESCO's 2010 heritage listing says flamenco is handed down through what?

A) Church brotherhoods

B) Families and local clubs

C) Royal academies

D) State music conservatories

Answer · why

B) Families and local clubs

Families and local clubs: the listing credits dynasties, families and flamenco clubs with keeping the art alive, for it began as a private, family aff...

Q 03/05

Which flamenco song of devotion, its name the Spanish for 'arrow', is sung to the floats of Holy Week processions?

A) Caña

B) Petenera

C) Saeta

D) Taranta

Answer · why

C) Saeta

Saeta: a lone voice, often from a balcony, sings it without accompaniment straight at the statue of Christ or the Virgin being carried through the str...

Q 04/05

In Spanish, the word 'flamenco' also means a native of which region of northern Europe?

A) Brittany

B) Flanders

C) Jutland

D) Saxony

Answer · why

B) Flanders

Flanders: nobody is sure how the word for a Fleming came to be attached to the music, though one old guess is that the gitanos were taken for northern...

Q 05/05

What are the shouts of encouragement that spur on a flamenco performer called?

A) Braceo

B) Jaleo

C) Rasgueado

D) Taconeo

Answer · why

B) Jaleo

Jaleo: the verb behind it, jalear, is also the Spanish for urging on hounds in a hunt, and fellow performers and audience alike do the same for a sing...