Q 01/05

What is the standard tuning of a ukulele?

A) GCEA

B) DGBE

C) EADG

D) ADGC

Answer · why

A) GCEA

The G is tuned an octave higher than expected, a 'reentrant' tuning that gives the uke its close-harmony sound.

Q 02/05

Which jingle helps players remember the standard ukulele tuning?

A) Row your boat

B) My dog has fleas

C) Every good boy

D) Twinkle, twinkle

Answer · why

B) My dog has fleas

The four notes G4, C4, E4, A4 fall on the four syllables.

Q 03/05

Which ukulele size is normally tuned DGBE, like the top four strings of a guitar?

A) Concert

B) Tenor

C) Baritone

D) Soprano

Answer · why

C) Baritone

The baritone was created in the 1940s and resembles a small tenor guitar.

Q 04/05

Which of the four common ukulele sizes was the original?

A) Concert

B) Tenor

C) Baritone

D) Soprano

Answer · why

D) Soprano

In Hawaii it is often just called 'standard'; the concert size arrived a few decades later as a louder, larger version.

Q 05/05

What does the word ukulele roughly translate to in Hawaiian?

A) Jumping flea

B) Little guitar

C) Singing wood

D) Happy strings

Answer · why

A) Jumping flea

The name may describe the player's darting fingers, or the nickname of a small, fidgety English officer at court.