Q 01/05

Which puzzle game's best-known Game Boy tune is an arrangement of the Russian folk song Korobeiniki?

A) Lemmings

B) Tetris

C) Columns

D) Puyo Puyo

Answer · why

B) Tetris

Tetris got its Game Boy 'Type A' tune in 1989, when Nintendo's Hirokazu Tanaka rearranged a song about a peddler haggling with a girl. The folk song g...

Q 02/05

Which pop star composed music for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 but left the project and went uncredited?

A) Whitney Houston

B) Stevie Wonder

C) Michael Jackson

D) Lionel Richie

Answer · why

C) Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson's part was only a fan rumour until a Sega studio director mentioned it in a 2005 interview. Sources still disagree on how much of his ...

Q 03/05

Which strategy game's theme, Baba Yetu, became the first piece of video game music to win a Grammy Award?

A) Civilization IV

B) Age of Empires II

C) SimCity 4

D) StarCraft II

Answer · why

A) Civilization IV

Civilization IV opens with Christopher Tin's setting of the Lord's Prayer in Swahili. The Grammy came in 2011, six years after the game, once Tin had ...

Q 04/05

Which British music legend wrote and recorded the song Hope for the Future for the 2014 shooter Destiny?

A) Elton John

B) Noel Gallagher

C) Mick Jagger

D) Paul McCartney

Answer · why

D) Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney also worked with composer Martin O'Donnell on Music of the Spheres, an eight-movement symphonic suite written for the game and finished...

Q 05/05

Which sandbox game has a gentle ambient soundtrack by the German musician known as C418?

A) Minecraft

B) Terraria

C) Roblox

D) Starbound

Answer · why

A) Minecraft

Minecraft's composer, Daniel Rosenfeld, met creator Markus Persson on an indie developers' forum and made the sound effects too. His albums Volume Alp...