Question: Which type mandolin had a tendency not to stay in the player's lap?
Answer: the carved-top mandolins with f-holes

Question: Which mandolin was preferred for formal performances and recordings? 
Answer: flat-topped "Irish-style" mandolins

Question: What was the Irish style mandolin reminiscent of?
Answer: WWI-era Martin Army-Navy mandolin

Question: Who are some of the famous Irish Mandolinists?
Answer: Andy Irvine

Question: Who are popular fiddle player and tenor banjo player?
Answer: John Sheahan and the late Barney McKenna

Question: What was John Sheahan and Barney Mckenna's band called?
Answer: The Dubliners,

Question: Who made the instruments used by the Dubliners?
Answer: UK luthier Roger Bucknall of Fylde Guitars

Question: What Irish guitarist played the mandolin on stage?
Answer: Rory Gallagher

Question: Who composed the Concerto in C Major Op 3 6?
Answer: Antonio Vivaldi

Question: Who placed it in his 1787 work? 
Answer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Question: What two artists created four variations of the Concerto in C Major Op 3 6?
Answer: Don Giovanni and Beethoven

Question: Who composed the La conquista della Spagne di Scipione Afriacano il giovance?
Answer: Antonio Maria Bononcini

Question: When was Alexander Balus composed? 
Answer: 1748

Question: What country still maintains strong classic music tradition with mandolin?
Answer: Japan

Question: How many people compose the Japanese mandolin orchestras?
Answer: 40 or 50 members

Question: What other instruments do the Japanese madnolin orchestras play?
Answer: include woodwind, percussion, and brass sections.

Question: Japan hold and extensive collection of what? 
Answer: 20th Century mandolin music from Europe and one of the most complete collections of mandolin magazines from mandolin's golden age

Question: Who purhcased one of the collections of mandolin magazines? 
Answer: Morishige Takei.

Question: What does bandolim mean?
Answer: Portuguese for "mandolin"

Question: When was the bandolim porpular among the Portugese bourgeoisie?
Answer: 19th century

Question: Where can you see mandolins a part of in Portgal? 
Answer: traditional and folk culture

Question: Where is the Portuguese mandolin scene located? 
Answer: Madeira Island

Question: How many active mandolin orchestras does the Madiera Island have? 
Answer: over 17

Question: Who is a famous British player?
Answer: Simon Mayor

Question: What did Simon mayer produce? 
Answer: six solo albums, instructional books and DVDs, as well as recordings with his mandolin quartet the Mandolinquents.

Question: Who played the mandolin on the album Tubular Bells? 
Answer: Mike Oldfield

Question: What was UK's biggest selling album? 
Answer: "Fog on the Tyne

Question: What song by Rod Stewart used the mandolin? 
Answer: Maggie May

Question: What group in the US was popular?
Answer: Estudiantina Figaro

Question: When did the Estudiantina Figaro come to the US?
Answer: January 2, 1880

Question: Where did the Estudiantina Figaro play? 
Answer: Boston and New York

Question: What group was inspired by the Estudiantina Figaro? 
Answer: Original Spanish Students

Question: What did the Origianl Spanish Students expect the American  public not to know? 
Answer: the difference between the Spanish bandurrias and Italian mandolins

Question: When did madolin awareness in the US become fluent?
Answer: 1880s

Question: When was the first madolin made in the US?
Answer: 1883 or 1884

Question: Who made the first US mandolin?
Answer: Joseph Bohm

Question: Where was Joseph Bohmann from? 
Answer: Chicago

Question: What type of madolin was Partee using ?
Answer: French-made mandolin

Question: What popular musical casted a teacher-dealer? 
Answer: The Music Man

Question: What did these teacher-dealers often conduct? 
Answer: mandolin orchestras

Question: How many people were usually in these teacher-dealer orchestras? 
Answer: 4-50 musicians

Question: Who played the mandolin in Vaudeville? 
Answer: Samuel Siegel

Question: Who was the famous African American musican and director? 
Answer: composer James Reese Europe.

Question: The setting the mandolin was used in until the 1930's was? 
Answer: ensemble setting

Question: Where did the mandolins find a new home? 
Answer: bluegrass

Question: What mandolin was designed to boost interest in the mandolin?
Answer: Lloyd Loar Master Model from Gibson

Question: What mandolin became the face of bluegrass music?
Answer: Loar

Question: What instrument did artist Bill Monroe use? 
Answer: F-5 S/N 73987

Question: What groups have become popular amonbgpublic schools?
Answer: mandolin-based guitar programs

Question: What are two of the popular public school groups? 
Answer: Fretworks Mandolin and Guitar Orchestra

Question: Who found the Classical Mandolin Society of America?
Answer: Norman Levine

Question: Who are modern mandolinists and composers?
Answer: Samuel Firstman, Howard Fry, Rudy Cipolla

Question: What family recorded an old-time music in 1924-1926?
Answer: Cowan Powers and his family

Question: Who was the earliest known southern music artist?
Answer: Orpha Powers

Question: What type of mandolin was becoming popular by 1930's? 
Answer: single mandolins

Question: Who was considered the father of Bluegrass music?
Answer: Bill Monroe

Question: What was Bill Monroe's group called? 
Answer: Blue Grass Boys

Question: What chording sound was Monroe popular for?
Answer: the chop

Question: What keys was Monroe popular for? 
Answer: B and E

Question: Who was Monroe's most influential follower?
Answer: Frank Wakefield

Question: Who developed a electric five-string mandolin?
Answer: Moore of the Texas Playboys

Question: What type of music did the electric five-string mandolin help popularize?
Answer: Western Swing music

Question: Who was the major bluegrass mandolinist that became popular in 1950's?
Answer: Jesse McReynolds

Question: What grop was Jesse McReynolds a part of?
Answer: Jim and Jesse

Question: What technique did Jesse McReynolds create?
Answer: crosspicking

Question: What is crosspicking?
Answer: syncopated banjo-roll-like style

Question: Who won several award for his Monroe influenced music? 
Answer: Ronnie McCoury

Question: What is Jethro Burns commonly known for?
Answer: half of the comedy duo Homer and Jethro

Question: What type of music did Jethro Burns play? 
Answer: jazz mandolinist

Question: Who popularized the mandolin in Western Swing Music?
Answer: Tiny Moore

Question: Who was well known for important works of traditional blugrass?
Answer: Chris Thile of California is

Question: Who are othe rwell know players? 
Answer: Marty Stuart, Vince Gill, and Ricky Skaggs

Question: Who got his start with his father's mandolin? 
Answer: Howard Armstrong,

Question: Who is the most popular blue music mandolinist?
Answer: Ry Cooder

Question: What other instrument did the Tennessee string bands use? 
Answer: ukulele in there and a bass fiddle

Question: Who played in the Whistler and His Jug Band? 
Answer: Willie Black

Question: When did the mandolin first appear in rock music?
Answer: psychedelic era of the late 1960s

Question: Who played the drums and the mandolin in the group called The Band?
Answer: Levon Helm

Question: What Rod Stewart song in 1971 featured the mandolin?
Answer: Maggie May

Question: What artist from the Greatful Dead played the mandolin?
Answer: David Grisman

Question: Tommy Shaw sang and played the mandolin in which Styx song?
Answer: Boat on the River

Question: What type of mandolin do rock musicians today use? 
Answer: single-stringed electric

Question: Which Irish-American punk band uses Mandolins?
Answer: Dropkick Murphys

Question: What REM song uses simple mandolin licks?
Answer: Losing My Religion

Question: What American rock band has extensive use of mandolins? 
Answer: System of A Down

Question: What film's theme song uses a mandolin?
Answer: Days of Thunder