The Core Team's new favourite orchestral instrument is the amazing heckelphone. Answer these questions about it. They're all multiple choice.

1. The heckelphone is a cousin of the….
   
   • Oboe.
   • Sousaphone.
   • Saxophone.
   • Melodica.
2. The heckelphone gets its name from….
   
   • Hecklers in the audience.
   • A kind of German barnyard fowl called das Heckelhuhn.
   • The last name of the inventor, Wilhelm Heckel.
   • The sound it makes when you hit two keys at the same time, heck-ul.
3. The idea for the heckelphone was first suggested by…..
   
   • Frederick the Great of Prussia.
   • Alpine herdsmen.
   • Beethoven.
   • Wagner.
4. The inventor of the heckelphone worked on it for ….
   
   • A week.
   • Six months.
   • Six years.
   • Twenty-five years.
5. Today, the world's heckelphone population numbers around….
   
   • Four million.
   • 20,000.
   • 100.
   • Six.
6. The heckelphone sounds most like….
   
   • A chicken.
   • A harp.
   • A foghorn.
   • An alphorn.
7. Because the heckelphone is so rare, and only made by one company, another similar instrument has been invented. It's called the ….
   
   • Jeckelphone.
   • Alpenphone.
   • Lupophone.
   • Wagnerphone.
8. The first use of the heckelphone was in….
   
   • Beethoven's Fidelio.
   • Wagner's Ring Cycle.
   • Richard Strauss's Salome.
   • Sousa's Washington Post March.
9. Finnish composer Kalevi Aho included a heckelphone in his opera….
   
   • So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.
   • Insect Life.
   • Peer Gynt in Finland.
   • Waiting for Godot.
10. Two trios have been written for heckelphone, viola, and piano. One, by Graham Waterhouse, was inspired by….
    
    • Monty Python.
    • The Hitchhiker's Guide.
    • The drawings of MC Escher.
    • Doctor Who.

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Dmitri Gheorgheni

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