GeoTracks Music
GeoTracks Music · October 18, 2026
The daily music geography game: five clues about where music history happened. Try them yourself first, then reveal the answers.
▶ Play this round Play today's roundOpera house that opened in 1778 and hosted the first performances of Verdi's Otello and Falstaff.
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📍 Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Italy · map
Verdi's early hit Nabucco also had its first performance here, in 1842. Otello followed in 1887 and Falstaff, his last opera, in 1893.
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Rhythm and Vines is a New Year festival on a vineyard near one of the first cities on Earth to see the sunrise.
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📍 Waiohika Estate, near Gisborne, New Zealand · map
It began in 2003 as a one-night New Year's Eve party. It now runs for three days, from 29 to 31 December.
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Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters recorded at this blues label's studio at 2120 South Michigan Avenue.
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📍 Chess Records studio, 2120 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, Illinois, USA · map
The Rolling Stones recorded here in 1964 and named an instrumental after the address. The building is now Willie Dixon's Blues Heaven museum.
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On this day in 1926, rock and roll pioneer Chuck Berry was born in this city.
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📍 St. Louis, Missouri, USA · map
His song 'Johnny B. Goode' is on the Voyager Golden Record, which was sent into space in 1977.
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Michel Teló, whose 'Ai Se Eu Te Pego' topped charts across Europe, was born in 1981 in this town.
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📍 Medianeira, Paraná, Brazil · map
The song went viral after footballer Neymar posted a video dancing to it. Teló grew up in Campo Grande.
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On this day in 1961, jazz and classical trumpeter Wynton Marsalis was born in this city.
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📍 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA · map
He was the first musician to win Grammy Awards for both jazz and classical recordings in the same year.
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