GeoTracks Music
GeoTracks Music · October 20, 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 roundOn this day in 1973, Queen Elizabeth II formally opened this famous harbourside performing arts venue.
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📍 Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia · map
The first public concert came before the official opening, on 5 September 1973: an all-Wagner program with soprano Birgit Nilsson.
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Arcade Fire, who won the Grammy for Album of the Year with 'The Suburbs', formed in this city in 2001.
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📍 Montreal, Quebec, Canada · map
'The Suburbs' won the Grammy, the Juno and the Polaris Prize for album of the year in 2011.
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Bob Marley and the Wailers made many early recordings at Coxsone Dodd's Studio One in this city.
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📍 Studio One, Studio One Boulevard (ex-Brentford Road), Kingston, Jamaica · map
Studio One is called 'the Motown of Jamaica'. In 2004 its street, Brentford Road, was renamed Studio One Boulevard.
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Shakira was born and raised in this Caribbean coastal city.
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📍 Barranquilla, Colombia · map
Since December 2023, a 6.5 m bronze statue of Shakira in her 'Hips Don't Lie' pose has stood on the city's Gran Malecón riverfront.
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Arena where Sertab Erener won Eurovision 2003, Turkey's first win after 28 years of trying.
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📍 Skonto Hall, Riga, Latvia · map
Her winning song was Everyway That I Can. Turkey then hosted Eurovision in Istanbul in 2004.
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On this day in 1971, the rapper Snoop Dogg was born in this California city.
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📍 Long Beach, California, USA · map
Snoop Dogg's real name is Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr.
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