GeoTracks Music
GeoTracks Music · October 27, 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 roundBTS's parent company moved its headquarters into a trade center in 2021. Where is it?
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📍 HYBE HQ, Yongsan Trade Center, Yongsan District, Seoul, South Korea · map
Bang Si-hyuk founded the company as Big Hit Entertainment in 2005. It changed its name to HYBE in March 2021.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The punk band Ramones formed in 1974 in this middle-class neighborhood of New York City.
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📍 Forest Hills, Queens, New York City, USA · map
The members were not related. They all took the name 'Ramone' after Paul McCartney, who once used 'Paul Ramon' as a stage name.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Island town where Queen singer Freddie Mercury was born as Farrokh Bulsara in 1946.
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📍 Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania · map
At the time, Zanzibar was a sultanate under British protection. At age eight he was sent to a boarding school near Bombay, India.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
On this day in 1782, the violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini was born in this port city.
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📍 Genoa, Italy · map
When Paganini was born, the city was the capital of the independent Republic of Genoa.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
From 1977 to 1982, DJ Frankie Knuckles played at this club. A new music genre took its name from the club.
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📍 The Warehouse, 206 S. Jefferson St, Chicago, Illinois, USA · map
Chicago made the building an official landmark in 2023 as the birthplace of house music.
Source: chicago.gov
On this day in 1978, the pop violinist Vanessa-Mae was born in this Asian city-state.
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📍 Singapore · map
She is a British violinist. Her father is from Thailand.
Source: en.wikipedia.org