Music quiz game for amusement

• US 5,486,006 A
• Filed: 11/19/1993
• Issued: 01/23/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Andy Curran, Bruno, Michael
• Original Assignee: Andy Curran, Bruno, Michael
• Inventors: Bruno, Michael, Curran, Andy
• Primary Examiner(s): Stoll, William E.
• Application Number:
  US08/154,950
• Time in Patent Office: 795 Days
• Field of Search: 273/243, 273/292, 273/301, 273/430, 273/431, 273/432
• US Class Current: 273/301
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/00119 Board games concerning music, theatre, cinema, or art
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 9/0413 Cuboid dice
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 9/18 Question-and-answer games

Abstract

The present invention is a question-and-answer format quiz game having a music theme. The quiz game is based upon questions wherein a song title and year are identified and a player is requested to identify the artist that performed the song within a predetermined time period. In addition to temporal categories for the questions, such as by decade, there may be categories for different types of music, such as pop, country, R&B, etc. The temporal and music categories are randomly selected by rolling dice.

Claims

1. A method of playing a music quiz game of amusement, comprising the steps of:

selecting at least two teams consisting of at least one player per team, a first team being the answering team and a second team being the questioning team;

a player from said answering team rolling a die having temporal indicia on at least some of the faces thereof;

a player from said questioning team selecting a card from a set of cards and posing a question to said answering team player requesting said answering team player to identify the artist of a song identified on said card by title and year, said year corresponding to the temporal category showing on the die rolled by said answering team player;

said answering team player responding within a predetermined time period to said question by attempting to identify the correct song artist.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein said temporal indicia on said die faces are selected from the group consisting of specific years or ranges of years.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein said temporal indicia are decades.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein said first team and second team alternate rolls as questioning and answering teams.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein said answering team player scores a point for correctly identifying the song artist within said predetermined time period.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein said predetermined time period is about 20-30 seconds.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein said game is terminated upon one of said teams reaching a predetermined number of points, said team being declared the game winner.

8. A method of playing a music quiz game of amusement, comprising the steps of:

a) selecting a pool of players;

b) a first player from said pool rolling a die having temporal indicia on at least some of the faces thereof;

c) a game host posing a question to said player requesting said player to identify the artist of a song identified by title and year, said year corresponding to the temporal indicia shown on the die rolled by said player;

d) said player responding to said question within a predetermined time period by attempting to identify the correct song artist;

said steps a) through d) being repeated in sequence for each player in said pool.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein said player remains in said pool upon correctly identifying the song artist within said predetermined time period and wherein said player is dismissed from said pool upon failing to correctly identify the song artist within said predetermined time period.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein said game continues until a predetermined number of players remain in the pool, whereupon said players are declared game winners.

11. The method of claim 9 wherein said predetermined time period is about 20-30 seconds.