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The British Association of Barbershop Singers, BABS, is a charitable organisation with music education as its goal. Registered Charity Number: 1080930
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General Knowledge

This is the General Knowledge Questionnaire, similar to the one given to all applicants to the Guild.

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Question 1: Music judges adjudicate
Entrance and exit
Forward motion
Emotional effect
Vocal quality
Religious or patriotic lyrics
Harmonic structure
Question 2: It is the primary function of the Guild of Judges to
Question 3: Whilst a judge in any category can score zero for a performance, only the Music category judge can apply forfeiture.
Question 4: Presentation judges adjudicate
Bad taste
Forward motion
In-tune singing
Musical accompaniment
Attire
Number of barbershop 7ths
Question 6: The D level scoring range is
Question 7: The A level scoring range is never used
Question 8: Only the Singing judges consider whether the performance is in tune or not
Question 9: All judges are resonsible for judging whether the performance is
Unaccompanied
Sufficiently endowed with barbershop 7ths
Predominantly homophonic
Emotionally moving
Over-endowed with major 7ths
Question 10: All judges adjudicate the non-singing time