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Potpourri
100
This 1930 painting, Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow, focuses on primary colors and geometric spaces, helping this artist to dub his style as ‘Neoplasticism.’
Who is Piet Mondrian?
100
The traditional Paso Doble should evoke a corrida-- the male dancer portrays one of these & the woman is his cape.
What is a bull fighter?
100
Rhapsody in Blue provided listeners to life in New York City as described by this composer in this concert piece.
Who is George Gershwin?
100
At one time this musical, based on a book of poetry by T.S. Eliot, was the longest running Broadway musical.
100
This 3-word phrase at the end of Warner Bros. cartoons was first uttered in 1930.
What is "That's All Folks!"
200
Born in Sun Prairie, WI, this artist may be better known for her close up paintings of flowers.
Who is Georgia O'Keeffe?
200
This dance became popular in 1923 after inclusion in the Broadway musical Runnin' Wild.
What is the Charleston?
200
In 2018 he announced that his 3-year Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour would be his last.
Who is singer/song writer Sir Elton John?
200
This Stephen Sondheim musical provides a contemporary mash up of fairy tales testing ideas of “happily ever after.”
200
This long-running musical is based on a 1911 horror novel by Gaston Leroux.
What is the Phantom of the Opera?
300
Under the Wave off Kanagawa, one of thirty-six paintings, provides a view of Mount Fuji by this Japanese artist.
Source- https://bit.ly/3m4ZZJa
Who is Hokusai?
300
Time to form this dancing line! Put your hands on the shoulders of the person in front of you & 1 2 3 kick! 1 2 3 kick!
What is a conga line?
300
Johann Maelzel patented this mechanical, wind-up device in 1815 to help musicians keep time.
Source- https://www.thepiano.sg/piano/read/history-metronome
300
In Pygmalion she eventually says she'll marry Freddy Hill, not Henry Higgins.
300
This architect fell in love with the Arizona desert & built Taliesin West his winter home in Scottsdale.
400
In the 1930s an exiled author Leon Trotsky & his wife came to stay with these 2 married artists in Mexico.
Source- 400
The Lawrence Welk Show wasn't afraid to roll out a wunnerful beer barrel version of this dance, also Wisconsin's state dance.
What is the Polka?
400
This popular folk instrument in Latin America is a variety of xylophone that originated in Africa.
What is the marimba?
400
Based on The Beggar's Opera this musical opens with the song Mack the Knife.
What is the Three Penny Opera?
400
The full title of this modernist Stravinsky ballet includes Pictures from Pagan Russia in Two Parts.
What is the Rite of Spring?
500
This 1930 painting by Grant Wood portrays a fictitious farmer & his daughter.
What is American Gothic?
500
This 1930s-40s vaudeville performer tapped his way to being one of the highest-paid black performers of the first half of the twentieth century.
500
This Carmina Burana composer developed a music education system for kids that's widely used today in music classrooms worldwide.
500
The title of this Tennessee Williams drama refers to Laura Wingfield's collection of animal figurines.
What is the Glass Managerie?
500
This artist who portrayed the Moulin Rouge in his paintings was a character in the film Moulin Rouge!
