THE CLASSIC SONG IN QUESTION
PARASITIC PLANTS
NAME THE CELEBRITY
LIQUOR IS QUICKER
10-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS
SCHOOL OF MUSIC
400
This group asked, "Does anybody really know what time it is?"; they later said it was "25 Or 6 To 4"
Chicago
400
A hemiparasite that makes food but steals water & nutrients, this plant is better known for Christmas kissing
mistletoe
400
A rapper; has 2 kids with Rihanna; actor in "Dope" & 2018's "Monster"
A$AP Rocky
400
Texas' Swift Single Malt Whiskey is made from barley imported from this whisky homeland
Scotland
400
This city is located on the islands of Zealand & Amager just west of Malmö, Sweden
Copenhagen
400
Eastman School of Music alum Alexander Courage boldly went & composed the theme for this TV show; Gene Roddenberry wrote unused lyrics
Star Trek
800
Feel free to do the "SNL" headbopping as you say--but do not sing!--this Haddaway hit..."Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more"
"What Is Love"
800
In a chain of parasitism, the love vine feeds on galls, the tissue swellings made by these bee relatives, which feed on oak trees
wasps
800
Cassie on "Euphoria"; star of "Anyone But You"
Sweeney
800
Gimme one of these grapefruit & vodka cocktails named for a fast dog, & make it snappy!
a greyhound
800
Mount Victoria rises over 600 feet above this capital at the southern end of North Island
Wellington
800
The Moscow State Conservatory is named for this composer whose first symphony was 1866's "Winter Daydreams"
Tchaikovsky
1200
His album "Armed Forces" has Nick Lowe's song "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding"
Elvis Costello
1200
With a smell like rotting meat, it's the largest flower in the world but has no other plant parts like roots or leaves.
(stinking) corpse flower
1200
President Coriolanus Snow in a franchise; Detective Klute in "Klute"
Donald Sutherland
1200
A drink called the Fast and Furious has rum, coconut rum & the blue type of this liqueur named for a Caribbean island
Curacao
1200
A port city on the Rio de la Plata, it's the southernmost capital in South America
Montevideo
1200
Flying off from the Air Force in 1954, he studied piano at Juilliard for a bit before moving his wars to the stars & scoring a few films
John Williams
1600
"Do You Feel Like We Do"? at least for the next 14 minutes or so? asked this virtuoso guitarist, coming alive in 1976
Peter Frampton
1600
Colorful flowers called these "paint brushes" steal nutrients from perennial grasses
Indian paint brushes
1600
"Oblivion" singer; mother of Techno Mechanicus Musk
Grimes
1600
Fill up your tank with a Ferrari, made with dry vermouth & this almond-flavored liqueur
amaretto
1600
Empress Taitu, the wife of Menelik II, had a house built at the site that would become this world capital
Addis Ababa
1600
Sounding like a West Coast university, this Boston school of music offers 15 majors including jazz composition & game scoring
the Berklee School of Music
2000
On "How Soon Is Now?", Johnny Marr ran his rhythm guitar track through 4 amps to create a stunning tremolo effect for this band
The Smiths
2000
Trifolium is the genus of this plant grown as livestock feed & sometimes damaged by the parasitic plant dodder
clover
2000
Starred in "Bio-Dome" & "Encino Man"; stand-up stage alter ego was "The Weasel"
Pauly Shore
2000
Tennessee's Ole Smoky Distillery bottles this electric-sounding stuff, also a 2-word term for moonshine
White Lightnin'
2000
Rick Steves says this Danube city was a "damaged husk" under communism; it revived since 1993 & becoming the capital of its own country
Bratislava
2000
The symphony orchestra at the tuition-free Curtis Institute of Music plays in a hall named for this Black opera diva
Anderson