Europe
Musical Vocabulary
Star Wars and STEM
200

Scotland and a northern portion of a neighboring country make up this union that once conquered India and Hong Kong

What is the United Kingdom?
200

This nine-letter term means to gradually increase in volume

What is crescendo?

200

Though the series is filmed in locations on Earth, it takes place within these celestial bodies in the fictional world

What are exoplanets?

400

Vasco da Gama set sail from this country to travel to Asia via the Cape of Good Hope 

What is Portugal?

400

One of these incomplete bars may begin a piece of music; however, it does take away its length from the last bar of a piece that it is present in

What is a pickup?

400

The prequel trilogy of Star Wars introduced microscopic creatures that connected the characters to the force; those creatures are named after these key organelles and share their first two letters with them

What are mitochondria?

600

Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia make up the three nations collectively known as these states

What are the Baltic States?

600

This time signature is essentially common time counted using a longer note as the basic unit of time

What is cut time?

600

A sheep was the first animal to go through this process, which was pioneered a few years before the Star Wars film featuring an army of the results of this process was released

What is cloning?

800
Zealand is owned by this country, whose biggest land claim is outside of Europe

What is Denmark?

800

DAILY DOUBLE

In string music, this term means to hit the strings using the wooden end of the bow to produce a percussive sound, as in the beginning of Holst's "The Planets"

800

The role of this particle, which contributed to the validation of the standard model of particle physics, can be compared to the role of the Jedi as carriers of the Force in Star Wars

What is the Higgs boson?

1000

This mountain range in northern Europe is traditionally seen as the border between Europe and Asia

What are the Urals?

1000

This Italian term refers to a strong emphasis on a particular note

What is marcato?

1000

The cooling of these substances can give a hover vehicle (like the ones seen widely across Star Wars) the magnet that it requires to function

What are superconductors?

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