TEA TIME
MY MISSED CAREER, SUBSTITUTE TEACHER
SUCH COLORFUL LANGUAGE!
STAY CLASSY, CLASSICAL MUSIC
MOVIE NOSTALGIA
100
The sinensis in the Latin name of the tea plant Camellia sinensis means "from" this country
China
100
Let's take roll... A.A. Ron...? Oh, just like this composer of 1957's "Piano Fantasy"
Copland
100
Alliterative term for writing full of exaggerated pathos
purple prose
100
Tchaikovsky got ahead of his contemporaries & used the then-new celesta in the music for this ballet, now a Christmas favorite
Nutcracker
100
In Germany this animated Disney classic is known as "Schneewittchen und die Sieben Dwerge"
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
200
The Beaver, the Dartmouth & the Eleanor were the ships involved in this Dec. 16, 1773 incident
the Boston Tea Party
200
Let's bring American history class to life! Take a look at this Revolutionary group pouring tea down the throat of a Crown official
Sons of Liberty
200
Sanguinary term for an aristocrat
a blue blood
200
This 1829 opera has the title Swiss mister take on the evil Gesler
William Tell
200
Ronald Reagan & Ann Sheridan were the original choices for the roles of Rick & Ilsa in this classic film
Casablanca
300
A 19th century British prime minister gave his name & rank to this tea flavored with oil of bergamot
Earl Grey
300
In P.E. I'll make you multi-sport stars like this decathlete who won a 1960 duel of UCLA Bruins to take Olympic gold
Rafer Johnson
300
Vespula alascensis is one species of this picnic-pestering wasp
a yellowjacket
300
He was born in 1756, created more than 600 works of music before his 36th birthday but never got to his 36th birthday
Mozart
300
Bette Midler's 1990 film "Stella" was a remake of this 1937 Barbara Stanwyck tearjerker
Stella Dallas
400
Grades of tea leaf quality include S for souchong & P for this
pekoe
400
I love A.P. bio! Let's talk pancreas! An adult one has a million of these, named for the German doctor who noted them in 1869
islets of Langerhans
400
The House Un-American Activities Committee inspired Hollywood to create one of these registers of disapproval
a blacklist
400
Truly a man for all seasons, this Italian composed the serenata called "La Gloria e Imeneo" for King Louis XV's wedding
Vivaldi
400
Burt Lancaster compared love to "the morning and the evening star" in this 1960 film that won him an Oscar
Elmer Gantry
500
Not the British but the Dutch this company brought the first shipment of tea to Europe in the early 1600s
East India Company
500
Geography class, China's NW corner is this "autonomous region", though it's debatable how much autonomy its Uyghur people have
Xinjiang
500
To gloss over errors to free one from blame, or to keep the other team scoreless
to whitewash
500
Let's go Bach in time to the 1700s & these concertos with a German state name; No. 2 kicks a trumpet solo to new heights
the Brandenburg Concertos
500
This early crooner's 1929 film "The Vagabond Lover" was based on his own career
Rudy Vallee