Albums that Changed Music
Released in 1967, this Beatles album introduced studio experimentation, unusual instruments, and a fictional band concept, helping redefine what a rock album could be.
What is Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band?
This popular style of hat takes its name from the country where it became fashionable after being worn by workers building a famous canal.
What is a Panama hat?
This Portuguese explorer became the first person to lead an expedition that reached India by sailing around the southern tip of Africa.
Who is Vasco de Gama?
This Andrew Lloyd Webber musical follows a mysterious masked figure living beneath the Paris Opera House and became one of Broadway’s longest-running shows.
What is The Phantom of the Opera?
This actor won his Oscar for playing a gangster named Tommy DeVito who delivers the unforgettable line “Funny how?” in the 1990 film Goodfellas.
Who is Joe Pesci?
This 1969 album by a British rock band featured the iconic prism cover and spent hundreds of weeks on the Billboard charts, becoming a landmark of progressive rock.
What is The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd?
This spicy chicken dish gets its name from a city in New York state, where it was first served at the Anchor Bar in the 1960s.
What are Buffalo wings?
This British explorer’s three Pacific voyages included mapping New Zealand, exploring Australia’s eastern coast, and searching for the mythical Southern Continent.
Who is James Cook?
This musical by Stephen Sondheim follows a group of fairy-tale characters whose wishes come with unexpected consequences.
What is Into The Woods?
This actor won for playing the Joker in The Dark Knight, becoming only the second performer to win an acting Oscar posthumously.
Who is Heath Ledger?
This 1970 album by Marvin Gaye addressed war, poverty, and environmental concerns, pushing soul music into a more socially conscious direction.
What is What's Going On?
This famous style of sparkling wine takes its name from the northeastern region of France where it is produced under strict rules.
What is Champagne?
This Spanish explorer completed the first circumnavigation of Earth, though he died in the Philippines before the journey was finished.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This musical about a French artist in a Paris nightclub features the songs “Lady Marmalade” and “Come What May” and was inspired by a 2001 film.
What is Moulin Rouge!?
This actor won for playing a troubled Vietnam veteran named Nick in The Deer Hunter, in a performance that included the film’s famous Russian roulette scenes.
Who is Christopher Walken?
This 1984 album combined pop, funk, rock, and electronic sounds, and became the defining work of Prince’s career.
What is Purple Rain?
This vegetable gets its name from a city in Belgium, where it was cultivated extensively in the 19th century.
What are Brussels sprouts?
This explorer’s 11th-century travels through Asia were recorded in a famous book that introduced many Europeans to the wealth and wonders of the East.
Who is Marco Polo?
This musical about a struggling composer in New York’s Lower East Side was created by Jonathan Larson and became a defining work of the 1990s.
What is Rent?
This actor won for playing the intense jazz instructor Terence Fletcher, whose brutal teaching methods drive the story of Whiplash.
Who is J.K. Simmons?
This 1969 album by The Rolling Stones featured “Gimme Shelter” and is often considered one of the band’s greatest artistic achievements.
What is Let It Bleed?
This type of cheese shares its name with a Swiss town where it was first produced and remains closely associated with the country’s dairy tradition.
What is Gruyère?
This Scottish explorer and missionary spent decades traveling through Africa, mapping regions largely unknown to Europeans and campaigning against the slave trade.
Who is David Livingston?
This musical by Stephen Schwartz follows a group of artists living in New York’s Greenwich Village and includes the song “Corner of the Sky.”
What is Pippin?
This actor won for playing the eccentric thief George Hanson in The Fortune Cookie, beginning a long partnership with actor Jack Lemmon that later included filmlike The Odd Couple and Grumpy Old Men.
Who is Walter Matthau?