Music and Dance
the composer who wrote the music to these three ballets: Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and the Nutcracker
Who is Pyotr Tchaikovsky?
This object was invented as an 18th-century British aristocrat famously requested meat between two slices of bread so he could eat while playing cards without getting grease on his fingers.
What is a sandwich?
Author of the book where Edmond Dantes is the main character.
Who is Alexandre Dumas?
The centuries the mongol empire led by Ghengis Kahn spanned.
What is 13th-14th centuries?
In Denmark, unmarried people who reach the age of 25 are playfully tied to a post or chair and showered in cinnamon by their friends. The spice they use instead of cinnamon if you are still single at 30.
What is black pepper?
The movie the song White Christmas first appeared in.
What is Holiday Inn?
A word first recorded in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Nights Dream" to describe arrogant or pompous walking.
What is swagger?
The classic play the movie "10 things I hate about you" is based off of.
What is "The Taming of the Shrew"?
The reason the Eiffel tower was originally built.
What is the 1889 Worlds Fair in Paris? OR What is 100th anniversary of the French Revolution?
In Germany, friends and family gather before a wedding to smash porcelain plates, vases, and bowls on the ground, which the couple then cleans up together. What this tradition, called Polterabend, symbolizes.
What is teamwork?
The century tap dance originated in the United States.
What is the 19th century?
a word coined in "Macbeth" to describe a type of murder.
What is assassination?
the number of full novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the famous consulting detective Sherlock Holmes.
What is 4?
The birth country of Joseph Stalin.
What is Georgia?
The unusual pet of the popular Parisian entertainer Josephine Baker in the 1920s, who famously took it around the city on a leash.
What is a cheetah?
The composer to the New World Symphony.
Who is Antonin Dvorak?
A term created after the name of a man who people burned effigies of for centuries on November 5th, turning the name into a general term for an ugly figure, and later, any man or person.
What is guy?
The now famous, but then controversial anti-slavery novel published in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
What is Uncle Toms Cabin?
What are Bolsheviks?
The country known as the "Land of the Blue Sky" or the "Land of the Eternal Sky."
What is Mongolia?
The century Ballet originated in.
What is the 15th century?
The number of words Shakespeare invented. (at least within 100)
1,700
The number of characters in Leo Tolstoy's epic novel "War and Peace."
What is 600?
The 7 Wonders of the World.
New 7 Wonders: What is Chichin Itza, The Great Wall of China, Macchu Picchu, Petra, Christ the Redeemer, Colosseum, Taj Mahal?
Original 7 Wonders: What is Pyramid of Giza, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, Colossus of Rhodes, Lighthouse of Alexandria?
The country that has the most languages.
What is Papua New Guinea?