Poets
A Rudyard Kipling poem we read.
What is A Tree Song, The Camel's Hump, If, The Children's Song, The Glory of the Garden, or A Carol?
One version of this folk song depicts a man made of food who wears clothes of food.
What is "Aikendrum"?
One of the songs we listened to that was composed by Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins.
What is Cyclone Galop, The Rainstorm, Battle of Manassas, Wellenklange (Voice of the Waves), Water in the Moonlight, or Reve Charmant (Nocturne)?
Who was JMW Turner's father?
(Audio clue) The composer of this song. (100 bonus points if you can name the song's title)
Who is Ralph Vaughan Williams?
What is "The Lark Ascending"?
A fellow poet and dear friend of Helen Hunt Jackson.
Who was Emily Dickinson?
An alternative name for the Scottish folk song “The Water is Wide.”
What is "Waly Waly"?
One of the songs we listened to that was composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
What is Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, The Lark Ascending; Five Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus'; A Sea Symphony; Romance for Strings, Piano, and Harmonica; or Fantasia on Greensleeves?
Pope Julius II commissioned great paintings from Raphael to decorate three large rooms and a corridor of this prominent Roman building.
What is the Vatican? (also acceptable: Sistine Chapel)
(Audio clue) The composer of this song. (100 bonus points if you can name the song's title)
Who is Thomas "Blind Tom" Wiggins?
What is "Cyclone Galop"?
The title of Helen Hunt Jackson’s fictional novel that dramatized the plight of Native Americans in the hope of provoking social action.
What is Ramona?
Erastus Johnson wrote the lyrics of this hymn in 1871 to encourage people amidst a severe financial depression.
What is “The Rock That Is Higher Than I”?
The prominent American landmark home where Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins was the first African American musician to perform.
What is the White House?
The term/title given to the female subject of many of Raphael’s paintings.
(Audio clue) Tell the name of this song.
What is "The Water is Wide"? (also acceptable: "Waly Waly")
Title of Helen Hunt Jackson’s fictional novel that dramatized the plight of Native Americans in the hope of provoking social action.
What is Ramona?
This hymn, written as a processional hymn by William Walsham How and published in 1864, was sung at President George H. W. Bush’s funeral.
What is “For All the Saints”?
Many of the proceeds from Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins’ concerts during the Civil War went to help this group of people.
Who were sick and wounded Confederate soldiers?
Many of Turner’s later works resemble this style of painting that emerged in France after Turner’s time.
What is Impressionist/Impressionism?
(Visual clue) The painter of this artwork.
Who is JMW Turner?
Kipling’s nickname for the house he lived in for a few years as a child.
What is "house of desolation"?
The name of the South African genre of music that means “lion” in English.
What is "Mbube"?
A famous 19th century naturalist/scientist who was related to Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Who was Charles Darwin?
A strange, miserly artist who trained Raphael in painting.
Who was Perugino?
(Visual clue) The painter of this artwork.
Who is Raphael?