CLASSICAL MUSIC
SUPERHERO SECRET IDENTITY LAST NAMES
THE CIVIL WAR
A REALLY LONG TIME AGO
BEGINS & ENDS IN "E"
200
'After seeing Verdi's "Aida" he decided opera was to be his forte & came up with "La boheme" & "Tosca" among others'
(Giacomo) Puccini
200
'The brothers who produced the game Monopoly'
Parker
200
'David Farragut sailed into the Mississippi River in April 1862 & captured Natchez, Baton Rouge & this city'
New Orleans
200
'In Euripides' home Protagoras read a controversial treatise saying these might not exist'
gods
200
'Young lovers know it's from a middle English word for "run away"'
elope
400
'Arthur Sullivan in 1856 was the first person to receive the scholarship named for this "Bridal March" composer'
(Felix) Mendelssohn
400
'A nation's flag'
Banner
400
'This 1,600-mile-long mountain system divided the Civil War's eastern & western theaters'
the Appalachians
400
'Of the sheep, the pig or the bactrian camel, the first to be domesticated'
the sheep
400
'Named for the pioneer who settled the area in 1846, this city is home to the University of Oregon'
Eugene
600
'For the ballet "Coppelia" Leo Delibes used "The Sandman", one of the "Tales of" this author'
E.T.A. Hoffman
600
'A state university in Detroit, Michigan'
Wayne
600
'Widely used by both sides, this rifle shares its name with the Massachusetts city where it was made'
Springfield
600
'This early ancestor of European man was named for the French cave site where the bones were first found'
Cro-Magnon man
600
'To free from bondage, as the 13th amendment did for slaves'
emancipate
800
'In 1874 Ibsen asked Edvard Grieg to compose incidental music for this play'
Peer Gynt
800
'An English county of 2,300 square miles'
Kent
800
'On February 3, 1865 Lincoln met with Confederate leaders at a conference named for this Virginia site'
Hampton Roads
800
'Now in white & black species, this animal had a woolly version during the last Ice Age'
rhinoceros
800
'This fencing sword has a bell-shaped guard & a triangular blade 35 inches long'
an épée
1000
'Italian for "a whim", Strauss used it as an opera title, Paganini for a violin study'
a capriccio
1000
'A suburb of Providence, Rhode Island'
Cranston
1000
'This Confederate vice president referred to Jefferson Davis as "weak and vacillating"'
Alexander Stephens
1000
'Ur was a part of this ancient civilization in Mesopotamia that was the first to develop a system of writing'
Sumeria
1000
'Abu Dhabi is one; Dubai is another'
an emirate
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