Plagues
They killed a bunch of cats because they thought they were causing the plague, but in reality the cats would've been helpful to kill the rats spreading it.
What is the Black Death?
Cornet and trumpet player, nickname "Satchmo", "What a Wonderful World"
Who is Louis Armstrong?
This only allows the flow of electricity in one direction. LEDs are "light-emitting" these.
What are diodes?
This Shakespeare play about star-crossed lovers has been adapted many times, including West Side Story.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
This epidemic beginning in 1981 is the main topic of the 8 hour play "Angels in America"
What is the AIDS crisis?
Saxophonist, "sheets of sound", train
Who is John Coltrane?
Colombia, Peru, and Brazil
What is the Amazon?
This is the name for the device that provides voltage or current.
What is the source?
Rent was based on this Puccini opera that was set in Paris rather than New York.
What is La Boheme?
This disease brought by the Spanish devastated indigenous American populations who had no immunity.
What is smallpox?
Trumpeter, album "Kind of Blue", cool jazz.
Who is Miles Davis?
Republic of the Congo and Democratic Republic of the Congo
What is the Congo?
This point is expected to have zero voltage, and is to prevent accidental discharge of electricity.
What is a ground?
This author wrote the book Les Miserables, as well as the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Who is Victor Hugo?
Columbus brought this STD from the Americas, where it spread like wildfire across Europe in the 1490s.
What is syphilis?
Bebop, nicknamed "Bird", "Blues for Alice"
Who is Charlie Parker?
Germany and France
What is the Rhine?
This impedes the flow of current, creating a voltage drop.
What is a resistor?
This 1909 novel by Gaston Leroux was adapted into a musical which became the longest-running show on Broadway.
What is the Phantom of the Opera?
This plague during the Peloponnesian War probably helped Sparta win.
What is the Great Plague of Athens?
Pianist and bandleader, "Take the A Train", nickname "Duke"
Who is Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington?
Laos and Thailand
What is the Mekong?
This is a charge-storing disconnection in a circuit, usually made of parallel plates.
What is a capacitor?
This musical was partially inspired by T.S. Eliot's poetry collection, "Old Possum's Book of Practical (these)"
What is Cats?