SHAKESPEARE
For most of Shakespeare's life, this monarch ruled England
Queen Elizabeth I
This male voice range falls between tenor & bass
baritone
The Soviet Union's economy was slow to recover after World War II; it just kept this dictator
Stalin
Aha! I have found it, this Greek word that's the state motto of California
Eureka
Nobel Peace Prize, 1964
Martin Luther King Jr.
Shakespeare paid part of the cost of building this theater that opened in late 1599
The Globe
The 2 arias for the Queen of the Night in Mozart's "Magic Flute" are for this type of soprano
coloratura
Without this branch of mathematics pioneered by Euclid, life would be pointless
geometry
This 2-word French term for an incorrigible child sounds a lot worse than it is
enfant terrible
Shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933 with Paul Dirac. Someone might want to check up on his cat.
Erwin Schrödinger
Shakespeare's 37 plays are traditionally classified into 3 groups: comedies, tragedies & these
Histories
String players debate how much of this technique to use; a little adds warmth to the tone, but too much & you get the nanny goat effect
vibrato
The blood bank wouldn't let me donate; I went there in this blood vessel
vein
Russian for "openness", it was Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of open discussion
glasnost
The names of 2 of the 3 shared winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1962
James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins
Alliterative 2-word name for the 1623 volume of Shakespeare's collected plays
The First Folio
German for "song", it's a German folk or art song
lied
Young Karl flunked out of Communist school; he was getting terrible these
Marx
Come closer--if you don't want to be overheard, speak softly, this way, Italian for "in a low voice"
sotto voce
Nobel Prize in Literature, 2016
Bob Dylan
Whether play or poem, blank verse or rhymed, the majority of Shakespeare's works are written in this meter
iambic pentameter
This Italian word is used of music gradually getting softer, the same as decrescendo
diminuendo
Careful golfers always carry 2 pair of pants in case they get one of these rare things
A hole in one
Japanese for "way of the warrior", it was the chivalric code of the samurai
bushido
Shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with Marie and Pierre Curie.
Antoine Henri Becquerel