Classical Music
This instrument was originally named the "harpsichord with loud & soft".
What is pianoforte?
Not only "a bear who had no hair", but Kipling's poem about a bushy-haired "1st class fightin' man".
What is “Fuzzy-Wuzzy”?
During a 1983 heat wave, St. Louis set up "cooling centers" for people without this.
What is air conditioning?
What ex-spouses hate to pay but love to receive.
What is alimony?
Big-top siblings who began their circus in Baraboo, Wisconsin in the 1880s.
Who are the Ringling Brothers?
1st name of Schubert, Haydn, & Liszt.
What is Franz?
People's Almanac says this Nobel-Prize winning author was only 2nd citizen expelled by Soviets.
Who was Solzhenitsyn?
Lightning can reach temperatures 3 times as high as the surface of this.
What is the sun?
They go "aweigh" on boats in song.
What are anchors?
When baseball's Seattle Pilots moved to Wisconsin in 1970, they were renamed this.
What are the (Milwaukee) Brewers?
Tchaikovsky called this composer "a musical Christ".
Who is Mozart?
In Marlowe & Goethe, Mephistopheles turned his head & stole his soul.
Who was Faust?
Though a small part of the atmosphere, this gas has a big influence thru the "greenhouse effect".
What is carbon dioxide?
In square dancing, you can start this step with your ol' left hand.
What is an allemande?
1st of these in U.S. began in Watertown for German-speaking children, which could explain German name.
What is kindergarten?
Premiered in Paris in 1913 his "Rite of Spring" caused a scandal & near-riot.
Who is Stravinsky?
In "The Odyssey", the magic food of these "flower munchers" makes Ulysses' men forget their homeland.
What are the Lotus Eaters?
Usually, it's the snowiest month in the U.S.
What is January?
A lover of England & its customs.
What is an Anglophile?
"On Wisconsin", the state song, is roughly equivalent to this, the one-word state motto.
What is Forward?
The solo passage called a cadenza is closely associated with this form of composition.
What is a concerto?
His "The Lady of the Lake" wasn't about the life of King Arthur but life in the Scottish Highlands.
Who was Sir Walter Scott?
Storm-producing cumulonimbus clouds are popularly called these.
What are the thunderheads?
To loathe something, from the Latin "to shudder".
What is to abhor?
Called "America's Dairyland", its off. nickname is from miners who lived like these burrowing animals.
What is the badger?