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English composer of a Fantasia on Greensleeves and The Lark Ascending
Ralph Vaughan Williams
This god gave Midas his powers
Dionysus
Player with record for most MLB games played with 3,562
It's specifically defined as "claiming for oneself the attributes... of God"
Blasphemy
Residence for the Mayor of NYC
Gracie Mansion
Russian composer of Night on Bald Mountain and Pictures of an Exhibition
Modest Mussorgsky
King of Mycenae and husband of Clytemnestra, who leads the Greeks during the Trojan War
Agamemnon
English composer of The Fairy-Queen and Dido and Aeneas
Henry Purcell
Puerto Rican right-fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates who died in a 1972 plane crash
Roberto Clemente
This word for fast, witty exchanges is from the French for "depart again"
Repartee
Pope during WWII
Pius XII
Composer of Symphonie Fantastique
Hector Berlioz
American composer of “My Old Kentucky Home”
Stephen Foster
Iconic skyscraper at 34th & 5th Avenue
Empire State Building
There's a ghost story within a story in "The Open Window" by H.H. Munro, better known by this single pen name
Saki
"The Optimist's Daughter" author
Eudora Welty
First Prime Minister of the UK
Robert Walpole
Pete Rose played 19 seasons with this team and later was their manager
Cincinnati Reds
Director of Sleeper (1973)
Rock pioneer who sang "Sweet Little Sixteen" in 1958
Chuck Berry
Transsexual prophet of literary works set in Thebes, who also tries and fails to advise Oedipus
Islamic caliphate which succeeded the Umayyad, attacked by the Mongols, leading to the destruction of Baghdad.
Abassid Caliphate
Dodgers pitcher who was MVP in both '63 and '65
Sandy Koufax
Director of "Eraserhead" and "The Elephant Man"
David Lynch
453.59 grams =
1 LB
Author of "Look Back in Anger"
John Osborne