Easy Opera
Weights & Measures
Nursery Rhymes
Europe
Geographical Pairs
100

In Wagner's "Ring Cycle", a coveted ring made of this allows its owner to rule the world

What is gold?
100

The original quantity of this unit of measure was 480 sheets of paper; now some round it to 500

What is a ream?
100

With "rings on her fingers & bells on her toes, she shall have" this "wherever she goes"

What is music?
100

1st nation to "break" from Soviet bloc, its name means "land of the southern Slavs"

What was Yugoslavia?
100

Name of a famous hill in Cuba, or the Puerto Rican capital

What is San Juan?
200

Of tragic, comic, or dramatic, the style of "Opera Buffa"

What is comic?
200

In the Greek system of telling time, this was the length of an "Olympiad"

What is 4 years?
200

He "kissed the girls & made them cry," but "when the boys came out to play," he ran away

Who is Georgie Porgie?
200

Bonny Ben Nevis, highest peak in the United Kingdom is in this country

What is Scotland?
200

You can chalk up the fact these towns in Delaware & England share the same name

What is Dover?
300

"La Sonnambula" is about a lady whose presence in the wrong man's bedroom is merely a case of this

What is sleepwalking?
300

1 of 2 units of measure whose names are from the Latin "uncia", meaning "twelfth part"

What is ounce (or inch)?
300

After "Jack fell down & broke his crown", he "went to bed to mend his head" using brown paper & this liquid

What is vinegar?
300

Soviet rejection of this 1947 plan marked end of efforts to achieve total European economic unity

What was the Marshall Plan?
300

Nevada's oldest permanent white settlement, or the birthplace of Columbus

What is Genoa?
400

At the end of Mozart's opera of the same name, this famous lover is dragged into hell by a statue

Who was Don Juan (Don Giovanni)?
400

A measure in music or a measure by which gold is sold

What is bar?
400

"With silver bells, & cockle shells, & pretty maids all in a row"

What is "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary how does your garden grow"?

400

This river & its tributaries carry more traffic than any other river system in Europe

What is the Rhine?
400

Name of the "twin cities" on the Arkansas-Texas border


What is Texarkana?
500

NBC's Italian maestro who, at age 19, replaced an unpopular conductor & did "Aida" from memory

Who was Arturo Toscanini?
500

Swedish astronomer who developed the centigrade scale

Who was (Anders) Celsius?
500

One theory says "Ring-A-Ring-A-Roses" refers to this medieval disaster

What is plague (black death)?
500

The 3 capital cities of Scandinavia

What are Stockholm, Oslo and Copenhagen?

500

Island off New Jersey or Argentina, but Argentines call it "Isla de los Estados"

What is Staten Island?
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