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RUSSIAN COMPOSERS
SCIENCE GLOSSARY
FILM TITLE PAIRS
SAY "LOVE"
MOVING WORDS & PHRASES
400
Some 3,000 brown bears inhabit this largest Alaskan island & its archipelago
Kodiak Island
one wrong answer
400
Rachmaninoff was known for his concerti featuring this instrument & was considered its leading virtuoso of his time
the piano
400
Genetics is the study of this, a word centuries older for all characteristics passed down via the bloodline
heredity
400
1996:
Leonardo DiCaprio & Claire Danes
Romeo + Juliet
400
"Love Story", the novel & the film, gave us this memorable line about not apologizing
love means never having to say you're sorry
400
'Twas the night before Christmas & "not a creature was" doing this
stirring
800
It's separated from mainland China by a strait of the same name
Taiwan
800
Dimitri Tiomkin, one of the composers who shaped Hollywood film music, made theme songs a big thing on this 1952 Gary Cooper Western
High Noon
800
The polymer cellulose is called a polysaccharide, meaning it is composed of molecules of these
sugars
800
1997:
George Clooney & Chris O'Donnell
Batman & Robin
triple stumper
800
The title period of this novel by Gabriel García Márquez is the 1870s to the 1930s
Love in the Time of Cholera
800
It's the movement of people from one social class or level to another; I'm going to opt for the upward type
mobility
1200
The islands of the Seychelles are spread over hundreds of thousands of square miles in this ocean
the Indian Ocean
1200
This composer was miffed when Alexander III's only comment on his 1890 "Sleeping Beauty" ballet was "very nice"
Tchaikovsky
1200
Humans are mammals that have this 12-letter structure, with all the bones on the inside
an endoskeleton
1200
2009:
Amy Adams &
Meryl Streep
Julie & Julia
1200
"You that way; we this way" is the last line in this Shakespeare play
Love's Labour's Lost
1200
It's the roadway you take when you take your time; the Midwest's Meeting of the Great Rivers one lives up to its designation
the scenic route
1600
In 1902 an eruption of Mount Pelée on this French island destroyed the city of Saint-Pierre
Martinique
1600
Prokofiev got to tour Disney on a U.S. visit--maybe it helped him score "Alexander Nevsky" for this great director back home
Eisenstein
1600
Iodine is this type of element & is used as the filler gas in the same type of lamp
a halogen
1600
2018:
Will Ferrell & John C. Reilly
Holmes & Watson
1600
The June 1915 issue of Poetry magazine contained an angry letter from Ezra Pound as well as this poem by T.S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
wrong response
1600
Moving word meaning to deliver or send a thought, as in please ____ my heartfelt thanks or sympathies
convey
2000
This group of self-governing Danish islands lies about halfway between the Shetland Islands & Iceland
the Faroe Islands
2000
He began writing his "Leningrad Symphony" in 1941 during the city's siege by the Germans before being evacuated
Shostakovich
2000
In winter, chipmunks enter this not-quite-hibernating state, from the Latin for "numbness"
torpor
triple stumper
2000
2019:
Jodie Turner-Smith &
Daniel Kaluuya
Queen & Slim
2000
In addition to its title question, this Cole Porter standard asks, "Why should it make a fool of me?"
"What Is This Thing Called Love?"
triple stumper
2000
It can mean one traveling on foot or be the British word for the item shown
perambulator
two wrong answers; triple stumper