SONG LYRICS
LEO-POURRI-O
SCIENCE OF THE 1800s
DANE BLUNDERS
MUSIC THEORY
200

Miley Cyrus sings, "I can" do this, "write my name in the sand"

buy myself flowers

200

MLB Hall of Famer Leo Durocher really said, "The nice guys are all over there, in 7th place", which became the pithy "nice guys" do this

finish last

200

In 1865 this monk presented the results of his breeding experiments with pea plants to the Natural Science Society in BrĂ¼nn

Mendel

200

After making the Dane blunder of shacking up with the wrong beefcake, she became the last ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt

Cleopatra

200

To indicate "play softly", "piano" is abbreviated "p", & "very softly", "pianissimo", this way

pp

400

A very popular tune by HUNTR/X says, "You know together we're glowing, gonna be, gonna be" this

Golden

400

Before becoming Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost did missionary work in this country, becoming a citizen there in 2015

Peru

400

In 1800, Alessandro Volta announced his invention, a predecessor to the modern this

Battery

400

He said his "greatest Dane blunder" was the insertion of the cosmological constant into his theory of general relativity

Einstein

400

Where you'd find a coda in a work

The end

600

This rock & roll classic says, "Never ever learned to read or write so well but... could play a guitar just like a-ringin' a bell"

Johnny B. Goode

600

"Ever After" a Renaissance-set Cinderella story, has this great artist as a sort of fairy godfather to Drew Barrymore

Da Vinci

600

CHCl3,
also known as this, was administered as an anesthetic to Queen Victoria when she gave birth to Prince Leopold

Chloroform

600

After this woman says Samson doesn't love her, he tells her "All his heart"; Dane blunder!

DAILY DOUBLE

Delilah

600

Term for the sign cancelling a previous flat or sharp in that measure

Natural

800

This title ends the Lady Gaga lyric "I'm beautiful in my way 'cause God makes no mistakes, I'm on the right track, baby, I was..."

Born This Way

800

He wrote the story "Sevastopol in May 1855", based on his own experiences

Tolstoy

800

A brilliant mathematician, she wrote the program for Charles Babbage's early computer prototype

Lovelace

800

Peachy thoughts from this uber philosopher include "God is Dead" & "Is Man only a Dane blunder of God?"

Nietzche

800

Ledger lines are added above or below this to show the pitch of notes that don't fall within it

Staff

1000

A No. 1 hit by Taylor Swift says, "You dug me out of my grave & saved my heart from" this, a Shakespeare reference

the fate of Ophelia

1000

He developed the first mass-produced solid-body electric guitar & named it the Telecaster

Fender

1000

This Brit lent his name to a cage that shields what's inside from electromagnetic radiation

Faraday

1000

A 2006 survey of presidential historians gave the No. 1 all-time Dane blunder to this 15th prez for failing to avert the Civil War

Buchanan

1000

The distance in pitch between 2 tones is called this

Interval

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