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100

This Italian composer gave us La Bohème and Madama Butterfly.

Who is Giacomo Puccini?

100

VOX musical theater is putting on a free production of Into the Woods all students can attend on this weekend.

What is Family Weekend?

100

This is the home of Professor Scinto

What is Cape Cod?

100

This string instrument is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the orchestra’s string family.

What is the violin?

100

In physics, this law states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

What is Newton’s Third Law?

200

This Czech composer’s New World Symphony was inspired by his time in the United States.

Who is Antonín Dvořák?

200

This freshman tradition warns that stepping on the campus seal may delay your graduation.

What is the seal curse?

200

This is the license plate on his beloved Cybertruck.

What is AMPMAN

200

This brass instrument uses a slide instead of valves to change pitch.

What is the trombone?

200

n mathematics, this Greek letter is commonly used to represent the golden ratio (≈ 1.618).

What is phi (φ)?

300

The charanga ensemble, with flutes, violins, piano, and percussion, is most closely associated with this Cuban dance genre.

What is danzón?

300

WPI was founded in 1865, with this industrialist and this educator as its two key founders.

Who are Ichabod Washburn and John Boynton?

300

While he has his bachelors and masters from Syracuse University, he obtained his doctorate from this institution. 

What is Boston University?

300

This large percussion instrument is often called “kettle drums.”

What are timpani?

300

In computer science, this data structure is known for its LIFO property — “last in, first out.”

What is a stack?

400

This French composer’s Clair de Lune remains one of the most recognized piano pieces in the world.

Who is Claude Debussy?

400

This former MQP became a incredibly successful sports gambling site. 

What is DraftKings?

400
While he know conducts, Scinto started out playing this instrument.

What is viola?

400

This double-reed woodwind has a distinctive nasal sound and often plays the tuning note “A” for the orchestra.

What is the oboe?

400

he first computer programmer is often considered to be this 19th-century mathematician, who worked with Charles Babbage.

Who is Ada Lovelace?

500

This early Baroque composer wrote the opera L’Orfeo in 1607, often called the first great opera.

Who is Claudio Monteverdi? 

500

Legend says if you follow the tunnels under the Global Projects Office, you might end up in this historic building.

What is Washburn Shops?

500

This is the amount of money Scinto has spent on one Pokemon card.

What is 4.5k?

500

This rare brass instrument, whose name means “hunting horn” in German, is best known for its role in Wagner and Strauss works.

What is the Wagner tuba?

500

This Italian scientist improved the telescope and discovered Jupiter’s four largest moons.

Who is Galileo Galilei?

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