SMALL SCREEN SHOW TUNES
FROM THE GREEK
MUSEUMS
ACCORDING TO THE AUTHOR
World War II
400

On "Britain's Got Talent", Susan Boyle stunned the crowd with "I Dreamed A Dream" from this show

What Is Les Misérables

400

Bread has its roots in German while this dairy partner goes back to the Greek for "cow"

What is Butter

400

You too can donate a lock of this to the Turkish museum dedicated to it

What Is Hair

400

In the preface to this 1937 book, Tolkien explains that he is using "dwarves" instead of the preferred plural, "dwarfs"

What Is The Hobbit

400

Launching hostilities in 1939, the Germans used blitzkrieg tactics in their invasion of this country

What Is Poland

800

An episode of NBC's "Smash" included "Another Op'nin' Another Show" from this musical based on "The Taming of the Shrew"

What Is Kiss Me Kate

800

A Southwestern national park is named for these stone carvings, which is what the word means

What is Pegroglyphys

800

The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is in this Walmart company town

What Is Bentonville

800

This author revealed Yoknapatawpha, a place in his books, is a Chickasaw word meaning "water runs slow through flat land"

Who Is William Faulkner

800

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Rounds from the Katyusha rocket launcher made a howling sound; German troops called it this enemy leader's "organ"

1200

On a memorable "American Idol", Jason Castro sang "Memory" from this Broadway musical

What is Cats

1200

Daily Double

In ancient Greek comedies, there were 24 in this group of performers

1200

The Topeka, Kansas museum dedicated to this daredevil features his red, white & blue rocket cycle

What Is Evnil Knivel

1200

"I believe the road to hell is paved with" these modifying parts of speech, Stephen King said forcefully

What Are Adverbs

1200

Walthère Dewé was a leader of this underground anti-occupation movement in Belgium in WWI as well as WWII

What Is The Resistance

1600

Andy Bernard sauntered into "The Office" singing of this "demon barber of Fleet Street"

What Is Sweeny Todd

1600

Appropriately, this optical instrument gets its name from the Greek for "far-seeing"

What Is A Telescope

1600

Most of the surviving French crown jewels reside in the Galerie d'Apollon in this Paris museum

What Is Lourve

1600

This author of the Michael Bennett thrillers:
"If I'm working with a co-writer, they'll usually write the first draft"

Who is James Patterson

1600

These suicide plane attacks near the end of the war in the Pacific sank 34 ships & damaged hundreds of others

What is the kamikaze

2000

Vanessa Hudgens played Maureen when this musical based on a Puccini opera went live on Fox in 2019

What Is Rent

2000

This synonym for dictionary comes from the Greek for "word"

What Is Lexicon

2000

The Winter Palace that was once home to Russia's czars is part of this museum in St. Petersburg

What Is The Hermitage

2000

Late in life, this author clarified, "Sharks don't target human beings, & they certainly don't hold grudges"

Who Is Peter Benchley

2000

Many have seen Germany's decision to do this along with Italy 4 days after Pearl Harbor as a big mistake

What is to declare war on the united states