Composers
EVERYDAY FOOTBALL TERMS
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100

This composer's "Oh! Susanna" was a favorite of the gold-seeking forty-niners

Stephen Foster 

100

A long walk through the woods

hike

100

A major thoroughfare in this Egyptian capital is The Corniche, which runs along the Nile

Cairo

100

Student athletes can tell you JV stands for this

Junior Varsity 

100

Battle a blaze using a blaze

Fight fire with fire 

200

He helped raise money for a London hospital by giving performances of his "Messiah"

Handel

200

"Explosive" word denoting a giant failure, maybe at the box office

a bomb 

200

John Heyward was perhaps the first to point out that it wasn't "built in one day"

Rome

200

It's the form of light or radiation abbreviated UV

Ultra Violet 

200

Incinerate 12 A.M. petroleum

burn the midnight oil 

300

His Piano Sonata in C-sharp minor, Opus 27, No. 2 is better known as the "Moonlight Sonata"

Beethoven

300

Prayer AKA an Ave Maria

Hail Mary

300

One of the great shopping centers in this Venezuelan capital is the Simon Bolivar Center with its twin towers

Caracas

300

This musical direction is often abbreviated cresc.

Crescendo 

300

One steed! One mount! I'll give you all I rule if you give me one stallion!

a horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse

400

He composed "The Magic Flute" to help out a friend who managed a theatre

Mozart 

400

A sudden rushed or ill-informed type of judgment

snap
400

Dentsu, Asia's largest advertising agency, is located in this capital

Tokyo 

400

It's the region of Canada abbreviated NT or NWT

Northwest Territories 

400

Brilliant like one cat-o'-nine-tails

Smart as a whip 

500

This Norwegian composer of the "Peer Gynt" suites was nicknamed "The Chopin of the North"

Edvard Grieg

500

A mental pause related to a certain subject, perhaps due to a psychological issue

block

500

This city's 2 main districts, Karkh & Rusafah, lie on the west & east banks of the Tigris River

Baghdad 

500

This part of a computer that interprets & executes instructions is abbreviated CPU

Central processing unit 

500

Wonderful objects arrive within tiny parcels

Good things come in small packages