Musicals
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Famous Books and Characters
100
The untold musical story of The Wizard of Oz’s Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good... before Dorothy dropped in.
What is Wicked?
100
This museum, located in New York City, is the largest art museum in the United States, and one of the three largest in the world, with the most significant art collections. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided among seventeen curatorial departments.
What is the Metropolitan Museum of Art?
100
Identify the great national church near the Houses of Parliament in London where all but 2 of the country's rulers since the time of William the Conqueror have been crowned.
What is Westminster Abbey?
100
Lichen is a flowerless plant that consists of these 2 organisms living together as a single unit.
What is fungus and algae?
100
Name the Robert Louis Stevenson novel in which David Balfour, seeking to regain his stolen inheritance after his father's death, is tricked by his uncle Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws into boarding the Covenant bound for slavery in the American colonies.
What is Kidnapped?
200
A musical tale of "murder, greed, corruption, violence, exploitation, adultery and treachery—all those things we hold near and dear to our hearts." Paint the town red with merry murderesses Roxie Hart, Velma Kelly, their hotshot lawyer, Billy Flynn, and the iconic choreography of Bob Fosse.
What is Chicago?
200
Located in Madrid, this museum is the home of Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez. Velázquez not only provided the museum with his own works, but his keen eye and sensibility was also responsible for bringing much of the museum's fine collection of Italian masters to Spain.
What is the Prado?
200
Name the city in which you sould find the Dome of the Rock.
What is Jerusalem?
200
This word designates a plant or animal resulting from the union of 2 different species such as the mule that results from the mating of a male donkey and a female horse.
What is a hybrid?
200
Character who solves puzzling crimes by clever observation and deduction and lives in London at 221B Baker Street.
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
300
Set at the Paris opera house, a beautiful soprano becomes the obsession of a mysterious, disfigured musical genius.
What is The Phantom of the Opera?
300
Located in California, this museum contains a collection of "Western art from the Middle Ages to the present." Its estimated 1.3 million visitors annually make it one of the most visited museums in the United States. Also, the museum contains art from "ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria".
What is the John Paul Getty Museum (the Getty)?
300
Name the city where you would find the Gateway Arch.
What is St. Louis?
300
These 2 words popularized by Carolus Linnaeus designate "the plants and animals of a particular area or time".
What is flora and fauna?
300
Herman Melville's novel about a white whale.
What is Moby Dick?
400
A rock musical set in Hollywood in the 1980s, when it was all about big chords, big dreams and big hair! Rock of Ages explores the pursuit of dreams and tells its story through hits from iconic groups and rockers of the 1980s. This musical was recently made into a movie starring Tom Cruise.
What is Rock of Ages?
400
In this city, you can visit The Accademia which has Michelangelo's David – perhaps the most well-known work of art anywhere, plus the unfinished statues of the slaves Michelangelo created for the tomb of Pope Julius II.
What is Florence, Italy?
400
Name the city in which you would find the Forbidden City.
What is Beijing?
400
In the reproduction of plants, the nuclei of 2 different cells join together and form a new cell. This new cell is called which of the following: diatom, zygote, sperm, or egg?
What is zygote?
400
After a Soc nearly drowns Ponyboy in a fountain, a terrified Johnny stabs Bob, accidentally killing him. Ponyboy and Johnny find Dally, who gives them money and a loaded gun and tells them to hide in an abandoned church. They stay there for a few days, during which time Ponyboy reads Gone with the Wind to Johnny and recites the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost.
What is The Outsiders?
500
This musical tells the classic journey of young royal heir Simba. Giraffes strut, birds swoop and gazelles leap in a dazzling panorama that overwhelms the sense and inspires you with the wonder of life.
What is The Lion King?
500
As one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, it was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great and has been open to the public since 1852. Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display, comprise over three million items, including the largest collection of paintings in the world.
What is the Hermitage?
500
Name the city in which you would find Anne Frank's Secret Annex (House).
What is Amsterdam?
500
These 3 letters identify the important plant nutrients commonly provided by fertilizers.
What is N-P-K (Nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium)?
500
He and his friends ride on the Hogwarts Express starts from King's Cross railway station platform 9¾, which is invisible to Muggle eyes and is reached by walking through the barrier between platforms 9 and 10.
Who is Harry Potter?