MUSIC BY THE LETTER
WAM was portrayed by actor Tom Hulce in the movie Amadeus.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A 1960’s star of the New York Yankees.
Mantle (Mickey)
Maples and oaks are examples of this type of tree (starting with the letter D), because they drop their leaves in the autumn.
Deciduous
Which two Beatles were credited with writing most of the group’s songs?
John Lennon and Paul McCartney
In Britain, this car part is called a “silencer.” What do we call it?
Muffler
G and S created comic operas such as The Mikado and The Pirates of Penzance.
Gilbert and Sullivan
One of the largest types of pasta, often stuffed with cheese and spinach and served with a white or red sauce.
Manicotti
What two planets in our solar system begin with the letter M?
Mars and Mercury
In what English city were all four Beatles born?
Liverpool
This type of car runs on both gasoline and electricity.
Hybrid
Haydn, Liszt, and Schubert all shared this first name, which begins with the letter F.
Franz
The most central Canadian province.
Manitoba
This hormone, that starts with the letter A, is secreted by the adrenal glands in response to stress or fear.
Adrenaline
In 1964, this was the first television program in the US to feature the Beatles.
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Chevrolet Corvair was the subject of Unsafe At Any Speed, the 1965 book that changed automobile safety, written by this consumer advocate and future presidential candidate.
Ralph Nader
JSB, composer of The Brandenburg Concertos and The Well-Tempered Clavier, fathered 20 children (with two wives) from 1707 to 1742, many of whom became musicians.
Johann Sebastian Bach
A style of collar named after a type of Chinese bureaucrat.
Mandarin
The human skull is made up of two parts. The bottom part is the mandible. What is the top part, which begins with the letter C?
The cranium
Which two of the Beatles are still living?
Paul McCartney (82) and Ringo Starr (84)
What is the name of the contest in which old cars run into each other until only one is left standing?
Demolition Derby
This composer of The New World Symphony in 1893 has the fourth-most common Czech surname, which begins with the letters DV.
Anton Dvorak
This musical instrument in the lute family looks similar to a guitar, but usually has only four strings.
Mandolin
Twelve of the 118 elements on the Table of Elements begin with the letter C. Can you name two?
The most commonly known are: Calcium, Carbon, Chlorine, Cobalt, and Copper. The rest are: Cadmium, Californium, Cerium, Cesium, Chromium, Copernicium, Curium
Finish this Beatles’ song lyric, which Rolling Stone magazine called one of the top ten best songs of all time: “… all my troubles seemed so far away. Now it looks as though they’re here to stay. Oh, I believe in ….”
Yesterday
In his R&B 1960’s classic, what was the famous “muscle car” that Wilson Pickett advised Sally to slow down?
Mustang