BALLET &
OPERA
OPERA
In Act II of this holiday ballet, the Sugar Plum Fairy welcomes Clara to the Kingdom of Sweets
The Nutcracker
"The Man Who Knew Infinity" is a story of Srinivasa Ramanujan, born into a poor Brahmin family, who taught himself math and came up with 17 ways to calculate this irrational number using infinite series
Pi
An elastic device,
or
a hot geothermal feature
A Spring
The Parthenon remained open with little to no damage when one of these shook Athens in 1999
An Earthquake
n 1931 psychologist Winthrop Kellogg raised his own son alongside one of these animals, our very close relative
A Chimpanzee
In Act I of this opera, Cio-Cio-San's Uncle, a priest, curses her for changing her religion to marry Lieutenant Pinkerton
Madame Butterfly
A woeful runt, this character is marked for death early on by the Arables, but beats the odds and survives more attempts on his life with the help of an eight-legged pal
Wilber from "Charlotte's Web"
Happening right now,
or
directional movement of seawater
Current
To prevent a Grexit in 2015, Alexis Tsipras made austerity decisions so his country could stay in this "Zone"
the Euro Zone
One step of Joseph Priestley's 1700s experiment to make soda water involved storing this gas in a sheep's bladder
Carbon Dioxide
Benjamin Britten's Opera "Gloriana", about Elizabeth I, gets its title from this Edmund Spenser work
The Fairy Queen
This 1984 film told the inspiring story of Dith Pran who overcame brutality as a prisoner under Cambodia's Khmer Rouge during the 1970s
The Killing Fields
A trial, or a glove worn by a medieval knight
Gauntlet
When this man bought Greece's national airline in the '50s, a pal said that he used "the money he made at sea with his mistress in the sky"
Aristotle Onassis
To test this man's theory, a scientist hired trumpeters to play from a moving train & listened for a drop in pitch as the train passed by
Dopplar (The Dopplar Effect)
Ninjinsky danced the part of the Golden Slave when this ballet, based on an "Arabian Nights" tale, first premiered.
Scheherazade
Perseverance was the name of the game for Henri Charriere, also known as Papillon, who told his tale after finally escaping this penal colony after more than a half-dozen attempts
Devil's Island
A verb that often precedes "up" & an evergreen tree
Spruce
Lawrence Durrell's "Prospero's Cell" chronicles his life on this island until Axis occupation starting in 1941
Corfu
The Central Rotunda of the Griffith Park Observatory showcases the pendulum experiment tried by this man in 1851
Foucault
vengeful ghost maidens called Wilis welcome this dancing peasant girl into their fold after she dies of a broken heart
Giselle
Louis Zamperini, who survived a plane crash, 47 days in shark-infested seas and a trip to a Japanese POW camp, was the subject of her nonfiction bestselling book "Unbroken"
She also wrote "Seabiscuit", Laura Hillenbrand
A warm & hearty adjective, or a warm & hearty liqueur
Cordial
The bull-leaping fresco in the Palace of Knossos was made by this civilization circa 1400 B.C.
The Minoan Civilization
In the 1860s he presented to the French Academy of Sciences his work undermining the idea of spontaneous generation
Louis Pasteur