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CLASSICAL MUSIC

200

'Schubert wrote one of these in C for the unusual grouping of 2 violins, 1 viola & 2 cellos'

a quintet

400

'Piano sonatas were a specialty of Johann Christian, youngest surviving son of this man'

Johann Sebastian Bach

600

'He was working on his 3rd symphony when he died in England in 1934; it premiered in 1998 amid much "pomp"'

(Sir Edward) Elgar

800

'The composition Carl Orff titled this has been heard on many movie soundtracks'

"Carmina Burana"

1000

'A swan and tortoises are among the creatures depicted in this Saint-Saens suite'

Carnival of the Animals

THE INDIAN OCEAN

200

'The Indian Ocean's longest north-south distance measures about 6,100 miles from Pakistan to this continent'

Antarctica

400

'On May 20, 1498, he arrived at India's Malabar Coast, completing the first voyage from Western Europe to India'

Vasco da Gama

600

'To practice your Sinhala, a language of Indo-European extraction, your best bet is to go to this island'

Sri Lanka

800

'This Tanzanian port on the Indian Ocean was founded by the Sultan of Zanzibar in 1862 as a trading post'

Dar es Salaam

1000

'This gulf, an extension of the Indian Ocean, separates Africa's Somalia from Asia's Yemen'

the Gulf of Aden

HENCE THE TITLE

200

'The first paragraph of this Ralph Ellison novel says, "People refuse to see me"'

Invisible Man

400

'The title of this 1994 John Grisham novel refers to the gas one'

The Chamber

600

'(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the brightly-lit nighttime streets of New York.) John Rechy wrote, "I would think of America as one vast city of" this "stretching gaudily from Times Square"'

night

800

'A character in this 1933 Erskine Caldwell novel sets aside land for the church--the poorest piece at a given time'

God\'s Little Acre

1000

'The title of this Tennyson poem refers to passing over a sandbar into open water, heading fro the unknown'

Crossing the Bar

SEASONAL MOVIES

200

'"The Lion in ___"'

winter

400

'"Corvette ___"'

summer

600

'"The Roman ___ of Mrs. Stone"'

spring

800

'"___ of Sam"'

summer

1000

'"___ Sonata"'

autumn

"VE" DAY

200

'It was once known as New Connecticut'

Vermont

400

'November 11th'

Veterans Day

600

'Any dummy could tell you it's from the Latin for "speaking from the stomach"'

ventriloquism

800

'Traditional adjective for saintly 8th century historian Bede'

the Venerable

1000

'It's his 17th century work seen here'

Velasquez