Literature
Characters in this Mark Twain novel include "The Dauphin", the Widow Douglas & Jim, a runaway slave
Huck Finn
As can be seen thru a telescope, the sizes of this red planet's polar ice caps change with the seasons
Mars
This 1968 soundtrack album contained 2 versions of "Mrs. Robinson"; both were heard in the film
The Graduate
This lake nestled in the Adirondacks may take its name from its peaceful waters
Lake Placid
This Tchaikovsky suite was first played in March 1892, about 9 months before the ballet of the same name
The Nutcracker
She & her sisters attended a clergy daughters' school which became Lowood in her "Jane Eyre"
Charlotte Bronte
In a 1977 movie Tatooine is the home planet of this jedi-to-be
Luke Skywalker
At the end of this movie, Tom Hanks & Meg Ryan meet at the top of the Empire State Building
Sleepless in Seattle
This Scottish capital lies on a series of hills surrounding a valley called Princes Street Gardens
Edinburgh
Don't turn up the volume in the third movement of Beethoven's Fifth; Ludwig does that for you with this gradual musical move
a crescendo
Jean Valjean's flight through Paris' sewers is one of the most famous scenes in this novel
Les Miserables
Named for a sea god who could change shape at will, Proteus is a moon of this planet
Neptune
Harrison Ford was on the run as Dr. Richard Kimble in this film
The Fugitive
Until 1957, what is today this West African country was known as the Gold Coast
Ghana
This "Messiah" composer set Dryden's poem "Ode For St. Cecilia's Day" to music
George F. Handel
His "Jungle Book" prose begins, "It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee Hills..."
Rudyard Kipling
One of the largest constellations in the zodiac, its a favorite of stock market analysts
the bull
F. Murray Abraham in "Amadeus"
Salieri
This river flows from its source in Turkey to the Shatt Al Arab, where it unites with the Tigris
Euphrates
He made his official adult Warsaw debut in 1830 with his "Piano Concerto in F Minor"
Chopin
While walking, this Washington Irving character comes upon a party of odd-looking men playing ninepins
Rip Van Winkle
A small elliptical one of these might contain a million stars; large spiral ones, hundreds of billions
a galaxy
One of the creepiest performances in a Hitchcock film is his as Bruno in "Strangers on a Train"
Robert Walker
Site of a decisive Sept. 1863 battle, this Georgia river takes its name from an Indian word meaning "river of death"
Chickamauga
As choir director for St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, he wrote 6 cantatas known as the "Christmas Oratorio"
Bach