Vietnam
The initials SRV stand for the Vietnam government's official name.
What is the Socialist Republic of Vietnam?
The current party general and president of China.
Who is Xi Jinping?
Who is John Adams?
This former Vice President and ambassador to Japan attended Macalester.
Who is Walter Mondale?
The difference in pitch between two notes.
What is an interval?
The largest city in Vietnam with 8.9 million people.
What is Ho Chi Minh City?
What is Shanghai?
This iconic actor and model is rumored to have had an affair with John F. Kennedy.
Who is Marilyn Monroe?
Mac grad, and founder of Reader's Digest who has a prominent campus building named after him.
Who is Dewitt Wallace?
This time signature means there are three quarter notes (or any combination of notes that equals three quarter notes) in every measure.
What is 3/4 time?
This neighboring country to Vietnam is the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia.
What is Laos?
Using the initials PLA, this is the official title for the Chinese military, the largest standing military in the world.
What is the People's Liberation Army?
This US State is the home of Vice President Joe Biden and is infamous for its relaxed laws allowing the creation of many shell companies.
What is Delaware?
Bob Mould, a Mac grad, is the lead singer of this Twin Cities based rock band.
Who is Hüsker Du?
This composer pushed the boundaries of music theory by producing pieces with no notes, and at times, no tempo such as his most experimental piece 4'33".
Who is John Cage?
This colonial set of territories was ruled by France and contained three main regions of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and a small part of China.
What is French Indochina?
This Chinese region is a landlocked autonomous region named after a geographic part of a neighboring country.
What is Inner Mongolia?
This famous activist, professor and author was once hunted by the FBI as a terrorist for supposedly aiding the escape of George Jackson.
Who is Angela Davis?
This was the original name of Macalester College before prominent philanthropist Charles Macalester donated a lot of money and got the college named after him.
What is Baldwin College?
This measure of musical speed is the slowest you can play at under 24 bpm.
What is larghissimo?
This mountain, nicknamed the "roof of Indochina" is the highest peak in Vietnam at 10,300 feet.
What is Fan Si Pan or Phan Xi Pang?
The largest desert in China is a cold desert that can reach temperatures as low as -14 Fahrenheit.
What is the Taklamakan desert?
This American politician from New York was the first black woman elected to the US Congress and the first woman to run for the vice presidential office.
Macalester's catering service Bon Appetit is also the catering service for Google and this other tech giant.
What is Twitter?
This lutenist, composer and father of astronomer Galileo is also often called the father of modern music theory.
Who is Vincenzo Galilei?