Death in Musicals
This Disney character sadly met his end under a herd of raging wildebeests.
Who is Mufasa?
This country is the smallest one in the world.
What is Vatican City?
This historical romance film won Best Picture in 1997 with performances from an ensemble cast headlined by Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
This feline is the fastest land animal.
What is a cheetah?
This ex-senator was famously quoted saying that "[the] Filipino is worth dying for."
Who is Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino?
In Jonathan Larson's RENT, this disease takes the life of the character Angel.
What is HIV/AIDS?
This is the fourth most populated country on the planet.
What is Indonesia?
Played by Anne Hathaway, this single mother in the 2012 epic musical dies in the film's first act to Tubercolosis.
Who is Fantine?
300 million years ago, this supercontinent was the most recent one to form.
This talk show host came out in 1997 on the cover of Time Magazine with the headline, "Yep, I'm Gay".
Who is Ellen DeGeneres?
This Wizard of Oz song reached #2 on the UK Singles Chart after the death of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
What is "Ding-Dong! The Witch is Dead"?
The country Andorra is on this continent.
This actor starred as the "father figure" of the main character in the film that almost didn't win Best Picture in 2016.
Who is Mahershala Ali?
This Solar System planet has the shortest day.
What is Jupiter?
Married to "Asia's Songbird", this person has also made a name for himself in Philippine media (primarily in music and television).
Who is Ogie Alcasid?
Orpheus and Eurydale star in this 2019 Tony Awardee for Best Musical.
This country is the origin of wild coffee plants.
What is Ethiopia?
This film remains the only "horror" film to win Best Picture.
What is "The Silence of the Lambs" (directed by Jonathan Demme)?
These hypothetical particles always travel faster than light.
What are tachyons?
Marilyn Monroe was once married to this New York Yankee center fielder.
Who is Joe DiMaggio?
This composer with 8 Grammys and 8 Tonys made music and lyrics for Sweeney Todd and West Side Story.
Who is "Stephen Sondheim"?
This country is the biggest doubly landlocked country in the world, which means it is only surrounded by landlocked countries.
What is Uzbekistan?
The psychological epic war film set in 1969 was directed by this filmmaker.
Who is Francis Ford Coppola?
This CERN-built particle accelerator, which uses EM fields to propel charged particles to very fast speeds, is the largest in the world.
What is the Large Hadron Collider?
This mathematician, known best for the decryption of the Enigma Machine, was chemically castrated after the Second World War.
Who is Alan Turing?