BALLET & OPERA
The Sugar Plum Fairy is a character in this ballet that's a favorite at Christmas
The Nutcracker
The highest point of Nepal, it's also the highest mountain in the world
Mount Everest
Did this man really steal from the rich & give to the poor? The 2,000 Year Old Man: no, he stole from everybody & kept everything
Robin Hood
According to the title of a Rossini opera, Figaro! Figaro! Figaro! is this professional "of Seville"
the barber
From 1867 to 1918 it formed a dual monarchy with Austria
Hungary
Rowan Atkinson as Blackadder gets involved in this type of one-on-one affair with the Duke of Wellington--to be fought with cannons
a duel
The fate of these lovers from Shakespeare is no better in the ballet with music by Prokofiev
Romeo and Juliet
The Maori were the first inhabitants of this country & today make up about 15% of the population
New Zealand
Bob Newhart on the phone with Walter Raleigh about this stuff: "shred the leaves... between your lips... set fire to it!"
tobacco
The 2021 nonfiction book "Black Ballerinas: My Journey to Our Legacy" is by this prima ballerina
Misty Copeland
Known as the "land of the Inca", it's also home to Machu Picchu
Peru
On "Drunk History", he's "like, 'No... I'm not gonna defect to the British side!
That's insane! George Washington is my daddy, kind of'"
Benedict Arnold
The last opera this genius composed was "The Magic Flute"
Mozart
Egypt's major waterways include the Nile River, of course, & this manmade waterway that opened in 1869
Suez Canal
On "Our Flag Means Death", Rhys Darby plays Stede Bonnet & Taika Waititi is this more notorious pirate
Blackbeard