Classical composer quotes
"To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable!"
Beethoven
What does Kamikaze mean in English?
Divine wind
2
The most significant greenhouse gas from vehicles, produced from burning fossil fuels.
Carbon dioxide
What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?
Silence
"Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal."
Stravinsky
Japanese dining style meaning "I'll leave it up to you"
Omakase
What is the closest star to the sun?
Proxima Centauri
What is marsh gas mostly composed of?
methane
What implement connects the car company Maserati, the country Barbados, the Greek God Poseidon and the Hindu god Shiva?
A trident
"Competitions are for horses, not artists."
Bartok
In Japanese etiquette, placing chopsticks upright in a bowl of rice is avoided because it resembles what?
Funeral incense offerings
What is the constellation Ursa Major more commonly known as?
The great bear / The big dipper
Who sung Gas Gas Gas?
Manuel
What is either a medical clicnic in Minnesota or something that goes in sandwiches and sometimes sushi?
Mayo
Who said that the September 11th attacks were "the greatest work of art imaginable for the whole cosmos"
Stockhausen
The Japanese word for the beautiful light filtering through trees.
Komorebi.
What apparatus can sailors use to measure the angular distance between a celestial body and the horizon?
Sextant
What was the most devastating chemical weapon used in world war 1?
Mustard gas
What two nine letter words, one a common typographical symbol, the other a word first recorded in 2014 meaning to take up too much room on public transport, are anagrams of each other?
Ampersand and manspread
"The closing 4 pages are so cataclysmic and catastrophic as anything I've ever done—the harmony bites like nitric acid—the counterpoint grinds like the mills of God..."
Sorabji
The traditional Japanese tea ceremony derives from what Zen concept emphasizing transience and imperfect beauty?
Wabi-sabi
Which comet famously broke apart in July 1992 and collided with Jupiter in July 1994?
Comet Shoemaker–Levy
The Haber-Bosch process is the primary industrial method for synthesizing what gas?
Ammonia
Disregarding the spelling and only considering the pronounciation, what is a Japanese fighter aircraft used in WWII, a cloud-based accounting software and a song by Imagine Dragons?
Zero