SONG LYRICS
Miley Cyrus sings, "I can" do this, "write my name in the sand"
buy myself flowers
MLB Hall of Famer Leo Durocher really said, "The nice guys are all over there, in 7th place", which became the pithy "nice guys" do this
finish last
In 1865 this monk presented the results of his breeding experiments with pea plants to the Natural Science Society in Brünn
Mendel
After making the Dane blunder of shacking up with the wrong beefcake, she became the last ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt
Cleopatra
To indicate "play softly", "piano" is abbreviated "p", & "very softly", "pianissimo", this way
pp
A very popular tune by HUNTR/X says, "You know together we're glowing, gonna be, gonna be" this
Golden
Before becoming Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost did missionary work in this country, becoming a citizen there in 2015
Peru
In 1800, Alessandro Volta announced his invention, a predecessor to the modern this
Battery
He said his "greatest Dane blunder" was the insertion of the cosmological constant into his theory of general relativity
Einstein
Where you'd find a coda in a work
The end
This rock & roll classic says, "Never ever learned to read or write so well but... could play a guitar just like a-ringin' a bell"
Johnny B. Goode
"Ever After" a Renaissance-set Cinderella story, has this great artist as a sort of fairy godfather to Drew Barrymore
Da Vinci
CHCl3,
also known as this, was administered as an anesthetic to Queen Victoria when she gave birth to Prince Leopold
Chloroform
After this woman says Samson doesn't love her, he tells her "All his heart"; Dane blunder!
DAILY DOUBLE
Delilah
Term for the sign cancelling a previous flat or sharp in that measure
Natural
This title ends the Lady Gaga lyric "I'm beautiful in my way 'cause God makes no mistakes, I'm on the right track, baby, I was..."
Born This Way
He wrote the story "Sevastopol in May 1855", based on his own experiences
Tolstoy
A brilliant mathematician, she wrote the program for Charles Babbage's early computer prototype
Lovelace
Peachy thoughts from this uber philosopher include "God is Dead" & "Is Man only a Dane blunder of God?"
Nietzche
Ledger lines are added above or below this to show the pitch of notes that don't fall within it
Staff
A No. 1 hit by Taylor Swift says, "You dug me out of my grave & saved my heart from" this, a Shakespeare reference
the fate of Ophelia
He developed the first mass-produced solid-body electric guitar & named it the Telecaster
Fender
This Brit lent his name to a cage that shields what's inside from electromagnetic radiation
Faraday
A 2006 survey of presidential historians gave the No. 1 all-time Dane blunder to this 15th prez for failing to avert the Civil War
Buchanan
The distance in pitch between 2 tones is called this
Interval