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1
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Who wrote Major Barbara

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George Bernard Shaw

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What work is found in the Piazza Navona

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Fountain of the four rivers

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Who designed the fountain of the four rivers

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Bernini

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What artist depicted his neighbor sitting nude on a stool

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Andrew Wyeth

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5
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What ballet contains the Dance of the Knights

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Romeo and Juliet

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1942 composition inspired by a Henry Wallace speech

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Fanfare for the common man

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What Copland ballet depicts the title character engaging in a gunfight and escaping from prison?

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Billy the Kid

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What opera contains a character that sings the aria “this is prophetic”

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Nixon in China

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What composition from Nixon in China features Mao Zedong and Jiang Ching performing a foxtrot

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Chairman Dances

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10
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What painting contains black clad man holding the hand of a woman in a green dress

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Arnolfini wedding

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11
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Who created Las Meninas

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Diego Velazquez

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Who wrote the four seasons

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Vivaldi

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What artist depicted his dying sister in The Sick Child

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Munch

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What artist painted a dying Ophelia and Christ in the house of his Parents

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Millais

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15
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Who composed the score for the film Shall We Dance

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George Gerswhin

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16
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What composer used the Arabian Nights as his source material

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Rimsky Korsakov

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17
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What composer created a Prague and Paris symphony

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Mozart

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18
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What thinker created the Doctrine of the Mean

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Confucius

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19
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Who wrote Petrushka

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Igor Stravinksy

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20
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What ballet features the infernal dance

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The Firebird (Stravinsky)

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21
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Who created bird in space

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Brancussi

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22
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Who wrote Gnossiennes which lacks a time signature

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Erik Satie

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23
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Who wrote Madame Bovary

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Gustave Flaubert

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24
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Who wrote Theory of the Leisure Class

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Veblen

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25
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What style of architecture used rib vaults and pointed arches

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Gothic

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26
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What is the southernmost Baltic state

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Lithuania

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27
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What is the capital of Lithuania

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Vilnius

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28
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What painting consits of a woman holding a walking stick and resting near an oddly shaped mandolin

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The sleeping gypsy

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29
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Who created the Sleeping Gypsy

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Rousseau

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30
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Who created a painting where a woman rummages through a chest

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Titian

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31
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Who wrote Hungarian Rhapsody

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Franz Lizst

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32
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What composer created the Rhenish symphony

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Robert Schumann

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33
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What artist reinterpreted Las Meninas completely in white with a green outline

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Picasso

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34
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What artist depicted peasants eating dinner

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Van Gogh

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35
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Who frequently painted fleshy nudes

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Paul Rubens

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36
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Who created the album Birth of the Cool

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Miles Davis

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37
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What man painted 5 women with faces inspired by African masks

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Picasso

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38
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Who depicted George Washington in Parson Weems’ Fable

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Grant Wood

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39
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Who created Creatures of Prometheus

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Beethoven

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40
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Who painted The Problem we all live with

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Norman Rockwell

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41
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Who painted The Cardsharks

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Caravaggio

42
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What composers ghost variations was interrupted by a suicide attempt in the Rhine

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Robert Schumann

43
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What ballet starred Tamara Karsavina at its premiere

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The Firebird

44
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Who composed Metamorphosen

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Richard Strauss (need richard)

45
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In what opera does a character sing the aria “In Questa Reggia”

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Turandot

46
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Who created Turandot

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Puccini

47
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What composer was inspired by Hungarian Dances to create his Slavonic Dances

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Dvorak

48
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What artist painted a girl thinking “I don’t care”

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Roy Lichtenstien

49
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Who wrote The Magic Mountain

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Thomas Mann

50
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What composer created an opera where a boy suddenly starts singing malo,malo

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Benjamin Britten

51
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What war was briefly halted after the battle of Tewkesbury

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War of the Roses

52
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What color did Paul Gaugin use to depict a sickly Jesus on the cross

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Yellow (Yellow christ)

53
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What opera has sections called “I Feel the Earth Move” and Mr Bojangles

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Einstein on the Beach

54
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Who painted Garden of Earthly Delights

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Aken

55
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Who wrote the four seasons of Buenos Aires

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Piazolla

56
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Who choreographed the rite of Spring

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Najinksi

57
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Who created St Francis in Ecstacy

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Bellini

58
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Who made the Leningrad symphony

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Shostakovich

59
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What jazz singer was the first singer of “Summertime” in Porgy and Bess

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Billie Holliday

60
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Who wrote Adaggio for Strings

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Samuel Barber

61
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What material was used to create the Belvedere Torso

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Marble

62
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What composer wrote Carnaval and Symphonic Etudes

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Robert Schuman

63
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Whose B minor eight symphony was unfinished upon his death

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Franz Schubert

64
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Who was the wife of Robert Schuman

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Clara

65
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What museum contains I and The Village

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Museum of Modern Art

66
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What city’s great gate inspired Pictures at an Exhibition

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Kiev

67
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What painter was inspired by Lord Byron to paint The Death of Sardanapulus

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Eugene Delacroix

68
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What composer wrote a set of Liebeslieder Waltzes for singers and piano

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Johannes Brahms

69
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What concert overture did Brahms write after the University of Breslau awarded him a doctorate

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Academic Festival overture

70
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At what meeting did Athanasius win a debate over whether God the father was superior to God the son

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Council of Nicea

71
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What four paintings subtitled youth depict a guardian angel watching over the central man who progresses from childhood to old age

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Voyage of Life (Cole)

72
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What character tells another to find him at number 15

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Figaro (Barber of Seville)

73
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What French composer wrote a piece about his time as a POW

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Oliver Messiaen

74
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What term did Louis Sullivan create

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Form follows function

75
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What south American river is represented in the fountain of the four rivers

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Rio de la Plata

76
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What pope commissioned the Fountain of the four rivers

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Innocent the tenth

77
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What composer created the Dumky trio and Slavonic Dances

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Antonin Dvorak

78
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What artist was inspired by Titian to create a scene where a black servant holds a bouquet of flowers

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Manet

79
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Who painted The Circus and showed a dog sniffing the ground in a large painting

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Georges Seurat

80
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What composer depicted Vi’s love for Joe in his opera Blue Monday

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George Gershwin

81
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What artist depicted a blue idol in the background of a painting that shows indigenous women

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Paul Gaugin

82
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What jazz musician led groups known as his first and second great quintets

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Miles Davis

83
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What composer’s final opera was an adaptation of Death in Venice

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Benjamin Britten

84
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What work is based off a poem by Stephane Mallarme

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Prelude to the afternoon of a faun (Debussy)

85
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Who choreographed many of Debussy’s ballets such as Jeux

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Nijinsky

86
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What sculptor claimed to depict Princess Marie Bonaparte in a phallic sculpture called princess X

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Brankoosh

87
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Who wrote the opera Otello

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Verdi

88
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What opera by Charles Gounod calls for a baritone to play Mercutio

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Romeo and Juliet

89
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What instrument did Beethoven use to represent thunder in his pastoral symphony

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Timpani

90
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Who is the maid who helps Cio Cio San to prepare for Pinkerton’s return in Madame Butterfly

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Suzuki

91
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Who composed the comic opera The Mikado

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Arthur Sullivan

92
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What was Mozart’s last symphony called

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Jupiter symphony

93
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What instrument did Mozart write a concerto to be performed by Anton Stadler

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Clarinet

94
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What Austrian composer did Mozart call papa

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Haydn

95
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What character in a Schiller play is forced to perform a dangerous stunt on his son

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WIlliam Tell

96
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Who created the Villa Rotonda and wrote the Four Books of Architecture

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Palladio

97
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What composer created the Gutenberg contata and the Italian and Scottish symphonies

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Felix Mendelssohn

98
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What other Mendelssohn work includes 8 books of solo piano pieces with this title

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Lieder ohne Worte

99
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Who painted Christina’s World

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Andrew Wyeth

100
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What composer used C-G-C to depict a rising sunrise

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Richard Strauss

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