Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM

Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts.


See full index

cultural literacy > cultural literacy 9 > Flashcards

cultural literacy 9 Flashcards

1
Q

operetta

A

a light, often comical opera

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

Babes in Toyland

A

a 1903 operetta with music by Victor Herbert and libretto by Glen MacDonough

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

Alan, Jane, Uncle Barnaby, The Widow Piper, Contrary Mary, Tom Tom

A

characters in the operetta Babes in Toyland

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

“Toyland”

A

title song from the 1903 operetta Babes in Toyland

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

“March of the Toys”

A

march from the 1903 operetta Babes in Toyland

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

Babes in Toyland (1934)

A

movie starring Laurel and Hardie based on the 1903 operetta of the same name

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

penny dreadful

A

cheap popular serial literature produced in the UK in the 19th century

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

Sweeney Todd

A

fictional character who murders his customers and gives their corpses to his partner, who bakes their flesh into meat pies; played by Johnny Depp in 2007 movie

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

Nellie Lovett

A

Sweeney Todd’s partner, played by Helena Bonham-Carter in the 2007 movie

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

Judge Turpin

A

antagonist in Sweeney Todd who stole Todd’s wife from him; played by Alan Rickman in the 2007 movie

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

Sweeney Todd (1970)

A

play by Christopher Bond based on the Victorian penny dreadful character of Sweeney Todd

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979)

A

musical based on the Bond play, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street movie

A

2007 movie based on the musical, directed by Tim Burton

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events

A

2004 movie based upon the first three novels of the Lemony Snicket book series, directed by Brad Silberling and starring Jim Carrey and Jude Law

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

basic premise of the Lemony Snicket books

A

Count Olaf, a distant relative of the Baudelaire children, is trying to kill the children and take their inheritance

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

A Series of Unfortunate Events

A

a series of 13 children’s novels written by American author Daniel Handler

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

Lemony Snicket

A

pen name of author Daniel Handler and persona Handler uses to tell the story

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

Candide (20th century)

A

operetta based on the book by Voltaire, with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Richard Wilbur, and book by Lillian Hellman and Hugh Wheeler

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

Arthur Sullivan

A

19th century English composer

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

W. S. Gilbert

A

19th century English dramatist and librettist

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

The Pirates of Penzance

A

1879 Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

The Pirates of Penzance revival (2 works)

A

1981 broadway production produced by Joseph Papp; 1983 film adaptation starring Kevin Kline and Linda Ronstadt

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
23
Q

“In short, in matters…”

A

“veget-A-ble, and animal and mineral, I am the very model of a modern major-general.”

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
24
Q

“Major-General’s Song”

A

patter song from The Pirates of Penzance

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
25
Q

patter song

A

fast song with rapid succession of rhythmic patterns, in which each syllable corresponds to one note

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
26
Q

“I am a Pirate King”

A

protagonist’s “I am” song in The Pirates of Penzance

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
27
Q

Frederic

A

character of the Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance, played by Kevin Kline on Broadway and in the film

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
28
Q

Mabel Stanley

A

daughter of Major-General Stanley and love interest of Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
29
Q

Major-General Stanley

A

the major-general and father of the girls in The Pirates of Penzance

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
30
Q

basic premise of The Pirates of Penzance

A

Frederic reaches his 21st birthday and is released from his apprenticeship among pirates, but discovers that because he was born on February 29th, he must wait 63 more years before he is “21”, but Mabel agrees to wait for him

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
31
Q

“you’ll say a better major-general…”

A

“has never sat a gee”, i.e. “rode a horse”

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
32
Q

“Perfect Strangers”

A

late 80’s and early 90’s sitcom set in Chicago about an American and his distant cousin who just showed up from the Eastern European island of Mypos

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
33
Q

“The Merry Widow”/”Die lustige Witwe”

A

1905 German-language operetta with music by Franz Lehar

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
34
Q

“Da geh’ ich zu Maxim”, “The Merry Widow Waltz”

A

two songs from “The Merry Widow”

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
35
Q

basic premise of The Merry Widow

A

Hanna has inherited a lot of money upon the death of her husband, Baron Zeta schemes to get her married to a Count, Danilo, an embassy official, so that her money stays in the country and helps save the country’s financial situation

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
36
Q

Pontevedro

A

the fictional country in the operetta The Merry Widow

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
37
Q

Paul Lincke

A

German composer and pioneer of the Berlin operetta

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
38
Q

“Berliner Luft”

A

operetta song about Berlin composed by Paul Lincke

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
39
Q

folk operettas

A

bucolic, nostalgic and nationalistic German operetta style

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
40
Q

“Das Glühwürmchen”

A

operetta song performed by female trio with chorus by Paul Lincke

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
41
Q

opera seria

A

the noble and “serious” style of Italian opera that dominated Europe in the 18th century

42
Q

opera buffa

A

‘comic’ opera that rivaled opera seria in Europe in the 18th century and took its cue from the improvisatory commedia dell’arte

43
Q

Jacques Offenbach

A

German-born French composer, cellist and impresario who first popularized the operetta genre, culturally associated with the Second Empire in France

44
Q

impresario

A

producer of concerts, plays, or operas

45
Q

opérette bouffe

A

subgenre of French opérette

46
Q

The Tales of Hoffmann

A

unfinished but now oft-performed French-language operetta by Offenbach based on three stories by E.T.A. Hoffmann, who is the protagonist of the story

47
Q

Johann Strauss I

A

lesser-known Viennese composer and father of the famous “Waltz King” Johann Strauss II

48
Q

Die Fledermaus

A

1874 operetta composed by Johann Strauss II

49
Q

réveillon

A

in Francophone world, a long dinner held on Christmas Eve or New Year’s Eve

50
Q

Gabriel von Eisenstein, Rosalinde

A

the married couple at the center of Die Fledermaus

51
Q

a light, often comical opera

A

operetta

52
Q

a 1903 operetta with music by Victor Herbert and libretto by Glen MacDonough

A

“Babes in Toyland”

53
Q

characters in the operetta Babes in Toyland

A

Alan, Jane, Uncle Barnaby, The Widow Piper, Contrary Mary, Tom Tom

54
Q

title song from the 1903 operetta Babes in Toyland

A

“Toyland”

55
Q

march from the 1903 operetta Babes in Toyland

A

“March of the Toys”

56
Q

movie starring Laurel and Hardie based on the 1903 operetta of the same name

A

Babes in Toyland (1934)

57
Q

cheap popular serial literature produced in the UK in the 19th century

A

penny dreadful

58
Q

fictional character who murders his customers and gives their corpses to his partner, who bakes their flesh into meat pies; played by Johnny Depp in 2007 movie

A

Sweeney Todd

59
Q

Sweeney Todd’s partner, played by Helena Bonham-Carter in the 2007 movie

A

Nellie Lovett

60
Q

antagonist in Sweeney Todd who stole Todd’s wife from him; played by Alan Rickman in the 2007 movie

A

Judge Turpin

61
Q

play by Christopher Bond based on the Victorian penny dreadful character of Sweeney Todd

A

Sweeney Todd (1970)

62
Q

musical based on the Bond play, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

A

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979)

63
Q

2007 movie based on the musical, directed by Tim Burton

A

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street movie

64
Q

2004 movie based upon the first three novels of the Lemony Snicket book series, directed by Brad Silberling and starring Jim Carrey and Jude Law

A

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events

65
Q

Count Olaf, a distant relative of the Baudelaire children, is trying to kill the children and take their inheritance

A

basic premise of the Lemony Snicket books

66
Q

a series of 13 children’s novels written by American author Daniel Handler

A

A Series of Unfortunate Events

67
Q

pen name of author Daniel Handler and persona Handler uses to tell the story

A

Lemony Snicket

68
Q

operetta based on the book by Voltaire, with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Richard Wilbur, and book by Lillian Hellman and Hugh Wheeler

A

Candide (20th century)

69
Q

19th century English composer

A

Arthur Sullivan

70
Q

19th century English dramatist and librettist

A

W. S. Gilbert

71
Q

1879 Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera

A

The Pirates of Penzance

72
Q

1981 broadway production produced by Joseph Papp; 1983 film adaptation starring Kevin Kline and Linda Ronstadt

A

The Pirates of Penzance revival (2 works)

73
Q

“veget-A-ble, animal and mineral, I am the very model of a modern major-general.”

A

“In short, in matters…”

74
Q

patter song from The Pirates of Penzance

A

“Major-General’s Song”

75
Q

fast song with rapid succession of rhythmic patterns, in which each syllable corresponds to one note

A

patter song

76
Q

protagonist’s “I am” song in The Pirates of Penzance

A

“I am a Pirate King”

77
Q

character of the Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance, played by Kevin Kline on Broadway and in the film

A

Frederic

78
Q

daughter of Major-General Stanley and love interest of Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance

A

Mabel Stanley

79
Q

the major-general and father of the girls in The Pirates of Penzance

A

Major-General Stanley

80
Q

Frederic reaches his 21st birthday and is released from his apprenticeship among pirates, but discovers that because he was born on February 29th, he must wait 63 more years before he is “21”, but Mabel agrees to wait for him

A

basic premise of The Pirates of Penzance

81
Q

“has never sat a gee”, i.e. “rode a horse”

A

“you’ll say a better major-general…”

82
Q

late 80’s and early 90’s sitcom set in Chicago about an American and his distant cousin who just showed up from the Eastern European island of Mypos

A

“Perfect Strangers”

83
Q

1905 German-language operetta with music by Franz Lehar

A

“The Merry Widow”/”Die lustige Witwe”

84
Q

two songs from “The Merry Widow”

A

“Da geh’ ich zu Maxim”, “The Merry Widow Waltz”

85
Q

Hanna has inherited a lot of money upon the death of her husband, Baron Zeta schemes to get her married to a Count, Danilo, an embassy official, so that her money stays in the country and helps save the country’s financial situation

A

basic premise of The Merry Widow

86
Q

the fictional country in the operetta The Merry Widow

A

Pontevedro

87
Q

German composer and pioneer of the Berlin operetta

A

Paul Lincke

88
Q

operetta song about Berlin composed by Paul Lincke

A

“Berliner Luft”

89
Q

bucolic, nostalgic and nationalistic German operetta style

A

folk operettas

90
Q

operetta song performed by female trio with chorus by Paul Lincke

A

“Das Glühwürmchen”

91
Q

the noble and “serious” style of Italian opera that dominated Europe in the 18th century

A

opera seria

92
Q

‘comic’ opera that rivaled opera seria in Europe in the 18th century and took its cue from the improvisatory commedia dell’arte

A

opera buffa

93
Q

German-born French composer, cellist and impresario who first popularized the operetta genre, culturally associated with the Second Empire in France

A

Jacques Offenbach

94
Q

producer of concerts, plays, or operas

A

impresario

95
Q

subgenre of French opérette

A

opérette bouffe

96
Q

unfinished but now oft-performed French-language operetta by Offenbach based on three stories by E.T.A. Hoffmann, who is the protagonist of the story

A

The Tales of Hoffmann

97
Q

lesser-known Viennese composer and father of the famous “Waltz King” Johann Strauss II

A

Johann Strauss I

98
Q

1874 operetta composed by Johann Strauss II

A

Die Fledermaus

99
Q

in Francophone world, a long dinner held on Christmas Eve or New Year’s Eve

A

réveillon

100
Q

the married couple at the center of Die Fledermaus

A

Gabriel von Eisenstein, Rosalinde

cultural literacy (22 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2024 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions