| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | MOVEMENT $200: Movements in this dance form include relevé (to rise) & sauté (jumping using both feet & landing that way) ballet |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | AN INVITATION TO THE DANCE $1600: Rudolf Nureyev reworked this Tchaikovsky ballet to give added importance to Rothbart &, of course, the Prince Swan Lake |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | THE ARTS $2000: Ooh! The romantic 1841 ballet named for this doomed heroine always gives me "the Wilis" Giselle |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | A LI'L BALLET, A LI'L OPERA $400: Premiering in Russia in 1890 & also known as "La belle au bois dormant", this ballet features Princess Aurora Sleeping Beauty |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | A LI'L BALLET, A LI'L OPERA $800: In 1967 this man joined the Kirov as a soloist but 8 years later, decided to stop Russian around & defected in Canada Baryshnikov |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | A LI'L BALLET, A LI'L OPERA $1200: It's the 1-letter title of Anthony Davis' bio-opera that made its Metropolitan Opera debut in 2023 X |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | A LI'L BALLET, A LI'L OPERA $1600: In Philip Glass' opera "Akhnaten", the title king & this queen spend quality music time with their 6 kids Nefertiti |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | A LI'L BALLET, A LI'L OPERA $2000: A word for a slender woman sometimes followed by "like", or an air-dwelling being that Scotland is full of, per a classic ballet a sylph |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | IT'S A PARTY! $2000: In May 1664 this French king held a days-long party with ballet in honor of his mom & wife & (possibly) his mistress Louis XIV |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: Originally composed as a ballet, Maurice Ravel's "Boléro" is best known as the sexy theme of this film starring Dudley Moore & Bo Derek 10 |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | BALLET $400: Choreographing the farcical ballet "The Bright Stream" helped make Alexei Ratmansky the artistic director of this famed Moscow company in 2004 the Bolshoi |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | BALLET $800: Oddly, Little Red Riding Hood & the Big Bad Wolf appear in the wedding scene of this Tchaikovsky fairy tale ballet Sleeping Beauty |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | BALLET $1200: Temps de poisson, a jump in which the legs are together with crossed feet & back arched, means "time of" this animal fish |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | BALLET $1600: In this 1912 ballet the title satyr-like character is tantalized by the scarf of a lovely nymph The Afternoon of a Faun |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | BALLET $2000: In a comic ballet Coppélia is a life-sized one of these created by mad doctor Coppélius a doll |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | ARTS $3,000 (Daily Double): The full title of this modernist Stravinsky ballet includes "Pictures from Pagan Russia in Two Parts" The Rite of Spring |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | BARRE TENDERS $1200: In 1989, he again danced with the Kirov Ballet, the first time since his defection 28 years earlier Rudolf Nureyev |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | CULTURE CLUB $800: In 1877 the Bolshoi first danced this ballet about a prince who falls for a were-bird Swan Lake |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | ODD 4-LETTER WORDS $800: Led Zeppelin knows that this word refers to a concluding passage of a musical piece or a ballet a coda |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | IN BOOKSTORES NOW $900: The New York Times dubbed him "Ballet's Colossus" in its review of "Mr. B", a 2022 biography of this choreographer George Balanchine |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | WHAT A LOAD OF B.S. $600: No more "European Pink" for Misty Copeland; in 2017, Gaynor Minden began making this footwear with darker skin tones ballet shoes (or ballet slippers) |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC $200: A wood block beats out the ticking of the clock toward midnight in Prokofiev's score for the ballet about this heroine Cinderella |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | YOU MUST BE 12 LETTERS LONG OR MORE TO ENTER $800: The arranger of the dances in a ballet a choreographer |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | WATERFOWL-POURRI $1000: This Tchaikovsky ballet premiered in 1877 but was not a success & was dropped from the repertoire Swan Lake |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | "REE" SEARCH $2000: The first ballet choreographed by Jerome Robbins, it's about 3 footloose sailors "On the Town" Fancy Free |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | SCULPTORS $400: Edgar Degas sculpted "The Little Dancer Aged 14", complete with real ballet shoes & this ballet skirt a tutu |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | THE ARTS $1000: Sadly, mental illness ended the career of this Russian-born ballet dancer in 1919 while he was still in his 20s Nijinsky |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | THE ARTS $200: The Mariinsky (formerly Kirov) is in St. Petersburg; the ballet company in Moscow has this name dating back to 1825 the Bolshoi |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | 4 CONSECUTIVE VOWELS OR CONSONANTS $1200: This word for brainy or elitist was big in 1949, when Life magazine gave examples: Harris Tweed, Eames chair, ballet & Calder highbrow |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | SITTING IN WITH THE ORCHESTRA $3,600 (Daily Double): On xylophone, I'll keep the square dancing going in the Hoe-Down segment of this Aaron Copland ballet Rodeo |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | TWO SHOES $200: Capezio is a premier maker of the soft flat shoes called these, prized by certain dancers ballet shoes |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | THE "A"RTS $800: The dancer seen here is en pointe & doing this ballet pose an arabesque |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | INSIDE BALLET & OPERA $400: Ballet dancers in the preparatory position called "bras bas" hold these down low, as its French name says arms |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | INSIDE BALLET & OPERA $800: Amneris in "Aida" is usually sung in this hyphenated vocal range, middle of the pack for women mezzo-soprano |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | INSIDE BALLET & OPERA $1200: Meaning "great" in Russian, this ballet company survived the Russian Revolution, World Wars & the Soviet breakup the Bolshoi |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | INSIDE BALLET & OPERA $2000: The opposite of legato, it's the term for the short, clipped articulation employed by opera singers staccato |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | INSIDE BALLET & OPERA $3,200 (Daily Double): This 8-letter piece of music comes before an opera & contains themes of the entire piece an overture |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | STAY CLASSY, CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: Tchaikovsky got ahead of his contemporaries & used the then-new celesta in the music for this ballet, now a Christmas favorite Nutcracker |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | COME ON GET HOPPY $1000: This means 2 very different things;
1) to fry something in very little oil &
2) any ballet jump, like from 2 feet & landing on 2 feet sauté |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | THE FINE ARTS $1600: Sir Kenneth MacMillan's ballet "Isadora" is a tribute to this dance innovator Isadora Duncan |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | YOU, KNIGHT $2000: A giant swan dominates the ballet "Bacchanale", in which a king transforms into this Wagner title knight Lohengrin |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | THE ARTS $400: Aaron Copland composed the music for a ballet set in the southwest & named for this notorious bandit Billy the Kid |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | THE LORE OF THE LAND $4,000 (Daily Double): The feathers of this creature of Russian legend that lent its name to a ballet were said to provide beauty & protection upon the earth firebird |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BALLET & OPERA $200 (Daily Double): The fate of these lovers from Shakespeare is no better in the ballet with music by Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BALLET & OPERA $300: The Sugar Plum Fairy is a character in this ballet that's a favorite at Christmas The Nutcracker |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BALLET & OPERA $600: According to the title of a Rossini opera, Figaro! Figaro! Figaro! is this professional "of Seville" the barber |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BALLET & OPERA $1200: The 2021 nonfiction book "Black Ballerinas: My Journey to Our Legacy" is by this prima ballerina Misty Copeland |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BALLET & OPERA $1500: The last opera this genius composed was "The Magic Flute" Mozart |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $800: The American Ballet Theater's first black female principal dancer, she was also the first to dance "Swan Lake" for the ABT (Misty) Copeland |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | BUT WE REPEAT OURSELVES $300: It's a ballet dancer's skirt & also a type of poisonous plant in New Zealand a tutu |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | ENDS WITH "I" $400: The name of this famous Russian ballet company means "big" or "grand" Bolshoi |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | THE ARTS $400: The title character of this fairy tale ballet pretends a broom is her dance partner at the ball Cinderella |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | BALLET & OPERA $800: Siegfried threatens at least 2 characters with a crossbow in this ballet... what a bird brain! Swan Lake |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | BALLET & OPERA $1200: Tonio the clown introduces this opera; at the end, the audience is told that the comedy is over Pagliacci |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | BALLET & OPERA $1600: An opera with hitmen? I'm in! This Verdi title jester wants revenge on the Duke of Mantua & hires Sparafucile to kill him Rigoletto |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | BALLET & OPERA $2000: Early in Act 2 in an Adolphe Adam classic ballet, Hilarion mourns at the grave of this title woman Giselle |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | BALLET & OPERA $5,000 (Daily Double): M-m-m-my Verona! On February 9, 1965 Nureyev & Fonteyn danced this ever-doomed couple in London Romeo & Juliet |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | FASHION $600: 1980s fashion included wearing these accessories seen here outside the ballet studio leg warmers |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | DANCE OFF, BRO! $1000: French for "thrown", it's the grand ballet move seen here in all its beauty a jeté |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | BALLET $200: Stravinsky slyly used Russian folk idioms for the music of his 1922 ballet "Renard", with this animal being the title character fox |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | BALLET $400: Choreographers like Alexander Gorsky have made this Moscow ballet co. that dates to 1776 one of the world's leading companies the Bolshoi |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | BALLET $600: As the costuming indicates, Giselle is this kind of country girl, also the name of a pas de deux in the ballet a peasant |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | BALLET $800: In "Swan Lake", the same ballerina often dances both of these roles, a princess & a sorcerer's daughter the white swan & the black swan (Odette & Odile) |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | BALLET $1000: Moira Shearer, famous for dancing "Cinderella", popularized ballet playing a troubled dancer in this colorful film The Red Shoes |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $2000: Composer Aram Khachaturian's most familiar piece is this sharp "Dance" featured in his "Gayane" ballet the "Sabre Dance" |
| #8594, aired 2022-03-10 | GUYS WHO WEAR GLASSES $1600: Here's this Russian-born innovator of 20th century ballet in not one but two pairs of specs Stravinsky |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1600: The ballet "The Rite of Spring" features music by this composer & at its premiere in 1913 had choreography by Nijinsky Stravinsky |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | MILLENNIALS $2000: "Black Ballerinas: My Journey to our Legacy" is the latest book by this principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre (Misty) Copeland |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | EXIT STAGE LEFT $800: In this ballet the Mouse King's wintry attack on the title character leads to rodent demise The Nutcracker |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | BALLET $200: Prince Siegfried drowns himself in the title body of water in this ballet Swan Lake |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | BALLET $400: In 1841 Fanny Cerrito & Arthur Saint-Léon performed a single one of these French-named dances for 2; in 1845 they married the pas de deux |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | BALLET $600: A dancer who's "sur les" these is on the tips of the toes pointe shoes |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | BALLET $800: Havana-born Alicia Alonso was known for her sensual portrayal of the tragic title woman of the ballet based on this Bizet opera Carmen |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | BALLET $1000: Not realizing he was fleeing from the KGB, autograph hounds chased this dancer as he ran out a Toronto stage door in 1974 (Mikhail) Baryshnikov |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | "N" JOY $800: Why wait for the holidays to enjoy the music from this ballet, including the piece heard here The Nutcracker |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | LET'S TAKE A TRIP $1600: Enjoy a performance by North America's longest-running ballet company, the Royal Ballet in this Manitoba city Winnipeg |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | AT THE BALLET $400: Tchaikovsky had a double premiere on Dec. 18, 1892: his opera "Iolanta" & this ballet The Nutcracker |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | AT THE BALLET $800: Subtitled "The Courting at Burnt Ranch", this Aaron Copland ballet uses elements of hoedown dancing & bronco busting Rodeo |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | AT THE BALLET $1200: The ballet "Fancy Free" about sailors on leave inspired the film "On the Town" with Frank Sinatra as Chip & this dancer as Gabey Gene Kelly |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | AT THE BALLET $1600: In "Coppélia", a magical doctor creates a life-size one of these that young Franz becomes obsessed with a doll |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | AT THE BALLET $2000: "The River" was a jazz ballet collaboration between bandleader Duke Ellington & this choreographer Alvin Ailey |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | THE ARTS $1200: The christening, the spell & the awakening are all part of this fairy tale ballet Sleeping Beauty |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1200: Some people called this French composer Maurice; in 1928, his most famous work was performed as a ballet Ravel |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | DOUBLE THAT T $800: Jumped forward from one foot to the other in ballet & jumped onto a 747 & took off jetéd & jetted |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | THE FINEST OF FINE ARTS $4,200 (Daily Double): In this Tchaikovsky ballet, each suitor hands Aurora a flower during the "Rose Adagio" Sleeping Beauty |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | THE ARTS $400: In Act 1 of this ballet, the drably attired title girl helps a beggarwoman, who turns out to be a fairy godmother Cinderella |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | THE ARTS $2000: His music for the ballet "The Firebird" made him an overnight success Stravinsky |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: Ballet & French give us this phrase that means "step of two" pas de deux |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | FICTIONAL PICKERS $1200: The ballet "Giselle" features a "Marche des vignerons", or these pickers' march grape pickers |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | MOVIE TO STAGE $600: This musical centers on a boy from a family of coal miners who wants to be a ballet dancer Billy Elliot |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | COMPOSERS $1200: This American composed the music for the ballet "Rodeo" (Aaron) Copland |
| #8342, aired 2021-02-23 | DUNCAN $1200: This free-spirited dancer rejected classic ballet & her performance presaged the development of modern dance Isadora Duncan |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | LET'S DANCE! $800: In ballet, a grand this French term is a full bending of the knees, until the thighs are horizontal; a demi-one is half-bending a plié |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | POP CULTURE PRINCESSES $2000: In a ballet, this beautiful princess loved by Prince Siegfried is transformed into a swan by the sorcerer Rothbart Odette |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | DOG IS MY COPILOT $2000: Obviously it's off to the ballet for this breed here, a favorite of Russian nobility for hundreds of years Borzoi |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | FRENCH ARTS & CULTURE $400: The ballet "Giselle" is based on a legend about the wilis, ghostly young maidens who have died before this special event their wedding |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | COLOR FILMS $400: Dancers clash over the lead role in a Tchaikovsky ballet in this 2010 thriller Black Swan |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | SOVIET BLOC BUSTERS $800: In 1961 Rudolf Nureyev defected to the West as the Kirov Ballet played Paris; this dancer defected in Toronto 13 years later (Mikhail) Baryshnikov |
| #8229, aired 2020-06-04 | WE MISS YOU, MISTER ROGERS $400: The show was produced in this city, making it easy for Lynn Swann to come by & show off his uniform--& his ballet moves Pittsburgh |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | OPERA & BALLET $400: British choreographer Matthew Bourne took a different tactic when restaging this Tchaikovsky ballet Swan Lake |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | OPERA & BALLET $800: This Puccini opera is set in Nagasaki in the early 1900s Madame Butterfly |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | OPERA & BALLET $1200: Pat Garrett is a character in the ballet named for this outlaw Billy the Kid |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | OPERA & BALLET $1600: Ramfis is the high priest in this opera Aida |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | OPERA & BALLET $2000: The 2 parts of this Stravinsky ballet are "Adoration of the Earth" & "The Sacrifice" The Rite of Spring |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | GET YOUR KICKS $200: The grand battement is a high-kicking movement in this art form ballet |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | ARTS & CULTURE $400: Male ballet dancers generally don't wear these on their feet; one exception is when men play the stepsisters in "Cinderella" pointe shoes |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | TO THE POWER OF 10 $1600: The ballet "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" is fittingly titled, as that street is part of this "infernal" NYC neighborhood Hell's Kitchen |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | RUSSIAN ART & CULTURE $2000: In this Stravinsky ballet, the title character gives Prince Ivan a magical feather after he captures & releases her The Firebird |
| #8111, aired 2019-12-09 | HAVE AN ARTSY CHRISTMASTIME $400: In this traditional holiday ballet, Clara defends the title object against the king of the mice The Nutcracker |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | OPERA & BALLET $400: This 1818 novel has been adapted as a ballet with an experimentalist named Victor & the discovery of galvanism Frankenstein |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | OPERA & BALLET $800: Wagner wrote an opera about this pair of legendary lovers, King Mark's nephew & King Mark's intended bride Tristan and Isolde |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | OPERA & BALLET $1200: A courtesan named Violetta is the title fallen woman of this Verdi opera La Traviata |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | OPERA & BALLET $2,000 (Daily Double): You'll find the Queen of Night in this, Mozart's last opera The Magic Flute |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | OPERA & BALLET $2000: This title girl from an Adolphe Adam ballet dies in the first act & must dance for a ghost queen in the second Giselle |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | ADAPTATIONS $400: This Margaret Atwood novel was adapted by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet in 2018 The Handmaid's Tale |
| #8059, aired 2019-09-26 | BACHELOR OF ARTS $800: Rudolph Valentino, who was married to 2 women at once, was played on film by this Rudolf of the ballet who never wed Nureyev |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | IMPERIAL-ISM $800: "La Bayadere" was premiered in 1877 by the Russian Imperial this, later the Kirov, now the Mariinsky ballet |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | OPERA & BALLET $400: On Feb. 1, 1896 this tragic Puccini opera with Rodolfo & Mimi was first performed at Turin's Teatro Regio La Boheme |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | OPERA & BALLET $800: If you Lakmé, you really Lakmé, you sing the aria known as "The Bell Song" in this vocal range soprano |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | OPERA & BALLET $1200: The cowgirl & the champion roper are roles in this ballet with music by Aaron Copland Rodeo |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | OPERA & BALLET $1600: Naturally, there's dance music in this Italian's 1859 opera "Un Ballo in Maschera", "A Masked Ball" Verdi |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | OPERA & BALLET $2000: In the 1930s, the Baby Ballerinas Baranova, Toumanova & Riabouchinska were the first stars of this company de Monte Carlo the Ballet Russe |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | CLASSICAL DANCE MIX $400: "Waltz of the Flowers" is from this holiday ballet by Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | BALLET $400: Act I of this Tchaikovsky fairy tale ballet is called "The Spell"; later comes "The Awakening" Sleeping Beauty |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | BALLET $1200: The creators of 1943's "Fancy Free" called each other Lenny & Jerry--Leonard Bernstein & this choreographer Jerome Robbins |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | BALLET $1600: 3 people flirt on a tennis court in Nijinsky's ballet "Jeux", which means these games |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | BALLET $2000: Part of the Stravinsky/Balanchine "Greek Trilogy", the ballet about this son of Zeus also features the Muses Apollo |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | BALLET $15,000 (Daily Double): At 19 Alessandra Ferri was the Royal Ballet's youngest with this Italian title; at 54, she was its oldest since Margot Fonteyn prima ballerina |
| #7954, aired 2019-03-21 | THE ARTS $1200: This basic ballet movement, a knee bend, gets its name from the French for "to bend" plié |
| #7945, aired 2019-03-08 | THE HUMANITIES $2000: Nijinsky tugged at the heartstrings as the tragic title puppet in this 1911 Stravinsky ballet Petrushka |
| #7939, aired 2019-02-28 | ARTS & CULTURE $1200: In 1957's "Square Dance", this New York City Ballet founder combined classical technique with square dance calls George Balanchine |
| #7935, aired 2019-02-22 | LET'S "C" SOME DANCING $2000: "La Bayadere" has 40 arabesques in the entrance for this group, a 3-word French term for a dance troupe's non-soloists the corps de ballet |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | STILL I RISE $1600: At the end of the Stravinsky ballet "Orpheus", this musical instrument rises from the hero's grave up to the heavens a lyre |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | EVERYONE INTO THE POOL! $800: Once known as water ballet, it became an Olympic sport in 1984 synchronized swimming |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | 75 YEARS AT THE NEW YORK CITY CENTER $400: In 1954 George Balanchine mounted this ballet for Christmas at the City Center & a new tradition began The Nutcracker |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | THE ARTS $400: The name of this leading ballet company means "great ballet" in Russian Bolshoi |
| #7878, aired 2018-12-05 | DANCER $1000: In 1948 dancer & choreographer Alicia Alonso founded the national ballet of this island country of her birth Cuba |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | THE ARTS $1600: In this ballet, Siegfried is torn between Odette & Odile, who, by tradition, are danced by the same person Swan Lake |
| #7826, aired 2018-09-24 | PAINTED LADIES $800: Around 1875 he painted "Dancers Preparing for the Ballet" Degas |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | ARTS & CULTURE $2000: In a Delibes ballet, Dr. Coppelius is a toymaker & the title character Coppelia is one of these doll |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | THE VIEW FROM THE TOP $1000: In ballet versions of this Ravel piece, the ballerina dances high atop a large table surrounded by men Bolero |
| #7806, aired 2018-07-16 | GERMAN WRITERS $3,200 (Daily Double): E.T.A. Hoffmann's tale entitled this device "and the Mouse King" evolved into a popular ballet the nutcracker |
| #7778, aired 2018-06-06 | THE SCIENCE OF MECHANICS $800: This term specifies a physical reference point for an object; ballet uses the term for specific postures a position |
| #7760, aired 2018-05-11 | SHE DID IT! $800: In 2015 she made history as the first African-American female principal dancer with the American Ballet Theater Misty Copeland |
| #7731, aired 2018-04-02 | BALLET RUSES $400: An evil fairy gives Princess Aurora, AKA this title girl, a spindle that has some unwanted features Sleeping Beauty |
| #7731, aired 2018-04-02 | BALLET RUSES $800: In "Le Corsaire" these seagoing ruffians disguise themselves as pilgrims pirates |
| #7731, aired 2018-04-02 | BALLET RUSES $1200: This title heroine isn't being courted by Tom Brady but by the incognito duke of Silesia Giselle |
| #7731, aired 2018-04-02 | BALLET RUSES $1600: In one ballet based on this play, Prospero uses a magical cape while manipulating other characters The Tempest |
| #7731, aired 2018-04-02 | CELEBRITY INVENTIONS $1600: Bill Nye--yes, that science guy--patented a new type of this anatomical-named footwear for dancers toe shoes |
| #7731, aired 2018-04-02 | BALLET RUSES $2000: In "Swan Lake", evil Rothbart complicates this hero's life, making the choice between Odette & Odile a dicey one Siegfried |
| #7706, aired 2018-02-26 | HAVE A GREAT ONE! $2,500 (Daily Double): This ballet about a feathered creature was Igor Stravinsky's first international success The Firebird |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | STRINGING YOU ALONG $400: Since 1913 a theatre in Salzburg has presented opera & ballet performed by these, not humans marionette puppets |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | BALLET COMPANIES $400: Jean Drapeau, mayor of this city, convinced Ludmilla Chiriaeff to turn her company into Les Grandes Ballets Canadiens Montreal |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | BALLET COMPANIES $1,000 (Daily Double): Les Ballets de Monte Carlo was created in 1985 to honor this woman who died 3 years earlier Princess Grace of Monaco |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | BALLET COMPANIES $1200: Rolf de Maré raided this country's Royal Ballet to create Les Ballets Suedois in Paris Sweden |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | BALLET COMPANIES $1600: Born in Novgorod province, Serge Diaghilev was living in Paris when he founded this French-named ballet company the Ballets Russes |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | BALLET $200: This ballet begins in Dr. Stahlbaum's house on Christmas Eve The Nutcracker |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | BALLET $400: "Fall River Legend" is based on her real-life murder trial of the 1890s Lizzie Borden |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | BALLET $600: A cowgirl rides a bucking bronco in scene 1 of this Western ballet Rodeo |
| #7672, aired 2018-01-09 | SHOES $400: This last name of Signor Salvatore, a theatrical-shoe repairman, has long been on dance shoes Capezio |
| #7606, aired 2017-10-09 | ENDS IN "ING" $1200: Here's a bit of the music from this ballet composed by Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | ARTS & SCIENCES $400: Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring" had the working title "Ballet for Martha", Martha being this dancer Martha Graham |
| #7571, aired 2017-07-10 | DRESS LIKE WOMEN $1200: Think ballerinas aren't tough? Misty Copeland says calluses are a trophy after 8 hours a day in these ballet shoes pointe shoes |
| #7556, aired 2017-06-19 | AN AVIAN CATEGORY $1200: The evil plans of the sorcerer Kashchei are thwarted by this title flyer in a 1910 Stravinsky ballet the firebird |
| #7549, aired 2017-06-08 | WHAT'S "NU"? $2000: After defecting to the West, he became one of the greatest ballet dancers of the 20th century (Rudolf) Nureyev |
| #7547, aired 2017-06-06 | DANCE COMPANIES $1200: For the Joffrey Ballet, Twyla Tharp created "Deuce Coupe", set to the music of this group The Beach Boys |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | SHAKESPEARE BUFFS $400: These "star-crossed lovers" performed in the buff for a production by the Russian National Ballet Theatre Romeo and Juliet |
| #7540, aired 2017-05-26 | OPERA & BALLET $5 (Daily Double): In a ballet Odette's mother's tears produced this body of water Swan Lake |
| #7540, aired 2017-05-26 | OPERA & BALLET $400: "The Dream" is a one-act ballet that uses Felix Mendelssohn's music & is based on this Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #7540, aired 2017-05-26 | OPERA & BALLET $800: The title character of this Rossini opera regularly shaves Dr. Bartolo The Barber of Seville |
| #7540, aired 2017-05-26 | OPERA & BALLET $1200: Part of the "Ring" cycle, "Gotterdammerung" has this title in English The Twilight of the Gods |
| #7540, aired 2017-05-26 | OPERA & BALLET $2000: A love story of the American Southwest, the ballet "Rodeo" has music composed by this New Yorker Aaron Copland |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | BALLET $400: Balanchine's "Who Cares?" features the music of this other George, including "Fascinatin' Rhythm" Gershwin |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | BALLET $800: Choreographer Maurice Bejart called this Stravinsky ballet "The Phoenix Reborn from Ashes" The Firebird |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | BALLET $1200: In a classic 1890 ballet, the fairy of the songbirds dances at the christening of this fairy-tale heroine Sleeping Beauty |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | BALLET $1600: Let's have a conference to discuss ABT's 2016 ballet based on this Plato dialogue about love the Symposium |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | BALLET $2000: "The Tale of the Stone Flower", this "Peter and the Wolf" composer's last ballet, tells the tale of Danila, a stone cutter Prokofiev |
| #7524, aired 2017-05-04 | STARTS WITH AN NBA TEAM NAME $800: Thelonious Monk would have loved this musical workout created by Judi Sheppard Missett Jazzercise |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | BALLET $100 (Daily Double): In 1967 this dancer was just 19 when he became a soloist at the Kirov Ballet of Leningrad Mikhail Baryshnikov |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | BALLET $400: "Waltz Of The Flowers" & "Dance Of the Sugar-Plum Fairy" are part of this ballet & seasonal favorite The Nutcracker |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | BALLET $800: In 2016 this Moscow company ended its 240th season with "The Damnation of Faust", its first Berlioz work the Bolshoi Ballet |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | BALLET $1600: Critic Edwin Denby said this 1942 Agnes de Mille ballet established the genre of "American local-colour ballet" Rodeo |
| #7512, aired 2017-04-18 | "GRAND" SLAM $1600: It's the big ballet leap being performed here a grand jeté |
| #7506, aired 2017-04-10 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $2000: This rousing piece by Aram Khachaturian that has a weapon in its name is from his ballet "Gayane" the "Sabre Dance" |
| #7504, aired 2017-04-06 | HIT THE GYM $400: The name of this ballet handrail follows "cardio" in the name of an exercise class enjoyed by celebs like Elle Fanning the barre |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | AT THE BALLET $400: The fantastic ballet "Le Violon du Diable" features Doctor Matheus, who in fact is this the devil |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | AT THE BALLET $800: In "The Four Temperaments", dancers represent the choleric, phlegmatic, sanguinic & this melancholic |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | AT THE BALLET $1200: In "Apollon Musagete", Apollo gives a gift representing poetry to Calliope & one representing dance to this Muse Terpsichore |
| #7434, aired 2016-12-29 | THEIR ORIGINAL NAMES $2000: American choreographer & ballet company founder Abdullah Jaffa Bey Khan Robert Joffrey |
| #7425, aired 2016-12-16 | UNUSUAL ATTRACTIONS $400: Since 1947 an underwater ballet has made Weeki Wachee, Florida the city of these lovely finned & tailed creatures mermaids |
| #7424, aired 2016-12-15 | 5 "L"ETTER WORDS $2000: This adjective means supple or marked by effortless grace such as the motions of a ballet dancer lithe |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | BALLET UP TO THE BARRE $400: In the romantic style, this skirt falls to mid-calf; in the classical style, the entire leg is showing a tutu |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | BALLET UP TO THE BARRE $800: One scene in this fairy tale ballet is called "The Awakening" Sleeping Beauty |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | BALLET UP TO THE BARRE $1200: When Serge Diaghilev brought this ballet company to the U.S. in 1916, Vaslav Nijinsky was a featured dancer the Ballets Russes |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | BALLET UP TO THE BARRE $1600: This Russian ballerina is seen here at her home; note the birds in the background Anna Pavlova |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | BALLET UP TO THE BARRE $2000: It's been said that "Coppelia" is ballet's great comedy & this 1841 tale of a doomed maiden, its great tragedy Giselle |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | ARTS $1600: The full title of this modernist Stravinsky ballet includes "Pictures from Pagan Russia in Two Parts" The Rite of Spring |
| #7405, aired 2016-11-18 | COMPOSERS & THEIR MUSIC $400: There are sore toes after performances of this Russian's "Sleeping Beauty" ballet; it's nearly 3 hours long Tchaikovsky |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | SOME PEOPLE CALL ME MAURICE $800: Ida Rubinstein commissioned him to compose a work for ballet with a Spanish flavor & he did--"Bolero" (Maurice) Ravel |
| #7368, aired 2016-09-28 | A REAL BUSY BODY $1000: Tone your muscles with exercises where you're supported by this ballet class apparatus the barre |
| #7335, aired 2016-07-01 | NICE LONG DANES $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1990 6'2" Dane Peter Martins succeeded Jerome Robbins as boss of this Big Apple artistic organization the New York City Ballet |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | WORDS WITH SILENT CONSONANTS $1200: "Facade" by Frederick Ashton is this type of artistic work ballet |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | THE BEAST $800: A borzoi ballet would be a dance by these dogs, bred in Russia to hunt wolfhounds |
| #7301, aired 2016-05-16 | BALLET $400: This city's Royal Danish Ballet debuted "The Whims of Cupid and the Ballet Master" in 1786 & it's still being danced today Copenhagen |
| #7301, aired 2016-05-16 | BALLET $800: The main characters of "Fancy Free" are the "three" these sailors |
| #7301, aired 2016-05-16 | BALLET $1200: A 1972 ballet was based on (& named for) the "Tales of" this German author E.T.A. Hoffmann |
| #7280, aired 2016-04-15 | RUSSIAN CITIES $3,000 (Daily Double): In the 1930s a ballet company as well as the city of Vyatka were renamed this for slain Communist Sergei Kirov |
| #7257, aired 2016-03-15 | WOMEN ONLY $400: Women-only sports in the Olympics include this, once called water ballet synchronized swimming |
| #7213, aired 2016-01-13 | THE APOLLO $1600: This choreographer's 1928 ballet "Apollo" was the first work of his neoclassical style (George) Balanchine |
| #7198, aired 2015-12-23 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $400: (I'm Misty Copeland.) In 2014 I made history as the first African-American ballerina to dance the role of Clara in American Ballet Theatre's production of this ballet, a holiday favorite The Nutcracker |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | ARTS & CULTURE $1200: In 1974 he defected from the USSR & joined ABT, becoming that company's artistic director in the '80s Baryshnikov |
| #7172, aired 2015-11-17 | TOUGH BALLET $400: (I'm Cory Stearns.) "Theme and Variations" features an incredibly difficult series of turns in the air... each turn is separated by a one-footed spin, known by this French term pirouette |
| #7172, aired 2015-11-17 | TOUGH BALLET $800: (I'm Sarah Lane.) Requiring great balance & strength, one of the most challenging moments for a ballerina dancing Aurora is the extended sequence en pointe from the "Rose Adagio" in this Tchaikovsky ballet based on a fairy tale The Sleeping Beauty |
| #7172, aired 2015-11-17 | TOUGH BALLET $1200: (I'm Blaine Hoven.) Male ballet dancers rarely are called upon to dance en pointe, except when playing the part of the donkey named Bottom in the ballet based on this Shakespeare fantasy A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #7172, aired 2015-11-17 | TOUGH BALLET $1600: (I'm Gillian Murphy.) The role of Odette/Odile in this ballet classic requires a dancer to perform multiple consecutive fouette turns-- 32 of them, in fact Swan Lake |
| #7172, aired 2015-11-17 | TOUGH BALLET $2000: (I'm Craig Salstein.) In a rare occurrence of crossover dance styles, ballet & tap fuse in Agnes de Mille's choreography for this cowboy ballet Rodeo |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | GAME OF THRONES $800: This young king with a ballet company name was little mourned at his demise Joffrey |
| #7088, aired 2015-06-10 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $800: Classical dance & a wooden hammer ballet & mallet |
| #7062, aired 2015-05-05 | AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE'S 75th ANNIVERSARY $400: (I'm Misty Copeland.) In Act 2 of this classic ballet, Odette performs with her many companions, all under the same magic spell Swan Lake |
| #7062, aired 2015-05-05 | AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE'S 75th ANNIVERSARY $800: (I'm James Whiteside.) In 1985 ABT staged the first American production of this tragic Shakespearean love story choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan Romeo and Juliet |
| #7062, aired 2015-05-05 | AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE'S 75th ANNIVERSARY $1200: (I'm Sarah Lane.) In 1947, George Balanchine created for ABT the one-act ballet "Theme and Variations" with music by this noted Russian composer Tchaikovsky |
| #7062, aired 2015-05-05 | AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE'S 75th ANNIVERSARY $1600: (I'm He So.) One of the high points of any prima ballerina's career is dancing the role of Giselle, based in part on the poem from this 19th century French author's "Les Orientales" Victor Hugo |
| #7062, aired 2015-05-05 | AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE'S 75th ANNIVERSARY $2000: (I'm Craig Salstein.) Jerome Robbins' choreography for this alliterative ballet also became the basis for the Broadway musical "On the Town" Fancy Free |
| #7050, aired 2015-04-17 | THE ARTS $1200: The New York Philharmonic & the School of American Ballet are based at this complex Lincoln Center |
| #7041, aired 2015-04-06 | 5-LETTER CAPITAL CITIES $800: Population 1.8 million, it's home to the National Opera & Ballet Theater of Belarus Minsk |
| #7031, aired 2015-03-23 | FRENCH COMPOSERS $400: In 1653 Jean-Baptiste Lully became court composer for this king with whom he had earlier danced in a ballet Louis XIV |
| #6983, aired 2015-01-14 | FROM NAMES TO WORDS $800: Pair it with tights & you've got a ballet outfit a leotard |
| #6933, aired 2014-11-05 | BALLET $400: Standing on the balls of the feet is being on demi-this pointe |
| #6933, aired 2014-11-05 | BALLET $800: Let's make Odile & stage this "avian" ballet Swan Lake |
| #6933, aired 2014-11-05 | BALLET $1200: This late flamboyant defector from the U.S.S.R. shared his last name with a czar Alexander Godunov |
| #6933, aired 2014-11-05 | BALLET $1600: This 1832 ballet may get its French title from the Latin silva, "forest" La sylphide |
| #6933, aired 2014-11-05 | BALLET $2000: Soloists are backed up by the ensemble known by this 3-word French term the corps de ballet |
| #6922, aired 2014-10-21 | SCULPTURE $1600: Naturally, Degas knew his ballet terms; the sculpture seen here is called "Large" this Arabesque |
| #6910, aired 2014-10-03 | YOU SHOULD BE DANCING $200: Jete, entrechat & releve (raising the body by lifting the heels) are terms that come from this art form ballet |
| #6904, aired 2014-09-25 | TV SHOW PLOT POINTS $200: Charlie took Alan & Jake into his Malibu home & dated a ballet teacher (&, apparently, much of Malibu) Two and a Half Men |
| #6895, aired 2014-08-01 | THE ARTS $400: December is a good time to see this 1892 ballet that features the Sugar Plum Fairy The Nutcracker |
| #6863, aired 2014-06-18 | CURRENT AUTOBIOGRAPHY $200: "Life in Motion" tells of Misty Copeland's efforts to become a soloist with this troupe, the ABT the American Ballet Theatre |
| #6835, aired 2014-05-09 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $400: The Furies scene in an Orpheus ballet was part of Gluck's period of "Sturm und" this Drang |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | BALLET & OPERA $400: "Le Sacre du printemps" is the French title of this Stravinsky ballet that premiered in Paris in 1913 The Rite of Spring |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | BALLET & OPERA $800: The libretto for a ballet about this title gladiator was based in part on works by Plutarch Spartacus |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | BALLET & OPERA $1200: At the end of a Mozart opera, this title character is dragged into the flames of hell Don Giovanni |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | BALLET & OPERA $1600: At the end of this Verdi opera, Violetta dies of consumption in the arms of Alfredo La traviata |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | BALLET & OPERA $2000: In a classic ballet by Adolphe Adam, she's the title peasant girl with a weak heart & a passion for dancing Giselle |
| #6810, aired 2014-04-04 | BALLET BELLES $400: A dancer called "The Accused" uses an axe in "Fall River Legend", based on 1892 murders she was charged with Lizzie Borden |
| #6810, aired 2014-04-04 | BALLET BELLES $800: Based on a Garcia Lorca tale, "Las Hermanas", as the title states, concerns 5 of these sisters |
| #6810, aired 2014-04-04 | STRUCTURES $1000: Czar Alexander II ordered the building of this ballet theater that's named for his wife, Marie the Mariinsky |
| #6810, aired 2014-04-04 | BALLET BELLES $1200: "La Bayadere" tells the story of Nikiya, a dancer in a temple of this faith Hinduism |
| #6810, aired 2014-04-04 | BALLET BELLES $1600: Daphnis & this title gal have a romp with Pan, accompanied by music from Ravel Chloé |
| #6810, aired 2014-04-04 | BALLET BELLES $2000: This Delibes ballet features a folk-dance sequence that includes Swanilda dancing to a Mazurka Coppélia |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | BALLET SETTINGS $800: The corral of Burnt Ranch &
the ranch house Rodeo |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | BALLET SETTINGS $1200: A ball at the palace,
after the ball &
an enchanted garden Cinderella |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | BALLET SETTINGS $1600: The garden of Prince Siegfried's castle &
a lakeside Swan Lake |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | BALLET SETTINGS $4,000 (Daily Double): Street scene,
an American desert &
the jail Billy the Kid |
| #6771, aired 2014-02-10 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $2000: Aram Khachaturian composed this "Dance" for his ballet "Gayane" "The Sabre Dance" |
| #6711, aired 2013-11-18 | OPERA & BALLET CHARACTERS $400: In "The Nutcracker ", this fairy rules the kingdom of the sweets the Sugar Plum Fairy |
| #6711, aired 2013-11-18 | OPERA & BALLET CHARACTERS $800: Wotan's favorite daughter in "Die Walkure", her battle cry is "Ho-yo-to-ho" Brünnhilde |
| #6711, aired 2013-11-18 | OPERA & BALLET CHARACTERS $1200: The heroine of a Beethoven opera disguises herself as this title boy in order to rescue her imprisoned husband Fidelio |
| #6711, aired 2013-11-18 | OPERA & BALLET CHARACTERS $1600: In return for its freedom, it gives prince Ivan a brilliant red feather; he only need wave it & it will come to his aid the Firebird |
| #6702, aired 2013-11-05 | SHEPHERDS $1000: Daphnis the shepherd is paired with this title gal in a pastoral ballet with music by Ravel Chloé |
| #6688, aired 2013-10-16 | BALLET $400: Traditionally, the wicked stepsisters in this fairy-tale ballet have been played by 2 male dancers Cinderella |
| #6688, aired 2013-10-16 | BALLET $800: In 1919 this Spanish Cubist designed the scenery & costumes for the London premiere of "The Three-Cornered Hat" Picasso |
| #6688, aired 2013-10-16 | BALLET $1600: This 2013 ABT presentation takes a Pushkin poem, adds Tchaikovsky music & drops the "Eugene" Onegin |
| #6688, aired 2013-10-16 | BALLET $2000: Dancers called Robert Joffrey "Mr. Joffrey", but this choreographer & company co-leader was "Jerry" Gerald Arpino |
| #6667, aired 2013-09-17 | BALLET DANCERS IN THE CINEMA $800: Zizi Jeanmaire played Doro, Danny Kaye's love interest, in a 1952 musical about this Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen |
| #6667, aired 2013-09-17 | BALLET DANCERS IN THE CINEMA $1200: Alexander Godunov played Amish farmer Daniel Hochleitner in this 1985 Harrison Ford film Witness |
| #6667, aired 2013-09-17 | BALLET DANCERS IN THE CINEMA $1600: He made his feature film debut in 1977's "The Turning Point" & followed it up with a starring role in "White Nights" Baryshnikov |
| #6667, aired 2013-09-17 | BALLET DANCERS IN THE CINEMA $2000: This Native American ballerina who died in 2013 played Anna Pavlova in Esther Williams' "Million Dollar Mermaid" Maria Tallchief |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | THE ARTS $800: A Michael Smuin work was the first full-length ballet shown on "Dance in America", part of this "great" PBS series Performances |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | SUITE MUSIC $800: This Tchaikovsky suite of ballet music begins with the "Miniature Overture" "The Nutcracker" |
| #6638, aired 2013-06-26 | THE MUSICALS OF RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN $1200: Features a ballet that's a Siamese version of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" The King and I |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | SEEKING ASYLUM $800: Known as Misha, he got asylum from Canada before joining the American Ballet Theatre Baryshnikov |
| #6589, aired 2013-04-18 | PORTMAN TOES $400: Natalie Portman is very much on pointe in this ballet film that won her an Oscar Black Swan |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | BALLET $400: In a ballet this title body of water was formed from the tears of Odette's grieving mother Swan Lake |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | BALLET $800: I'da love to have seen Ida Rubinstein play this queen swathed like a mummy who was then unwrapped Cleopatra |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | BALLET $1200: In the prologue to this 1869 ballet, the title hero dons a washbowl as a helmet & sets out for adventure Don Quixote |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | BALLET $2,000 (Daily Double): 4 Indian ballerinas were featured in "Four Moons", a 1967 ballet commemorating the 60th anniversary of its statehood Oklahoma |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | BALLET $2000: In this Stravinsky ballet, the puppets are controlled by an evil magician known as Charlatan Petrushka |
| #6522, aired 2013-01-15 | FROM FILM TO BROADWAY MUSICAL $600: It's more than a "miner" problem when a boy in a mining town wants to dance ballet rather than fight Billy Elliot |
| #6518, aired 2013-01-09 | ENTERTAINMENTS $600: This Olympic event is also called water ballet synchronized swimming |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | PRESIDENT CLINTON'S HARLEM $1600: (President Clinton delivers the clue.) After Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, Arthur Mitchell, the first black dancer in the New York City Ballet, opened this troupe in a garage on 152nd Street the Dance Theatre of Harlem |
| #6508, aired 2012-12-26 | THE ARTS $800: In 1928 he composed "Bolero" as a ballet (Maurice) Ravel |
| #6490, aired 2012-11-30 | DANCE COMPANIES $1600: This company's present artistic director is, fittingly, Kevin McKenzie from the good old United States the American Ballet Theater |
| #6490, aired 2012-11-30 | DANCE COMPANIES $3,000 (Daily Double): During foreign tours, the Mariinsky Ballet Company is known by this name the Kirov |
| #6467, aired 2012-10-30 | BALLET $400: "La Esmeralda", a 3-act ballet created in 1844, was based on this classic novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #6467, aired 2012-10-30 | BALLET $800: Cecil B. De Mille's dancin' niece, she choreographed her last ballet, "The Other", in 1992 at age 86 Agnes de Mille |
| #6467, aired 2012-10-30 | BALLET $1200: Among the few filmed sequences of this Russian ballerina are clips of her "dying swan" from 1907 Anna Pavlova |
| #6435, aired 2012-08-03 | BOYS IN BALLET $400: This stretchy one-piece garment for both sexes was named for a guy, a French acrobat a leotard |
| #6435, aired 2012-08-03 | BOYS IN BALLET $800: In the ballet "Checkmate", the red one of these gets to die an agonizing death at the hands of the black queen a king |
| #6435, aired 2012-08-03 | BOYS IN BALLET $1,000 (Daily Double): A boy named Fritz breaks this title gift given to his sister Clara by Drosselmeyer The Nutcracker |
| #6435, aired 2012-08-03 | BOYS IN BALLET $1200: Boys' classes often emphasize jumps, maybe even the difficult tour en l'air, which means this in the air turn (twirl accepted) |
| #6435, aired 2012-08-03 | BOYS IN BALLET $2000: After a performance, ballerinas curtsy; men perform a small one of these equivalent gestures a bow |
| #6418, aired 2012-07-11 | 1933 $2,000 (Daily Double): He came to the U.S. in 1933 & helped found the School of American Ballet George Balanchine |
| #6398, aired 2012-06-13 | AMERICAN BALLET $400: The same ballerina plays both the mother & Mexican sweetheart of this young outlaw in the 1938 ballet named for him Billy the Kid |
| #6398, aired 2012-06-13 | AMERICAN BALLET $800: The 1971 ballet "Eight Jelly Rolls" was choreographed to the music of this jazz pianist & composer ("Jelly Roll") Morton |
| #6380, aired 2012-05-18 | TV GUIDE MOVIE SYNOPSES $1600: 2010:
"A ballet dancer goes insane" Black Swan |
| #6377, aired 2012-05-15 | THE FIVE $400: Including first, in which the heels are together, there are 5 basic foot positions in the classical type of this ballet |
| #6352, aired 2012-04-10 | BALLET MISERABLE $400: When I tried to do one of these turns of the body on one foot, I crashed into the choreographer a pirouette |
| #6352, aired 2012-04-10 | BALLET MISERABLE $800: At practice I was asked to do an enlevement, the raising of one of these over my head with one arm a ballerina |
| #6352, aired 2012-04-10 | BALLET MISERABLE $1200: Someone used this term for beating the legs together in the air & I thought she meant a 9-volt a batterie |
| #6352, aired 2012-04-10 | BALLET MISERABLE $1600: Jessica never has the right size of this footwear named for what she's dancing "en" point shoes |
| #6352, aired 2012-04-10 | BALLET MISERABLE $2000: I nailed the first solo in "Fancy Free", with a double turn in the air & a landing in this position, but now I can't get up the splits |
| #6338, aired 2012-03-21 | BALLET $400 (Daily Double): A young prince is saved by a magic feather in this 1910 Stravinsky ballet The Firebird |
| #6338, aired 2012-03-21 | BALLET $400: In this ballet a little girl named Clara meets the Sugar Plum Fairy in the Kingdom of Sweets The Nutcracker |
| #6338, aired 2012-03-21 | BALLET $800: Hershy Kay provided the orchestrations of this man's music for the 1958 ballet "Stars and Stripes" (John Philip) Sousa |
| #6338, aired 2012-03-21 | BALLET $1600: In the 1920s Uday Shankar, Ravi's brother, choreographed "Radha-Krishna" for this Russian ballerina Pavlova |
| #6338, aired 2012-03-21 | BALLET $2000: In 1944 this conductor composed the music for "Fancy Free", Jerome Robbins' first ballet Leonard Bernstein |
| #6307, aired 2012-02-07 | AALL AABOUT AARON $1000: This American composer for ballet also won an Oscar for his work on the 1949 film "The Heiress" (Aaron) Copland |
| #6292, aired 2012-01-17 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $2000: This composer of Armenian heritage is best known for the "Sabre Dance" from his ballet "Gayane" (Aram) Khachaturian |
| #6271, aired 2011-12-19 | ACTRESSES $1600: This "Party of Five" actress, a trained ballerina, starred in Robert Altman's ballet film "The Company" Neve Campbell |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | BALLET $400: Maria Tallchief played the Sugarplum Fairy in a 1954 New York City ballet performance of this classic The Nutcracker |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | BALLET $800: This wooden rail attached to the wall of a ballet studio is used by the dancers for support during exercises a barre |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | BALLET $1200: Born Margaret Hookham in England, she made her professional debut in 1934 at the age of 15 Margot Fonteyn |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | BALLET $1600: Onstage this late Soviet defector often partnered Maya Plisetskaya; offstage, Jacqueline Bisset Alexander Godunov |
| #6240, aired 2011-11-04 | BALLET $2000: When "Le Pavillon d'Armide" premiered in 1907, Vaslav Nijinsky played the Slave & she played Armide Anna Pavlova |
| #6237, aired 2011-11-01 | BALLET IT ON THICK $200: This dancer defected from the USSR during a 1974 tour stop in Toronto Mikhail Baryshnikov |
| #6237, aired 2011-11-01 | BALLET IT ON THICK $400: The musical about this English boy's dream of going to the Royal ballet school hit Broadway in 2008 Billy Elliot |
| #6237, aired 2011-11-01 | BALLET IT ON THICK $800: He left the USSR in 1924 & joined Diaghilev's co. in Paris, becoming its leading choreographer, by George Balanchine |
| #6237, aired 2011-11-01 | BALLET IT ON THICK $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew is in a practice room at the Dance Theatre of Harlem in New York. A dancer is practicing in the background.) The Dance Theatre of Harlem has brought ballet around the world, including giving China's first performance of this 1910 Stravinsky work with an elusive title character The Firebird |
| #6237, aired 2011-11-01 | BALLET IT ON THICK $1,200 (Daily Double): Prince Siegfried finds romance is for the birds (like Odette) in this 19th century ballet Swan Lake |
| #6218, aired 2011-10-05 | BALLET $400: "Fancy Free" follows 3 of these on leave in New York City sailors |
| #6218, aired 2011-10-05 | BALLET $800: Princess Aurora's christening is in the prologue of this ballet Sleeping Beauty |
| #6218, aired 2011-10-05 | BALLET $1200: Nijinsky's choreography & Stravinsky's score caused a riot at the 1913 premiere of this ballet The Rite of Spring |
| #6218, aired 2011-10-05 | BALLET $2000: Adolphe Adam's masterpiece is the music for this 1841 ballet in which the title girl emerges from her grave to dance Giselle |
| #6218, aired 2011-10-05 | BALLET $5,000 (Daily Double): This ballet choreographed by Agnes de Mille is subtitled "The Courting at Burnt Ranch" Rodeo |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | THE "N" CROWD $600: After a breakdown around 1919, this Russian-born ballet dancer spent the rest of his life in & out of asylums Nijinsky |
| #6200, aired 2011-07-22 | ROLES IN 2010 BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINEES $600: Understudy for Siegfried,
"Corps de ballet" (18 of them!) Black Swan |
| #6178, aired 2011-06-22 | COURSE CORRECTION $600: I'm out of Psych 11N: Origin of Mental Life & into Dance 13AX: Ballet Intensive at this Palo Alto-area school Stanford |
| #6177, aired 2011-06-21 | MUSICAL THEATER $1200: "Tornado Ballet", "Mean Ole Lion" & "Funky Monkeys" were songs featured in this 1975 musical The Wiz |
| #6172, aired 2011-06-14 | THE BALLET OF THE LAND $200: In 1877 "Swan Lake" took flight in this country, the homeland of the composer Russia |
| #6172, aired 2011-06-14 | THE BALLET OF THE LAND $400: The Martha Graham Company first presented "Clytemnestra" on April 1, 1958 in this country the United States |
| #6172, aired 2011-06-14 | THE BALLET OF THE LAND $600: One of the great romantic ballets, "Giselle" first danced to life in this country in 1841 France |
| #6172, aired 2011-06-14 | THE BALLET OF THE LAND $800: The Central Ballet of this country has created "Ode to the Yimeng Mountain", & "Lin Dai-Yu" & "Lan Hua-Hua" China |
| #6172, aired 2011-06-14 | THE BALLET OF THE LAND $1000: The April 13, 1965 premier of "Onegin" helped put this country's Stuttgart Ballet on the world stage Germany |
| #6165, aired 2011-06-03 | EXTRAORDINARY DENTITION $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew holds a skull at the Smithsonian's Hall of Human Origins.) When Mary Leakey discovered Paranthropus boisei in 1959, her husband Louis saw the heavy teeth & jaws & nicknamed the species this man, like the title character of a Tchaikovsky ballet The Nutcracker |
| #6159, aired 2011-05-26 | TURN OF THE CENTURY MOVIES $400: In a northern England mining town, a young boy takes up ballet dancing Billy Elliot |
| #6157, aired 2011-05-24 | BALLET HIGH $400: Britannica says the high point of classical ballet under the czars came with 19th C. ballets from this composer Tchaikovsky |
| #6157, aired 2011-05-24 | BALLET HIGH $800: The ballet "Icare" finds the title character soaring high in the air, but alas, his wings are held together with this wax |
| #6157, aired 2011-05-24 | BALLET HIGH $1200: At the end of this ballet the souls of Odette & Prince Siegfried ascend high into the heavens together Swan Lake |
| #6157, aired 2011-05-24 | BALLET HIGH $1600: The "Bathing Beauty Ballet" in "High Button Shoes" was a big success for this "West Side Story" choreographer Jerome Robbins |
| #6157, aired 2011-05-24 | BALLET HIGH $2000: In a ballet about this Norwegian folk hero, he insults the Mountain King's daughter & must descend quickly Peer Gynt |
| #6136, aired 2011-04-25 | COUNT IT "OFF" $800: In 1966 this was named the official ballet company of the New York City Center the Joffrey Ballet |
| #6132, aired 2011-04-19 | FROM U.S. TO USSR $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Dance Theatre of Harlem in New York.) In 1988, the Dance Theatre of Harlem became part of the great legacy of dance in Russia, being acclaimed with a standing ovation at this famed Leningrad theater the Kirov |
| #6127, aired 2011-04-12 | MEN IN PINK $1200: To see men in pink tights, check out Trockadero, a troupe performing parodies of these ballet |
| #6125, aired 2011-04-08 | BALLETS WE'VE NEVER ASKED ABOUT BEFORE $1600: The ballet "Bhakti" features 3 Hindu gods including this "destroyer", whose wife, Shakti, dances for him Shiva |
| #6125, aired 2011-04-08 | BALLETS WE'VE NEVER ASKED ABOUT BEFORE $2000: The 1969 ballet "Trinity" was inspired by the peace movement in this California university city Berkeley |
| #6116, aired 2011-03-28 | BALLET $400: In the 1960s Galina Ulanova retired & Maya Plisetskaya became this company's prima ballerina the Bolshoi |
| #6116, aired 2011-03-28 | BALLET $1600: Before studying ballet & opening his own ballet school in New York City in 1953, he was a tap dancer (Robert) Joffrey |
| #6105, aired 2011-03-11 | ODD 4-LETTER WORDS $1200: Led Zeppelin knows that this word refers to a concluding passage of a musical piece or a ballet a coda |
| #6055, aired 2010-12-31 | SCULPTORS $400: When his "Little Dancer Aged Fourteen" was first exhibited in 1881, it had fabric ballet shoes, a tutu & a wig (Edgar) Degas |
| #6026, aired 2010-11-22 | I LEARNED IT IN BALLET CLASS $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reads from the Dance Theatre of Harlem.) A series of quick, jumping steps is called this, also the Italian term for the tempo at which the music is playing allegro |
| #6026, aired 2010-11-22 | I LEARNED IT IN BALLET CLASS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reads from the Dance Theatre of Harlem.) A fouetté is a pirouette that lets the dancer regain momentum after each spin; the Black Swan does 32 in a row in a ballet by this composer Tchaikovsky |
| #6026, aired 2010-11-22 | I LEARNED IT IN BALLET CLASS $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from the Dance Theatre of Harlem.) Legend says the Royale was created in an attempt to do the harder entrechat quatre by this 17th-century French king, under whom ballet became a strict art form Louis XIV |
| #6026, aired 2010-11-22 | I LEARNED IT IN BALLET CLASS $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from the Dance Theatre of Harlem.) The step battement tendu was highly valued by this legendary choreographer; he told his wife, Maria Tallchief, that if she'd do it properly she wouldn't have to learn anything else Balanchine |
| #6026, aired 2010-11-22 | I LEARNED IT IN BALLET CLASS $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reads from the Dance Theatre of Harlem.) The final pas de deux is one of the famous dances from this ballet; maybe it's fitting that its choreographer Lev Ivanov died on Christmas Eve when it's set The Nutcracker |
| #6020, aired 2010-11-12 | MUSIC & DANCE $800: Ballet's five basic foot positions were based on this activity, now an Olympic sport; you can really see it in third position fencing |
| #6020, aired 2010-11-12 | MUSIC & DANCE $2000: In a dance troupe the group equivalent to an opera chorus is called this "de ballet" corps |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | BALLET $400: In 1877 "Swan Lake" premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre in this city with choreography by Julius Reisinger Moscow |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | BALLET $800: In the ballet "Petrouchka", the ballerina is one of these doll-like toys, as is Petrouchka himself a puppet |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | BALLET $1200: Soon after defecting to the West on June 17, 1961, he began performing with the Ballet of Marquis de Cuevas Nureyev |
| #5961, aired 2010-07-12 | THE DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Dance Theatre of Harlem in New York.) Ballet dancers make sure to exercise their flexor hallucis longus; it's essential for any releve move, bringing the dancer to half or full this pointe |
| #5945, aired 2010-06-18 | TELL TCHAIKOVSKY THE NEWS $400: Sorry, Pete, your music was great but Reisinger's choreography of this ballet was uninspired, despite Karpakova as Odile Swan Lake |
| #5945, aired 2010-06-18 | TELL TCHAIKOVSKY THE NEWS $1200: The music for this ballet is great; ignore the critics who don't like children in leading roles & the Christmas setting The Nutcracker |
| #5945, aired 2010-06-18 | TELL TCHAIKOVSKY THE NEWS $1600: Don't fret that the czar's only comment was "Very nice"; the music for this 1890 fairy tale ballet is danceable & enchanting The Sleeping Beauty |
| #5894, aired 2010-04-08 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $2000: This composer of Armenian heritage won a 1959 Lenin prize for his ballet "Spartacus" Khachaturian |
| #5889, aired 2010-04-01 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: This 1928 Ravel work was written on commission from ballet dancer Ida Rubinstein Bolero |
| #5875, aired 2010-03-12 | 1961 $1000: While in Paris with the Kirov Ballet, this dancer requested asylum in France Rudolf Nureyev |
| #5868, aired 2010-03-03 | BALLET DANCERS $400: Nicknamed Misha, he was nominated for a 1989 Tony Award for Best Actor in a drama for "Metamorphosis" Baryshnikov |
| #5868, aired 2010-03-03 | BALLET DANCERS $800: This British-born ballerina danced until 1979, when she was 60 years old Dame Margot Fonteyn |
| #5868, aired 2010-03-03 | BALLET DANCERS $1,000 (Daily Double): He was born in Kiev around 1889 to parents who were celebrated dancers from Poland Nijinsky |
| #5868, aired 2010-03-03 | CHANGE A LETTER $1200: Change a letter in "ballet" & you get this lodging for a soldier billet |
| #5868, aired 2010-03-03 | BALLET DANCERS $1600: This Russian ballerina's London home, Ivy House, was famous for its ornamental lake with swans Anna Pavlova |
| #5868, aired 2010-03-03 | BALLET DANCERS $2000: In 1953 she was given the title Wa-Xthe-Thomba, "woman of two worlds", in honor of her Osage heritage Maria Tallchief |
| #5848, aired 2010-02-03 | WORDS IN FEBRUARY $600: Exercise rail used by ballet dancers barre |
| #5828, aired 2010-01-06 | LET'S HAVE A "BALL" $1000: "Giselle" or "Les Sylphides" ballet |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | BALLET $200: This ballet concludes with Pat Garrett leading pioneers, marching west Billy the Kid |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | BALLET $400: Twyla Tharp used the music of this group for the ballet "Deuce Coupe" The Beach Boys |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | BALLET $600: Facing the evil Kastchei, Prince Ivan summons this title creature with a red feather the Firebird |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | BALLET $800: Jerome Robbins choreographed a ballet to these Bach "Variations" Goldberg Variations |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | BALLET $1000: A maiden is chosen for a sacrifice, the title act of this 1913 ballet The Rite of Spring |
| #5817, aired 2009-12-22 | MUSIC & MUSICIANS $300 (Daily Double): The ballet "Pulcinella" has music by this Russian-born composer who dominated early 20th c. ballet music Stravinsky |
| #5815, aired 2009-12-18 | CANADIAN BAL-EH? $400: "Not only the lovers... swoon" was said of this Shakespearean work from the National Ballet of Canada in 2009 Romeo and Juliet |
| #5815, aired 2009-12-18 | CANADIAN BAL-EH? $800: Taking the prick of the needle in a new direction, a Montreal staging of this ballet makes the princess a drug addict Sleeping Beauty |
| #5815, aired 2009-12-18 | CANADIAN BAL-EH? $1200: Alberta Ballet's "The Fiddle and the Drum" is set to the songs of this female singer born in Alberta Joni Mitchell |
| #5815, aired 2009-12-18 | CANADIAN BAL-EH? $1600: Peterborough's Rex Harrington created the role of this author in the ballet "Alice" Lewis Carroll |
| #5813, aired 2009-12-16 | COMPOSE YOURSELF $2000: This American ballet music composer also wrote the score for the film "Of Mice and Men" Aaron Copland |
| #5753, aired 2009-09-23 | BALLET $400: The title character of this ballet leads toy soldiers in a fight against the mouse king & his army The Nutcracker |
| #5753, aired 2009-09-23 | BALLET $800: A review of this 1910 ballet said ornithologists should take note of Tamara Karsavina dancing the title role Firebird |
| #5753, aired 2009-09-23 | BALLET $1200: Balanchine's first original full-length ballet was an adaptation of this "dreamy" Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #5753, aired 2009-09-23 | BALLET $2,000 (Daily Double): Scene One of this American ballet is set at the corral of Burnt Ranch Rodeo |
| #5753, aired 2009-09-23 | BALLET $2000: She's the Queen of the Swans in "Swan Lake" Odette |
| #5735, aired 2009-07-10 | BALLET $200: This Shakespeare play inspired Jose Limon to create "The Moor's Pavane", & he danced the lead role himself Othello |
| #5735, aired 2009-07-10 | BALLET $400: We're not toying with you: one of Andersen's fairy tales inspired the ballet "The Steadfast Tin" this Soldier |
| #5735, aired 2009-07-10 | BALLET $600: In "Western Symphony", dance hall girls & cowboys cavort to classic tunes like this "River Valley" "Red River Valley" |
| #5735, aired 2009-07-10 | BALLET $800: It's the "little" French surname of choreographer Roland of the Ballets de Paris Petit |
| #5735, aired 2009-07-10 | BALLET $1000: The jazzy ballet "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" was originally part of the Broadway musical "On Your" these Toes |
| #5717, aired 2009-06-16 | BALLETS ALEX COULD STAR IN $800: I'm perfect for Tybalt in this ballet; I love swordfighting, & my death scene will make 'em weep Romeo and Juliet |
| #5716, aired 2009-06-15 | "MILL"S $1200: Yeehaw! She choreographed the ballet "Rodeo" Agnes de Mille |
| #5714, aired 2009-06-11 | THE MUSIC OF BALLET $400: Czech, please: the Mozart symphony named for this capital underscores a 1990 ballet Prague |
| #5714, aired 2009-06-11 | THE MUSIC OF BALLET $800: "Duo Concertant" is performed to a Stravinsky piece composed for piano & this stringed instrument violin |
| #5714, aired 2009-06-11 | THE MUSIC OF BALLET $1200: This Khachaturian "Dance" with a weapon in its name enlivens the wedding scene in the ballet "Gayane" "The Sabre Dance" |
| #5714, aired 2009-06-11 | THE MUSIC OF BALLET $2,000 (Daily Double): No nuts to crack, but "Andantino" has music by this composer Tchaikovsky |
| #5714, aired 2009-06-11 | THE MUSIC OF BALLET $2000: "Thou Swell", a ballet tribute to this Broadway composer, is danced to songs he wrote with Lorenz Hart (Richard) Rodgers |
| #5695, aired 2009-05-15 | TAKE ME TO THE BALLET! $400 (Daily Double): I'm allergic to feathers, so don't let me sit too close to Odette in this classic ballet Swan Lake |
| #5695, aired 2009-05-15 | TAKE ME TO THE BALLET! $400: I'm hoping that the serpent will show up in the ballet "After Eden", but I'm afraid we'll just see this duo Adam & Eve |
| #5695, aired 2009-05-15 | TAKE ME TO THE BALLET! $800: I may nod off during this Tchaikovsky fairy tale ballet, even before that spindle turns up Sleeping Beauty |
| #5695, aired 2009-05-15 | TAKE ME TO THE BALLET! $1200: I hear there's a heavenly body in "Icarus": it's the ballerina who plays this heavenly body the sun |
| #5695, aired 2009-05-15 | TAKE ME TO THE BALLET! $2000: Ouch! A golden bird pecks a king to death in "Le Coq d'or" by this hyphenated Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov |
| #5676, aired 2009-04-20 | FOREIGN LANGUAGE $400: This Russian word for "big" is also the name of a big ballet company the Bolshoi |
| #5634, aired 2009-02-19 | BALLET MUSIC $400: The person playing this instrument is right up on stage in "Dances at a Gathering", to music by Chopin piano |
| #5634, aired 2009-02-19 | BALLET MUSIC $800: The album "Fiedler's Favorite" these includes the one of the Wooden Soldiers a March |
| #5634, aired 2009-02-19 | BALLET MUSIC $1,400 (Daily Double): Manuel de Falla's "El Sombrero de Tres Picos" translates to this in English The Three-Cornered Hat |
| #5629, aired 2009-02-12 | FROM SCREEN TO STAGE $2000: Elton John wrote the music for this Broadway show in which a working-class British lad dreams of being a ballet dancer Billy Elliot |
| #5627, aired 2009-02-10 | BALLET BASICS $400: The pas de chat owes its name to the likeness of the movement to the leap of one of these a cat |
| #5627, aired 2009-02-10 | BALLET BASICS $800: French for "feat of strength", this ballet term now refers to a display of technical skill by any artist tour de force |
| #5627, aired 2009-02-10 | BALLET BASICS $1200: The number of folks who see the ballet, or the heels-together, toes-out basic ability seen in first position the turnout |
| #5627, aired 2009-02-10 | BALLET BASICS $1600: This 4-letter word refers to the configuration of the body resting or in motion; a good one is partly natural physique line |
| #5627, aired 2009-02-10 | BALLET BASICS $2000: A ballet dancer asked to do a movement en cloche is supposed to look like one of these a bell |
| #5617, aired 2009-01-27 | GOLDEN OLDIES $800: "The Golden Age", with music by Shostakovich, was premiered by the Kirov ballet in this city in 1930 Leningrad or St. Petersburg |
| #5599, aired 2009-01-01 | GET SOME CULTURE $2000: When I saw "Les Noces", "Everything was beautiful at" this, as they say in "A Chorus Line" the ballet |
| #5598, aired 2008-12-31 | BALLET MUSIC $200: He composed the music for the ballet "Ghost Town" 4 years before he teamed up with Oscar Hammerstein (Richard) Rodgers |
| #5598, aired 2008-12-31 | BALLET MUSIC $400: "Flotezart" is the fanciful title of a ballet danced to his flute music Mozart |
| #5598, aired 2008-12-31 | BALLET MUSIC $600: The ballet called "Viva" this composer features variations on "La Traviata" Verdi |
| #5598, aired 2008-12-31 | BALLET MUSIC $800: A Twyla Tharp ballet is danced to his Symphony No. 7 in A Major, known as his "Dance Symphony" Ludwig van Beethoven |
| #5598, aired 2008-12-31 | BALLET MUSIC $1000: Originally titled "Le Palais de Cristal", "Symphony in C" is danced to music by this "Carmen" composer Bizet |
| #5595, aired 2008-12-26 | 1890s CINEMA $800: In "Wonderful Dancing Girls", 2 ballet dancers dance on this, years before Fred Astaire in "Royal Wedding" the ceiling |
| #5585, aired 2008-12-12 | STEP UP TO THE BARRE $400: This Spanish surrealist designed costumes for Leonide Massine's 1941 ballet "Labyrinth" Dalí |
| #5585, aired 2008-12-12 | STEP UP TO THE BARRE $1200: The 1988 ballet "A Fool For You" featured his songs, including the title tune & "I've Got A Woman" Ray Charles |
| #5585, aired 2008-12-12 | STEP UP TO THE BARRE $1600: This Russian ballerina choreographed only one ballet, "Autumn Leaves" in 1918 Anna Pavlova |
| #5585, aired 2008-12-12 | STEP UP TO THE BARRE $2000: In 1957 this sister of Maria Tallchief joined the Paris Opera Ballet as an Etoile, the first American so honored Marjorie Tallchief |
| #5566, aired 2008-11-17 | BALLETS THAT TEENS LIKE $400: In many versions of this classic 1892 holiday ballet, Clara rides off to the Kingdom of Sweets in a magical sleigh The Nutcracker |
| #5566, aired 2008-11-17 | BALLETS THAT TEENS LIKE $1200: A high school is one of the settings for "Blue Suede Shoes", a ballet danced to this singer's hits Elvis Presley |
| #5566, aired 2008-11-17 | BALLETS THAT TEENS LIKE $1600: "Tonight, Tonight" let's see the ballet based on this 1957 musical about teen gangs (You know, the Jets & the Sharks) West Side Story |
| #5566, aired 2008-11-17 | BALLETS THAT TEENS LIKE $2000: Teens are touched by the ballet about this biblical kid who runs off but returns home (Oh, boy! Fatted calf!) the prodigal son |
| #5555, aired 2008-10-31 | REQUESTS $1600: This U.S. Top 10 hit by Spandau Ballet will take me right back to slow dancing in '83 "True" |
| #5549, aired 2008-10-23 | MILESTONE BIRTHDAYS 2008 $800: This ballet star & Carrie's love interest on "Sex and the City" turned 60 in February Baryshnikov |
| #5542, aired 2008-10-14 | BALANCHINE BALLETS $400: "The Four Temperaments" is subtitled "A Dance Ballet Without" this, so we'll never say that it "thickens" a plot |
| #5542, aired 2008-10-14 | BALANCHINE BALLETS $800: "Stars and Stripes" is a patriotic ballet dedicated to the memory of this NYC mayor, son of a bandmaster Fiorello LaGuardia |
| #5542, aired 2008-10-14 | BALANCHINE BALLETS $1200: Scene I of Balanchine's ballet "Orpheus" opens at the grave of this woman Eurydice |
| #5542, aired 2008-10-14 | BALANCHINE BALLETS $2000: Originally, Balanchine choreographed his "Walpurgisnacht Ballet" for a 1975 production of this Gounod opera Faust |
| #5529, aired 2008-09-25 | DANCE FORMERS $1,400 (Daily Double): When Balanchine choreographed this ballet in 1965, he played the title role & Suzanne Farrell was his Dulcinea Don Quixote |
| #5513, aired 2008-07-23 | BALLET BASICS $200 (Daily Double): The name of this classic ballet pose is derived from the name of a peninsula arabesque |
| #5513, aired 2008-07-23 | BALLET BASICS $400: If the arms are en couronne, they're held in a curve here above the head |
| #5513, aired 2008-07-23 | BALLET BASICS $800: This ordinal ballet position traditionally has both arms extended outward 2nd position |
| #5513, aired 2008-07-23 | BALLET BASICS $1600: The name of this ballet move is from the Old French for "spinning top" pirouette |
| #5513, aired 2008-07-23 | BALLET BASICS $2000: This ballet move with a 4-letter name is a jump forward, backward or to the side jeté |
| #5506, aired 2008-07-14 | AND THEN YOU "DY" $1200: Michael Fokine created this avian ballet in 1905 for ballerina Anna Pavlova The Dying Swan |
| #5504, aired 2008-07-10 | "C"LASSICAL MUSICIANS $2000: He composed the music for the 1938 ballet "Billy the Kid" (Aaron) Copland |
| #5482, aired 2008-06-10 | 20th CENTURY BALLET $200: This great Cubist designed sets & costumes for the 1919 ballet "The Three-Cornered Hat" Picasso |
| #5482, aired 2008-06-10 | 20th CENTURY BALLET $400: "Prince Rama and the Demons" was inspired by the "Ramayana", an epic poem composed in this ancient language Sanskrit |
| #5482, aired 2008-06-10 | 20th CENTURY BALLET $600: In 1959 Galina Ulanova in "Romeo & Juliet" was a highlight of this ballet company's first U.S. tour the Bolshoi |
| #5482, aired 2008-06-10 | 20th CENTURY BALLET $800: Margot Fonteyn first danced onstage with him on Feb. 21, 1962 at Covent Garden in a performance of "Giselle" Nureyev |
| #5482, aired 2008-06-10 | 20th CENTURY BALLET $1000: In 1911 this great dancer leapt into immortality with his magnificent exit leap in "Le Spectre de la rose" Nijinsky |
| #5479, aired 2008-06-05 | EXTRAS $800: In one production of the ballet "Cinderella", Robert Helpmann & Frederick Ashton danced the parts of these 2 meanies the ugly stepsisters |
| #5469, aired 2008-05-22 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: Tchaikovsky simultaneously composed early sketches for the "Pathetique" symphony & this lively ballet suite the Nutcracker |
| #5465, aired 2008-05-16 | LET'S GO TO THE BALLET $400: Ooh! Ballerinas in green tutus! My favorite part of the ballet "Jewels" is named for these green gems emeralds |
| #5465, aired 2008-05-16 | LET'S GO TO THE BALLET $800: I have to see the NYCB's production of this; the Christmas tree grows about 40 feet high & weighs a ton! The Nutcracker |
| #5465, aired 2008-05-16 | LET'S GO TO THE BALLET $1200: No way! Way! Act II, Scene One of "Spartacus" is set on this ancient highway the Via Appia (the Appian Way) |
| #5465, aired 2008-05-16 | LET'S GO TO THE BALLET $1600: I love the music of this Polish-French composer, so we must see "In the Night", which features his nocturnes Chopin |
| #5465, aired 2008-05-16 | LET'S GO TO THE BALLET $2000: If you like cowboys--& cowgirls--you'll love this Agnes de Mille ballet named for a cowboy event Rodeo |
| #5461, aired 2008-05-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ENTERTAINMENT $600: In 2008 this Moscow ballet company announced that Yuri Burlakau had been approved its artistic director The Bolshoi Ballet |
| #5460, aired 2008-05-09 | GET A JOB! $400: For a ballet or a Broadway show, this person creates & arranges the dances a choreographer |
| #5452, aired 2008-04-29 | COMPOSERS $1600: This composer of the ballet "Rodeo" scored an Oscar for his score from "The Heiress" Aaron Copland |
| #5444, aired 2008-04-17 | BALLET $400: In the 1948 ballet "Fall River Legend", this character is hanged although in real life she was acquitted Lizzie Borden |
| #5444, aired 2008-04-17 | BALLET $800: This Stravinsky character first played by Tamara Karsavina has the face & arms of a girl & a body of feathers the Firebird |
| #5444, aired 2008-04-17 | BALLET $1600: He was married to Maria Tallchief when he choreographed her in his 1948 ballet "Orpheus" George Balanchine |
| #5444, aired 2008-04-17 | BALLET $2000: The first ballet, "Ballet Comique de la Reine", was commissioned by this French queen for her sister's wedding in 1581 Catherine de' Medici |
| #5444, aired 2008-04-17 | BALLET $3,000 (Daily Double): The 1890 premiere of this ballet included Enrico Ceccheti as the Bluebird & Carlotta Brianza as Aurora Sleeping Beauty |
| #5437, aired 2008-04-08 | NOTABLE WOMEN $800: This relative of a famed film director began choreographing for the Ballet Theatre before it was "American" Agnes de Mille |
| #5421, aired 2008-03-17 | 19th CENTURY NAMES $800: Ballet music was thought an inferior genre when he was commissioned to write the music for "Swan Lake" Tchaikovsky |
| #5418, aired 2008-03-12 | RUSSIAN AROUND $800: Since the 19th c. the Marinsky Theatre has been home to ballet company known by this name in the U.S. the Kirov |
| #5401, aired 2008-02-18 | FUN WITH BALLET $200 (Daily Double): Some featherbrain in Moscow was the first to stage this ballet, on March 4, 1877 Swan Lake |
| #5401, aired 2008-02-18 | FUN WITH BALLET $400: "Circus Polka" was originally choreographed for these huge circus animals; it's now danced by humans elephants |
| #5401, aired 2008-02-18 | FUN WITH BALLET $800: In titles of ballets, this number precedes "Seasons", "Bagatelles" & "Norwegian Moods" Four |
| #5401, aired 2008-02-18 | FUN WITH BALLET $1200: John Cranko choreographed a ballet called "Harlequin in" this month--no fooling April |
| #5401, aired 2008-02-18 | FUN WITH BALLET $1600: Models, gendarmes & a Tour de France cyclist appear in the Gershwin ballet "An American in" this city Paris |
| #5393, aired 2008-02-06 | PRINCE $200: In a Stravinsky ballet, this title creature gives Prince Ivan a magic feather the Firebird |
| #5369, aired 2008-01-03 | NOTORIOUS $1600: In a 1938 ballet, a symbolic character known as Alias is killed again & again by this title Outlaw Billy the Kid |
| #5334, aired 2007-11-15 | BALLET $200: The New York City Ballet's first visit to this city's famous festival inspired the ballet "Scotch Symphony" Edinburgh |
| #5334, aired 2007-11-15 | BALLET $400: The 1972 ballet "Printemps" premiered in the winter, but its name is French for this season spring |
| #5334, aired 2007-11-15 | BALLET $600: Balanchine choreographed the leading role in "Allegro Brillante" for this part-Osage Indian ex-wife Maria Tallchief |
| #5334, aired 2007-11-15 | BALLET $800: Alexandre Dumas fils' tale about "The Lady of" these flowers bloomed as the ballet "Marguerite and Armand" the Camellias |
| #5334, aired 2007-11-15 | BALLET $1000: As a law student in St. Petersburg, this man became interested in the arts, & in 1909 he founded the Ballets Russes Diaghilev |
| #5316, aired 2007-10-22 | R&B (ROYALTY & BALLET) $400: Charles & Camilla are characters in a ballet named for this princess that premiered in Manchester in 2005 Diana |
| #5316, aired 2007-10-22 | R&B (ROYALTY & BALLET) $800: In 1985, to honor the wishes of her late mother, this princess re-established Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo Caroline (of Monaco) |
| #5316, aired 2007-10-22 | R&B (ROYALTY & BALLET) $1200: The first ballet, "Ballet Comique de la Reine", was presented at the court of this Medici Queen of France in 1581 Catherine |
| #5316, aired 2007-10-22 | R&B (ROYALTY & BALLET) $1600: This prince who has 2 daughters became patron of the English National Ballet in 2001 Prince Andrew |
| #5316, aired 2007-10-22 | R&B (ROYALTY & BALLET) $2000: This current queen is a big fan of ballet, & the Netherlands Dance Theater often accompanies her on state visits Queen Beatrix |
| #5302, aired 2007-10-02 | THE SCINTALLATING 1700s $800: As a famous one of these artistes, Marie Camargo is remembered for shortening her skirt to (gasp!) calf length a ballet dancer |
| #5293, aired 2007-09-19 | FAIRIES $1200: In a famous ballet her dance is preceded by "The Waltz of the Flowers" the Sugarplum Fairy |
| #5290, aired 2007-09-14 | TITLE BALLET WOMEN $400: 1949 saw the first ballet version of this operatic Bizet work that features Don Jose & a toreador Carmen |
| #5290, aired 2007-09-14 | TITLE BALLET WOMEN $800: The evil priest Frollo wants Esmeralda but she is saved by him Quasimodo |
| #5290, aired 2007-09-14 | TITLE BALLET WOMEN $1200: Margot Fonteyn is seen here resting her tootsies as Princess Aurora in this ballet Sleeping Beauty |
| #5290, aired 2007-09-14 | TITLE BALLET WOMEN $2000: This Greek gal falls for her stepson Hippolytus in a ballet based on Racine's tragedy Phaedra |
| #5290, aired 2007-09-14 | TITLE BALLET WOMEN $4,200 (Daily Double): This Kenneth MacMillan ballet intrigues with the curious story of the last of the 4 daughters of Czar Nicholas II Anastasia |
| #5282, aired 2007-07-24 | BALLET $200: Cadets attend a dance at a girls' school in "Graduation Ball", a ballet set in this capital of Austria Vienna |
| #5282, aired 2007-07-24 | BALLET $400: The 2000 ballet "Todo Buenos Aires" features different interpretations of this sensual ballroom dance the tango |
| #5282, aired 2007-07-24 | BALLET $600: I may say "neigh!" if you do a pas de cheval, a ballet step that imitates this animal a horse |
| #5282, aired 2007-07-24 | BALLET $800: He designed sets & costumes for "Where the Wlid Things Are", a ballet based on his own beloved book Maurice Sendak |
| #5282, aired 2007-07-24 | BALLET $1000: The Carolina Ballet debuted a 2006 work based on this stormy Shakespearean shipwreck saga The Tempest |
| #5260, aired 2007-06-22 | THEY DIFFER BY ONE LETTER $1600: A big spotted cat's ballet suit a leopard leotard |
| #5250, aired 2007-06-08 | BARRE TENDERS $400: In 1989 he again danced with the Kirov Ballet, the first time since his defection 28 years earlier Nureyev |
| #5202, aired 2007-04-03 | AMERICAN FACES $800: One time artistic director of the American Ballet Theater seen here Baryshnikov |
| #5174, aired 2007-02-22 | THE LIPIZZANERS OF VIENNA $400: The Lipizzanners perform equestrian ballet to classical music like that of this 19th-century Viennese master Johann Strauss |
| #5172, aired 2007-02-20 | "F"EMALES $1200: In 1966 she & Nureyev danced in a movie version of the ballet "Romeo and Juliet" Margot Fonteyn |
| #5171, aired 2007-02-19 | FUN WITH BALLET $200: In "La Boutique Fantasque", dolls come to life & perform this high-kicking, skirt-swooshing dance Can-can |
| #5171, aired 2007-02-19 | FUN WITH BALLET $400: Every "Psycho" knows that Matthew Bourne's ballet "Deadly Serious" is an homage to this film director Alfred Hitchcock |
| #5171, aired 2007-02-19 | FUN WITH BALLET $600: The Roanoke Ballet's dancers raced around with logos on their unitards in a ballet named for this auto assoc. NASCAR |
| #5171, aired 2007-02-19 | FUN WITH BALLET $800: The music of film composer Alex North drives the ballet based on this play about Stanley Kowalski "A Streetcar Named Desire" |
| #5171, aired 2007-02-19 | FUN WITH BALLET $1000: Dizzy Gillespie's music is also featured in it, but the ballet "For 'Bird' - With Love" is a tribute to him Charlie Parker |
| #5164, aired 2007-02-08 | BALLET $400: Tend to lose your slippers? Perhaps you should star in this ballet that also features a pumpkin coach Cinderella |
| #5164, aired 2007-02-08 | BALLET $800: In the classic ballet based on this fairy tale, Carabosse is the evil fairy who conjures up that spindle curse Sleeping Beauty |
| #5164, aired 2007-02-08 | BALLET $1200: The temps de poisson, a jump with arched back & crossed feet, literally means "time of" this animal a fish |
| #5164, aired 2007-02-08 | BALLET $2000: Just like the opera, the 1949 ballet version of "Carmen" takes place in this country Spain |
| #5164, aired 2007-02-08 | BALLET $10,000 (Daily Double): A flurry of ballerinas performs the "Waltz of the Snowflakes" in this beloved ballet The Nutcracker |
| #5161, aired 2007-02-05 | TEENS IN HISTORY $2000: By age 16, Nijinsky was already known as the "Eighth Wonder of the World" as one of these performers a ballet dancer |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | BALLET $800: The last act of this ballet is sometimes presented independently in one act as "Aurora's Wedding" Sleeping Beauty |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | BALLET $1600: This Nijinsky-choreographed ballet has 2 scenes: "Adoration of the Earth" & "The Sacrified" The Rite of Spring |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | BALLET $2000: This alliterative Jerome Robbins ballet focuses on 3 sailors on shore leave in New York Fancy Free |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | BALLET $6,000 (Daily Double): Pat Garrett is one of the roles in this American ballet Billy the Kid |
| #5130, aired 2006-12-22 | NOVEL BALLETS $400: S.C.'s Columbia City Ballet subtitled its adaptation of this 19th C. horror classic "Ballet With A Bite" Dracula |
| #5130, aired 2006-12-22 | NOVEL BALLETS $800: In Michael Pink's ballet version of this French novel, Esmeralda really swings: she's hanged onstage in Act III The Hunchback Of Notre Dame |
| #5130, aired 2006-12-22 | NOVEL BALLETS $1200: Dmitry & his dad both lust after sexy Grushenka in the ballet based on this Dostoyevsky novel The Brothers Karamazov |
| #5130, aired 2006-12-22 | NOVEL BALLETS $1600: Valerie Bettis' ballet "As I Lay Dying" brought to life a novel by this southerner William Faulkner |
| #5102, aired 2006-11-14 | MUSIC $800: Beethoven's "Creatures of Prometheus" is music to accompany this type of performance a ballet |
| #5096, aired 2006-11-06 | MISTER ROBERTs $1200: "Remembrances" & "Postcards" are works by this choreographer who founded his own ballet company Joffrey |
| #5070, aired 2006-09-29 | TALES OF E.T.A. HOFFMANN $2,000 (Daily Double): A Hoffmann tale title lost the words "and the Mouse King" when it became this Tchaikovsky ballet The Nutcracker |
| #5068, aired 2006-09-27 | LEAPING $1600: In ballet, one of these, from the French for “throw”, can be a “grand” or “petit” leap from one foot to the other jeté |
| #5043, aired 2006-07-12 | 40 YEARS OF THE NEA $400: The first NEA grant was awarded to save this Manhattan ballet company the American Ballet Theatre |
| #5040, aired 2006-07-07 | DANCING WITH THE TSARS $400: Yuri Vladimirov danced the role of this notorious 16th century tsar in the 1975 premiere of the ballet about him Ivan the Terrible |
| #5040, aired 2006-07-07 | DANCING WITH THE TSARS $1600: In 1801, Tsar Paul I brought Charles Didelot, the man who introduced flesh-colored tights, to this city as Ballet Master Saint Petersburg |
| #5011, aired 2006-05-29 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $800: A gazelle is a graceful animal; this 1841 ballet has been called "the 'Hamlet' of the dance" Giselle |
| #5007, aired 2006-05-23 | CLASSY CLASSICAL CLASSICS $1000: Yee-haw! It's the Copland ballet heard here Rodeo |
| #5005, aired 2006-05-19 | TUTU MUCH! $1200: This Ziegfeld star donned a tutu for zany ballet spoofs, which inspired "The Swan" number in the film "Funny Girl" Fanny Brice |
| #4996, aired 2006-05-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SPORTS $800: Not typically thought of as a contact sport, it's "athletic ballet... a brutal sport played by large and powerful men" basketball |
| #4975, aired 2006-04-07 | ONE OF THESE NIGHTS $1200: After his ballet troupe's Toronto performance on June 29, 1974, he didn't get on the KGB bus Baryshnikov |
| #4945, aired 2006-02-24 | BALLET ROLES $400: Since 1905 it's been dying, dying--still fluttering--dead! the Swan |
| #4945, aired 2006-02-24 | BALLET ROLES $800: This outlaw pirouettes to Copland's music before he shoots people Billy the Kid |
| #4945, aired 2006-02-24 | BALLET ROLES $1200: She gets a nutcracker for Christmas Clara |
| #4945, aired 2006-02-24 | BALLET ROLES $1600: Goat-legged Nijinsky creature on a sunny afternoon a faun |
| #4945, aired 2006-02-24 | BALLET ROLES $2000: Also referring to his ship, he is the title pirate in a ballet inspired by Byron the Corsair |
| #4944, aired 2006-02-23 | BASHIN' FASHION $1200: In like Flynn: a tutu-like dress on this star of "The Practice" led to "She looks like Trashy Ballet Barbie" Lara Flynn Boyle |
| #4938, aired 2006-02-15 | BALLET IS FOR THE BIRDS! $400: You may take a "gander" at the Jerome Robbins ballet named for this nursery rhymster Mother Goose |
| #4938, aired 2006-02-15 | BALLET IS FOR THE BIRDS! $800: Sancho Panza gets chased after stealing a bird in a ballet based on this novel Don Quixote |
| #4938, aired 2006-02-15 | BALLET IS FOR THE BIRDS! $1200: The NYCB's 1986 version of this classic ballet had the "cygnet"ure corps of birds dressed in black Swan Lake |
| #4938, aired 2006-02-15 | BALLET IS FOR THE BIRDS! $2000: There's a duck in the ballet based on this composer's "Peter and the Wolf" Prokofiev |
| #4938, aired 2006-02-15 | BALLET IS FOR THE BIRDS! $2,600 (Daily Double): Jemima Puddle-Duck shakes her tail feathers in the delightful ballet called "The Tales of" this woman Beatrix Potter |
| #4930, aired 2006-02-03 | ROYALTY & BALLET $400: King Gustav III of this country founded a ballet company in 1773; it's still going strong today Sweden |
| #4930, aired 2006-02-03 | ROYALTY & BALLET $800: In the early 1890s, before he was czar, he was in a spin over ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska Nicholas II |
| #4930, aired 2006-02-03 | ROYALTY & BALLET $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1661 this king, no slouch as a dancer himself, founded the Academie Royale de Danse Louis XIV |
| #4930, aired 2006-02-03 | ROYALTY & BALLET $1600: This princess served as president of the Royal Ballet from 1957 until her death in 2002 Princess Margaret |
| #4930, aired 2006-02-03 | ROYALTY & BALLET $2000: (Jon of the Clue Crew stands in front of a stage at Tivoli in Copenhagen, Denmark.) A new production of "Thumbelina" that premiered here in Tivoli in 2005 featured sets & costumes designed by this woman, the queen of Denmark Queen Margrethe |
| #4913, aired 2006-01-11 | THE KENNEDY CENTER $800: On Dec. 23, 2003 the inaugural event of the newly renovated Opera House was the Kirov dancing this ballet The Nutcracker |
| #4912, aired 2006-01-10 | SOVIET MAN $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Red Square in Moscow, Russia while a memorable melody plays.) This composer of film & ballet scores was overshadowed when he died the same day as Stalin, March 5, 1953 Prokofiev |
| #4908, aired 2006-01-04 | WHERE'S THE "FIRE"? $1000: Stravinsky ballet from 1910 The Firebird |
| #4861, aired 2005-10-31 | "CHIN" UP $1000: In 1982 he choreographed his final ballet, a new version of Stravinsky's "Variations for Orchestra" (George) Balanchine |
| #4850, aired 2005-10-14 | BALLET $200: The ballet "Les patineurs" focuses on this athletic pastime, with the dancers gliding by in wintry setting ice skating |
| #4850, aired 2005-10-14 | BALLET $400: In part two of the ballet "Jewels", the dancers dress like these red gems rubies |
| #4842, aired 2005-10-04 | TAKE-OFFS $2000: "Go for Barocco" is a take-off of Balanchine by this hairy, all-male ballet troupe the Trockadero de Monte Carlo |
| #4835, aired 2005-09-23 | COMPOSING, DECOMPOSING $400: Scored a 10 with "Bolero" for a ballet commission in 1928, clock struck 12 in Paris on Dec. 28, 1937 Ravel |
| #4819, aired 2005-07-14 | SHALL WE "DANCE"? $1200: It's the famous "dance" from the ballet "Gayane" by Aram Khachaturian the "sabre dance" |
| #4809, aired 2005-06-30 | ENDS IN "TU" $400: This ballet skirt is sometimes made of a cotton fabric called tarlatan a tutu |
| #4797, aired 2005-06-14 | AT THE BALLET $400: In one version of this fairy tale ballet, the prince summons cobblers throughout the kingdom, but to no avail Cinderella |
| #4797, aired 2005-06-14 | AT THE BALLET $800: Act II of this classic ballet takes place in the Kingdom of Sweets The Nutcracker |
| #4797, aired 2005-06-14 | AT THE BALLET $1200: The roles of Odette & Odile are often performed by the same ballerina in this ballet Swan Lake |
| #4797, aired 2005-06-14 | AT THE BALLET $1,600 (Daily Double): Agnes de Mille's success with this 1942 Copland ballet led to her assignment as the choreographer for "Oklahoma!" Rodeo |
| #4797, aired 2005-06-14 | AT THE BALLET $2000: With music by Stravinsky, this ballet tells of a clown puppet who gets his heart broken, dies & becomes a ghost Petrushka |
| #4788, aired 2005-06-01 | DANCING BAREFOOT $400: Modern dance began as a rebellion against the artifice & formality of this classic form of dance ballet |
| #4786, aired 2005-05-30 | BALLET $400: In the 1940s & 1950s Galina Ulanova was the chief ballerina for this company formed almost 200 years earlier the Bolshoi |
| #4786, aired 2005-05-30 | BALLET $800: Appropriate 1-word title of the Balanchine Ballet in 3 parts: "Emeralds", "Rubies" & "Diamonds" Jewels |
| #4786, aired 2005-05-30 | BALLET $1200: This choreographer's first ballet "Fancy Free", combined ballet & jazz dancing Jerome Robbins |
| #4786, aired 2005-05-30 | BALLET $1600: In 1912 this Russian not only choreographed "The Afternoon of a Faun", he danced the part of the faun as well Nijinsky |
| #4786, aired 2005-05-30 | BALLET $2000: Literally French for "beating", this movement of the leg may be grand, petit or frappe a battement |
| #4769, aired 2005-05-05 | BALLET $400: "Filling Station" features dancing truck drivers & this 1930s dance whose name is New York City's nickname the Big Apple |
| #4769, aired 2005-05-05 | BALLET $800: Concubines & a eunuch are featured in the exotic ballet named for this "Arabian Nights" tale-spinner Scheherezade |
| #4769, aired 2005-05-05 | BALLET $1200: Tipsy revelers frolic with ladies of easy virtue in the Hogarth-inspired ballet about this man's "Progress" the Rake |
| #4769, aired 2005-05-05 | BALLET $1600: In an 1870 Delibes ballet, Swanilda, the heroine, gets all dolled up to impersonate this title doll Coppélia |
| #4769, aired 2005-05-05 | BALLET $2000: 1977's "Calcium Light Night" was the first ballet choreographed by this great Dane, Ballet Master in Chief of the NYCB Peter Martins |
| #4766, aired 2005-05-02 | POP CULTURE $200: Jack Handey "Deep Thought": "To me", this sport "is like a ballet, except, there's no music... and the dancers hit each other" boxing |
| #4750, aired 2005-04-08 | JOBS IN THE ARTS $800: William Hamilton is the consulting one of these muscle & joint doctors to American Ballet Theatre orthopedist |
| #4728, aired 2005-03-09 | BALANCHINE BALLETS $400: Balanchine was a friend of this composer whose fascinatin' rhythms inspired the ballet "Who Cares?" Gershwin |
| #4728, aired 2005-03-09 | BALANCHINE BALLETS $800: Balanchine wrote that he played an elf in this Shakespeare play long before creating a 1962 ballet based on it A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #4728, aired 2005-03-09 | BALANCHINE BALLETS $1600: When the ballet "Prodigal Son" was revived in 1950, this woman who was then Balanchine's wife played the siren Maria Tallchief |
| #4728, aired 2005-03-09 | BALANCHINE BALLETS $5,000 (Daily Double): The 3 muses who appear in Balanchine's ballet "Apollo" are Polyhymnia, Calliope & this muse of the dance Terpsichore |
| #4724, aired 2005-03-03 | ART AT THE BARNES $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Barnes Foundation.) In "Three Ballet Dancers", he used pastels to transform awkward natural movements into balletic gestures Degas |
| #4696, aired 2005-01-24 | FRENCH LESSONS $600: This organization whose name comes from the French for "sun" calls its bungee routine "ballet without gravity" Cirque du Soleil |
| #4672, aired 2004-12-21 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1200: For the ballet "Coppelia" Leo Delibes used "The Sandman", one of the "Tales of" this author E.T.A. Hoffmann |
| #4665, aired 2004-12-10 | I PREDICT "SNOW" $2000: Listening to this famous piece of ballet music makes me think of a flurry of little dancers "Waltz Of The Snowflakes" (from The Nutcracker) |
| #4627, aired 2004-10-19 | BALLET & OPERA $400: Nutty about "The Nutcracker"? You've probably seen it during this month (that's the month it was first performed, too) December |
| #4627, aired 2004-10-19 | BALLET & OPERA $800: Warning: If you play the role of Jemmy in the opera "William Tell", you'll get one of these shot off your head an apple |
| #4627, aired 2004-10-19 | BALLET & OPERA $1200: Haydn wrote several operas for these stringed toys, but someone must be hidin' them; most of them are lost puppets (or marionettes) |
| #4627, aired 2004-10-19 | BALLET & OPERA $1600: Odile & Prince Sigfried are the deux-o who dance the Black Swan pas de deux in this ballet Swan Lake |
| #4627, aired 2004-10-19 | BALLET & OPERA $2000: In an opera based on history, the pharaoh Akhenaten gives up polygamy for this beautiful queen Nefertiti |
| #4615, aired 2004-10-01 | BIRD-BRAINED BALLETS $400: The "Bluebird Pas de Deux" is performed at Princess Aurora's wedding in this fairy tale ballet Sleeping Beauty |
| #4615, aired 2004-10-01 | BIRD-BRAINED BALLETS $800: Tamara Karsavina won the role of this title bird in a 1910 ballet because Anna Pavlova didn't like the music the Firebird |
| #4615, aired 2004-10-01 | BIRD-BRAINED BALLETS $1000: Created for Anna Pavlova, this famous ballet solo is a lot shorter than "Swan Lake" "The Dying Swan" |
| #4604, aired 2004-09-16 | MODERN DANCE $1200: As opposed to the leaps of ballet, Mary Wigman's dances showed gravity's pull & often used this prayerful position kneeling |
| #4584, aired 2004-07-08 | THEIR NATIVE SOIL $800: Choreographer Michel Fokine Russia |
| #4577, aired 2004-06-29 | HELLO, ETHAN $1600: Ethan Stiefel is one of the leading dancers with this New York City group abbreviated ABT the American Ballet Theatre |
| #4564, aired 2004-06-10 | PULITZER PRIZES $1600: This "seasonal" ballet earned Aaron Copland the 1945 prize for Music Appalachian Spring |
| #4554, aired 2004-05-27 | A FEW "BAR"s OF MUSIC $2000: This great 20th century Hungarian composer wrote the music for the ballet "The Wooden Prince" (Béla) Bartók |
| #4541, aired 2004-05-10 | YOU SHOULD BE IN A BALLET! $400: This fluffy skirt that you may have to wear was not named for archbishop Desmond tutu |
| #4541, aired 2004-05-10 | YOU SHOULD BE IN A BALLET! $800: Your allergy to feathers may prevent you from playing Odette, the queen of the swans in this ballet Swan Lake |
| #4541, aired 2004-05-10 | YOU SHOULD BE IN A BALLET! $1,000 (Daily Double): To star in this 1890 fairy tale ballet, you shouldn't have spindly legs but you will need a spindle Sleeping Beauty |
| #4541, aired 2004-05-10 | YOU SHOULD BE IN A BALLET! $1600: Your striking resemblance to Kirk Douglas has convinced us to star you in the ballet about this gladiator Spartacus |
| #4541, aired 2004-05-10 | YOU SHOULD BE IN A BALLET! $2000: Your "Romeo and Juliet" will make everyone forget the 1965 triumph of Rudolf Nureyev & this partner Margot Fonteyn |
| #4532, aired 2004-04-27 | BALLET $400: Emma Livry, who triumphed as this creature in "Le Papillon", died after her dress caught fire a butterfly |
| #4532, aired 2004-04-27 | BALLET $800: His leaps earned comparisons with Nijinsky when he joined the Kirov Ballet in 1958 Nureyev |
| #4532, aired 2004-04-27 | BALLET $1200: This Italian-named brand got a boost in 1910 when Pavlova bought shoes for her whole company Capezio |
| #4532, aired 2004-04-27 | BALLET $1600: In Scene 1 of this 1942 ballet, several men have to dance around so as to look like they're on horseback Rodeo |
| #4532, aired 2004-04-27 | BALLET $2000: This company's first season opened in 1948 with 3 Balanchine ballets the New York City Ballet |
| #4518, aired 2004-04-07 | BALLET $400: In 1973 Twyla Tharp choreographed "Deuce Coupe" for the Joffrey Ballet with music by this group the Beach Boys |
| #4518, aired 2004-04-07 | BALLET $800: In 1980 Marjorie Tallchief helped this older sister found the Chicago City Ballet Maria Tallchief |
| #4518, aired 2004-04-07 | BALLET $1200: A prima ballerina is the star female dancer of a ballet company; this French term refers to the star male dancer premiere dancer |
| #4518, aired 2004-04-07 | BALLET $1600: This touring group exhibited a Russian spirit, but never performed in Russia; it broke up after Diaghilev's death Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo |
| #4518, aired 2004-04-07 | BALLET $2000: In 1990 Mark Morris & Baryshnikov founded this "Project", a touring company The White Oak Dance Project |
| #4491, aired 2004-03-01 | SPRINGS ON THE MAP $1000: This fashionable resort in the Adirondacks is the summer home of the New York City Ballet Saratoga Springs |
| #4483, aired 2004-02-18 | BALLET $800: 3 ballerinas play this queen's tarts in Andrei Bossov's "Alice in Wonderland" ballet the Queen of Hearts |
| #4483, aired 2004-02-18 | BALLET $1200: Maya Plisetskaya choreographed a ballet based on this Tolstoy novel & danced the title role herself "Anna Karenina" |
| #4483, aired 2004-02-18 | BALLET $1600: Ballet dancers must master this bending of the knees, which may be "grand" or "demi" plié |
| #4483, aired 2004-02-18 | BALLET $2000: The official symbol of the New York City Ballet is this favorite musical instrument of the god Apollo a lyre |
| #4463, aired 2004-01-21 | WHEN WE DANCE $1200: The ballet "The Bitter Weird" is based on the dances Agnes De Mille created for this musical about a Scottish town Brigadoon |
| #4461, aired 2004-01-19 | BALLET $400: Center practice is done without the support of this wall-lining object the bar |
| #4461, aired 2004-01-19 | BALLET $1600: The name of this scissor-legged ballet leap means "thrown" jete |
| #4461, aired 2004-01-19 | BALLET $2000: Nijinsky is seen here in costume for this ballet, with a score by Stravinsky Petrushka |
| #4448, aired 2003-12-31 | CHRISTMAS CHARACTERS $1200: In the New York City Ballet's 1954 "Nutcracker", Alberta Grant was Clara & Maria Tallchief, her the Sugar Plum Fairy |
| #4448, aired 2003-12-31 | TRAVEL GERMANY $1600: At Hohenschwangau Castle, you'll find a body of water that shares its name with this 1877 ballet Swan Lake |
| #4433, aired 2003-12-10 | "F" TROOP $600: In 1958 choreographer Frederick Ashton created his ballet "Ondine" for this great British ballerina Margot Fonteyn |
| #4428, aired 2003-12-03 | KENNEDY CENTER HONORS DANCERS $1600: When born in Riga back in 1948, this ballet star probably never figured he'd turn out to be a 2000 honoree Mikhail Baryshnikov |
| #4411, aired 2003-11-10 | BALLET $200: The tale of the tortoise & the hare comes to life in Karen Corey-Malik's ballet based on this man's fables Aesop |
| #4411, aired 2003-11-10 | BALLET $400: "Something" tells us the ABT presented a ballet tribute to this former Beatle who passed away in 2001 George Harrison |
| #4411, aired 2003-11-10 | BALLET $600: Czar Nicholas II & this empress appear in "Anastasia", a ballet about one of their daughters Alexandra |
| #4411, aired 2003-11-10 | BALLET $800: Arrgh! A pirate is the hero of "Le Corsaire", based on an 1814 poem by this British lord Lord Byron |
| #4411, aired 2003-11-10 | BALLET $1000: In 2003 the dance theatre of this N.Y. neighborhood presented the world premiere of "St. Louis Woman: A Blues Ballet" Harlem |
| #4378, aired 2003-09-24 | BALLET $400: Traditionally, 2 male dancers play the wicked stepsisters in this ever-popular fairy tale ballet Cinderella |
| #4378, aired 2003-09-24 | BALLET $800: The famous 1938 ballet about a western outlaw is named for this "kid", not the Sundance Kid Billy the Kid |
| #4378, aired 2003-09-24 | BALLET $1200: Robert Atwood choreographed a ballet about this "apprentice" that Mickey Mouse played in "Fantasia" The Sorcerer's Apprentice |
| #4378, aired 2003-09-24 | BALLET $1600: After seeing this classic Christmas ballet, you'll have visions of the Sugar Plum Fairy dancing in your head The Nutcracker |
| #4371, aired 2003-09-15 | WATER SPORTS $400: Synchronized swimming used to be called "water" this, though it's hard to be "en pointe" in the pool ballet |
| #4366, aired 2003-09-08 | BALLET $400: In 1661 Louis XIV established a ballet academy in a room of this current art museum the Louvre |
| #4366, aired 2003-09-08 | BALLET $1,000 (Daily Double): Agnes de Mille's ballet "Fall River Legend" was based on the case of this accused murderess Lizzie Borden |
| #4366, aired 2003-09-08 | BALLET $1200: During his long association with the NYC Ballet, he choreographed "West Side Story" & other musicals Jerome Robbins |
| #4325, aired 2003-05-23 | BALLET $200: One version of this ballet includes Crystal, the little glass slipper fairy Cinderella |
| #4325, aired 2003-05-23 | BALLET $400: This Christmas ballet is based on a story by E.T.A. Hoffmann The Nutcracker |
| #4325, aired 2003-05-23 | BALLET $600: Pat Garrett is one of the roles in this ballet that features music by Aaron Copland Billy the Kid |
| #4325, aired 2003-05-23 | BALLET $800: Jose Limon's "The Moor's Pavane" is based on this tragedy Othello |
| #4325, aired 2003-05-23 | BALLET $1000: "Adoration of the Earth" & "The Sacrifice" are the 2 parts of this Stravinsky ballet The Rite of Spring |
| #4324, aired 2003-05-22 | IS THERE A POINT TO ALL THIS? $400: In ballet, to dance "sur les pointes" is to dance on these toes |
| #4303, aired 2003-04-23 | BEGINS WITH "F" $1600: This ballet about 3 sailors on leave in New York City was turned into the musical "On The Town" Fancy Free |
| #4302, aired 2003-04-22 | BALLET $200: This Cubist did set designs for 1917's "Parade" & had designs on its ballerina Olga Khoklova, later his wife Pablo Picasso |
| #4302, aired 2003-04-22 | BALLET $400: If the original play is too long for you, you might like "The Dream", a 1-act ballet based on this Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #4302, aired 2003-04-22 | BALLET $600: In ballet terminology, it's a full complete turn of the body on one foot pirouette |
| #4302, aired 2003-04-22 | BALLET $800: A releve is the raising of the body by lifting these heels |
| #4274, aired 2003-03-13 | BITS & PIECES $200: A 1998 32-cent stamp shows a woman as this type of performer in an "Attitude Derriere" pose ballet dancer |
| #4262, aired 2003-02-25 | BALLET $400: "1963: Yesterday" is danced to music made famous by this group, including "Yesterday" the Beatles |
| #4262, aired 2003-02-25 | BALLET $800: In 1999 Ballet Pacifica premiered "Moonlight", performed to a sonata by this composer Ludwig van Beethoven |
| #4262, aired 2003-02-25 | BALLET $1200: In a ballet based on Bizet's opera, this hussy of a heroine meets a violent end outside a bullring Carmen |
| #4262, aired 2003-02-25 | BALLET $1600: The story & the music of the ballet "Revenge" come from this composer's opera "Il Trovatore" Giuseppe Verdi |
| #4260, aired 2003-02-21 | '60s MUSCLE CARS $800: This Pontiac muscle car moves much faster than the Stravinsky ballet Firebird |
| #4260, aired 2003-02-21 | CINDERELLA $1600: Lesley Collier played Cinderella in a 1981 TV ballet; this Lesley did it in a 1965 Rodgers & Hammerstein CBS special Lesley Ann Warren |
| #4254, aired 2003-02-13 | BALLET $400: The ballet "Jeu de Cartes" features dancing playing cards, & this one is the "trickster" of the pack the joker |
| #4254, aired 2003-02-13 | BALLET $800: The longer "romantic" version of this ballet garment was inspired by the one Taglioni wore in the 1830s tutu |
| #4254, aired 2003-02-13 | BALLET $1200: A ballet blanc, such as "La Sylphide", traditionally features costumes of this color white |
| #4254, aired 2003-02-13 | BALLET $1600: From the French meaning "to bend", this basic bending movement prepares a dancer to spring high into the air plie |
| #4254, aired 2003-02-13 | BALLET $2000: French sculptor whose art inspired "The Eternal Idol" (hmmm...that's a "Thinker") Auguste Rodin |
| #4252, aired 2003-02-11 | 1776 $3,600 (Daily Double): The Moscow ballet company now known as this gave its first performance in 1776 Bolshoi |
| #4228, aired 2003-01-08 | BALLET $400: Princess Aurora pricks her finger on a spindle in Act I of this classic ballet Sleeping Beauty |
| #4228, aired 2003-01-08 | BALLET $800: The Royal Winnipeg Ballet is known as the oldest major ballet company in this country Canada |
| #4228, aired 2003-01-08 | BALLET $1600: A graveyard scene (with bats!) is in Matthew Wright's ballet based on this "monstrous" Mary Shelley novel. Frankenstein |
| #4228, aired 2003-01-08 | BALLET $2,000 (Daily Double): In a famous Tchaikovsky ballet, Odette is the queen of these birds swans |
| #4228, aired 2003-01-08 | BALLET $2000: "Liebeslieder Walzer" is danced to music by this German famed for his "lullaby" Brahms |
| #4204, aired 2002-12-05 | THEATER $1200: This famous New York dance company is abbreviated the ABT American Ballet Theatre |
| #4171, aired 2002-10-21 | THE "FIFTH" ELEMENT $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew) Many ballet moves like the glissade begin from & end in this posture fifth position |
| #4169, aired 2002-10-17 | WHATCHAMACALLIT $400: As it's Russian for "big", that makes it just a big ballet company Bolshoi |
| #4162, aired 2002-10-08 | GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $1600: Baskin-Robbins creates fancy ice cream treats; he created the ballet "Fancy Free" Jerome Robbins |
| #4147, aired 2002-09-17 | ACTIVITIES $800: There are classes just for boys in this activity that begins with warmup at the barre ballet |
| #4109, aired 2002-06-13 | ON YOUR TOES $400: These wooden rails attached to the walls of ballet studios are used for support while practicing barres |
| #4109, aired 2002-06-13 | ON YOUR TOES $1200: Although founded in New York City, the Joffrey Ballet is now headquartered in this midwest city Chicago |
| #4109, aired 2002-06-13 | ON YOUR TOES $1600: This 1911 Stravinsky ballet told the touching story of puppets brought to life Petrushka |
| #4100, aired 2002-05-31 | '38 SPECIAL $2000: In 1938 he threw in the tutu as leader of the ballet at the Met George Balanchine |
| #4086, aired 2002-05-13 | BALLET $400: A sexually confused stable boy is the focus of this ballet based on Peter Shaffer's play of the same name Equus |
| #4086, aired 2002-05-13 | BALLET $800: The 1938 premiere of this ballet featured Lew Christensen in the role of Pat Garrett Billy the Kid |
| #4086, aired 2002-05-13 | BALLET $1200: Von Rotbart is the evil, bird-like sorcerer in this classic 1877 ballet Swan Lake |
| #4086, aired 2002-05-13 | BALLET $1600: In 1911 this great dancer leapt into immortality with his magnificent exit leap in "Le spectre de la rose" Nijinsky |
| #4086, aired 2002-05-13 | BALLET $2000: This choreographer played one of the sailors when his ballet "Fancy Free" premiered in 1944 Jerome Robbins |
| #4082, aired 2002-05-07 | COMPOSERS $600: This composer of the ballet "Rodeo" scored an Oscar for his score from "The Heiress" Copland |
| #4078, aired 2002-05-01 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTS & LEISURE $2000: This "famed... company from St. Petersburg is now at the mercy of... ballet masters of the world", the Times lamented the Kirov |
| #4073, aired 2002-04-24 | CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS $800: Traditionally a dancer takes over the role of Laury in the dream-ballet part of this Rodgers & Hammerstein show Oklahoma! |
| #4073, aired 2002-04-24 | "COP"ING $2000: He won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Music for the ballet "Appalachian Spring" Aaron Copland |
| #4067, aired 2002-04-16 | LIVIN' LATVIAN LARGE $1000: This member of the Riga ballet moved on to the Kirov in 1967, then defected to the West in 1974 Baryshnikov |
| #4058, aired 2002-04-03 | ON THE BARBIE $2000: In 2001 Barbie made her video debut playing Clara in an adaptation of this Christmas ballet The Nutcracker |
| #4037, aired 2002-03-05 | BALLET $400: This choreographer was the niece of the producer-director of "The Ten Commandments" Agnes DeMille |
| #4037, aired 2002-03-05 | BALLET $800: Born in Russia, he became an Austrian citizen in 1982 & artistic director of the Paris Opera Ballet in 1983 (Rudolf) Nureyev |
| #4037, aired 2002-03-05 | BALLET $1200: In 1905 Michel Fokine created a 3-minute dance, "The Dying" this, that became closely associated with Anna Pavlova the Swan |
| #4037, aired 2002-03-05 | BALLET $1600: Part Native American, her 1997 autobiography was subtitled "America's Prima Ballerina" Maria Tallchief |
| #3996, aired 2002-01-07 | AT THE BALLET $200: A pas de trois is a dance for 3, & this similar term is a dance for 2 performers a pas de deux |
| #3996, aired 2002-01-07 | AT THE BALLET $400: Margot Fonteyn danced divinely in a 1940 ballet inspired by this author of the "Divine Comedy" Dante |
| #3996, aired 2002-01-07 | AT THE BALLET $600: A male drifter lusts after a garage owner's wife in "The Car Man", inspired by this composer's opera "Carmen" Bizet |
| #3995, aired 2002-01-04 | TOUGH POTPOURRI $800: The title of the ballet "All I Need to Know" is a quotation from this poet's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" Keats |
| #3983, aired 2001-12-19 | SWAN LAKE $5,000 (Daily Double): The director of this theater hired Tchaikovsky to score the ballet, then called "The Lake of the Swan" Bolshoi |
| #3945, aired 2001-10-26 | BALLET $100 (Daily Double): This ballet by Agnes De Mille is subtitled "The Courting at Burnt Ranch" Rodeo |
| #3945, aired 2001-10-26 | BALLET $200: Herr Drosselmeyer brings Clara a special Christmas gift in this 1892 ballet The Nutcracker |
| #3945, aired 2001-10-26 | BALLET $400: Act three, scene one of this ballet is called "The Awakening" Sleeping Beauty |
| #3945, aired 2001-10-26 | BALLET $600: Prince Siegfried & Odette drown themselves toward the end of this classic ballet Swan Lake |
| #3945, aired 2001-10-26 | BALLET $1000: This title character has the face & arms of a woman & a body of feathers that tapers off in flames The Firebird |
| #3934, aired 2001-10-11 | HOW SUITE IT IS $600: Tchaikovsky simultaneously composed early sketches for the "Pathetique " symphony & this lively ballet suite The Nutcracker Suite |
| #3911, aired 2001-09-10 | 20th CENTURY BALLET $100: This great Spanish cubist designed sets & costumes for the 1919 ballet "The Three-Cornered Hat" Picasso |
| #3911, aired 2001-09-10 | 20th CENTURY BALLET $200: "Prince Rama & the Demons" was inspired by the "Ramayana", one of the great epic poems of this country India |
| #3911, aired 2001-09-10 | 20th CENTURY BALLET $300: "Happiness is just a thing called Joe" goes one of the songs in the 1997 ballet about this late sex symbol Marilyn Monroe |
| #3911, aired 2001-09-10 | 20th CENTURY BALLET $400: Phillip Feeny's eerie music for the British ballet based on this spooky 19th C. novel is heard here Dracula |
| #3906, aired 2001-09-03 | ACCENTÉ $800: It's the basic ballet maneuver seen here plié |
| #3879, aired 2001-06-14 | JUNE SWOON $200: This composer's first ballet, "The Firebird", premiered in Paris June 25, 1910 Igor Stravinsky |
| #3877, aired 2001-06-12 | CHOREOGRAPHERS $200: The Royal Ballet's Kenneth MacMillan choreographed a 1966 film starring Nureyev & Fonteyn as these lovers from Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet |
| #3877, aired 2001-06-12 | CHOREOGRAPHERS $1000: This Danish-born male dancer was groomed as Balanchine's heir at the New York City Ballet Peter Martins |
| #3865, aired 2001-05-25 | THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING! $800: A ballet by this composer features the piece heard here:
["The Russian Dance"] Pyotr Tchaikovsky |
| #3849, aired 2001-05-03 | BALLET $200: "After Eden" dramatizes what happened to this couple after they left the garden Adam & Eve |
| #3849, aired 2001-05-03 | BALLET $400: "Coppelia" is subtitled "The Girl with Enamel Eyes" because Coppelia is one of these toys a doll |
| #3849, aired 2001-05-03 | BALLET $600: The Royal Danish Ballet marked the start of its 2000 season with a free outdoor show in this Danish capital Copenhagen |
| #3849, aired 2001-05-03 | BALLET $800: If you're "Home Alone", you may want to rent the 1993 film of "The Nutcracker", with this young star in the title role Macaulay Culkin |
| #3849, aired 2001-05-03 | BALLET $1000: "This Property is Condemned " is based on a 1-act play by this author of "The Glass Menagerie" Tennessee Williams |
| #3837, aired 2001-04-17 | BALLET'S IN THE HOUSE $100: The Bolshoi Ballet at the Bolshoi Theatre Moscow |
| #3837, aired 2001-04-17 | BALLET'S IN THE HOUSE $200: American Ballet Theatre at the Metropolitan Opera House New York City |
| #3837, aired 2001-04-17 | BALLET'S IN THE HOUSE $300: The Royal Ballet at Covent Garden London |
| #3837, aired 2001-04-17 | BALLET'S IN THE HOUSE $400: The Joffrey Ballet at the Auditorium Theatre Chicago |
| #3837, aired 2001-04-17 | BALLET'S IN THE HOUSE $500: The Kirov Ballet at the Mariinsky Theatre Saint Petersburg (Russia) |
| #3792, aired 2001-02-13 | SIEGFRIEDS & ROYS $100: In an 1870s ballet, Prince Siegfried falls in love with one of these graceful birds Swan |
| #3792, aired 2001-02-13 | POTPOURRI $200: Traditionally, the ballet "Suite en Blanc" is performed without scenery, in costumes of this color White |
| #3786, aired 2001-02-05 | BALLET $200: In a 1999 ballet Roger Van Fleteren played Dr. Jekyll & Wes Chapman played this alter ego Mr. Hyde |
| #3786, aired 2001-02-05 | BALLET $400: "Go Daddy-O!" celebrates this style of music that Benny Goodman was the "King of" Swing |
| #3786, aired 2001-02-05 | BALLET $600: A 1982 Twyla Tharp work is danced to 9 of this singer's hits, including "Strangers in the Night" & "My Way" Frank Sinatra |
| #3786, aired 2001-02-05 | BALLET $800: The Joffrey's 1993 ballet "Billboards" rocks with the music of this "Purple Rain"er Prince |
| #3786, aired 2001-02-05 | BALLET $1000: "A Streetcar..." is an abstract ballet inspired by the work of this playwright Tennessee Williams |
| #3774, aired 2001-01-18 | ROMEOS $600: In a 1966 Royal Ballet version, he was Romeo to longtime partner Margot Fonteyn's Juliet Rudolf Nureyev |
| #3764, aired 2001-01-04 | "C" PLUS $600: Matthew Bourne's version of this fairy tale ballet, set in London during WWII, has an RAF pilot as the prince "Cinderella" |
| #3754, aired 2000-12-21 | BARRE TENDERS $400: He received an Oscar nomination for his role as a ballet superstar in "The Turning Point", his film debut Mikhail Baryshnikov |
| #3744, aired 2000-12-07 | THE "FIRST" $400: Stance seen here:
[in ballet] first position |
| #3735, aired 2000-11-24 | FAMOUS FACES $400: She's the royal sibling & president of the Royal Ballet seen here in the 1950s Princess Margaret |
| #3730, aired 2000-11-17 | BALLET $200: Former Royal Ballet dancer Celia Franca founded the National Ballet of this North American country in 1951 Canada |
| #3730, aired 2000-11-17 | BALLET $400: The comic ballet "Offenbach in the Underworld" features dancers in hats that look like this Parisian tower Eiffel Tower |
| #3730, aired 2000-11-17 | BALLET $600: Nina Ananiashvili toured the U.S. in 2000 as prima ballerina of this Moscow-based ballet company Bolshoi |
| #3730, aired 2000-11-17 | BALLET $800: Act 1, Scene 1 of this Balanchine ballet based on this novel is set in La Mancha "Don Quixote" |
| #3730, aired 2000-11-17 | BALLET $1000: "Lady From the Sea" is adapted from a 19th century play by this Norwegian Henrik Ibsen |
| #3708, aired 2000-10-18 | NAME THE ARTIST $100: 1876:
"Ballet Rehearsal" Edgar Degas |
| #3697, aired 2000-10-03 | BALLET $200: A new ballet about this puppet who yearns to be a boy had its U.S. premiere in Atlanta in 2000 Pinocchio |
| #3697, aired 2000-10-03 | BALLET $400: "Scrooge" is a festive holiday ballet inspired by this beloved book A Christmas Carol |
| #3697, aired 2000-10-03 | BALLET $600: In a Tchaikovsky ballet, this title character is awakened with a kiss Sleeping Beauty |
| #3697, aired 2000-10-03 | BALLET $800: "The Nutcracker" often features a pas de deux by the prince & this fairy who rules the Kingdom of Sweets the Sugarplum Fairy |
| #3697, aired 2000-10-03 | BALLET $1000: "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" is based on a fairy tale by this famous Dane Hans Christian Andersen |
| #3692, aired 2000-09-26 | POP GOES THE BALLET $100: The rock & roll ballet "Blue Suede Shoes" celebrates the music & the spirit of this legendary star Elvis Presley |
| #3692, aired 2000-09-26 | POP GOES THE BALLET $200: "Deuce Coupe" is danced to "Little Deuce Coupe", "Catch A Wave" & other songs made famous by this group The Beach Boys |
| #3692, aired 2000-09-26 | POP GOES THE BALLET $300: The 1988 ballet "A Fool For You" is performed to this star's hits, including "I Got A Woman" & "Hit The Road Jack" Ray Charles |
| #3692, aired 2000-09-26 | POP GOES THE BALLET $400: "Sex" & "Horror" are compositions this member of the Marsalis family wrote for the ballet "Them Twos" Wynton Marsalis |
| #3692, aired 2000-09-26 | POP GOES THE BALLET $500: "Laura's Women" was inspired by the music of this singer-songwriter who wrote for Streisand & Three Dog Night Laura Nyro |
| #3688, aired 2000-09-20 | GARDENING $800: "Dancing" varieties of roses include Disco Dancer & this one that would feel at home in the Bolshoi Ballerina |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | BALLET $200: The Houston Ballet's sexy new ballet about this queen features a bathtub scene & an orgy (you bet your asp!) Cleopatra |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | BALLET $400: "The Concert" is a humorous ballet danced to music by this Polish-French composer, including the "Minute Waltz" Frederic Chopin |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | BALLET $600: (Hi, I'm Michael Feinstein here at the Hollywood Bowl.) In 1932 the ballet "Elysia" was commissioned by the Hollywood Bowl in celebration of this sports event the Summer Olympics (in Los Angeles) |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | BALLET $800: This Russian-born American choreographer collaborated with Stravinsky on the complex 1957 ballet "Agon" George Balanchine |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | BALLET $1000: He choreographed "The Cage", a ballet about predatory female insects, 6 years before "West Side Story" Jerome Robbins |
| #3671, aired 2000-07-17 | PEOPLE $400: In 1919 mental illness ended the career of this Russian ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky |
| #3671, aired 2000-07-17 | KILLER MUSICALS $800: The jazz ballet "Slaughter on" this "Avenue" was originally part of the musical "On Your Toes" Tenth Avenue |
| #3658, aired 2000-06-28 | HINTS FROM HELOISE $500: Heloise suggests squeezing lemons with this device found in the name of a Tchaikovsky ballet Nutcracker |
| #3647, aired 2000-06-13 | SAINTS ON THE MAP $100: In the 19th century French choreographer Charles Didelot headed this Russian city's ballet company St. Petersburg |
| #3641, aired 2000-06-05 | GIRL SCOUTING $200: Girls learn to enjoy several styles of this art form to earn the badge seen here: Dance |
| #3625, aired 2000-05-12 | BALLET $200: This Spanish surrealist designed a"maze"ing sets & costumes for the 1941 ballet "Labyrinth" Salvador Dali |
| #3625, aired 2000-05-12 | BALLET $400: A picnic with Rasputin is the opening scene of the ballet named for this grand duchess Anastasia |
| #3625, aired 2000-05-12 | BALLET $600: In 1992 dancer Kevin McKenzie became artistic director of this company once led by Mikhail Baryshnikov American Ballet Theatre |
| #3625, aired 2000-05-12 | BALLET $800: A cowgirl wins the heart of a champion roper in this Agnes De Mille ballet Rodeo |
| #3625, aired 2000-05-12 | BALLET $1000: This "Pomp And Circumstance" composer is a character in the ballet named for his "Enigma Variations" Edward Elgar |
| #3595, aired 2000-03-31 | SCULPTORS $600: This artist's "Works in Progress" was a 'ballet" with mobiles, stabiles & electronic music Alexander Calder |
| #3592, aired 2000-03-28 | SPELL THE LAST NAME $500: Russian ballet dancer/defector Rudolf... N-U-R-E-Y-E-V |
| #3579, aired 2000-03-09 | MUSIC $800: This waltz composer's "Blue Danube Waltz" is featured in the ballet "Le Beau Danube" Johann Strauss |
| #3557, aired 2000-02-08 | POP MUSIC RHYME TIME $600: Bono's band's ballet wear U2's tutus |
| #3549, aired 2000-01-27 | WALTZING $600: The "Waltz of the Flowers" is a famous piece from this ballet & suite "Nutcracker Suite" |
| #3546, aired 2000-01-24 | BROADWAY $600: A little bird told us Matthew Bourne won a 1999 Tony for choreographing this ballet "Swan Lake" |
| #3538, aired 2000-01-12 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $800: In 1988 she was an indomitable 82 when she choreographed the ballet "The Informer" from her wheelchair Agnes de Mille |
| #3511, aired 1999-12-06 | BALLET $200: Valerie Bettis choreographed a ballet based on this Tennessee Williams play & sometimes played Blanche in it A Streetcar Named Desire |
| #3511, aired 1999-12-06 | BALLET $400: "Company B" is danced to songs made famous by these sisters, including "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" The Andrews Sisters |
| #3511, aired 1999-12-06 | BALLET $600: Salvador Dali created the story, sets & costumes for "Bacchanale", an odd ballet about this "Mad King" Ludwig |
| #3511, aired 1999-12-06 | BALLET $1000: The Ballets Russes was dissolved after the 1929 death of this great Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev |
| #3511, aired 1999-12-06 | BALLET $2,000 (Daily Double): "Aurora's Wedding", part of this Tchaikovsky ballet, is often presented as a separate ballet Sleeping Beauty |
| #3510, aired 1999-12-03 | MUSIC APPRECIATION $400: This Russian turned some of the music he wrote for the ballet "Petrushka" into a suite Igor Stravinsky |
| #3508, aired 1999-12-01 | ART FOR ART'S SAKE! $200: A favorite subject of this painter is seen here:
(ballet dancer) Edgar Degas |
| #3506, aired 1999-11-29 | RUSSIAN CITIES $900 (Daily Double): Like a ballet company, this city was named for revolutionary hero Sergei Kirov |
| #3476, aired 1999-10-18 | THEIR FIRST FEATURE FILMS $1000: Jeremy Irons' first film role was as choreographer Michael Fokine in the 1980 bio of this great Russian ballet star Vaslav Nijinsky |
| #3447, aired 1999-09-07 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $600: The music of this Tchaikovsky "Suite" comes from his 1892 ballet, popular at Christmas "The Nutcracker" |
| #3442, aired 1999-07-20 | 4-LETTER CLOTHES $300: Ballet wear, perhaps for Desmond Tutu |
| #3434, aired 1999-07-08 | OPERA $500: It's the English title of the opera "I Pagliacci" & the name of a ballet that juxtaposes terror & buffoonery "The Clowns" |
| #3423, aired 1999-06-23 | BALLET $200: It's the footwear in the title of Dennis Nahat's rock 'n' roll ballet, danced to Elvis Presley's greatest hits "Blue Suede Shoes" |
| #3423, aired 1999-06-23 | BALLET $400: The ballet "For Bird, with Love" was Alvin Ailey's tribute to this jazz musician whose nickname was "Bird" Charlie Parker |
| #3423, aired 1999-06-23 | BALLET $600: "Marguerite and Armand" was choreographed for Margot Fonteyn & this handsome partner Rudolf Nureyev |
| #3423, aired 1999-06-23 | BALLET $800: Traditionally, the ballerina plays the mother & the sweetheart of this young outlaw in the 1938 ballet named for him Billy the Kid |
| #3423, aired 1999-06-23 | BALLET $1000: Eliot Feld's ballet "Harbinger" features music by this "Peter and the Wolf" composer Sergei Prokofiev |
| #3405, aired 1999-05-28 | FROM RUSSIA $600: In the 1940s he & Lincoln Kirstein founded the New York City Ballet George Balanchine |
| #3402, aired 1999-05-25 | BALLET $100: The Black Swan Pas De Deux is one of the most famous dances in this ballet Swan Lake |
| #3387, aired 1999-05-04 | SO YOU WANT TO BE A BALLET DANCER $100: When you belly up to this, you'll use it to steady yourself while you practice your moves Bar |
| #3387, aired 1999-05-04 | SO YOU WANT TO BE A BALLET DANCER $200: Learn to do your shopping early; Decembers will be spent rehearsing this ballet that premiered in December 1892 "The Nutcracker" |
| #3387, aired 1999-05-04 | SO YOU WANT TO BE A BALLET DANCER $300: When class ends, remember to do reverence, one or a series of these, to your teacher Bow/curtsey |
| #3387, aired 1999-05-04 | SO YOU WANT TO BE A BALLET DANCER $400: You'll feel full of "esprit de" this group, a ballet's main ensemble Corps |
| #3387, aired 1999-05-04 | SO YOU WANT TO BE A BALLET DANCER $500: In addition to your positions, remember your port de bras, the set of movements of these Arms |
| #3343, aired 1999-03-03 | OPERA & BALLET $200: Choreographer Frederick Ashton played one of the ugly stepsisters when this ballet debuted in 1948 Cinderella |
| #3343, aired 1999-03-03 | OPERA & BALLET $400: Though a tenor now, Placido Domingo began singing in this vocal range below tenor Baritone |
| #3343, aired 1999-03-03 | OPERA & BALLET $600: This composer of "The Nutcracker" said, "The music of a ballet is not invariably bad" Tchaikovsky |
| #3343, aired 1999-03-03 | OPERA & BALLET $800: A governess fears that her charges are communicating with ghosts in an opera based on this Henry James novella The Turn of the Screw |
| #3343, aired 1999-03-03 | OPERA & BALLET $1000: The ballet "Les Sylphides" is danced to music by this Polish-French composer Frederic Chopin |
| #3321, aired 1999-02-01 | 1776 $200: This famous Moscow ballet company's roots go back to 1776 Bolshoi |
| #3313, aired 1999-01-20 | ARTISTIC WOMEN $600: Early in her career Amalia Hernandez founded this national dance company of Mexico Ballet Folklorico |
| #3264, aired 1998-11-12 | MYTH ME? $500: Serge Lifar's ballet "Icare" is based on the myth of this father & son flying team Daedalus & Icarus |
| #3255, aired 1998-10-30 | CLASSIC DISNEY FILMS $400: Much of the music for this 1959 film, including the song "Once Upon A Dream" was adapted from an 1890 ballet Sleeping Beauty |
| #3233, aired 1998-09-30 | OPERA & BALLET $1,000 (Daily Double): In an 1869 Marius Petipa ballet he puts a metal basin on as a helmet & goes seeking adventure Don Quixote |
| #3233, aired 1998-09-30 | OPERA & BALLET $1000: Last name of the gossip in Menotti's "The Old Maid and the Thief", it's the same as a Puccini lieutenant Pinkerton |
| #3224, aired 1998-09-17 | ALL ABOUT OPERA $400: This composer of the enchanting ballet "Swan Lake" wrote an opera called "The Enchantress" Tchaikovsky |
| #3215, aired 1998-07-17 | BALLET $200: This disciple is the title character in Jose Limon's biblical ballet "The Traitor" Judas Iscariot |
| #3215, aired 1998-07-17 | BALLET $400: Prince Ivan falls in love with an enchanted Tsarevna in Stravinsky's ballet about this magical bird The Firebird |
| #3215, aired 1998-07-17 | BALLET $600: This fairy tale ballet often features fairies of the 4 seasons as well as a fairy godmother Cinderella |
| #3215, aired 1998-07-17 | BALLET $800: Angel Corella of Spain is one of the "muy caliente" male stars of this U.S. company known as ABT for short American Ballet Theatre |
| #3215, aired 1998-07-17 | BALLET $1000: The 1938 ballet named for this famous outlaw features a musical gun battle Billy the Kid |
| #3186, aired 1998-06-08 | BALLET $200: This heroine's stepsisters try to squeeze their big feet into her glass slipper, but they don't fit Cinderella |
| #3186, aired 1998-06-08 | BALLET $400: This late ballet star of Tartar ancestry was Margot Fonteyn's best-known partner Rudolf Nureyev |
| #3186, aired 1998-06-08 | BALLET $600: This famous Isaac of high fashion designed the costumes for the 1995 ballet "Jump Start" Isaac Mizrahi |
| #3186, aired 1998-06-08 | BALLET $1000: The erotic ending of this great dancer's 1912 ballet "L'Apres-Midi D'Un Faune" created a scandal Vaslav Nijinsky |
| #3186, aired 1998-06-08 | BALLET $1,500 (Daily Double): Aaron Copland's score for this ballet, heard here, was inspired by American folk tunes: Rodeo |
| #3178, aired 1998-05-27 | BALLET IN THE '90s $100: Of Jerome Robbins' ballet based on this musical, New York Magazine quipped, "When you're a Jete..." West Side Story |
| #3178, aired 1998-05-27 | BALLET IN THE '90s $200: Matthew Bourne set his innovative new production of "Cinderella" in this city during the Blitz London |
| #3178, aired 1998-05-27 | BALLET IN THE '90s $300: We hope the Artist Formerly Known As this saw "Billboards", a rock ballet danced to his music Prince |
| #3178, aired 1998-05-27 | BALLET IN THE '90s $400: The 18 vampire brides in the Houston Ballet's show about this count could be called the corpse de ballet Count Dracula |
| #3178, aired 1998-05-27 | BALLET IN THE '90s $500: In just 2 months in 1993 the NYCB presented 73 works by this late Russian-American choreographer George Balanchine |
| #3172, aired 1998-05-19 | NO MEN ALLOWED $600: Once called water ballet, this women's sport officially joined the Olympics in 1984 Synchronized swimming |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | DANCE MAGAZINE AWARDS $200: Claude Bessy, director of this European capital's Opera Ballet School, won a 1997 award Paris |
| #3133, aired 1998-03-25 | DANCE MAGAZINE AWARDS $400: 1957 & 1977 award winners Jerome Robbins & Peter Martins took over this Balanchine troupe in 1983 New York City Ballet |
| #3112, aired 1998-02-24 | SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS $400: The Bolshoi presented this ballet at the Met in 1959, with Yuri Zhdanov & Galina Ulanova as the title lovers Romeo & Juliet |
| #3112, aired 1998-02-24 | SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS $500 (Daily Double): Title character played by former Alvin Ailey dancer Desmond Richardson in a 1997 ballet Othello |
| #3106, aired 1998-02-16 | BALLET IN THE '90s $700 (Daily Double): In Matthew Bourne's update of this classic 1877 ballet, the leading female role is played by a man: Swan Lake |
| #3106, aired 1998-02-16 | BALLET IN THE '90s $800: In Twyla Tharp's ballet "Jump Start", dancers jump around to music by this member of the Marsalis family Wynton Marsalis |
| #3069, aired 1997-12-25 | LADIES DANCING $400: She used to dance with the Cincinnati Ballet, as her husband Matthew Broderick could tell you Sarah Jessica Parker |
| #3052, aired 1997-12-02 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $800: For the 1910 season, Sergei Diaghilev commissioned him to score a ballet based on "The Firebird" Igor Stravinsky |
| #3046, aired 1997-11-24 | "NUT"s TO YOU $400: The ballet in which a little girl is entertained by the Sugar Plum Fairy The Nutcracker |
| #3039, aired 1997-11-13 | ON YOUR TOES $200: In romantic ballets such as "La sylphide", it's traditional for this ballet skirt to be calf-length a tutu |
| #3039, aired 1997-11-13 | ON YOUR TOES $800: Prince Florimund awakens Princess Aurora with a kiss in Act 3 of this fairy tale ballet Sleeping Beauty |
| #3039, aired 1997-11-13 | ON YOUR TOES $1,000 (Daily Double): It's the weapon featured in "Fall River Legend", Agnes De Mille's ballet about Lizzie Borden an axe |
| #3039, aired 1997-11-13 | ON YOUR TOES $1000: This Spanish cubist painter designed the scenery & costumes for the 1920 ballet "Pulcinella" Pablo Picasso |
| #3036, aired 1997-11-10 | AT THE KENNEDY CENTER $200: In 1995 Luigi Bonino starred in a ballet about this "Little Tramp" of silent films Charlie Chaplin |
| #3031, aired 1997-11-03 | GRANDMA'S SECRET DIARY $300: December 7, 1940:
Saw this new Disney film, it was weird! Hippos dancing ballet? Fantasia |
| #3025, aired 1997-10-24 | MUSIC CLASS $500: Meaning "an ornament in Islamic style", it's a fanciful piano piece or a ballet pose Arabesque |
| #3021, aired 1997-10-20 | BALLET $200: This niece of Cecil B. De Mille choreographed a ballet based on John Ford's classic film "The Informer" Agnes De Mille |
| #3021, aired 1997-10-20 | BALLET $400: This "West Side Story" composer wrote the music for Jerome Robbins' ballet "Dybbuk" Leonard Bernstein |
| #3021, aired 1997-10-20 | BALLET $600: Kirk Douglas may know that the ballet about this gladiator who led a slave revolt includes an orgy scene Spartacus |
| #3021, aired 1997-10-20 | BALLET $800: Called "the first psychedelic ballet", Robert Joffrey's "Astarte" premiered in this decade the 1960s |
| #3021, aired 1997-10-20 | BALLET $1000: This Russian composer's favorite of his own ballets was "The Sleeping Beauty" Pyotr Tchaikovsky |
| #2989, aired 1997-09-04 | 19th CENTURY SPORTS $1000: Jackson Haines, previously a teacher of this art, introduced its moves to figure skating ballet |
| #2973, aired 1997-07-02 | BALLET $200: We have a "hunch" you'll know Antoine Coulon was the first to dance this role in "La Esmeralda" Quasimodo |
| #2973, aired 1997-07-02 | BALLET $400: Jules Perrot's short ballet "Pas de Quatre" requires this many ballerinas 4 |
| #2973, aired 1997-07-02 | BALLET $600: In 1958 this grande dame of British ballet was acclaimed for playing a water sprite in "Ondine" Margot Fonteyn |
| #2973, aired 1997-07-02 | BALLET $800: This "Rodeo" choreographer's 1940 ballet "Black Ritual" featured an all-black cast Agnes de Mille |
| #2973, aired 1997-07-02 | BALLET $1000: The dramatic ballet "Las Hermanas" is based on this Spaniard's play "The House of Bernarda Alba" Federico Garcia Lorca |
| #2968, aired 1997-06-25 | BALLET $200: This duke of jazz composed an original score for Alvin Ailey's brilliant modern ballet "The River" Duke Ellington |
| #2968, aired 1997-06-25 | BALLET $400: "Concerto Barocco" is danced to a concerto for 2 violins by this great Baroque composer J.S. Bach |
| #2968, aired 1997-06-25 | BALLET $600: In 1998 she performed with the Kirov Ballet for the first time since her defection 18 years earlier Natalia Makarova |
| #2968, aired 1997-06-25 | BALLET $800: Eugene Loring played the devil in this female choreographer's 1941 ballet "Three Virgins and a Devil" Agnes de Mille |
| #2968, aired 1997-06-25 | BALLET $1000: George Balanchine created 10 ballets for this impresario's Ballets Russes Sergei Diaghilev |
| #2942, aired 1997-05-20 | OBSCURE OPERA & BALLET $200: In 1926 the Chicago Opera Co. presented Charles Cadman's "The Witch Of" this Massachusetts town Salem |
| #2942, aired 1997-05-20 | OBSCURE OPERA & BALLET $400: In Alban Berg's unfinished opera "Lulu", Lulu is slain by this notorious London killer Jack the Ripper |
| #2942, aired 1997-05-20 | OBSCURE OPERA & BALLET $600: He presented his operas "Alcina", "Ariodante" & "Atalanta" at the Covent Garden Theater, as well as his "Messiah" G.F. Handel |
| #2942, aired 1997-05-20 | OBSCURE OPERA & BALLET $800: "Pineapple Poll" is a ballet with music from works by this "Pinafore" pair Gilbert & Sullivan |
| #2942, aired 1997-05-20 | OBSCURE OPERA & BALLET $1000: Not to "J'Accuse" Alfred Bruneau, but he got opera stories like "Le Reve" from this author friend Emile Zola |
| #2934, aired 1997-05-08 | WORLD FAMOUS $800: Once a star of the Kirov Ballet, this man, nicknamed Misha, now tours with the White Oak Dance Project Mikhail Baryshnikov |
| #2932, aired 1997-05-06 | BALLET $100: The Royal Danish Ballet has been based in this capital city for more than 200 years Copenhagen |
| #2932, aired 1997-05-06 | BALLET $200: Part I of the ballet "Jewels" is named for these green gems; Part II is called "Rubies" Emeralds |
| #2932, aired 1997-05-06 | BALLET $300: "Noblissima Visione" is a dramatic, stylized ballet about this saint of Assisi Saint Francis of Assisi |
| #2931, aired 1997-05-05 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $600: In Moscow's Teatralnaya Square, you can take in a show at this famous opera & ballet theater Bolshoi |
| #2910, aired 1997-04-04 | SONGS FROM MUSICALS $200: "At The Ballet",
"What I Did For Love",
"One" A Chorus Line |
| #2881, aired 1997-02-24 | DANCE $400: This sitarist's older brother Uday created the ballet "Radha And Krishna" for Anna Pavlova Ravi Shankar |
| #2875, aired 1997-02-14 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $800: Not surprisingly, his 1872 painting "Musicians of the Orchestra" shows ballet dancers in the background Edgar Degas |
| #2875, aired 1997-02-14 | OPERA $800: "The Witches", the 1st opera by this composer of "Madama Butterfly", may be based on the ballet "Giselle" Giacomo Puccini |
| #2851, aired 1997-01-13 | BALLET $200: Igor Youskevitch was noted for playing Stanley in the ballet version of this Tennessee Williams play "A Streetcar Named Desire" |
| #2851, aired 1997-01-13 | BALLET $800: When Robert Helpmann's "Hamlet" ballet premiered in 1942, Margot Fonteyn danced this ingenue role Ophelia |
| #2851, aired 1997-01-13 | BALLET $1000: In 1991 ballerina Darci Kistler married this U.S. ballet company's director, Peter Martins New York City Ballet |
| #2844, aired 1997-01-02 | DANCE, MYTH & LEGEND $400: The ballet "Apollo" features Polyhymnia, Terpsichore & Calliope, 3 of these 9 sister-goddesses Muses |
| #2844, aired 1997-01-02 | DANCE, MYTH & LEGEND $600: In a Michel Fokine ballet, this heroine, Daphnis' beloved, is kidnapped by pirates Chloe |
| #2844, aired 1997-01-02 | DANCE, MYTH & LEGEND $1000: Maria Tallchief played this mythological wife in her husband George Balanchine's ballet "Orpheus" Eurydice |
| #2839, aired 1996-12-26 | EUROPEAN CITIES $400: Scotland's largest city, it's home to the Scottish Opera & the Scottish Ballet Glasgow |
| #2828, aired 1996-12-11 | BALLET $200: Princess Aurora pricks her finger on a spindle in act one of this 1890 ballet "Sleeping Beauty" |
| #2828, aired 1996-12-11 | BALLET $400: Jerome Robbins' ballet "Dances At A Gathering" is danced to piano pieces by this Polish-French composer Frederic Chopin |
| #2828, aired 1996-12-11 | BALLET $600: Originally, Prokofiev wanted this Shakespearean ballet to end with both lovers alive & dancing "Romeo & Juliet" |
| #2822, aired 1996-12-03 | DANCE $100: In this type of dance company, the leading male is called the premier danseur ballet |
| #2814, aired 1996-11-21 | BALLET $200: Meaning "step for two", it's a dance duet that includes an entree, an adagio, 2 solos & a coda pas de deux |
| #2814, aired 1996-11-21 | BALLET $400: Jerome Robbins' ballet "In the Night" is danced to several of this Polish-born composer's famous nocturnes Chopin |
| #2814, aired 1996-11-21 | BALLET $600: Swedish dancer Elsa Marianne von Rosen created the title role in this ballet based on a Strindberg play Miss Julie |
| #2814, aired 1996-11-21 | BALLET $800: He stunned Paris with his dazzling performance in the Ballets Russes' "Les Sylphides" in 1909 Nijinsky |
| #2814, aired 1996-11-21 | BALLET $1000: This charismatic Tartar played Dr. Coppelius in "Coppelia" in 1990, 3 years before his untimely death Nureyev |
| #2774, aired 1996-09-26 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $600: Premiering on June 25, 1910, "The Firebird" was the first ballet he composed for Sergei Diaghilev Stravinsky |
| #2751, aired 1996-07-15 | ART & ARTISTS $600: This Frenchman painted many portraits of ballet dancers including "Dancer With a Fan" in 1879 Edgar Degas |
| #2748, aired 1996-07-10 | BALLET $200: Ravel composed the beautiful score for Michel Fokine's 1912 ballet about "Daphnis and" her Chloe |
| #2748, aired 1996-07-10 | BALLET $400: This Twyla Tharp ballet shares its name with a song from "Casablanca", but it's danced to music by Haydn As Time Goes By |
| #2748, aired 1996-07-10 | BALLET $600: This Agnes de Mille ballet opens in the corral at Burnt Ranch Rodeo |
| #2748, aired 1996-07-10 | BALLET $800: Margot Fonteyn danced the role of the ballerina in a 1957 revival of this Stravinsky ballet about a puppet Petrushka |
| #2748, aired 1996-07-10 | BALLET $1000: "The Buffoon" was the first ballet by this "Peter and the Wolf" composer to be produced Prokofiev |
| #2734, aired 1996-06-20 | BALLET DANCERS ON FILM $200: Rudolf Nureyev looked "Sheik" when he starred in Ken Russell's film about this silent film star Rudolph Valentino |
| #2734, aired 1996-06-20 | BALLET DANCERS ON FILM $400: Alexander Godunov made his acting debut as an Amish farmer in this Harrison Ford film Witness |
| #2734, aired 1996-06-20 | BALLET DANCERS ON FILM $600: Zizi Jeanmaire played the ballerina Danny Kaye fell for in the 1952 musical about this storyteller Hans Christian Andersen |
| #2734, aired 1996-06-20 | BALLET DANCERS ON FILM $800: He played a defecting Russian ballet star in "White Nights" & a KGB agent in "Company Business" Mikhail Baryshnikov |
| #2734, aired 1996-06-20 | BALLET DANCERS ON FILM $1000: New York City ballet star Jacques D' Amboise played one of a septet of siblings in this 1954 MGM musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers |
| #2722, aired 1996-06-04 | BALLET $200: When he was just 15, George Balanchine played the title role in this beloved Christmas ballet The Nutcracker |
| #2722, aired 1996-06-04 | BALLET $400: "La Rose Malade" was created for Maya Plisetskaya, this Moscow ballet company's prima ballerina the Bolshoi |
| #2722, aired 1996-06-04 | BALLET $600: The second part of this Stravinsky ballet is entitled "The Sacrifice" The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps) |
| #2722, aired 1996-06-04 | BALLET $800: Michael Somes & this British ballerina starred in the 1951 version of "Daphnis and Chloe" Margot Fonteyn |
| #2722, aired 1996-06-04 | BALLET $1000: This "Mad" king of Bavaria is the central figure in the ballet "Bacchanale" (Mad King) Ludwig |
| #2718, aired 1996-05-29 | STATE CAPITALS $100: This city is home to Ballet West & the Utah Symphony Orchestra Salt Lake City |
| #2709, aired 1996-05-16 | THE ARTS $200: This classic Christmas ballet contains the "Waltz Of The Flowers" The Nutcracker |
| #2687, aired 1996-04-16 | BALLET $100: Jerome Robbins played the comics role of Hermes in the 1942 ballet about this woman of Troy Helen |
| #2687, aired 1996-04-16 | BALLET $200: The Russian title of this fairy tale ballet is "Zolushka"; the French title is "Cendrillon" Cinderella |
| #2687, aired 1996-04-16 | BALLET $300: This Cubist designed the scenery for the 1919 ballet "The Three-Cornered Hat" Picasso |
| #2687, aired 1996-04-16 | BALLET $400: At the beginning of Nijinsky's ballet "Jeux", one of these balls bounces onstage from an unseen court tennis |
| #2687, aired 1996-04-16 | BALLET $500: He choreographed ballets such as "Caprichos" before directing films like "The Turning Point" & "Footloose" Herbert Ross |
| #2651, aired 1996-02-26 | COMPOSERS $800: This "Firebird" composer's ballet score "Pulcinella" was based on music by an 18th century composer Stravinsky |
| #2650, aired 1996-02-23 | ORGANIZATIONS $1000: This NYC dance company's directors have included Lucia Chase, Kevin McKenzie & Mikhail Baryshnikov American Ballet Theatre |
| #2638, aired 1996-02-07 | DANCE $800: Aaron Copland composed "Appalachian Spring" under the title "Ballet for Martha", because it was for her Martha Graham |
| #2635, aired 1996-02-02 | BALLET $200: George Skibine's ballet "Tragedy at Verona" is based on this play "Romeo And Juliet" |
| #2635, aired 1996-02-02 | BALLET $400: It's believed this Christmas classic is the most frequently performed ballet in history "The Nutcracker" |
| #2635, aired 1996-02-02 | BALLET $600: "Le Beau Danube" with music by Johann Strauss, is set in a public park in this city Vienna |
| #2635, aired 1996-02-02 | BALLET $800: Twyla Tharp's "Push Comes to Shove" was one of the first American works created for this Russian star Mikhail Baryshnikov |
| #2635, aired 1996-02-02 | BALLET $1000: For a 1905 benefit, Michel Fokine created "The Dying Swan" for this Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova |
| #2625, aired 1996-01-19 | NOTABLE WOMEN $1000: She danced in Antony Tudor's 1937 ballet "Dark Elegies" before she choreographed "Rodeo" Agnes de Mille |
| #2620, aired 1996-01-12 | LET'S DANCE $200: Auguste Bournonville, the father of Danish ballet, was born in this capital city in 1805 Copenhagen |
| #2615, aired 1996-01-05 | ARTISTS $600: He painted "Mademoiselle Fiocre in the Ballet 'La Source'" around 1866 Degas |
| #2612, aired 1996-01-02 | PICASSO $1000: Picasso met & married dancer Olga Koklova while working for this ballet company the Ballet Russes |
| #2611, aired 1996-01-01 | FAMOUS NAMES $500: The first major Bolshoi Ballet member to defect to the U.S., this dancer turned actor died in 1995 at age 45 Alexander Godunov |
| #2590, aired 1995-12-01 | HOMOPHONES $100: A ballet dancer's exercise equipment, or a place for a drinker to belly up barre/bar |
| #2590, aired 1995-12-01 | HOMOPHONES $200: A ballet ensemble, or an apple center corps/core |
| #2590, aired 1995-12-01 | HOMOPHONES $300: A Proust character, or a ballet lake Swann/Swan |
| #2590, aired 1995-12-01 | HOMOPHONES $400: Ballet "Igor" or what you make from negatives Prince/prints |
| #2590, aired 1995-12-01 | HOMOPHONES $500: Popular netting used for a ballet tutu, or an implement for a task at hand tulle/tool |
| #2588, aired 1995-11-29 | BALLET $200: In a 1938 ballet this "youthful" outlaw's mother & his Mexican sweetheart are played by the same dancer Billy the Kid |
| #2588, aired 1995-11-29 | BALLET $400: Leonide Massine's 1932 ballet "Jeux D'Enfants" is danced to music by this "Carmen" composer Bizet |
| #2588, aired 1995-11-29 | BALLET $600: This great Russian dancer had his body painted blue & silver for the 1912 ballet "Le Dieu Bleu" Nijinsky |
| #2588, aired 1995-11-29 | BALLET $800: In 1948 this future star of the film "Gigi" played the Sphinx in a French ballet about Oedipus Leslie Caron |
| #2588, aired 1995-11-29 | BALLET $1000: A large egg contains an evil sorcerer's soul in this ballet whose French title is "L'Oiseau de Feu" Firebird |
| #2581, aired 1995-11-20 | BALLERINAS $1000: "Dancing on My Grave" & "The Shape of Love" are autobiographical works by this New York City ballet dancer Gelsey Kirkland |
| #2579, aired 1995-11-16 | DANCE $200: Act II of this 1948 fairy tale ballet choreographed by Frederick Ashton is set at a palace ball Cinderella |
| #2579, aired 1995-11-16 | DANCE $300: Ballerina Alicia Markova was director of this U.S. opera company's ballet from 1963-1969 Metropolitan Opera |
| #2573, aired 1995-11-08 | PIGS ON FILM $200: Roger Ebert describes her water ballet number in "The Great Muppet Caper" as Busby Berkeley-like Miss Piggy |
| #2571, aired 1995-11-06 | BALLET $200: In a famous fairy tale ballet, a ragged beggarwoman is really this heroine's fairy godmother Cinderella |
| #2571, aired 1995-11-06 | BALLET $400: The swan maidens in this 1877 ballet are actually young girls under the spell of an evil magician Swan Lake |
| #2571, aired 1995-11-06 | BALLET $600: Quasimodo is a leading character in "La Esmeralda", a ballet based on this classic novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #2571, aired 1995-11-06 | BALLET $800: In 1992, this niece of Cecil B. De Mille choreographed her last ballet "The Other" Agnes De Mille |
| #2571, aired 1995-11-06 | BALLET $1000: "Double Exposure" is a Joe Layton ballet based on this author's 1891 novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray" Oscar Wilde |
| #2558, aired 1995-10-18 | DANCE $100: Serge Lifar's abstract ballet "Suite en Blanc" is danced in costumes of this color white |
| #2553, aired 1995-10-11 | THE ARTS $1000: Nijinsky played the title puppet at the premiere of this Stravinsky ballet in 1911 Petrushka |
| #2530, aired 1995-09-08 | BALLET $200: In a Michel Fokine ballet, this Egyptian queen enters swathed like a mummy, then is slowly unwrapped Cleopatra |
| #2530, aired 1995-09-08 | BALLET $400: The French title of this ever-popular holiday ballet is "Casse-Noisette" The Nutcracker |
| #2530, aired 1995-09-08 | BALLET $600: The 1943 ballet "Mother Goose Suite" is danced to music by this "Bolero" composer Ravel |
| #2530, aired 1995-09-08 | BALLET $800: This bending of the knees may be demi, small, or grand, deep plié |
| #2530, aired 1995-09-08 | BALLET $1000: In this ballet pose, a dancer stands on one leg with the other leg raised & fully extended behind an arabesque |
| #2529, aired 1995-09-07 | BAROQUE COMPOSERS $800: In 1653 Jean-Baptiste Lully became composer to this French king with whom he danced in a ballet Louis XIV |
| #2516, aired 1995-07-10 | DANCE $200: In romantic ballets such as "Les Sylphides", this ballet skirt is calf-length tutu |
| #2514, aired 1995-07-06 | PEOPLE $600: This Soviet-born dancer was director of the Paris Opera Ballet from 1983 to 1989 Nureyev |
| #2513, aired 1995-07-05 | DANCE $200: A 1981 version of this ballet featured Dame Margot Fonteyn as Lady Capulet Romeo and Juliet |
| #2507, aired 1995-06-27 | OPERA $600: Set on a Midwest farm, "The Tender Land" is a 1954 opera by this composer of the ballet "Rodeo" Aaron Copland |
| #2506, aired 1995-06-26 | FASHION $500: The Capezio Company was founded in 1887 to manufacture these dance items ballet shoes |
| #2500, aired 1995-06-16 | FAMOUS WOMEN $1000: In 1970, while on tour with the Kirov Ballet, this Russian ballerina defected to the West Makarova |
| #2495, aired 1995-06-09 | BALLET $200: This composer attended the 1928 premiere of the ballet "Rhapsody In Blue", which is danced to his music (George) Gershwin |
| #2495, aired 1995-06-09 | BALLET $800: Renee "Zizi" Jeanmaire danced the title role in Roland Petit's 1949 ballet version of this Bizet opera Carmen |
| #2495, aired 1995-06-09 | BALLET $1000: An evil magician known as the charlatan controls the puppets in this Stravinsky ballet Petrouchka |
| #2470, aired 1995-05-05 | COMPOSERS $200: This Tchaikovsky suite was first played in March 1892, about 9 months before the ballet of the same name The Nutcracker |
| #2466, aired 1995-05-01 | BALLET $200: Serge Lifar's ballet "Icare" tells the story of this mythical figure who flew too close to the sun Icarus |
| #2466, aired 1995-05-01 | BALLET $400: In Balanchine's ballet "Jewels", Patricia McBride & Edward Villella represented these red gems rubies |
| #2466, aired 1995-05-01 | BALLET $600: Rasputin is a character in the 1971 ballet named for this mysterious grand duchess Anastasia |
| #2466, aired 1995-05-01 | BALLET $800: Varvara Nikitina played the enchanted princess when this Tchaikovsky ballet debuted in 1890 Sleeping Beauty |
| #2466, aired 1995-05-01 | BALLET $1000: Born in Kiev in 1890, this legendary ballet star was the son of celebrated Polish dancers Nijinsky |
| #2463, aired 1995-04-26 | OCCUPATIONS $200: It's the person who designs or arranges the dances for a theatrical production or ballet a choreographer |
| #2463, aired 1995-04-26 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $200: The Old Vic's 1937 production of this play featured ballet dancer Robert Helpmann as Oberon A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #2463, aired 1995-04-26 | WRITING EDs $200: E(dward) E(stlin) Cummings wrote the scenario for "Tom", a ballet based on this Harriet Beecher Stowe novel Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #2462, aired 1995-04-25 | KEN-FOLK $200: From 1970 to 1977 choreographer Kenneth MacMillan was director of this British ballet company the Royal Ballet |
| #2461, aired 1995-04-24 | FAMOUS MARIAS $600: When Jerome Robbins starred in the ballet "Prodigal Son" in 1950, this ballerina played the siren Maria Tallchief |
| #2445, aired 1995-03-31 | BALLET $200: Part of Marius Pepita's ballet based on this novel is set at a gypsy camp near windmills Don Quixote |
| #2445, aired 1995-03-31 | BALLET $400: Set in Hungary, "Carnival at Pest" is a 1930 ballet danced to this composer's rhapsodies Franz Liszt |
| #2445, aired 1995-03-31 | BALLET $600: it's the number of basic positions of the feet in classical ballet 5 |
| #2445, aired 1995-03-31 | BALLET $800: When this dancer choreographed "The Afternoon of a Faun" in 1912, his sister Bronislava played a nymph Nijinsky |
| #2445, aired 1995-03-31 | BALLET $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1895 Pierina Legnani became the 1st ballerina to play Odette & Odile as a dual role in this ballet Swan Lake |
| #2434, aired 1995-03-16 | BOBs & ROBERTs $500: He taught at NYC's High School of Performing Arts before forming his own ballet school & company Robert Joffrey |
| #2432, aired 1995-03-14 | DANCE AROUND THE WORLD $400: 18th century dancer Sebastian Cerezo, not Maurice Ravel, added ballet steps to this Spanish dance bolero |
| #2429, aired 1995-03-09 | 1917 $400: This painter & sculptor of ballet dancers died in France on September 27 Degas |
| #2419, aired 1995-02-23 | BALLET DANCERS $200: Part of this British dame's stage name was an adaptation of her mother's maiden name, Fontes Fonteyn |
| #2419, aired 1995-02-23 | BALLET DANCERS $400: This ballerina's father, Jack Kirkland, wrote one of the longest-running Broadway plays, "Tobacco Road" Gelsey Kirkland |
| #2419, aired 1995-02-23 | BALLET DANCERS $600: Jerome Robbins danced the title role in this biblical ballet whose French title is "Le Fils prodigue" The Prodigal Son |
| #2419, aired 1995-02-23 | BALLET DANCERS $800: Michel Fokine choreographed & played Prince Ivan in the 1st production of this "avian" Stravinsky ballet The Firebird |
| #2419, aired 1995-02-23 | BALLET DANCERS $1000: In 1948 Moira Shearer starred in the ballet "Cinderella" & in this classic ballet film The Red Shoes |
| #2416, aired 1995-02-20 | TV TRIVIA $300: Pat Corley, who plays Phil the bartender on this sitcom, is a former ballet dancer Murphy Brown |
| #2412, aired 1995-02-14 | BALLET $200: "Nobilissima Visione" is Leonide Massine's unusual stylized ballet about this saint of Assisi Francis |
| #2412, aired 1995-02-14 | BALLET $400: In this Tchaikovsky ballet, it's traditional for the heroine to wear a cap of white feathers Swan Lake |
| #2412, aired 1995-02-14 | BALLET $600: "Le Sacre du Printemps" is the French title of this Stravinsky ballet about pagan sacrifice The Rite of Spring |
| #2412, aired 1995-02-14 | BALLET $800: He began studying ballet at age 12 in his native Latvia & defected to the West in 1974, when he was 26 Baryshnikov |
| #2412, aired 1995-02-14 | BALLET $1000: Russian-American choreographer who called his work "The Four Temperaments" "a dance ballet without plot" George Balanchine |
| #2404, aired 1995-02-02 | THE WALTZ $800: This composer's "Waltz of the Flowers" is one of the most famous waltzes in ballet Tchaikovsky |
| #2402, aired 1995-01-31 | ART & ARTISTS $800: He began his career creating historical paintings before turning to ballet dancers & racing scenes (Edgar) Degas |
| #2396, aired 1995-01-23 | PATERNAL NICKNAMES $300: Marius Petipa has been called the father of the classical type of this dance form ballet |
| #2392, aired 1995-01-17 | DANCE $200: The Black Queen is a leading character in "Checkmate", a ballet inspired by this game chess |
| #2369, aired 1994-12-15 | DANCE $800: The 1842 ballet "Napoli" features one of these frenzied dances connected with spider bites the tarantella |
| #2362, aired 1994-12-06 | WORLD HISTORY $400: Alberto Cavos rebuilt this Moscow opera & ballet theatre in 1856 after a fire the Bolshoi |
| #2356, aired 1994-11-28 | BALLET $200: The National Ballet of this North American country celebrated its 40th anniversary in 1991 Canada |
| #2356, aired 1994-11-28 | BALLET $400: When Rudolf Nureyev staged his own version of this ballet, he played Basil the Barber, not Sancho Panza Don Quixote |
