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OPERA--IT'S GOOD FOR YOU! |
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This author once wrote, "Let us suppose that there were a land like Narnia... and then imagine what would happen" |
(C.S.) Lewis
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John Milton, John Grisham, John Steinbeck |
(Matt: Who is John Steinbeck?) ... (Alex: Oh, yes, by a long shot.)
John Milton
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It's no fairy tale: Elvis Costello wrote & starred in a 2005 opera about this Danish fairy tale author |
Hans Christian Andersen
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Banquet and Swanson's Hungry-Man are varieties of these meals that today you can nuke as well as bake |
TV dinners
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This nebula named for a crustacean is the remnant of a supernova from the year 1054 |
the Crab Nebula
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Math teacher Señor Nuñez taught us that una linea is made up of puntos, these |
points
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Chapter 8 of this popular L. Frank Baum work is entitled "The Deadly Poppy Field" |
The Wizard of Oz
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Charles Darwin, Galileo, Max Planck |
Galileo
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The poetry of this English lord inspired a number of operas, including "Lara" & "The Bride of Abydos" |
Byron
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Nautical name for a sandwich made from a long roll cut horizontally |
submarine
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Chemistry teacher Señor Avalos taught us element names in Spanish: potasio, helio & this, for symbol Na |
(Alex: That would be [*], sodium.)
sodio
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L. Sprague de Camp & Robert Howard are 2 men who've novelized this swordsman played on film by Arnold Schwarzenegger |
Conan the Barbarian
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Percy Shelley, Robert Frost, Pablo Neruda |
Shelley
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Though this kind of soprano means "half-soprano", never tell one that she's only half as good as a coloratura |
(Papa: What is alto?) ... (Alex: Half--what is [*]?)
a mezzo-soprano
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Celebrating 75 years in 2005, these treats from Hostess originally had a banana filling |
(Matt: What are Ho Hos?)
Twinkies
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Many stars in the Milky Way are these kind of paired stars, from the Latin for "two together" |
binary
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All semester, Señor Ortiz in phys ed had us playing baloncesto, this game |
basketball
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In 1984 Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman began this "serpentine" series featuring the magician Raistlin |
Dragonlance
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Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy, Wolfgang Mozart |
Wolfgang Mozart
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Red Whiskers & Squeak serve aboard ship with this title character, Herman Melville's sailorboy |
Billy Budd
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"Untidy" name for sandwiches made with ground beef cooked in tomato sauce & served on hamburger buns |
sloppy joes
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In 1862 Alvan Clark discovered the first White Dwarf, a companion of this star also called Alpha Canis Majoris |
(Papa: [To Andrew] Not what I was hoping right there.) (Alex: Now, what?) (Papa: Not what I was hoping right there.) (Alex: Oh, really?) (Papa: Really.) (Alex: You're all by yourself on this clue; there's no pressure.) (Papa: Yeah. Okay.) ... (Alex: The dog star. You are right. $16,000. No sweat.)
Sirius
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Señor Garcia's geography test included Cabo de Buena Esperanza, which is on this continent |
(Papa: What is South America?) (Alex: Nope, you're thinking of Cape Horn instead of the Cape of Good Hope, which is in [*].)
Africa
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Roger Zelazny is known for the series of novels based on this land that shares its name with fossilized resin |
Amber
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English kings: James I, Alfred the Great, George III |
(Papa: Who is James I?)
Alfred the Great
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One of the most popular Christmas operas is Menotti's classic about this boy "and the Night Visitors" |
Amahl
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The popular snack known as "ants on a log" is made with raisins, peanut butter & this long green vegetable |
celery
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In 1838 Friedrich Bessel first measured a star's distance by using parallax--using observations this many months apart |
(Alex: [*] months apart in order to get the greatest distance.)
6
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In U.S. government with Señor Molina, we learned that this person, el Portavoz, presides over La Camara de Representantes |
the Speaker of the House
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