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If you hear "It Ain't Necessarily So", you are necessarily hearing music from this opera |
Porgy and Bess
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Only this language is spoken by more people than English |
(Sara: What is Spanish?)
Mandarin (Chinese)
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In ancient times, criminals were thrown from the south face of this city's Capitoline Hill |
Rome
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He said, "The more the marble wastes, the more the statue grows," & proved it with his David |
Michelangelo
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Unification Church officials say a man from Zimbabwe is the reincarnation of this leader's son |
(the Reverend) Moon
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Specified on the pattern envelope, it's the amount of fabric needed to make a piece of clothing |
yardage
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In Verdi's "Macbeth", he's killed right after singing a beautiful aria & before becoming a ghost |
Banquo
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According to Guinness, they include: the, and, of & to |
(Ross: What are articles?) (Sara: What are conjunctions?)
the most frequently used words in the English language in written form
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Camp David, the presidential retreat, is in this state |
Maryland
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His pale face topped with silver hair was almost as familiar as his paintings of soup cans |
Andy Warhol
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According to Bernadette, the Virgin Mary said the waters of this town will heal the sick |
Lourdes
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A Tibetan ox, or to chatter about, say, a Tibetan ox |
a yak
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This country's national opera company is the Ethniki Lyriki Skini |
(Gary: What is Finland?) ... (Gary: I've been there.)
Greece
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Pidgin English is used primarily between westerners & natives of this continent |
Asia
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One of the bloodiest battles in U.S. history was fought on this island a.k.a. "Naka Iwo" |
(Ross: Okinawa? What is Okinawa?)
Iwo Jima
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Born Anna Mary Robertson, she was discovered at age 77 & painted 40 pictures after reaching 100 |
(Alex: We've got a minute left in the round.)
Grandma Moses
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A dhoti is a long white loincloth worn by men in this religion |
Hinduism
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It's been called the southern equivalent of "yooze guys" |
y'all
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In the "Ring Cycle", he is raised by a Nibelung |
Siegfried
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After 1066 Old English evolved into Middle English, due mainly to the influence of this language |
Norman French
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In the 1880s gold was found in this island group, called "land of fire" by Magellan |
Tierra del Fuego
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Braque said he & this other famed Cubist were "roped together like mountaineers" |
Picasso
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Jehovah's Witnesses believe Christ cast him out of heaven in 1914, hence the world's troubles |
Satan
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In 1969 Stevie Wonder made the Top 10 with the following:
"What happened to / The world we knew / When we would dream and scheme / And while..." |
(Sara: What is "Yesterday"?)
"Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday"
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Term for the speech that's sung between arias |
recitative
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The only Central American country that has English as an official language |
Belize
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Located between Afghanistan & Pakistan, this 33 mi. mountain gap was famous in the annals of British India |
the Khyber Pass
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After Spain's King Philip II denied him royal patronage, he worked the rest of his life for the church |
El Greco
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Islamic law allows a man to keep up to this many wives at one time |
(Ross: What is 3?)
4
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In "Gulliver's Travels" they were a race of brutes with the form & all the vices of man |
the Yahoos
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