Hans-Adam II
- The Prime Minister of Morocco
Who is Saad-Eddine El Othmani?
The Dreaded Opera Category
- Ludwig van Beethoven’s only opera
What is “Fidelio”?
(“Fidelio” was the first opera I ever saw – I saw an oratorio performace when I was in college)
- The final opera written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, it premiered just two months before his death in 1791.
What is The Magic Flute?
- Spanish gypsies, bullfighters and soldiers, all singing in French.
What is Carmen?
- A Chinese princess, Mandarin bureaucrats, and undercover royalty from Tartary, all singing in Italian.
What is Turandot?
- He tricks the title character into thinking he’s saved her lover, but doesn’t live to see Act 3.
What is ‘Rigoletto’?
Famous Deaths in Song
He was found in the wreck with his hand on the throttle.
-“BB”-
What is “The Wreck of the Old 97”?
- Bobbie Gentry’s 1967 song, about a suicide at the Tallahatchie Bridge
What is Ode to Billie Joe?
- They say they found his high school ring clutched in her fingers tight.
Wrong. The correct response is "Who is Scarpia, in Tosca?
What is Teen Angel?
- Felina kissed you goodbye in this town.
What is the West Texas town of El Paso?
- This folk-rock ballad is the longest number 1 hit song ever, and was on the Billboard charts at that position in 1972, 13 years after the tragic event that inspired it.
What is “American Pie”?
Next topic: SPORTS VENUES
- Before Three Rivers Stadium opened in 1970, the Pittsburgh Pirates called this park home for 61 seasons.
What is Forbes Field?
- This NCAA venue is, by seating capacity, America’s largest football stadium.
What is U of Michigan?
(I lived in an apartment with a view of it one summer)
- This top-level tennis venue can leave reddish clay marks on players’ clothing
What is the Stade Roland-Garros in Paris?
- Opened in 1972, this is the 3rd-oldest NFL stadium behind Soldier Field and Lambeau Field.
What is Arrowhead Stadium?
- This automobile racetrack features a 2 1/2 mile asphalt oval, with a one-yard-wide line of bricks at the finish line.
What is the Indianapolis 500?
Next: Norse Mythology
- The slayer of Balder
(Nitpick: The Indianapolis 500 is the name of the race, not the track, which is the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.)
So, just to keep things legit:
What is the Indianapolis Motor Speedway?
Next: Norse Mythology
- The slayer of Balder
Right. Moving on to another topic then.
Next: Advertising Slogans
- Please don’t squeeze the _______.