Culture

I. MUSIC I.D.

Give the title and name of the composer for each of the ten works played over the air.

II. SHAKESPEARE

21-25. In several of Shakespeare's plays, women don men's clothing in order to disguise themselves. Tell us in which plays this occurs, give us the real name of the character, and tell us the assumed name she uses while she is disguised. (Minor characters which never assume a proper name need not be included.) Identify the people DESCRIBED in the following quotes.

"When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound."
"Thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it."
"Keep me in temper, I would not be mad."
"I, that with my sword Quart'd the world, and o'er green Neptune's back with ships made cities, condemn myself to lack the courage of a woman."
"O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!"
"There she shook the holy water from her heavenly eyes..."
"You may my glories and my state depose, but not my griefs; still am I king of those."
"This was the noblest Roman of them all."
"A bloody tyrant and a homicide; one raised in blood and one in blood established."
"O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!"
"...She is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from her rest."
"Yet herein will I imitate the sun, who doth permit the base contagious clouds to smother up his beauty from the world..."
"She will not stay the siege of loving terms, Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes, Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold." A: Rosalind (from "Romeo and Juliet").
"I follow him to serve my turn upon him." A: Iago.
What common fate did Henry Bolingbroke, Romeo, and Rosalind (from "As You Like It") share?

III. OPERETTA

Last-minute plot twists are a very important device in many Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, allowing for a happy ending which would otherwise be impossible. Tell us the "surprise endings" of the following operettas:

"HMS Pinafore"--
"The Pirates of Penzance"--
"Iolanthe"--
"The Gondoliers"--
Poobah, Lord-High-Everything-Else of Titipo, constantly practices the reduction of his pride, an immense pride due to his ability to trace his family line back to.... what?

IV. MUSIC NAMES

Symphonies are often "named" by the public for one reason or another, and often this nickname becomes more well-known than the number of the symphony. For instance, Beethoven's third is also known as the "Eroica," his sixth is known as the "Pastoral." Simple-- but can you name the following?

Mahler's first--
Mahler's second--
Berlioz's first--
Berlioz's third--
Mendelssohn's third--
Mendelssohn's fourth--
Mendelssohn's fifth--
Tchaikovsky's second--
Tchaikovsky's third--
Tchaikovsky's sixth--
Mozart's forty-first--
Schubert's eighth--
Schubert's ninth--
Schumann's third--
Haydn's ninety-fourth--

V. PBS

From "Brideshead Revisited," what did Mr. Samgrass do which made Charles and Sebastian obligated to put up with him?
As "Poldark" began, where was Ross returning home from to Cornwall, and what had he been doing there?

63-69. From "Upstairs, Downstairs," name for us the entire downstairs staff.

From "I, Claudius," when the Emperor Caligula opened a brothel in the royal palace, who did he force to work in it?
The life of Lilly Langtry, the Jersey Lily, was brought to "Masterpiece Theater" a few years back. In one scene, a gambling party (highly illegal) is raided by the police. They draw aside a curtain and find Lilly ensconced with.... whom? And what is the person holding?

V. BRITISH HUMOR

72-75. PBS has presented us with not only British drama, but also British humor. Name four of the fifteen comedy programs brought to our shores in the last ten or fifteen years.

VI. LITERATURE

Name the chief antagonist in the following works.

"Faust"--
"Fall of the House of Usher"--
"The Three Musketeers"--
"David Copperfield"--
"Les Miserables"--
"Barchester Towers"--
"The Faerie Queen"--
In "A Separate Peace," what was Phineas' private theory about the war?
In "The Scarlet Letter," what was the sign that damned Dimmesdale?
In "Great Expectations," who was Pip's benefactor, and where did he get his money?
What was the only one of the seven commandments which remained at the end of "Animal Farm"?
According to the King and the Duke in "Huckleberry Finn," what is the first line of Hamlet's famous soliloquy?
How did the Count of Monte Christo escape from prison?
How did Bartleby the Scrivener die?
There are only four female characters in the "Poema del Cid." Name them.

VII. MISCELLANEOUS

91-97. Name the Seven Wonders of the ancient world.

What musical instruments do Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty play?
What was Lord Louis Mountbatten's family name before it was changed to Mountbatten, and why was it changed?
Of the ninety plays written by Greek playwright Aeschylus, which seven survive to this day?