Culture

I. MUSIC I.D.

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

1-2. "Rondeau" by Mouret (Theme from "Masterpiece Theater").
3-4: Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro" by Mozart.
5-6: "Pathetique" Sonata (No. 8 in C) by Beethoven.
7-8: Overture to "The Flying Dutchman" by Richard Wagner.
9-10: Brandenburg Concerto #6 by J.S. Bach.
11-12: "1812 Overture" (Choral introduction) by Tchaikovsky.
13-14: Triumphal March from "Aida" by Verdi.
15-16: Violin Concerto in E Minor by Mendelssohn.
17-18: "The Four Seasons" (Winter) by Vivaldi.
19-20: "Rodeo (Hoedown)" by Aaron Copland.

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.)

"Merchant of Venice"-- Portia disguised as Balthazar
"Twelfth Night"-- Viola disguised as Cesario
"As You Like It"-- Rosalind disguised as Ganymed
"Cymbeline"-- Imogen disguised as Fidele
"Two Gentlemen of Verona"-- Julia disguised as Sebastian

26. "When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound."
    Hotspur (Harry Percy).

27. "Thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it."
    Macbeth.

28. "Keep me in temper, I would not be mad."
    King Lear.

29. "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."
    Antony.

30. "O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!"
    King Claudius.

31. "There she shook the holy water from her heavenly eyes..."
    Cordelia.

32. "You may my glories and my state depose, but not my griefs; still am I king of those."
    Richard II.

33. "This was the noblest Roman of them all."
    Brutus.

34. "A bloody tyrant and a homicide; one raised in blood and one in blood established."
    Richard III.

35. "O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!"
    Hamlet.

36. "...She is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from her rest."
    Lady Macbeth.

37. "Yet herein will I imitate the sun, who doth permit the base contagious clouds to smother up his beauty from the world..."
    Prince Hal.

38. "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").

39. "I follow him to serve my turn upon him." A: Iago.

40. What common fate did Henry Bolingbroke, Romeo, and Rosalind (from "As You Like It") share?
    They were all banished from their homes.

III. OPERETTA

41. "HMS Pinafore"--
    Captain Corcoran and Ralph were exchanged at birth by Buttercup.

42. "The Pirates of Penzance"--
    The pirates are really "all noblemen who have gone wrong," and they may thus marry the Major General's daughters.

43. "Iolanthe"--
    The laws are changed so that any fairy who DOESN'T marry a mortal must die. And as all of them are already married, it works out.

44. "The Gondoliers"--
    Another baby switching; this time Inez's son was in truth Prince Luiz.

45. 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?
    A protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.

IV. MUSIC NAMES

46. Mahler's first--
    Titan.

47. Mahler's second--
    Resurrection.

48. Berlioz's first--
    Symphonie Fantastique.

49. Berlioz's third--
    Romeo and Juliet.

50. Mendelssohn's third--
    Scotch.

51. Mendelssohn's fourth--
    Italian.

52. Mendelssohn's fifth--
    Reformation.

53. Tchaikovsky's second--
    Little Russian.

54. Tchaikovsky's third--
    Polish.

55. Tchaikovsky's sixth--
    Pathetique.

56. Mozart's forty-first--
    Jupiter.

57. Schubert's eighth--
    Unfinished.

58. Schubert's ninth--
    Great.

59. Schumann's third--
    Rhenish.

60. Haydn's ninety-fourth--
    Surprise.

V. PBS

"Masterpiece Theater"
61. From "Brideshead Revisited," what did Mr. Samgrass do which made Charles and Sebastian obligated to put up with him?
    He kept Sebastian out of jail by testifying as a character witness at his trial.

62. As "Poldark" began, where was Ross returning home from to Cornwall, and what had he been doing there?
    Colonial America, fighting in the Revolutionary War (on the British side, of course).

63-69. From "Upstairs, Downstairs," name for us the entire downstairs staff.
Butler/downstairs head-- Mr. Angus Hudson;
Chief Cook-- Mrs. Bridges;
Chief Maid-- Rose;
Scullery Maid-- Ruby;
Footman/Chauffeur-- Edward;
BOTH Chambermaids-- Sarah, Daisy (ACCEPT Violet-- Parlor Maid)

70. From "I, Claudius," when the Emperor Caligula opened a brothel in the royal palace, who did he force to work in it?
    His sisters, and later the Senators' wives, as prostitutes. And Claudius as doorman.

71. 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?
    HRH The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII), holding a roulette wheel.

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.
Monty Python's Flying Circus; Fawlty Towers; The Two Ronnies; Sorry!; The Benny Hill Show; The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin; Beyond the Fringe; Yes, Minister; Last of the Summer Wine; To the Manor Born; The Goodies; The Bounder; The Dave Allen Show; Good Neighbors; Butterflies.

VI. LITERATURE

76. "Faust"--
    Mephistopheles.

77. "Fall of the House of Usher"--
    Roderick Usher.

78. "The Three Musketeers"--
    Cardinal Richelieu.

79. "David Copperfield"--
    Uriah Heep.

80. "Les Miserables"--
    Javert.

81. "Barchester Towers"--
    Mr. Slope.

82. "The Faerie Queen"--
    Duessa.

83. In "A Separate Peace," what was Phineas' private theory about the war?
    It was all a fake, a plot by the fat old men to keep down the young.

84. In "The Scarlet Letter," what was the sign that damned Dimmesdale?
    An A-shaped tumor on his chest.

85. In "Great Expectations," who was Pip's benefactor, and where did he get his money?
    Mr. Magwich, who got his money in Australia.

86. What was the only one of the seven commandments which remained at the end of "Animal Farm"?
    "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

87. According to the King and the Duke in "Huckleberry Finn," what is the first line of Hamlet's famous soliloquy?
    "To be or not to be, that is the bare bodkin."

88. How did the Count of Monte Christo escape from prison?
    When the prisoner in the next cell died, he moved the body into his cell, sewed himself into the shroud, and was thrown off the cliff into the sea.

89. How did Bartleby the Scrivener die?
    He starved in jail. When offered food, he said, "I would prefer not to."

90. There are only four female characters in the "Poema del Cid." Name them.
    Dona Jimena, the Cid's wife; Dona Elvira and Dona Sol, his daughters; and a small, unnamed girl near the beginning who tells the Cid that he can't stay in her village.

VII. MISCELLANEOUS

91-97. Name the Seven Wonders of the ancient world.
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon; the Colossus of Rhodes; the Great Pyramids of Egypt; the Statue of Zeus at Olympia; the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus; the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus; the Lighthouse of Alexandria.

98. What musical instruments do Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty play?
    Violin and bassoon, respectively.

99. What was Lord Louis Mountbatten's family name before it was changed to Mountbatten, and why was it changed?
    Battenberg; it was changed because it was World War 1, and as a noble English family, they didn't want a German surname.

100. Of the ninety plays written by Greek playwright Aeschylus, which seven survive to this day?
     The Suppliants; The Persians; Seven Against Thebes; Prometheus Bound; and the Orestes Trilogy (Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers (Choephoroi); and The Furies (The Eumarides)).