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MUSIC LINKS
This was devised as a table round to be left with contestants or teams - obviously without the answers - at the start of the quiz and to be completed at their leisure through the event.
Note that not all the starting points are music-based.
What links the following?
1
a) The blues
b) Greek alphabet
c) Sleep
Delta (delta rhythms or waves are normal electric activity of cerebral cortex during deep sleep)
2
a) Robert Johnson
b) Faust
c) Nicolo Paganini
Pacts with the Devil
3
a) The Beatles
b) Richard I, king of England
c) Joseph Conrad and Coppola
Heart (Lonely Hearts Club Band, Richard the Lionheart, Conrad's Heart of Darkness as source for Apocalypse Now)
4
a) Mozart's Figaro (the play originally by Beaumarchais)
b) Lorca
c) Mendelssohn's incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream
Marriages in plays - the Marriage of Figaro, Lorca's Blood Wedding, The Wedding March for MSND
5
a) Bagpipe or hurdy-gurdy
b) In aerial warfare a pilotless plane or missile
c) Bees
Drone (in the case of (a) a drone pipe or string)
6
a) Tosca
b) Anna Karenina
c) A Midsummer Night's Dream - Pyramus & Thisbe
Suicides. Tosca from the battlements, AK under a train, P+T by sword
7
a) Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
b) The European Court of Human Rights
c) La Marseillaise
The Rhine. The Wagner is set in, on and around it. The Human Rights court is in Strasbourg. The Marseillaise was originally written for the French Rhine Army.
8
a) Hymn book
b) Golf
c) Pistol from Shakespeare's Henry IV and Henry V
Ancient. Hymns Ancient and Modern. The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews. Ancient Pistol as he is known.
9
a) West Side Story
b) Mack the Knife
c) Carcharodon carcharias
Sharks. One of the west side gangs. Shark's teeth at the opening of the song Mackie Messer. The Great White.
10
a) Scarborough Fair
b) Devil child
c) Raised from the Solent mud
Rose(mary). Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme. Rosemary's baby. Mary Rose.
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