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Summer Hiatus Challenge 2018--Round 5, Day 5
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2018 10:29 am
by rjaguar3
Programming note: R5D6 might be up late tonight or early Saturday morning.
On we go.
Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge 2018--Round 5, Day 5
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2018 10:42 am
by rjaguar3
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
2: Bill Clinton received a Rhodes scholarship to study at this university.
4: I'll volunteer that Neyland Stadium hosts college football games in this Tennessee city.
6: There are two historically black colleges and universities in D.C.: the University of the District of Columbia and this one named for a Civil War general.
8: This women's college did not fully integrate with Harvard University until 1999.
10: In 1966, four women from this state's Agnes Scott College defeated four men from Princeton University on the General Electric College Bowl.
THE DREADED OPERA CATEGORY
3: Mozart's Die Zauberflöte is better known in English under this title.
6: This composer of Peter and the Wolf turned the Tolstoy tome War and Peace into an epic opera.
9: In "Nessun dorma", an aria from this Puccini opera, Calaf proclaims that he will win the title princess.
12: The Guardian calls the Henry Purcell opera titled for these two characters from Virgil a "lone English operatic success until the 20th century".
15: Max turns to magic bullets for help in a shooting contest in this German Romantic composer's Der Freischütz.
Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge 2018--Round 5, Day 5
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2018 10:42 am
by rjaguar3
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Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge 2018--Round 5, Day 5
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2018 10:43 am
by rjaguar3
Answers:
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
2: Bill Clinton received a Rhodes scholarship to study at this university.
OXFORD
4: I'll volunteer that Neyland Stadium hosts college football games in this Tennessee city.
KNOXVILLE
6: There are two historically black colleges and universities in D.C.: the University of the District of Columbia and this one named for a Civil War general.
HOWARD (named for Oliver Otis Howard)
8: This women's college did not fully integrate with Harvard University until 1999.
RADCLIFFE
10: In 1966, four women from this state's Agnes Scott College defeated four men from Princeton University on the General Electric College Bowl.
GEORGIA
THE DREADED OPERA CATEGORY
3: Mozart's Die Zauberflöte is better known in English under this title.
THE MAGIC FLUTE
6: This composer of Peter and the Wolf turned the Tolstoy tome War and Peace into an epic opera.
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
9: In "Nessun dorma", an aria from this Puccini opera, Calaf proclaims that he will win the title princess.
TURANDOT
12: The Guardian calls the Henry Purcell opera titled for these two characters from Virgil a "lone English operatic success until the 20th century".
DIDO AND AENEAS
15: Max turns to magic bullets for help in a shooting contest in this German Romantic composer's Der Freischütz.
CARL MARIA VON WEBER
Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge 2018--Round 5, Day 5
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2018 10:49 am
by MarkBarrett
2: Oxford
4:
6: Howard
8: Radcliffe
10:
3: The Magic Flute
6: Prokofiev
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12:
15:
Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge 2018--Round 5, Day 5
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2018 11:07 am
by newtrat
2: Oxford
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3: The Magic Flute
6: Prokofiev
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Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge 2018--Round 5, Day 5
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2018 11:18 am
by immaf
2: Oxford
4: CLAM
6: Howard
8: Radcliffe
10: CLAM
3: The Magic Flute
6: CLAM
9: Norma
12: CLAM
15: CLAM
Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge 2018--Round 5, Day 5
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2018 11:23 am
by Clue Jungry
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
2: Oxford
4: Knoxville
6: Howard
8: Radcliffe
10: Georgia
THE DREADED OPERA CATEGORY
3: The Magic Flute
6: Prokofiev
9: Turandot
12: Dido and Aeneas
15: CLAM (Random guess would be Schubert)
Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge 2018--Round 5, Day 5
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2018 11:34 am
by CellBlock
2: Oxford
4: Knoxville
6: Howard
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3: The Magic Flute
6: Prokofiev
9:
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Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge 2018--Round 5, Day 5
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2018 11:43 am
by LucarioSnooperVixey
2. Oxford
4. Knoxville
6. Howard
8. Radcliffe
10. Georgia
3. The Magic Flute
6. Sergei Prokofiev
9. Turandot
12. Dido and Aeneas
15. Carl Maria von Weber
Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge 2018--Round 5, Day 5
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2018 11:48 am
by joepozz
2: Oxford
4: Knoxville
6: Howard
8: Radcliffe
10: Georgia
3: The Magic Flute
6: Prokofiev
9: Turandot
12: Dido & Aeneas
15: clam
Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge 2018--Round 5, Day 5
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2018 11:53 am
by MtlMike
2: Oxford
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6: Georgetown
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3: Tin Flute
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Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge 2018--Round 5, Day 5
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2018 11:54 am
by quarterrican
2: Oxford
4:
6: Howard
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3: The Magic Flute
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12: Aeneas and Dido
15:
Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge 2018--Round 5, Day 5
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2018 11:56 am
by mrbungle
2: oxford
4: knoxville
6: howard
8: radcliffe
10: georgia
3: the magic flute
6: prokofiev
9: turandot
12: dido and aeneas
15:
Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge 2018--Round 5, Day 5
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2018 12:05 pm
by sarisson
2: Oxford
4: Nashville
6: Howard
8: Radcliffe
10:
3: The Magic Flute
6: Prokofiev
9: Tosca?
12: Dido and Aeneas
15:
Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge 2018--Round 5, Day 5
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2018 12:10 pm
by harrumph
2:Oxford
4:Nashville
6:Howard
8:Radcliffe
10:clam
3:The Magic Flute
6:Prokofiev
9:La Boheme
12:clam
15:clam
Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge 2018--Round 5, Day 5
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2018 12:15 pm
by AFRET CMS
2: Oxford
4: Knoxville
6: Howard
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10:
3: The Magic Flute
6: Prokofiev
9:
12: Orpheus and Eurydice?
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Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge 2018--Round 5, Day 5
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2018 12:16 pm
by Volante
2: oxford
4:
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3: magic flute
6: prokofiev
9: aida
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Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge 2018--Round 5, Day 5
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2018 12:25 pm
by CoachP
2: Oxford
4: Knoxville
6: Howard
8: Radcliffe
10: clam
3: The Magic Flute
6: clam
9: La CLAM
12: clam
15: clam
Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge 2018--Round 5, Day 5
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2018 12:39 pm
by CheezeWhiz
2: Oxford
4: CLAM
6: CLAM
8: Vassar
10: New Jersey
3: The Magic Flute
6: Prokofiev
9: Turandot
12: Dido and Aeneas
15: CLAM