quiz 1616 – ballet

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1	Which Stravinsky ballet features three puppets as the central characters? The Rite of Spring, Coppelia, Petrushka, Orpheus
2	Which Tchaikovsky ballet features the ?Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy?? The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Gayane
3	Which Tchaikovsky ballet features the villainous Lord Rothbart? Gayane, Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Swan Lake
4	What year was La Bayadere first performed (in ballet)? 1880, 1877, 1879, 1878
5	The role of Nikiya in La Bayadere was created as a benefit performance for whom (in ballet)? Anna Pavlova, Irina Baronova, Ekaterina Vazem, Natalia Bessmertnova
6	Who choreographed the ballets Swan Lake and Don Quixote, among others? Marius Petipa, Jerome Robbins, Martha Graham, Bob Fosse
7	In which country is La Bayadere set (in ballet)? India, China, Turkey, Italy
8	Which part of La Bayadere is often performed on its own (in ballet)? Spirits and ghosts, Spirits of the maidens, Wedding ceremony, Kingdom of the shades
9	What moniker was given to the three young principal dancers of the 1930s Ballet Russes? Baby Ballerinas, High Ballerinas, Lady Ballerinas, Male Ballerinas
10	Which disease did George Balanchine die of (in ballet)? Pneumonia, Creutzfeld-Jakob disease, Cancer, AIDS
11	In 1972 the New York City Ballet offered an eight-day tribute to which composer? Maurice Ravel, Ludwig van Beethoven, George Frideric Handel, Igor Stravinsky
12	Who wrote the 1938 ballet Billy the Kid? Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, Leon Minkus, Claude Debussy
13	Complete this title of a Domenico Scarlatti ballet: ?The Good-Humoured...?. Women, Ladies, Girls, Guys
14	A John McCabe ballet shares its name with which English monarch? Edward II, James II, Richard II, Henry II
15	The term arabesque refers to one leg raised behind and what extended (in ballet)? Foot, Neck, Head, Arm
16	What does the word Bolshoi mean in English (in ballet)? Dance, Fierce, Small, Great
17	What was the original name of the Bolshoi Theatre? Petrovsky, Malyi, Kandinsky, Arnovsky
18	In what year was the Bolshoi Theatre opened? 1825, 1829, 1827, 1831
19	Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme was based on a work by which composer (in ballet)? Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Richard Strauss
20	How many ritual dances are there in The Midsummer Marriage (in ballet)? Five, Seven, Four, Six