LearnedCompanion: LL83 MD24 (December 19, 2019)

The following are "companion questions" to those appearing on the LearnedLeague website on December 19, 2019.


1. Which choreographer, the niece of a pioneering film director, worked on musicals such as Oklahoma!, Carousel, Brigadoon, Allegro, and Paint Your Wagon?

2. Kissy Suzuki is the Bond girl in which Japan-set film, with a screenplay written by Roald Dahl?

3. What is the unappetizing name of the 1521 conference at, held in the namesake German city, in which the writings and ideas of Martin Luther were addressed?

4. Which Joe Esposito track, which states that "nothing's ever gonna keep you down," appeared in the film The Karate Kid after being rejected from the soundtrack of Rocky III?

5. Abraham Lincoln is beheaded in Dream on Monkey Mountain, a play by which St. Lucia born playwright, who also adapted the Odyssey in his Omeros?

6. Joseph Haydn is known as both the Father of the Symphony and the Father of which other type of composition? Haydn's compositions of this type are grouped in his Opus 20, known as the "Sun" group, and his Opus 50, known as the "Prussian" group.

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