| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Ballet featuring evil mice, dancing foods, and a sugar plum fairy | The Nutcracker | 84%
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| Ballet about a girl transformed into an aquatic bird | Swan Lake | 82%
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| Tchaikovsky wrote an overture about this famous year in Russian history | 1812 | 75%
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| Ballet about a drowsy princess | The Sleeping Beauty | 70%
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| Tchaikovsky's fantasy-overture was based on this Shakespearian play | Romeo and Juliet | 68%
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| City where Tchaikovsky taught music theory upon his graduation | Moscow | 59%
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| Soviet and Russian censors have tried to obfuscate this part of Tchaikovsky's personal life | His homosexuality | 57%
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| Number of symphonies written by Tchaikovsky (not including Manfred and his unfinished symphony in Eb) | 6 | 52%
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| His death is traditionally ascribed to this disease | Cholera | 45%
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| Tchaikovsky originally studied this subject | Law | 45%
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| Opera based on a novel in verse that features a duel | Eugene Onegin | 32%
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| Group of Russian Composers that had a complicated relationship with Tchaikovsky | The Mighty Handful | 32%
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| This American doll starred in two films based on Tchaikovsky's ballets | Barbie | 25%
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| NYC venue where Tchaikovsky conducted his Festival Coronation March | Carnegie Hall | 25%
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| The author of said novel in verse | Alexander Pushkin | 18%
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| Tchaikovsky's instructor in composition at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory | Anton Rubinstein | 18%
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| This Tsar conferred upon Tchaikovsky the Order of St. Vladimir | Alexander III | 14%
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| Opera about an *enchanting* woman maligned as a witch | The Enchantress | 9%
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| Monastery where Tchaikovsky is buried, alongside Borodin, Glinka, and others | Alexander Nevsky Monastery | 5%
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| Circle of musicians to which Tchaikovsky belonged, also featuring Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov | The Belyayev circle | 5%
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