Statistics for The Giuseppe Verdi Quiz

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This quiz has been taken 15 times
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Hint	Answer	% Correct
City where Verdi received a full state funeral in 1901	Milan	86%
Opera about a captured Ethiopian princess	Aida	79%
German composer whose style he was accused of emulating towards the middle of his career	Richard Wagner	79%
Sacred work beginning with the words "Dies irae"	Requiem	71%
English playwright whose works inspired several of Verdi's operas	William Shakespeare	71%
Number of operas Verdi wrote (not counting revisions, translations, and unfinished works)	26	64%
Verdi's last opera	Falstaff	64%
Librettist who wrote the text to Rigoletto and La traviata	Francesco Maria Piave	64%
The profession of Rigoletto, main character of the eponymous opera	Jester	64%
Opera about the Babylonian invasion of Jerusalem	Nabucco	64%
Italian political movement in which Verdi was involved (although the intensity of his involvement is disputed)	Risorgimento	57%
First two words of the Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from the above opera	Va, pensiero	57%
Empire where Verdi was born in 1813	First French Empire	50%
University that houses the American Institute for Verdi Studies	New York University	43%
Italian Prime Minister called out over budget cuts during a performance of Nabucco	Silvio Berlusconi	43%
Inflammation of the brain to which Verdi's first wife succumbed	Encephalitis	36%
Modern-day Italian province where Verdi was born	Parma	36%
Verdi's second wife and soprano who starred in his early operas	Giuseppina Strepponi	29%
Verdi's middle names (name one)	Fortunino Francesco	21%
Composer who rejected the libretto of the above	Otto Nicolai	14%