The Post Quiz: Classical Music in Popular Culture

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Classical Music in Popular Culture

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You know how it is: people today are so cultured, they quote classical music all over the place. Not really? No, but they misuse it a lot. You know these composers, even if you don't know you know them.

Match these composers to their best-known popular uses.

Pop-Culture ReferenceComposer
  1. The opening of Bambi Meets Godzilla.
  2. 'Kill da wabbit!'
  3. "This is the cereal that's shot from guns!'
  4. Olive Oyl dancing ballet in spring.
  5. Christmas season in the Mall. Or a restaurant. Or at your child's recital. Or anywhere, really.
  6. 'A Groovy Kind of Love.'
  7. At the circus.
  8. 'I'm a stranger in Paradise. . . '
  9. The monolith in space. Need we say more? I'm sorry, I can't do that, Dave. . .
  10. In faux-medieval video games. At Pittsburgh Pirate home games. In the film Excalibur. At the annual matriculation ceremony of the University of Oslo. . . and anywhere else you can think of that's over-the-top.
  • Richard Strauss.
  • Carl Orff.
  • Muzio Clementi.
  • Julius Fucik.
  • Johann Pachelbel.
  • Richard Wagner.
  • Gioachino Rossini.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikowsky.
  • Alexander Borodin.
  • Felix Mendelssohn.

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