Time for another musical quiz. How much do you know about. . .
Classical Music in Popular Culture
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 Reference | Composer |
- The opening of Bambi Meets Godzilla.
- 'Kill da wabbit!'
- "This is the cereal that's shot from guns!'
- Olive Oyl dancing ballet in spring.
- Christmas season in the Mall. Or a restaurant. Or at your child's recital. Or anywhere, really.
- 'A Groovy Kind of Love.'
- At the circus.
- 'I'm a stranger in Paradise. . . '
- The monolith in space. Need we say more? I'm sorry, I can't do that, Dave. . .
- 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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Post Quiz and Oddities ArchiveDmitri Gheorgheni
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