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Question:

‘St Anthony of Padua’s Sermon to the Fishes’ can be heard in which collection of songs, written in 1899?

Response:

	Mahler’s 'Lieder aus Des Knaben Wunderhorn'
	Schubert's 'Wintterreise'
	Debussy's 'Ariettes oubliées'
	Feedback: It was Mahler's 'Lieder aus Des Knaben Wunderhorn'. The story goes that when the residents of Rimini in Italy wouldn't sit and listen to his sermon, St Anthony went to the sea shore and preached to the fish - who all listened attentively.

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Who are the two best-known residents of Catfish Row, Charleston?

Response:

	Tony and Maria
	Feedback: It's Porgy and Bess. Gershwin's opera 'Porgy and Bess' was first performed in 1935 and it was based on the novel 'Porgy' by DuBose Heyward
	Porgy and Bess
	Zelda and Scott

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How old was the violinist Jennifer Pike when, in 2002, she became the (then) youngest ever winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition?

Response:

	12
	13
	Feedback: She was 12 years old when she won
	14

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‘Fish in the Unruffled Lakes’ is the title of a song, using a text by WH Auden, for high voice and piano composed by whom in 1937?

Response:

	Frank Bridge
	Herbert Howells
	Benjamin Britten
	Feedback: Correct! The first verse of the poem is: 'Fish in the unruffled lakes/ Their swarming colours wear,/ Swans in the winter air/ A white perfection have,/ And the great lion walks/ Through his innocent grove;/ Lion, fish and swan/ Act, and are gone/ Upon Time’s toppling wave.'

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This fine fish, below, shares its name with the conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra. Who is said maestro?

Response:

	Benjamin Zander
	Feedback: Correct!
	Gustavo Dudamel
	Riccardo Muti

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Which Puccini opera features a character called ‘The Tench’ (Il Tinca) who works on the Seine?

Response:

	Suor Angelica
	Feedback: He's a stevedore in 'Il Tabarro', which is the first part of Puccini's triple bill 'Il Trittico'
	Tosca
	Il Tabarro

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Which 1990s BBC comedy, starring Stefanie Cole and Graham Crowden, had the last movement of Schubert’s Trout Quintet as its theme tune?

Response:

	Birds of a Feather
	One Foot in the Grave
	Feedback: It was 'Waiting for God' which ran from 1990-1994
	Waiting for God

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Which fish swim around ornamentally in Debussy’s Images for solo piano – inspired, it’s believed, by a Japanese lacquered panel?

Response:

	Clownfish
	Goldfish
	Feedback: Correct! The piece is called 'Poissons d'or'
	Angelfish

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We’ll banish all Sorrow, and sing till tomorrow, And angle and angle again’ wrote 17th-century English composer Henry Lawes. Whose words was he setting?

Response:

	Ben Jonson
	Robert Herrick
	Feedback: It was Izaak Walton, whose best known work, 'The Compleat Angler' was published in 1653.
	Izaak Walton