Statistics for The Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Quiz

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This quiz has been taken 36 times
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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Ballet about a girl transformed into an aquatic bird	Swan Lake	84%
Ballet featuring evil mice, dancing foods, and a sugar plum fairy	The Nutcracker	81%
Tchaikovsky wrote an overture about this famous year in Russian history	1812	77%
Tchaikovsky's fantasy-overture was based on this Shakespearian play	Romeo and Juliet	68%
Ballet about a drowsy princess	The Sleeping Beauty	65%
Soviet and Russian censors have tried to obfuscate this part of Tchaikovsky's personal life	His homosexuality	61%
City where Tchaikovsky taught music theory upon his graduation	Moscow	61%
Number of symphonies written by Tchaikovsky (not including Manfred and his unfinished symphony in Eb)	6	58%
His death is traditionally ascribed to this disease	Cholera	45%
Tchaikovsky originally studied this subject	Law	45%
Group of Russian Composers that had a complicated relationship with Tchaikovsky	The Mighty Handful	42%
Opera based on a novel in verse that features a duel	Eugene Onegin	35%
This American doll starred in two films based on Tchaikovsky's ballets	Barbie	32%
NYC venue where Tchaikovsky conducted his Festival Coronation March	Carnegie Hall	26%
The author of said novel in verse	Alexander Pushkin	19%
Tchaikovsky's instructor in composition at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory	Anton Rubinstein	19%
This Tsar conferred upon Tchaikovsky the Order of St. Vladimir	Alexander III	16%
Circle of musicians to which Tchaikovsky belonged, also featuring Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov	The Belyayev circle	10%
Opera about an enchanting woman maligned as a witch	The Enchantress	10%
Monastery where Tchaikovsky is buried, alongside Borodin, Glinka, and others	Alexander Nevsky Monastery	6%