Statistics for Famous Russian classical composers

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Composer of popular ballet music like 'The nutcrakcer' and 'Swan lake'	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	100%
Composer of 'The Rite of Spring', one of the most famous pieces of modern classical music	Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky	97%
Another one of the Mighty Handful and one of his most popular pieces is 'Flight of the bumblebee' from 'The Tale of Tsar Saltan'	Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov	97%
Another one of the Mighty Handful and composer of 'Pictures at an Exhibition', whose orchestral version by Maurice Ravel is also popular	Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky	94%
Composer of 'Peter and the Wolf' and 'War Sonata(Piano Sonata No 6,7,8)'	Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev	94%
Was almost 2 meters tall and was able to play thirteenths by one hand, also composed his famous symphonies and concerti	Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff	85%
Composer of 'Sabre Dance'	Aram Ilyich Khachaturian	76%
One of the 'Mighty Handful' and was also a chemist	Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin	74%
Composed 15 symphonies, finally ending the '9th curse'	Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich	68%
Composed his famous etude Op 8 No 12, also had synesthesia and believed each key has its own color	Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin	59%
One of the first Russian composers to get widely recognized and started Russian musical nationalism.	Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka	44%
The leader of the Mighty Handful and composer of 'Islamey'	Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev	44%
Another one of the Mighty Handful but his composition is quite French-styled	Cesar Antonobich Cui	41%