Statistics for The Life of Dmitri Shostakovich

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Famous four-note motif	DSCH	76%
City where he was born (name at the time)	St. Petersburg	70%
String quartet that may have been a suicide note	String Quartet No. 8	70%
Son who became a pianist and conductor	Maxim Shostakovich	62%
13th Symphony subtitle	Babi Yar	51%
Political event that the 12th Symphony was written about	Russian Revolution of 1917	41%
Alleged memoirs, published 1979	Testimony	41%
Article that led to his first denunciation	Muddle Instead of Music	38%
Opera, premiered 1934	Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District	24%
Where he studied composition	Leningrad Conservatory	24%
Suite featuring Waltz No. 2	Suite for Variety Orchestra	24%
Friend and conductor of the Leningrad Symphony Orchestra	Yevgeny Mravinsky	24%
Editor of the above	Solomon Volkov	22%
Teacher at above	Alexander Glazunov	19%
1980 Summer Olympics theme music	Festive Overture	16%
First ballet, premiered 1930	The Golden Age	14%
Red Army marshal, friend of Shostakovich, executed in 1936	Mikhail Tukhachevsky	11%
1948 song cycle: "From ______ ____ ______"	From Jewish Folk Poetry	8%
Conductor at the Leningrad premiere of the 7th Symphony	Karl Eliasberg	5%
City he was evacuated to in 1941 (name at the time)	Kuibyshev	5%