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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Claude ________, 1862-1918	Debussy	97%
Polish-born French citizen who died aged 39; all his 230 works involve the piano	Frédéric Chopin	92%
Gabriel _____, 1945-1924	Fauré	90%
Composer with a saintly name, 1835-1921	Camille Saint-Saëns	88%
Symphonie fantastique	Hector Berlioz	85%
Who said this? He wrote 3 Gnossiennes for piano	Erik Satie	78%
That composer (1875-1937)	Maurice Ravel	73%
His more famous piano works, again 3 in number	Gymnopédies	68%
Its composer Dukas' first name	Paul	68%
What piece is being described here? It's a one-minute melody, repeated 17 times	Boléro	63%
The pieces they composed, each with the same title as the poem above	Clair de Lune	62%
Composer of a scandalous opera featuring love rivals Escamillo and Don José	Georges Bizet	62%
A piece about a useless would-be wizard	The Sorcerer's Apprentice	62%
Composer of Faust, an opera	Charles Gounod	60%
His work of 14 movements, including one called Kangaroos	Carnival of the Animals	57%
The featured instrument in his 3rd Symphony?	Organ	55%
Russian-born 20-year French resident who died in the US; a citizen of all three nations	Igor Stravinsky	53%
Jules Massenet's opera from which the Méditation is a popular piece	Thaïs	52%
Italian conductor (1867-1957) who fell out with its composer who told him "You played it too fast", to which he answered "It was the only way to save it"	Arturo Toscanini	43%
Electronic music composer whose 1970s albums Oxygène and Équinoxe were massive hits	Jean Michel Jarre	38%
1978 UK pop hit using its main melody	If I Had Words	3%