HUSKERS - S1.20 Music Appreciation Class #4
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Welcome to the Huskers Power Trail
The cache container is not located at the posted coordinates. Solve the puzzle below to obtain the correct location.
Husker Football – 2 of the top 10 football teams of all time are Nebraska Cornhusker Teams, the best team ever is the 1971 team, and the 3rd best team ever is the 1995 team. The Huskers are currently the 4th winningest football of all time. Bleacherreport.com rates Dr Tom Osborne the 3rd best college football coach in the history of college football, while Bob Devaney is 15th best. Husker football fans have been very lucky throughout the years, to have a team they can stand behind, I hope this lasts through my lifetime and yours!
The Storm - One of the reasons we choose the area was to bring awareness to what a tornado can do to a town. On May 22, 2004, a tornado touched down outside Hallam, Nebraska. It would soon become the world’s largest tornado, reaching its peak at 2.5 miles wide. The tornado destroyed the town of Hallam, tossing a freight train off the tracks west of town. It continued on just north of Cortland and 2 miles north of Firth. Norris Schools suffered severe damage, the middle school being the hit the worst. There the auditorium roof caved in and several walls also. Busses were tossed, and homes northeast of the schools were flattened to rubble.
Huskers Power Trail – The trail runs 13 miles wide, and 2 miles high, with approximately 185 caches. There will be some easy park and grabs, and some tough hides along the way. Due to the available hiding spots, quite a few puzzles had to be used to make the trail work.
When retrieving these hides, please pull all the way over, and do not do anything to harm yourself or others.
There are restaurants in Hallam, and Firth (just east of the trail), and gas can be found in Cortland (just south of the east side of the trail on HWY 77).
Music appreciation was one of my favorite classes in college. An easy A, and a great way to find a date since part of the grade was concert attendance, and who wanted to go a concert by themselves? Here’s a way to boost your musical IQ and the first in a series of musical puzzle caches!
Music Appreciation Test—Romantic & Modern Classical Periods
Take the following test and use the numbers in the correct responses to obtain the missing coordinates: North 40 3A.BCD West 96 5E.FGH.
A. ________________ was known as King of the Waltzes.
Answers: Beethoven (2), Strauss (3), Disney (4), Grieg (1)
B. Which of the following is NOT an opera written by Giuseppe Verdi?
Answers: Oberto (2), La Traviata (4), Biscotti (3), Aida (5)
C. The Symphony Fantastique was written by Hector Berlioz as a piece of program music telling the story of an artist that poisons himself with opium because of an unrequited love. This symphony contains many unusual musical motifs (they were from the Romantic period, weren’t they?). Which of the following was NOT one of the unusual musical motifs?
Answers: Witches cackling (1), a festive party (7) a head bouncing down the steps an executioner’s scaffold (5), a church organ playing a famous Bach fugue backwards (3)
D. This performer and composer was arguably the first rock star. The reception he enjoyed as can be described only as hysterical. Women fought over his silk handkerchiefs and velvet gloves, which they ripped to shreds as souvenirs. Helping fuel this atmosphere was the artist's mesmeric personality and stage presence. Many witnesses later testified that his playing raised the mood of audiences to a level of mystical ecstasy. He made so much money playing by his mid-forties, that his fees were largely donated to charity.
Answers: Franz Liszt (3), Robert Schumann (1), Frederic Chopin (0), Johannes Brahms (7)
E. The Russian composer ______________ was educated to be a civil servant, since work was scarce as a composer. He was subject to severe bouts of depression and is now most famous for his ballets.
Answers: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (3), Modest Mussorgsky (4), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (2), Sergei Rachmaninoff (1)
F. In the twentieth century, many composers were influenced by jazz and included all of the following EXCEPT _____________.
Answers: Gershwin (6), Copeland (5), Bernstein (8), Glass (7)
G. Debussy, who was known as the most prominent of the impressionistic composers led a turbulent life that included all of the following EXCEPT.
Answers: Had an affair with a married woman—his wife attempted suicide when she found out (0), his daughter only lived one year after his death when her doctor miss-administered the proper treatment for diphtheria (6), hired a thug to mug his college music teacher (9), convinced a model to marry him by threatening his own suicide (2)
H. Immensely popular composer, John Williams is noted for his movie compositions including, the Star Wars and Indiana Jones series, Superman, Jaws, ET, Schindler’s List, Harry Potter Films, Saving Private Ryan, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Jurassic Park (just to name a few). In his early career he also composed music for these classic TV series EXCEPT
Answers: Gilligan’s Island (8), Leave It to Beaver (4), Lost in Space (5), Land of the Giants (1)
Congratulations, please turn in your answer sheet, your #2 pencil, and proceed to the geocache!
Additional Hints
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