From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, April 8, 2023 at 12:31:01 AM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote:   
   >    
   > * Game 6, Round 5 - Audio - Composers Performing their Own Works    
   >    
   > We will provide a brief biography of a composer performing music    
   > he wrote. (Yes, again they're all men.) We then play the clip of    
   > the music. (Sorry, you'll have to imagine that part.) You tell    
   > us the name of the composer/performer.    
   >    
   > 2. Another American bandleader, composer, and trumpet player,    
   > he was born in 1925 and died in 1991. He associated with almost    
   > all of the greats of the modern jazz era and changed his musical    
   > style many times. One of his many albums is the best-selling    
   > jazz recording of all time.    
      
   Miles Davis   
      
   > 3. This African-American composer and pianist, known as the "King    
   > of Ragtime", died in 1917. As well as numerous "rags",    
   > he composed music for ballet and opera, and was awarded a    
   > posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1976.    
      
   Scott Joplin   
      
   > 5. This jazz pianist and composer who lived 1917-82 is considered    
   > one of the greats of American music and is the next most    
   > frequently recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington.    
   > Unorthodox even in dress and behavior, he wrote music that    
   > combines a highly percussive attack with dramatic hesitations    
   > and silences. He was featured on the cover of "Time" magazine    
   > and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize posthumously.    
      
   Thelonious Monk   
      
   > 7. Born 1907, died 1994, an American jazz singer and bandleader,    
   > he composed and performed music over a long career. As a    
   > bandleader, he employed many of the day's jazz greats and was    
   > strongly associated with Harlem's Cotton Club. Notable for his    
   > scat-singing and dancing, he appeared in films and his music    
   > was used in animated cartoons.    
      
   Cab Calloway   
      
   > 8. Born 1910, died 2004, the only child of Jewish immigrants    
   > from Russia. This swing-era bandleader was known as the "King    
   > of the Clarinet" and led one of the first racially integrated    
   > bands. He was also an author of both fiction and non-fiction    
   > and performed classical music with the New York Philharmonic    
   > under Leonard Bernstein. He was an early proponent of the    
   > "Third Stream", which blended classical and jazz styles.    
      
   Benny Goodman   
      
   > 10. Born in 1910 to a Belgian Romani family, he died in 1953.    
   > He is regarded as one of the great jazz guitarists and was the    
   > first European to influence jazz. Many of his compositions    
   > have become jazz standards. His virtuosity on the guitar is    
   > even more remarkable because he had only two usable fingers on    
   > his left hand.    
      
   Django Reinhardt   
      
   > * Game 6, Round 6 - Canadiana Geography - Canadian Arctic and Far North    
   >    
   > As Torontonians continue to suffer through a deep freeze and    
   > challenging winter, this round turns our attention toward Canada's    
   > Arctic -- where our temperatures would seem balmy!    
   >    
   > 1. The northernmost permanent settlement in the world is located    
   > on the northeastern tip of Ellesmere I. What is it called?    
      
   Alert   
       
   > 3. The word Arctic comes from the Greek word "arktikos", meaning    
   > "near the Bear" or "northern", and what it's referring to    
   > is one of two constellations. Give the full name *in Latin*    
   > of either of those constellations.    
      
   Ursa Major   
       
   > 4. Besides Canada, how many other countries """extend""" -- or    
   > """have""" territories that extend -- into the Arctic as defined    
   > by the Arctic Circle?    
      
   7; 6   
      
   > 5. This lake, which extends north of the Arctic Circle, is the    
   > largest lake that is entirely in Canada, the 4th-largest in    
   > North America, and the 8th-largest in the world. Name it.    
      
   Great Bear Lake   
      
   > 7. Rank the three territories from *highest to lowest population*    
   > according to the """2011""" census. If you make two guesses,    
   > please give two complete lists of three, all on one line.    
   > *Note*: You may instead answer based on the 2021 census, and    
   > you need not say whether you are doing so.    
      
   [first guess] Yukon; Northwest Terr.; Nunavut. [second guess] Yukon; Nunavut;   
   Northwest Terr.   
      
   > 10. This strait, named after a British 16th-century explorer, is    
   > a northern arm of the Labrador Sea and lies between Baffin I.    
   > and mid-western Greenland. Name it.    
      
   Hudson Strait   
      
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