What's Your Opera I.Q.? - Upda [Paperback]

IRIS BASS (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Citadel (June 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806518626
• ISBN-13: 978-0806518626
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,828,577 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Iris Bass is the author of What's Your Opera I.Q.? (Citadel, 1991 and 1997), coauthor of The Cat Lover's Daily Companion (Quarry Books, 2009) and editor-coauthor of The Garden Cookbook (Berkshire Botanical Garden, 2009). A freelance copy editor and proofreader who has lived with cats for more than thirty years, Iris currently shares her Berkshire County, Massachusetts, home with a modest complement of feline companions and more than 250 books relating to cats.

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Like many Americans, I first fell in love with opera listening to The Metropolitan Opera broadcasts on Saturday afternoons. Often I enjoyed the intermission features as much as the opera itself, my favorite being the Texaco Opera Quiz. I could never answer the questions, except perhaps the name that tune variety. After years of listening and feeling rather unsophisticated, I came across the book What's Your Opera I.Q.? I figured I could at least learn trivial bits of information from the book. I began looking at the quizzes, and found that I could answer some of the questions on the radio quiz without reading countless other books simply by taking these opera quizzes. The book contains opera quizzes on every imaginable subject from the obvious such as composers and singers to famous books read by opera characters, animals that play a role in opera, quizzes about opera history, and the like. The book is fun, makes learning about opera enjoyable, can make the reader look smarter than he/she is, and who knows, the reader may land a spot on the Saturday afternoon Metropolitan Opera Quiz.