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1. Where in London is principal ballet location The Royal Opera House sited?
 
Covent Garden
Greenwich
Kensington
Lambeth
 
 
2. Which President of the Royal Ballet died in 2002?
 
Dame Margot Fonteyn
Kenneth Macmillan
Princess Margaret
The Queen Mother
 
 
3. Who composed the legendary ballet music "The Nutcracker"?
 
Khachaturian
Prokofiev
Stravinsky
Tschaikovsky

This was Tschaikovsky's last ballet, written in 1891-92
 
 
4. Which 2000 film featured a young male ballet dancer?
 
Billy Eliot
Boys Don't Cry
Little Nicky
To Walk With Lions
 
 
5. In which city did Rudolf Nureyev die?
 
Paris
Phnom Penh
Pittsburgh
Plymouth

Nureyev died on 6th January 1993 and is buried in a Russian cemetery
 
 
6. In Ballet what does dancing "en pointe" mean?
 
Forming five points of a star
Pointing at one's partner
Pointing at oneself
Rising to the tips of one's toes
 
 
7. Which Russian ballerina was famous for her "dying swan"?
 
Anna Gateau
Anna Meringue
Anna Pavlova
Anna Suet
 
 
8. Which ballet company is based at the Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre?
 
Birmingham Pirouette Society
Birmingham Royal Ballet
Birmingham Swan Lake Association
Birmingham Toutou Group
 
 
9. Which ballet theatre reverted to its first name "Marinsky Theatre" in 1991?
 
American Ballet Theatre
Kirov Theatre
Northern Ballet Theatre
Sadlers Wells Theatre

It changed from Marinsky when the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917
 
 
10. Who composed the ballet music "Firebird Suite"?
 
Gershwin
Handel
Stravinsky
Verdi
 
 
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