Trivia For March 10, 2026

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Dance

Question 1:

Although this dance move goes back to at least the 1930s, it became popular worldwide following a performance by Michael Jackson in the 1983 television special Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever.

Moonwalk
  • Perhaps the first example of the moonwalk ever shown on film was in the animated short Dancing on the Moon (1935).


Question 2:

Premiering in December 1892 in St. Petersburg, this Tchaikovsky work is the most commonly performed ballet in the U.S. Ticket sales account for upwards of 40% of annual revenues at many American ballet companies.

The Nutcracker
  • The ballet is set on Christmas Eve in a child's imagination. Starting in 1954, the New York City Ballet under George Balanchine staged an annual production during the holiday season. It was broadcast on television, turning the ballet into a cultural tradition.


Question 3:

Hank Ballard & The Midnighters' wrote and recorded this song in 1959. But it was Chubby Checker's 1960 cover that started a viral dance craze.

"The Twist"
  • Chubby Checker's version would top the charts twice. (The only song to ever do that without a reissue or new version.) After its initial release, it would return to number one the following year after Checker appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show.


Question 4:

The name of this dance comes from a German word meaning "to revolve". Performed by a couple in triple time, it was considered indecent when it first rose to popularity in late 18th century Vienna.

Waltz
  • In The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Brontë, in a scene set in 1827, the local vicar tolerates quadrilles and country dances but intervenes decisively when a waltz is called for, declaring "No, no, I don't allow that! Come, it's time to be going home."


Question 5:

La Goulue (whose real name was Louise Weber) rose to fame at the Parisian caberet Moulin Rouge by performing what high-energy dance?

Can-can
  • La Goulue was one of Toulouse-Lautrec' s favorite subjects. Several of his portraits and posters feature her dancing at the Moulin Rouge.


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