This is the last “July” post that I had been contemplating. I will start on August when I get back home from Brazil.
Questions
Shown is (in my opinion) a remarkably ugly piece of public art. It features statues that represent five musicians, not four, as the musical group during the time they were affiliated with the city in question had five members. This public art is located at the intersection of Große Freiheit and what other street? This street still has many music clubs today and is known for being the home of its city’s red light district.
Because it is believed to have significant deposits containing elements like cobalt and nickel, it is thought to be one of the most promising areas for deep sea mining. As the map shows, it is located between Mexico and Hawaii. Informally, it is called the “CCZ.” If the first “C” is for “Clarion,” and the “Z” is for “Zone,” for what does the other “C” stand? This references a geographic feature that is not under the jurisdiction of either the United States or Mexico.
Also known for his work composing music for anime, which composer and multi-instrumentalist won a Grammy for Best Global Music Album at the 2023 awards? Perhaps more surprisingly, he was nominated for Best Reggae Album in 2014 also.
The upcoming Borderlands movie is based on a video game series from Gearbox Software. Those games are set on what world? Assuming that the movie keeps that place setting, this upcoming film will almost certainly not be the highest-grossing science fiction film set on a planet so named.
This airline is owned by what conglomerate? That conglomerate also controls a company that was the focus of the world’s attention for one week in March, 2021.
Shown is what English radical? An early defender of the free press, he was arrested because he satirized Lord Bute in a pamphlet called “The North Briton,” and he was expelled from Parliament in 1769 for obscenity and libel. But he was viewed as a man of the people, as his support for Parliamentary reform and the American Revolution would suggest, and his constituency continued to reelect him no matter what Parliament did to curtail him. His name lives on in the name of a far more notorious American, who happened to be a distant relative of this man.
One review said this title track “has a sting in its tail, with a surprise change to a minor chord in bars 17–18.” Another review said it had a “a glorious 24-bar theme as sinuous and stinging as the beast of the title.” Yet another review calls the piece “slip-sliding.” It’s also been called the song that saved Blue Note, which had run into financial distress by 1963 before this song, and its album, became a surprise hit. Its composer stated that the title of the piece was inspired by bad guys that he saw on television, and not Crotalus cerastes. What piece of music?
Estimates say that they are Brazil's most popular team, with over 45 million fans. They and São Paulo FC are the only two clubs to have never been relegated from Brazil's top division. Internationally, they have won the Copa Libertadores three times. Oddly, given their name, their mascot is a vulture (urubu) and not another bird. What club?
It is formally known as Variation IX (Adagio). Its more famous byname is a play on the name of the composer's friend, music publisher Augustus J. Jaeger, and is a reference to the Book of Genesis. It’s quoted as a theme in Hans Zimmer’s Dunkirk soundtrack. What piece of music?
One is a port city, very close to its country’s (mainland) westernmost point. It grew after Richelieu built a harbor there, and the city was mostly destroyed during the Battle of Normandy. Another one sits on the Bug River and is very close to its country’s westernmost point. Its former name is found in a notable 20th century treaty, and this city, too, was heavily damaged in World War Two. What is the shared name?