Question

This composer’s piano arrangement of Nino Rota’s love theme from Zeffirelli’s film Romeo and Juliet succeeded the Beatles’ “Get Back” as Billboard’s #1 song. A 3/4 song by this composer begins with the melody “long C, short high G, F, [pause] E, eighth notes D - C - B-flat, long C.” An Ernest Dowson poem inspired the two run-on sentences that make up the lyrics to this composer’s song “The Days of Wine and Roses.” The bass chromatically ascends from C-sharp to a long (*) E in swung eighth notes to set up the saxophone melody of a theme by this composer of the soundtrack to Peter Gunn. Johnny Mercer’s lyrics describe a “huckleberry friend” as “wider than a mile” in (10[1])a (-5[1])song this composer wrote for Audrey (-5[1])Hepburn. For 10 points, name this (-5[1])Italian-American composer of the “Pink (-5[1])Panther (10[1])Theme,” who wrote “Moon River” for the film Breakfast at Tiffany’s. (10[1]0[1])■END■

ANSWER: Henry Mancini [or Enrico Nicola Mancini]
<Fine Arts - Other Fine Arts - Jazz>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Adrian WongThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork OrangeYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit11910
Aaron Dos RemediosModerator Can't Neg me While in AlphaCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country120-5
Jason ZhangShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA InterfereSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut126-5
Ishan JoshiRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlersas rational as the square root of two power bottoms132-5
Erik ChristensenI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken137-5
Henry AtkinsCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole countryModerator Can't Neg me While in Alpha13810
Gareth ThorlaksonSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of DonutShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere14910
Caleb OttTensei Shitara Flashcard Data KenI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up 1490

Summary

2024 ARGOS @ McMaster11/17/2024Y560%0%80%135.33