Question
This was the main language of a jazz pop musician whose signature song calls his home city “a thousand colors, a thousand fears.” It’s not Spanish, but a quirky Guinness ad popularized Pérez Prado’s mambo version of a song in this language whose title means “boy” or “urchin.” A song in this language about an “evil woman” was first written on a cigarette pack by a comedian known by the mononym Totò. A 1956 song in this language uses English phrases like “I love you,” “whiskey,” “soda,” and “rock ’n’ roll” to satirize its speakers as wannabe (*) Americans. Elvis’s single “It’s Now or Never” was based on a song in this language whose title means “my sunshine.” Richard Strauss’s first tone poem accidentally plagiarized a song in this language that celebrates a cable railway on a volcano. For 10 points, name this language used in “Funiculì, Funiculà,” “’O Sole Mio,” and other songs from Campania. ■END■
Buzzes
Summary
Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | TUH | Conv. % | Power % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
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2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 100% | 13% | 53% | 127.00 |