Rules for riddles1. You get one guess for each riddle.2. If you guess incorrectly even once the game is over you lose.3. You get one hint for each riddle if you’re nice.

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The man who invented it doesn't want it. The man who bought it doesn't need it. The man who needs it doesn't know it. What is it?

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What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?

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You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I am dead. What am I?

Romanticism(1820-1900)

Stressed emotion, imagination, and individualism

Favorite artistic topics:

• Fantasy and the supernatural• Middle Ages/Concept of chivalry and

romance• Nature as mirror of the human heart

Expressive Aims and Subjects

All approaches were explored:• Flamboyance, intimacy, unpredictability, melancholy,

rapture, longing…

Romantic love still the focus of songs and operas• Lovers frequently depicted as unhappy and facingoverwhelming obstaclesi.e. Tarundot (Giacomo Puccini)

The opera story is set in Peking, China and involves Prince Calàf who falls in love with the cold hearted Princess Turandot. To obtain permission to marry her, a suitor has to solve three riddles; any false answer results in death. Calàf passes the test but Turandot still hesitates to marry him. He offers her a way out: he agrees to die should she be able to guess his real name.

“Nobody shall sleep!... Nobody shall sleep!

Even you, o Princess, in your cold room,

watch the stars, that tremble with love and with hope.

But my secret is hidden within me,my name no one shall know...

No!...No!... On your mouth I will tell it when the light

shines. And my kiss will dissolve the silence that

makes you mine!... (No one will know his name and we must,

alas, die.) Vanish, o night!

Set, stars! Set, stars! At dawn, I will win! I will win! I will win!”

Nessun Dorma

1.) What rises at night, invoked by all the world, only to die at dawn reborn in the heart?

2.) What darts like flame but is not a flame, that grows cold with death yet blazes with dreams of conquest?

3.) What inflames you, white yet dark, that enslaves if it wants you free, but in taking you captive makes you king?

Tarundot’s Riddles

His1.Hope2.Blood3.Tarundot