Q: According to tradition, which city burned to the ground on July 18, 64BC
A: Rome (While Emperor Nero fiddled)
Q: What is the style that is closely identified with musicians like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Max Roach?
A: Bebop. Most jazz historians credit the musicians recording strike of the early 1940s with the birth of bebop. Without the industry's pressure to create commercial music, elite jazz players in the seeing bands began to explore more advance musical possibilities, including extended harmonies and increase improvisations away from a compositions original melody while staying (mostly) are melodies built on arpeggios, smaller ensembles (usually piano, bass and drums, with 1-3 horn players), and the real abandonment of "dancibility" in most cases. Bebop was almost self-consciously "art" music, as opposed to "dance" or "pop" music.
Q: What is a autodidact?
A: Someone who is self taught.
Q: According to Congressional Quarterly's recently published reference, Politics in America 2008: The 110th Congress, how many former members of the Peace Corps are currently serving in Congress?
A: 6, evenly split into the two parties.
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