Entertainment with the Letter A Quiz

Answer: A capella

"A capella" translates to "in the manner of the chapel" in Italian. Modern a cappella groups are often a collaboration of men. Examples include The Marcels, The Drifters, and The Harptones.

Answer: Abyss

Abyss is known for its advanced visual design; the images on the board and the cards are intricate. The cover of the game actually has five different versions, thought the game itself inside is the same. The game, which is for older children and adults, involves trade wars, allies, and kingdoms.

Answer: A board game

Uwe Rosenberg, a native of Lower Saxony, Germany, invented Agricola, a strategy board game. Released in 2007, the game has the players are farmers who must run successful farms in order to feed their families. It has won multiple awards, including the Golden Geek Award Board Game of the Year in 2008.

Answer: An outdoor game involving balls and a pole

Anejodi is the oldest documented game in North America; French explorer noted the Timucua people playing it in present-day Florida in the late 1500s. In the contemporary version, which is called Angelball, two teams play on a field, with a pole on each end. Each pole has a target ball placed on top, and the teams use another ball to try to knock off the target from the other's pole.

Answer: Gracie Allen

Gracie Allen was born in San Francisco sometime around 1900; her birth records were destroyed in the earthquake and fire of 1910, and, like any true lady, Ms. Allen never revealed her age. As a young girl, she performed on the radio and then in vaudeville acts, meeting George Burns in 1922. They performed together with great success until she passed away in 1964.

Answer: Anecdotal comedy

The word anecdote originates from the Greek and means "unpublished." Anecdotal comedy refers to type when the comics tell extended stories. An stereotypical example would be one that starts with "There's a priest, a nun, and a rabbi...."

Answer: Anna Karenina

Tolstoy published "Anna Karenina" as a book in 1878, though it had been published in installments over the previous few years. It is a complex book with eight internal sections that have interwoven stories. It has been adapted into many formats including ballet, film, opera, radio drama, and figure skating routines.

Answer: Anything Goes

"Anything Goes" debuted on Broadway in 1934. Set on ship sailing from New York to London, the show revolves largely around a love triangle with a stowaway, an heiress, and a British nobleman. Some of the best-known songs in the show include "I Get a Kick Out of You", "It's De-Lovely", and "Let's Misbehave".

Answer: The Americans

"The Americans" ran on FX for six seasons beginning in 2013 and starred American Keri Russell and Welsh Matthew Rhys as a Russian couple who had taken on the names of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings. They seemed like ordinary travel agents, but were carrying out orders from their motherland. Disagreements over how to raise their children, conflicting feelings about their motherland, and a keen FBI agent living next door upped the stakes for this powerful couple.

Answer: Amadeus

"Amadeus" was told in large in the voice of Antonio Salieri, an Italian composer who was a contemporary of Mozart and who was intensely jealous of the young Austrian who charmed audiences, royalty, and women. The story follows Mozart's rise to success as well as his fear of his domineering father and his ailing health.