1. Who wrote the longest piece of music in the same continuous tempo?
2. Who wrote the longest toccata?
3. Who was the composer who invited Jean Sibelius for his first visit to Britain, and who subsequently received the dedication of the Finnish composer's 3rd Symphony?
4. Which composer was a master of the English, French, German, Latin, Persian, and Arabic languages, and who composed an enormous setting of Edward Fitzgerald's version of the Ruba'iyat by Omar Khayyam?
5. Which composer wrote the opera New Year, in which an Electric Guitar is used?
6. Which composer wrote the Song of the Fleet, in which the Timpani is played with fingertips?
7. Which composer wrote the first entirely-electronic composition?
8. Which 20th-century avant-garde composer was an ornithologist as well, that being someone who studies birds?