Film, Arts, Music & Entertainment Quiz for 10 September 2009
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1
What is the second shortest song released on a "proper" Beatles album?
A
"Maggie Mae" from the album "Let It Be", released in 1970
B
"Her Majesty", from the album "Abbey Road", released in 1969
C
"Hey Jude" from the album "Let It Be", released in 1970
D
"Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (reprise)" released in 1967
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2
Of what descent was singer Bobby Darin?
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3
Virginia Woolf was portrayed in which of these films?
D
Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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4
Which American was the first Western photographer allowed into the Soviet Union, the first female photojournalist for Life magazine, the first female war correspondent and the first to be allowed to work in combat zones during World War II?
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5
Apollo Creed is the enemy of whom?
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6
Which opera shocked audiences at its première due to a combination of a biblical theme, the erotic and the murderous, especially "The Dance of the Seven Veils" and the heroine making necrophilic love?
A
"Salome" by Richard Strauss
B
"Hansel and Gretel" by Englebert Humperdinck
C
"La Traviata" by Guiseppe Verdi
D
"Les Dialogues des Carmelites" by Poulenc
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7
The song "Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin'" from the the film "High Noon" was a big hit for Frankie Laine in the early 1950s. Who sang it on the film soundtrack?
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