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Entertainment Quiz #92

Film, Arts, Music & Entertainment Quiz for 21 October 2010

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Q1. Which of these is an epic film directed by Ridley Scott, starring Russell Crowe as General Maximus Decimus Meridius, who is captured and enslaved and rises through the ranks of the gladiatorial arena to avenge the murder of his family and his Emperor that won five Academy Awards in 2000?

A
Legionnaire
B
Centurion
C
Cohort
D
Gladiator
Select from the options above.
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Q2. Which of these programmes was a winner of a British Academy Television Award in 1999?

A
The Vicar of Dibley
B
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
C
Brookside
D
Jonathan Creek
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Q3. Which British musical, based on a TV show and noted for its profanity, irreverent treatment of Judeo-Christian themes and surreal images such as tap-dancing Ku Klux Klan members, ran for 609 performances in London to February 2005 winning 4 Laurence Olivier Awards, and made its New York City debut in January 2008 at Carnegie Hall, starring Harvey Keitel?

A
Sing a long a Seinfeld
B
Jerry Springer: The Opera
C
The Oprah Opera
D
Life with Letterman
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Q4. In which film directed by Fred Zinnemann does a US Army officer in Germany (Montgomery Clift) look after a homeless boy (Ian Jandl) until he is returned to his mother (Jarmila Novotna)?

Note: This question was updated in January 2020
A
Shoe Shine
B
The Search
C
Forbidden Games
D
Red River
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Q5. After public outrage over a painting by Goya of a nude woman ("the first totally profane life-size female nude in Western art"), he refused to paint clothes on her, and created a new painting of the same woman in the same pose, clothed. The paintings are known as "The Nude ... " what and "The Clothed ..." what?

A
Maja
B
Sultana
C
Recliner
D
Bather
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Q6. John Williams said to Steven Spielberg, "You need a better composer than I am for this film" and got the reply "I know. But they're all dead!" What was the film?

A
Jaws
B
Saving Private Ryan
C
Munich
D
Schindler's List
Select from the options above.
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Q7. Which of these is a Swiss architect, born Charles Edouard Jeanneret, who is famous for being one of the pioneers of what now is called Modern architecture or the International Style?

A
Le Coq Sportif
B
Le Chacal
C
Le Corbusier
D
Le Colisée
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