Entertainment Quiz #172
Film, Arts, Music & Entertainment Quiz for 3 May 2012
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Q1.
The book publishing firm Virago Press is distinctive because it publishes what works?
A
Folk tales and legends only
C
In foreign languages only
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Q2.
Which song contains the following characters: a banker who never wore a mac even in the pouring rain, a fireman with an hourglass and a portrait of the Queen in his pocket, a pretty nurse who sold poppies from a tray, & a barber who had photographs of heads he'd worked on?
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Q3.
The longest-running speech radio show in the world (58 years) that was discontinued in March 2004, was Alistair Cooke's "Letter from ..." where?
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Q4.
Ralph Lauren is associated with which of these brands?
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Q5.
In 1891, Paul Gaugin left France to live where?
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Q6.
The aria "Nessun Dorma" is from what opera?
C
Die Fledermaus by Strauss
D
The Barber of Seville by Mozart
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Q7.
Which of these is a shade of brown?
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