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Entertainment Quiz #283

Film, Arts, Music & Entertainment Quiz for 19 June 2014

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Q1. What play was recommended by the Pulitzer Prize committee for the Best Play in 1963, but rejected by the Pulitzer board due to the play's perceived vulgarity?

A
Irma la Douce
B
Twelve Angry Men
C
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
D
Bye Bye Birdie
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Q2. In 1898, 14 years before the Titanic sank, novelist Morgan Robertson published "Futility", a short novel about an enormous British passenger liner, which, thought to be unsinkable, carries insufficient lifeboats and on a voyage in April, hits an iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic with the loss of almost everyone on board. What was the name of the ship in this story?

A
The Molly Brown
B
The Titan
C
Queen Elizabeth
D
Britannia
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Q3. The film "The African Queen", starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, was set during which war?

A
World War II
B
World War I
C
Korean War
D
American Civil War
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Q4. A hit song of 1960 by Brian Hyland concerned an itsy bitsy teenie weenie polka dot bikini of what colour?

A
Green
B
Yellow
C
Blue
D
Red
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Q5. Until the Simpsons came along, what was the most successful TV cartoon series?

A
Scooby-Doo
B
The Flintstones
C
The Jetsons
D
Batman
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Q6. The TV series Stargate SG-1 draws mainly on mythologies from Norse, Egyptian and what other?

A
Arthurian legend
B
Welsh
C
Japanese
D
Maori
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Q7. What is the name of Thomas Gray's most famous poem?

A
The Elegy
B
Down in A Country Graveyard
C
Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard
D
Behind the Spreading Chestnut Tree
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