Entertainment Quiz #308
Film, Arts, Music & Entertainment Quiz for 11 December 2014
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Q1.
What links a 1999 version of Richard Adams's work "Watership Down" and a 1984 version of Lewis Carroll's work "The Hunting of the Snark"?
A
Mike Batt, composer of the sound track
B
Henry Holliday, illustrator
C
They were both animated films
D
Billy Connolly sang in the sound track
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Q2.
Who was the main character in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novels "A Study In Scarlet", "The Sign of Four" and "The Hound of the Baskervilles"?
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Q3.
Known in the USA as "The March King" he made his first recordings with Columbia Phonograph Company in 1890; what was his name?
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Q4.
Who sings the theme song for the UK TV series "New Tricks"?
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Q5.
The phrase to be in the "limelight" refers to burning of what as a brilliant light source in old theatre and music hall performances?
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Q6.
Chris O'Dowd plays the imaginary friend of a young boy in rural Ireland in which TV series?
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Q7.
What is the technical term for a mask, often a painted mask, used to obscure part of an image in a film and allow another image to be substituted thereby combining the two?
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