Entertainment Quiz #458
Film, Arts, Music & Entertainment Quiz for 26 October 2017
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Q1.
What nickname for elaborate, multiple, often implausible mechanisms for achieving something very simple, comes from that of the British artist who became famous for humorous cartoons of such systems?
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Q2.
The Greek tragedians Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides wrote dramas dealing with which legendary woman?
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Q3.
Which film, that opens at the annual presentation of the Sarah Siddons Award for Distinguished Achievement, focusses on the personality clash of two stage actresses played by Bette Davis and Anne Baxter?
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Q4.
Where did Sherlock Holmes lose his struggle with Moriarty but did not die after all?
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Q5.
What happened in and after the finale of the 2009 (13th) season of the American reality television "The Bachelor"?
A
The bachelor and the winner broke off their engagement and he and the runner-up subsequently married
B
Both the previous front runners were rejected and no winner was declared
C
The winner and the bachelor declined to become formally engaged
D
The bachelor was found to be already married, as was the winner
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Q6.
Which of these books was not written by George Orwell?
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Q7.
Where or when is Joseph Heller's novel, "Catch-22" (1961), set?
A
A fishing trip with Ernest Hemingway
C
In a tuberculosis sanatorium
D
Moth hunting in the Amazon rain forest
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