General Knowledge Quiz for Thursday, 23 August 2012
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Question 1: Which of these was a Russian composer whose music was officially denounced in the USSR twice and periodically banned, yet received state awards and served in the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR?
A
B
George Gershwin
Arnold Schoenberg
C
Dmitri Shostakovich
D
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky