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Entertainment Quiz #17

Film, Arts, Music & Entertainment Quiz for 14 May 2009

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Q1. What is the longest running emergency medical drama series in the world, and the second-longest-running medical drama in the world behind America's "General Hospital"?

Note: This question was updated in January 2022
A
Dr Finlay's Casebook
B
Silent Witness
C
Casualty
D
Hospital
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Q2. Michelangelo's famous frescoes are on the ceiling of what area of the Vatican?

A
Nessun Dorma
B
Sagrada Familia
C
Sistine Chapel
D
St Paul's Cathedral
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Q3. Which film, released at the end of 2008, starred Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio?

A
Bride Wars
B
Revolutionary Road
C
Brokeback Mountain
D
Frost / Nixon
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Q4. Which Delta blues musician, according to legend, met the Devil at a crossroad and received mastery of the guitar in return for his soul?

A
John Lee Hooker
B
Elmore james
C
Jimmy Reed
D
Robert Johnson
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Q5. 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?

A
Sunset Boulevard
B
Once In A Lifetime
C
All About Eve
D
Sullivan's Travels
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Q6. Which 1973 British horror film, directed by Robin Hardy starring Edward Woodward and set on a remote Scottish island, was remade in 2006, directed by Neil LaBute and starring Nicolas Cage, set on an island in Puget Sound, Washington?

A
The Wicker Man
B
The Cotton Club
C
Possession
D
It Could Happen to You
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Q7. Which British show, featuring adult contestants and broadcast by the BBC on 31 May 1938, is generally held to have been the world's first TV game show?

A
The Price Is Right
B
Generation Game
C
Spelling Bee
D
Wheel of Fortune
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