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Entertainment Quiz #22

Film, Arts, Music & Entertainment Quiz for 18 June 2009

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Q1. The hero of which film starring Alec Guinness was a mousy bank clerk with steel-rimmed glasses and bowler hat who devised a plan to smuggle gold bars out of England disguised as small souvenir replicas of the Eiffel Tower?

A
Kind Hearts and Coronets
B
The Lavender Hill Mob
C
A Run For Your Money
D
The Lady Killers
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Q2. Which painting of five figures by Pablo Picasso in 1907 was criticised for breaking the rules of composition, perspective and truth to nature, showing dislocated shapes seen simultaneously from different angles?

A
Three Musicians
B
Le Bonheur de Vivre
C
Guernica
D
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
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Q3. In L M Montgomery's book, where was Anne of Green Gables brought up?

A
Kensington
B
Neverland
C
Utopia
D
Avonlea
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Q4. Which overweight knight from three Shakespearean plays was the subject of an opera by Verdi?

A
Sir Thomas Melchett
B
Sir Walter Raleigh
C
Sir John Falstaff
D
Sir Edmund Hillary
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Q5. Producer Alex Korda engaged Anton Karas to score which entire film, after it had been edited together, using only one instrument?

A
The Third Man
B
Anna Karenina
C
The Jungle Book
D
Richard III
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Q6. Which painter, born in Delft, produced works including "The Woman With A Water Jug", "The Pianist" and "The Lacemaker"?

A
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
B
Carel Fabritius
C
Jan Vermeer
D
Vincent van Gogh
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Q7. Who starred with Bette Davis in the 1962 film "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane"?

A
Joan Crawford
B
Olivia de Havilland
C
Agnes Moorehead
D
Susan Hayward
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