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Entertainment Quiz #115

Film, Arts, Music & Entertainment Quiz for 31 March 2011

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Q1. In weaving, what are the threads running parallel to the length of the cloth called?

A
Wane
B
Weft
C
Wax
D
Warp
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Q2. Which comic strip created by Rudolph Dirks that first appeared in 1897 in the "American Humorist", the Sunday supplement of the New York Journal, is still distributed, making it the oldest comic strip still in syndication?

A
Blondie
B
Dennis the Menace
C
The Katzenjammer Kids
D
Archie
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Q3. In what style of painting is small distinct dots of colour used to create the impression of a wide selection of other colours and blending, making use of the phenomenon of depicted imagery emerging from disparate points?

A
Abstract expressionism
B
Still life
C
Landscape
D
Pointillism
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Q4. Which of these 1955 films is a bedroom farce set in Sweden in the early 1900s, directed by Ingmar Bergman?

A
The Rules Of The Game
B
Smiles Of A Summer Night
C
A Lesson In Love
D
Dreams
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Q5. Henry VIII married Anne of Cleves after seeing a (presumably, too) flattering portrait of her by whom?

A
Vincent van Gogh
B
Rembrandt
C
Thomas Gainsborough
D
Hans Holbein
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Q6. These are the first lines from what song: "I was a humdrum person, leading a life apart, when love flew in through my window wide, and quickened my humdrum heart"?

A
What Is This Thing Called Love
B
Help!
C
Look Through Any Window
D
Someone to Watch Over Me
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Q7. The theme tune of what TV show was Frank Sinatra's version of "Love and Marriage"?

A
All In The Family
B
Married ... With Children
C
Sex in the City
D
Ellen
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