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Entertainment Quiz #117

Film, Arts, Music & Entertainment Quiz for 14 April 2011

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Q1. The eleventh studio album by Irish rock band U2, released in November 2004, was called How to Dismantle ..." what?

A
A Deck Chair
B
An Atomic Bomb
C
Scaffolding
D
Furniture from IKEA
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Q2. Which cartoonist, whose caricatures of public figures were published in "Private Eye" in the 1960s and 1970s, worked for Pink Floyd on "The Wall" album (1979) and movie (1982)?

A
Gerald Scarfe
B
Christopher Wood
C
Andy Warhol
D
Albert Uderzo
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Q3. What structural element of a building protrudes from the plane of a sloping roof surface, creating usable space in the roof by adding headroom and usually enabling addition of windows?

A
Sash
B
Dormer
C
Dado
D
Gable
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Q4. Which of these was the last to make its debut on British TV?

A
Peak Practice
B
Angels
C
Dr Finlay's Casebook
D
Emergency Ward 10
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Q5. Which of these was painted first?

A
"Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers" by Vincent van Gogh
B
"Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette" by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
C
"The Garden of Earthly Delights" by Hieronymus Bosch
D
"The Fiddler" by Marc Chagall
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Q6. What 1936 film sets out a future to 2036, predicting World War II from 23 December 1940, bombing raids on cities, a plague ("wandering sickness") in 1966, and a civilization based in Basra, Iraq, that renounced war and outlawed independent nation-states?

A
Metropolis
B
Things to Come
C
Modern Times
D
R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
Select from the options above.
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Q7. In "The Sound of Music", which of these items did not feature in Maria's list of "Favourite Things"?

A
Cats' tails
B
Dresses
C
Snowflakes
D
Winters
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