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Entertainment Quiz #142

Film, Arts, Music & Entertainment Quiz for 6 October 2011

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Q1. The fictional town of Denton in the Midlands was the setting for which British TV series?

A
Inspector Morse
B
Midsomer Murders
C
Juliet Bravo
D
A Touch of Frost
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Q2. What relation are Billy Ray Cyrus and Miley Cyrus to each other?

A
Uncle and niece
B
Brother and sister
C
Father and daughter
D
Son and mother
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Q3. Which film, directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, John Carradine and Claire Trevor, was indirectly based on Guy de Maupassant's story "Boule de Suif"?

A
Stagecoach
B
The Tin Star
C
High Noon
D
Drums Along The Mohawk
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Q4. Which 31 minute documentary made in 1938, which asked for better housing, farm techniques and flood control and more electrical power, showed a great flood in the Mississippi River?

A
Nanook Of The North
B
The River
C
The Mississippi
D
I'm Going Back To Swannee
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Q5. In which novel does Michael Henchard sell his wife and child for 5 guineas?

A
Pickwick Papers
B
The Mayor of Casterbridge
C
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
D
Goldfinger
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Q6. In cloth weaving, both the warp and the weft threads may be visible, but in tapestry, all the warp threads are hidden in the completed work. What is this type of weaving called?

A
Weft-faced weaving
B
Warp-faced weaving
C
Warp-backed weaving
D
Weft-backed weaving
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Q7. "Dae Jang Geum" (2003), an internationally telecast TV series from South Korean TV channel MBC (entitled "Jewel in the Palace" in English-speaking countries) and loosely based on the Annals of Joseon Dynasty of Korea, focuses on a character with what occupation?

A
Witch
B
Geisha
C
Physician
D
Courtesan
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