Entertainment Quiz #159
Film, Arts, Music & Entertainment Quiz for 2 February 2012
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Q1.
In "The Day of the Triffids", a novel by John Wyndham made into a 1962 film and TV series in 1981 and 2009, what affliction strikes most of humanity?
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Q2.
Broadly, what is the setting for Samuel Beckett's play "Happy Days"?
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Q3.
Which of these is a traditional English pantomime?
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Q4.
The narrative poem "The Gypsies" (1824) by Alexander Pushkin influenced a novella by Prosper Mérimée (1845), which was the basis for a libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy for which opera that premiered at the Opéra-Comique of Paris in 1875?
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Q5.
John Cleese played what character in the film "The World is not Enough"?
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Q6.
What profession had been followed by Yorick, a character in Shakespeare's "Hamlet"?
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Q7.
Jason Lee Scott, Zack Taylor, Billy Cranston, Trini Kwan and Kimberly Hart were the original members of which group?
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All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club
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Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
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