Entertainment Quiz #170
Film, Arts, Music & Entertainment Quiz for 19 April 2012
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Q1.
"Hamlet" is largely set where?
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Q2.
A Soviet film adaptation of which Shakespearean play, directed by Grigori Kozintsev, with black-and-white photography, a score by Shostakovich and a script based on a translation by Boris Pasternak, was made by Mosfilm in 1971?
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Q3.
"The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe", a 2005 film based on the novel by C. S. Lewis, is set mainly in which land?
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Q4.
Which Prince appears in the title of an opera by Borodin?
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Q5.
Pierre Konowaloff, a Parisian engineer, sued New York's Metroplitan Museum of Art to recover which painting that, he says, the Bolsheviks stole from his grandfather during the Russian Revolution?
A
"Portrait of Père Tanguy" by Vincent van Gogh (1887)
B
"Madame Cézanne in the Conservatory" by Paul Cézanne (1891)
C
"Girls at the Piano"by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1892)
D
"Portrait of Gertrude Stein" by Pablo Picasso (1906)
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Q6.
What brand of beer is popular in the "Simpsons"?
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Q7.
In May 2010, David Byrne, the former lead singer of 1980s band "Talking Heads", began a lawsuit claiming $1 million in damages against Florida governor Charlie Crist over the use of which song in an election commercial?
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