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Entertainment Quiz #170

Film, Arts, Music & Entertainment Quiz for 19 April 2012

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Q1. "Hamlet" is largely set where?

A
Elsinore
B
Glamis
C
Verona
D
London
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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?

A
Macbeth
B
The Merchant of Venice
C
Titus Andronicus
D
King Lear
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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?

A
100 Acre Wood
B
Narnia
C
Sodor
D
Neverland
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Q4. Which Prince appears in the title of an opera by Borodin?

A
Igor
B
Boris
C
Dmitri
D
Alexei
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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"?

A
Duff
B
Stella Artois
C
Waikato Draught
D
Fosters
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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?

A
Psycho Killer
B
Road to Nowhere
C
Burning Down the House
D
(Nothing But) Flowers
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