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Entertainment Quiz #196

Film, Arts, Music & Entertainment Quiz for 18 October 2012

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Q1. A home for music and intimate performance, well-established in Europe in the 19th century, flourishing in early 20th century, and attended by a wide cross-section of society, sparked a number of films. What was the name for the venue and style?

A
Music hall
B
Soiree
C
Cabaret
D
Savoy
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Q2. In architecture, a dado is a type of what?

A
Rail
B
Window
C
Door
D
Ceiling
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Q3. Which 2003 drama film, named after a painting by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer and directed by Peter Webber, stars Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson & Cillian Murphy?

A
Girl with a Pearl Earring
B
The Milkmaid
C
The Astronomer
D
The Girl with the Wineglass
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Q4. Which of these was a 1987 film starring Jack Nicholson?

A
The Goblins of Giggleswick
B
The Warlocks of Camberwick
C
The Wizards of Candlewick
D
The Witches of Eastwick
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Q5. Since its debut in the UK in 1998, international versions of which TV programme have spawned in over a hundred countries, more than any other game show?

A
Pop Idol
B
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
C
Whose Line is it Anyway
D
The Price is Right
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Q6. Who "rocked in the treetops all the day long" to a chorus of "Tweet, tweet, tweedley deet"?

A
Rockin' Robin
B
The Leader of the Pack
C
Terry
D
The Girl from Ipanema
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Q7. "Massacre in Korea", a 1951 expressionistic painting by Pablo Picasso which is seen as a criticism of American intervention in the Korean war is drawn from the painting "The Third of May 1808", which shows Napoleon's soldiers executing Spanish civilians, by whom?

A
Francisco Goya
B
El Greco
C
Henri Rousseau
D
Paul Gauguin
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