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?
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Q2.
In architecture, a dado is a type of what?
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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
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?
B
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
C
Whose Line is it Anyway
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Q6.
Who "rocked in the treetops all the day long" to a chorus of "Tweet, tweet, tweedley deet"?
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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?
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