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Entertainment Quiz #214

Film, Arts, Music & Entertainment Quiz for 21 February 2013

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Q1. A style of intimate singing, developed and made popular in the first half of the 20th century by, among others, Bing Crosby, is called...?

A
Crooning
B
Jazz
C
Swing
D
Ballad
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Q2. Which painter, who was born in Paris, France in 1848 and died in 1903 at Atuona, Hiva ‘Oa, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia, had lived at various times in Lima (Peru), Orléans (France), Copenhagen (Denmark), Panama, Saint Pierre (Martinique), Pont-Aven (France), Arles (France), Mataiea Village (Tahiti), Punaauia (Tahiti)?

A
Paul Gauguin
B
Francisco Goya
C
El Greco
D
Henri Rousseau
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Q3. John Donne is famous for which of these quotations?

A
No man is an island
B
Don't mention the war
C
Breaking up is hard to do
D
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
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Q4. Which of these is a 1990 film starring Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin & Oliver Platt as medical students attempting to find out if there's anything beyond death by conducting clandestine experiments with near-death experiences?

A
Hillycircles
B
Flatliners
C
Bumpysquares
D
Eventriangles
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Q5. According to Lewis Carroll in his novel "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There" (1872), what was used to kill the Jabberwock?

A
A vorpal sword
B
Silver bullets
C
Brittany spears
D
Flaming arrows
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Q6. Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 in F major (Op. 68) is known as what?

A
The Pastoral Symphony
B
Choral
C
The Eroica
D
Ode to Joy
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Q7. What was the main theme for the 1994 film "Four Weddings and a Funeral"?

A
"How Soon Is Now?" by The Smiths
B
"Help!" by The Beatles
C
"Nothing Lasts Forever" by Echo and the Bunnymen
D
"Love is All Around" by Wet Wet Wet
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