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Entertainment Quiz #260

Film, Arts, Music & Entertainment Quiz for 9 January 2014

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Q1. Playwright Athol Fugard, multi-award-winning honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, is best-known for what theme in his works?

A
Tension between Muslim and non-Muslim belief systems
B
Destruction caused by class distinction
C
Slavery, and the struggle against ethnic discrimination in the USA
D
Opposing the South African system of apartheid
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Q2. Which standard recurring character Batman comic book character did not appear in the film "Batman" (1989) nor "Batman Returns" (1992), but was in "Batman Forever" (1995) and "Batman & Robin" (1997)?

A
Passepartout
B
Robin
C
Tonto
D
Sancho Panza
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Q3. What is the more common name for Chopin's "Waltz in D Flat Major"?

A
The Day Waltz
B
The Second Waltz
C
The Hour Waltz
D
The Minute Waltz
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Q4. Well known in France, who are Valérian and Laureline?

A
Department store owners
B
Fashion designers
C
Pop duo
D
Science fiction comic heroes
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Q5. When his Late String Quartets were first performed in the 1820s, listeners described them variously as "indecipherable, uncorrected horrors" and "we know there is something there, but we do not know what it is". Who was the composer?

A
Carl Czerny
B
Franz Schubert
C
Ludwig van Beethoven
D
Franz Liszt
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Q6. What was French artist Henri Rousseau known as?

A
Gardien
B
Le Flick
C
Pompier
D
Le Douanier
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Q7. Which American serial drama TV series, first broadcast in 2004, follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a Pacific island after a plane crash?

A
Cannibals
B
Lost
C
Lonely Planet
D
Bite Me
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