Entertainment Quiz #285
Film, Arts, Music & Entertainment Quiz for 3 July 2014
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Q1.
Which of these is the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding?
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Q2.
As a painter he focussed on intense psychological themes, his famous works including "Madonna" and "Puberty"; one of his works which exists in multiple versions and media is frequently stolen (and recovered), and in 2012 when one version was sold was at the time the most expensive ever sold at open auction. He was Norwegian. Who was he?
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Q3.
The film 1953 Calamity Jane produced which hit for Doris Day that reached #1 on the Billboard charts in 1954?
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Q4.
Richard Griffiths won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, and the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play, all for his role in which play?
A
The History Boys by Alan Bennett
B
Goodbye Mr Chips by Leslie Bricusse
C
To Sir With Love by E R Braithwaite
D
The Blackboard Jungle by Evan Hunter
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Q5.
The work of French playwright Racine appears in which modern English classic by A.S. Byatt?
A
The tetralogy The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman
C
Ragnarok: The End of the Gods
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Q6.
What links two US TV films, one about a teen with muscular dystrophy in a state nursing home, and one about a Canadian super-gun designer involved with Project Babylon, with a US TV series adapted from a UK work by Michael Dobbs?
B
Scriptwriter Lionel Chetwynd
D
They are all docudramas
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Q7.
Which of these songs is from "The King and I"?
B
Get Me To The Church On Time
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