Entertainment Quiz #286
Film, Arts, Music & Entertainment Quiz for 10 July 2014
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Q1.
Wordsworth was inspired to write "Earth has not anything to show more fair" by the view from which London bridge?
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Q2.
Besides being a composer, philosopher, poet, artist and printmaker, John Cage was a leading authority on what?
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Q3.
The character of "Flashman" first appeared in which book?
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Q4.
The BBC began sending experimental TV images to the British nation in what year?
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Q5.
Which of these was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement who in 1945 married Lee Krasner, an important influence on his career?
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Q6.
"The lady doth protest too much" is a comment on whom?
B
A character in The Massacre at Paris
C
Nurse in Romeo and Juliet
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Q7.
Which play, based on a story of apparent patricide, caused riots when first performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on 26 January 1907, where it was described as "a vile and inhuman story told in the foulest language we have ever listened to from a public platform"?
A
"The Playboy of the Western World" by John Millington Synge
B
"Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett
C
"Juno and the Paycock" by Sean O'Casey
D
"Long Day's Journey Into Night" by Eugene O'Neill
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