Entertainment Quiz #341
Film, Arts, Music & Entertainment Quiz for 30 July 2015
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Q1.
Fiordiligi, Dorabella, Guglielmo, Ferrando, Despina and Don Alfonso are characters in which opera?
D
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
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Q2.
The Walt Disney animated 1949 feature "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad" is based on "The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame and which other work?
A
"Ichabod the Optimistic Canine" by Amablue
B
"Ichabod and Me" by Raphael Blau
C
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving
D
"Ichabod and Abbie" by Alex Kurtzman
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Q3.
Which popular song from 1972 told the story of the aftermath of an incident at a concert by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention when someone fired a flare gun?
A
Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
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Q4.
What is a common factor in these films - fairy tale fantasy "Enchanted", biopic "Mr Turner", the Harry Potter series of films, and social drama "Secrets & Lies"?
A
Production company Walt Disney Pictures
D
Composer Alexandre Desplat
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Q5.
The following is an extract from what work? "Lo! where the Giant on the mountain stands, His blood-red tresses deep'ning in the sun, With death-shot glowing in his fiery hands, And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon".
A
"Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" by Lord Byron
B
"Macbeth" by William Shakespeare
C
"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray
D
"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"by J. K. Rowling.
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Q6.
What police drama TV programme starring William Shatner in the title role as the 15-year veteran police sergeant was first aired in the USA from March 1982 to May 1985?
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Q7.
"The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa", a sculptural group in white marble set in an elevated aedicule in the Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, was designed and completed by whom?
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