Entertainment Quiz #426
Film, Arts, Music & Entertainment Quiz for 16 March 2017
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Q1.
What was the fate of Tosca in Verdi's opera?
A
She jumped to her death
C
She goes mad and stabs herself
D
She was strangled by her husband
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Q2.
Which Iron Maiden album, their third and the first to be released with Bruce Dickinson as vocalist, reached No 1 in the UK charts and at the same time went platinum in the USA?
C
The Number of the Beast
D
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
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Q3.
Which character has inspired plays by Christopher Marlowe, W. S. Gilbert, Gertrude Stein, Paul Valéry & Václav Havel, operas by Berlioz, Gounod, Busoni, Prokofiev & Stravinsky and music by Schubert, Wagner, Schumann, Liszt, Mussorgsky & Mahler?
Note: This question was updated in November 2019
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Q4.
Which of these was a film starring Robert Carlyle, Ewan McGregor, Kelly Macdonald, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd and Ewen Bremner?
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Q5.
What name was given to a group of painters who first exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in Paris in 1905, including Matisse, Braque, Derain, van Dongen and Dufy, who presented bold forms, brilliant colours and clearly defined patterns?
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Q6.
Which film shot in the Nauvhal and Nafe languages won the Audience Award (Venice International Film Festival), Best Foreign Film (African-American Film Critics Association), and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2017 Academy Awards?
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Q7.
What was the title of the film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood that was about a thinly disguised episode in John Huston's life?
A
Making of the African Queen
B
White Hunter, Black Heart
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