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Entertainment Quiz #502

Film, Arts, Music & Entertainment Quiz for 30 August 2018

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Q1. Which comic strip created by Rudolph Dirks that first appeared in 1897 in the "American Humorist", the Sunday supplement of the New York Journal, is still distributed, making it the oldest comic strip still in syndication?

A
Blondie
B
Dennis the Menace
C
The Katzenjammer Kids
D
Archie
Select from the options above.
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Q2. What does the name of the nursing convent from which the midwives of the British TV series "Call the Midwife" refer to?

A
How its founder died
B
The birth of its patron saint
C
Where its patron saint lived
D
What hospital it is attached to
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Q3. Where are the terms "recto" and "verso" applied?

A
In a game of Monopoly
B
In a religious ceremony
C
To a cricket bat
D
To a leaf in a book
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Q4. By what name is Italian sculptor and painter Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi better known?

A
Tintoretto
B
Donatello
C
Vaporetto
D
Michelangelo
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Q5. Which of Shakespeare's plays was made into a film in 1953 starring Marlon Brando, James Mason, Louis Calhern, John Gielgud, Deborah Kerr and Greer Garson?

A
Julius Caesar
B
Henry V
C
Hamlet
D
Romeo and Juliet
Select from the options above.
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Q6. The song "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" is from which musical?

A
Damn Yankees
B
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
C
L'il Abner
D
Oklahoma!
Select from the options above.
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Q7. What name is given to the jewelled, gilded and illuminated mediaeval religious manuscript, thought to have been created c. 715-20 CE in Britain and presently held in the British Library?

A
Les Très Riches Heures
B
Lindisfarne Gospels
C
The Book of Kells
D
Luttrell Psalter
Select from the options above.
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