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Entertainment Quiz #537

Film, Arts, Music & Entertainment Quiz for 2 May 2019

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Q1. A film pitched to Ealing Studios in 1944 (towards the end of WW II), filmed partly in Switzerland and Norway, and released in 1948 starring John Mills and co-written by his wife, novelist Mary Hayley Bell, concerned which notable British person?

A
George Mallory
B
Robert Falcon Scott
C
Doug Scott
D
Ernest Shackleton
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Q2. The song "Don't Let's Be Beastly To The Germans" was banned by the BBC in 1942. Who was the artist?

A
Vera Lynn
B
Stanley Holloway
C
Noel Coward
D
Harry Lauder
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Q3. Which 2002 play by Neil LaBute that takes place around 11 September 2001 concerns an extra-marital affair between a man (Sam) and his boss (Abby) who worked in the World Trade Centre?

A
The Distance From Here
B
The Shape of Things
C
This Is How It Goes
D
The Mercy Seat
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Q4. What are "O mio babbino caro", "Sì, mi chiamano Mimì", "Vissi d'arte", "Der Hölle Rache", "Sempre libera" and "When I am laid in Earth"?

A
Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
B
Arias for soprano
C
Famous epitaphs
D
Official school songs at Eton College, England
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Q5. Which of these was the last to make its debut on British TV?

A
Peak Practice
B
Angels
C
Dr Finlay's Casebook
D
Emergency Ward 10
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Q6. Which of these was an 18th century English furniture maker?

A
Timothy Wedgewood
B
Thomas Chippendale
C
Wiliam Waterford
D
Michael Tudor
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Q7. Which song begins with this lyric "There she was just a-walkin' down the street"?

A
I Saw Her Standing There
B
My Generation
C
Doo Wah Diddy Diddy
D
You Really Got Me
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