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Entertainment Quiz #595

Film, Arts, Music & Entertainment Quiz for 11 June 2020

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Q1. In what English city is the TV series "Endeavour" (first screened in 2013) set?

A
London
B
Manchester
C
Oxford
D
Bristol
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Q2. Sir Winston Churchill as well as being a soldier and politician was a prolific writer. Much of his writing was in the non-fiction genre, military, social and political history and analysis; which was his only full-length published novel?

A
Amid These Storms
B
London to Ladysmith via Pretoria
C
Mr Broderick's Army
D
Savrola
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Q3. Horseshoe arches, or keyhole arches, are particularly characteristic of what kind of architecture?

A
Gothic
B
Islamic
C
Bauhaus
D
Neo-classical
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Q4. Rowan Atkinson created which character that first appeared on British TV in 1990?

A
Mr Turnip
B
Mr Plum
C
Mr Potato
D
Mr Bean
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Q5. Which series, starring at various times Martin Shaw, Tim McInnerny and Kierston Wareing, centres on a veteran of British operations in Afghanistan?

A
Enlisted (2014)
B
Strike (C.B.Strike in Canada and the USA) (first screened in 2017)
C
World on Fire (2019)
D
Combat! (1962-67)
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Q6. What real life matter did Lucy Prebble's play, "A Very Expensive Poison" (2019), deal with?

A
The murder in the UK of Alexander Litvinenko
B
The suspected poisoning of Emperor Claudius
C
Cantarella, the poison said to have been used by the Borgias
D
Mercury, at one time used to cure syphilis
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Q7. Which of these was a film starring Tom Hanks about the war between the Mujahideen in Afghanistan and the USSR?

A
Charlie Wilson's War
B
Sleepless in Seattle
C
Castaway
D
Saving Private Ryan
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