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Entertainment Quiz #628

Film, Arts, Music & Entertainment Quiz for 28 January 2021

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Q1. What genre did Howard L. Chace, a professor of French, use when he wrote "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut", the story of Little Red Riding Hood written using English words (but never the correct ones) to demonstrate that the intonation, and context, of spoken English is almost as important to the meaning as the words themselves?

A
Carcinogenic evolution
B
Telephonic substitution
C
Homophonic transformation
D
Telegraphic reconstruction
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Q2. Jean Claude van Damme has which of these nicknames?

A
Muscles from Brussels
B
Hellman from Belgium
C
Da Mon from Bonne
D
Twerp from Antwerp
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Q3. Who was the female star of the 1984 film "Ghostbusters"?

A
Sigourney Weaver
B
Glenn Close
C
Bette Davis
D
Sally Field
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Q4. The winner of the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award, "Station Eleven", takes place in which area?

A
The Aleutian Islands, Alaska, USA
B
The Arctic
C
Great Lakes, North America
D
Quebec and Toronto, Canada
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Q5. What is the central theme of the 2003 film "The Big Fish"?

A
A family camping trip
B
Sharks
C
A son disentangling fact from embroidery in his father's life stories
D
An advocacy business in Washington
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Q6. Which 1941 film starred Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor in a murder investigation and a quest?

A
Casablanca
B
The Maltese Falcon
C
The African Queen
D
Meet Me in St. Louis
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Q7. What is a feature of the Japanese art known as kintsugi?

A
Bamboo inlays
B
Drawing in gold
C
Red shellac
D
Mended ceramic with gold, or similar, applied to the mends
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