Entertainment Quiz #645
Film, Arts, Music & Entertainment Quiz for 27 May 2021
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Q1.
The first novel by Scottish-American fashion designer Douglas Stuart won the Booker Prize in 2020. What is the theme of the book?
A
A young boy growing up in the fashion industry in New York
B
Growing up "poor and queer" in 1980s working-class Glasgow, Scotland
C
A relationship between an unloved daughter and her elderly, failing mother
D
The emotional costs for a young driven scientist
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Q2.
What was the highest grossing American film of 1949?
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Q3.
In the TV mockumentary "People Like Us" (1999 - 2001) who was the fictional interviewer?
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Q4.
Which of these TV series (1984-1996, 2020 on) features only satirical puppet caricatures?
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Q5.
Loosely based on a 1959 novel by Shirley Jackson, what was Netflix's first release (in 2018) in its "Haunted" series?
A
The Haunting of Hill House
B
The Haunting of Bly Manor
C
The Haunting of Alma Fielding
D
The Haunting of Sharon Tate
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Q6.
When did the simplified style of samba known as Bossa Nova beat develop?
D
Late 1950s and early 1960s
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Q7.
What 2005 film, directed by Ang Lee, was based on a short story by Annie Proulx?
B
The Blair Witch Project
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