Entertainment Quiz #648
Film, Arts, Music & Entertainment Quiz for 17 June 2021
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Q1.
What was the last act of the Live 8 performance in Philadelphia on 2 July 2005?
A
Bob Dylan with "Blowin' in the Wind"
B
Stevie Wonder with "Superstition"
D
Bruce Springsteen with "Born to Run"
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Q2.
"Jake and the Never Land Pirates: Mama Hook Knows Best" (2013) is a children's book by whom?
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Q3.
The plot of the book and films entitled "The Day of the Jackal" concerns an attempt to kill the leader of which nation?
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Q4.
Which of these influential 20th Century romantic composers lived beyond the end of the First World War?
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Q5.
Alan Bates played an escaped convict who was mistaken for the son of God in which 1961 film?
A
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
D
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Q6.
Who published an autobiography in 2020 titled "A Promised Land"?
A
Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China
C
Barack Obama, ex-President of the United States
D
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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Q7.
Which of these began life as a 1954 play for radio by Dylan Thomas?
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