Entertainment Quiz #656
Film, Arts, Music & Entertainment Quiz for 12 August 2021
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Q1.
"The Hunting of the Snark (an Agony in 8 Fits)", published in 1876, followed which other work by the same author?
D
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found
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Q2.
Which British television series, running from 1969 to 1982, was described by the writers of Monty Python's Flying Circus which went to air very soon after as making them "very depressed because we thought it was what we wanted to do"?
A
The Trumptonshire Trilogy
D
The Complete and Utter History of Britain
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Q3.
Jessica was the daughter of which of these characters?
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Q4.
American playwright, songwriter and early inductee into America's Songwriters Hall of Fame, Rida Johnson Young, was famous for "Italian Street Song" and "I'm Falling in Love with Someone" from which operetta, for which she wrote the book and lyrics?
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Q5.
Who painted "Red Car Crash" as a part of his 1962-63 "Death and Disaster" series?
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Q6.
Which of these fictional characters was created by Ruth Rendell?
A
Superintendent Jack Meadows
B
Chief Inspector Dreyfus
D
Detective Inspector Wexford
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Q7.
What role did Laurence Olivier play in the 1960 film "Spartacus"?
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