Entertainment Quiz #695
Film, Arts, Music & Entertainment Quiz for 12 May 2022
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Q1.
What do Alfred Newman, John Williams, Johnny Green, André Previn, John Barry and Alan Menken have in common?
A
Having the same birthday
B
Winning the Academy award for Best Original Score
C
Scoring "James Bond" films
D
Having been Olympic table tennis players
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2
Q2.
Where did the cartoon character "Casper" first appear?
B
A film, "The Friendly Ghost"
D
San Francisco Chronicle
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Q3.
A 1987 film starring Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann, described as "one of Britain's biggest cult films", is what " ... and I"?
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4
Q4.
Who painted the famous painting known as "The Blue Boy"?
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5
Q5.
In September 2010, The Beach Boys allegedly threatened a lawsuit due to a line in which song by Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dogg?
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6
Q6.
Ornette Coleman, Louis Armstrong and Charles Mingus are associated with what style of music?
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Q7.
The "Historia Ierosolimitana", an account of the events of the First Crusade (1095-99) to defend Christendom in Turkey and further East, and "a clarification of their miraculous meaning", was written ca 1105 by an abbot of Bourgueil named what?
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