Entertainment Quiz #771
Film, Arts, Music & Entertainment Quiz for 26 October 2023
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1
Q1.
The first seasons of the American game show "Jeopardy" ran from when?
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2
Q2.
Which show did Simon Cowell leave in 2010 to launch his shows "X Factor USA" and "America's Got Talent"?
D
The X Factor: Battle of the Stars
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3
Q3.
In 2021 the theatre troupe Told By An Idiot created and staged a play centring on a little-known association during a transatlantic 1910 voyage by which two then little known people?
A
Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel
B
Greta Garbo and Gloria Swanson
C
Cary Grant and Clark Gable
D
Buster Keaton and Claudette Colbert
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4
Q4.
After public outrage over a painting by Goya of a nude woman ("the first totally profane life-size female nude in Western art"), he refused to paint clothes on her, and created a new painting of the same woman in the same pose, clothed. The paintings are known as "The Nude ... " what and "The Clothed ..." what?
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5
Q5.
A musical comedy concerning an author suffering from writer's block who finds that the characters in his novel are dissatisfied was written by whom?
A
Jean Gilbert (Max Winterfeld)
D
J. Leubrie Hill and Will Vodery
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6
Q6.
An annual international event featuring British and Commonwealth military tattoos and performances is held where?
A
Times Square, New York, USA
B
Champs Elysées, Paris, France
C
The Esplanade of Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland
D
Hyde Park, London, England
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7
Q7.
The weekly television programme "Hour of Power", first broadcast in 1970, is concerned with what?
A
DIY electrical work in the home
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