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Entertainment Quiz #863

Film, Arts, Music & Entertainment Quiz for 31 July 2025

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Q1. Playwright Athol Fugard, multi-award-winning honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, is best-known for what theme in his works?

A
Tension between Muslim and non-Muslim belief systems
B
Destruction caused by class distinction
C
Slavery, and the struggle against ethnic discrimination in the USA
D
Opposing the South African system of apartheid
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Q2. Which of these is an expression identified with Sherlock Holmes?

A
"Not on my watch"
B
"The game is afoot"
C
"Too much information"
D
"How YOU doin'?"
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Q3. What links the TV shows Threshold and Ultra, and the televised version of a book series by G.R.R. Martin?

A
They are all 20-episode series
B
The actor, Peter Dinklage
C
They first aired on CBS
D
Music by Ramin Djawadi
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Q4. Christopher Nolan's second film, "Memento" (2000), was based on ideas which later developed into what short story?

A
"Amnesia" by Peter Carey
B
"Memento Mori" by Jonathan Nolan
C
"Amnesia: the Dark Descent" by Mikael Hedberg
D
"Amnesia Moon" by Jonathan Lethem
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Q5. What play has the characters Lady Bracknell, Miss Prism and Doctor Chasuble?

A
Entertaining Mr Sloane
B
The Importance of Being Earnest
C
Look Back in Anger
D
Private Lives
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Q6. A section devoted to circuses was introduced in 1900 into what US music and entertainment publication?

A
The Billboard
B
Harper's Magazine
C
Godey's Lady's Book
D
The Beaumont Enterprise
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Q7. Jean Sibelius's tone poem named what, was premièred in 1900 with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra?

A
Water Music
B
Eroica
C
Finlandia
D
Nocturnes
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