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"Speed of Sound" by British rock band Coldplay marked a milestone in February 2006, which was what?
1. It became the billionth song downloaded on iTunes
2. Played at the celebration when the Human Genome Project published the last chromosome sequence
3. The CD was given as a present to Paul McCartney when he turned 64
4. USA observatories adopted it as a theme song during Mercury's transit of the sun

Which of these is a spin off from the TV series Grey's Anatomy?
1. Brothers & Sisters
2. Desperate Housewives
3. Private Practice
4. True Blood

What song by Helen Reddy was subject to much debate about what it was really about?
1. Ode To Billie Joe
2. Angie Baby
3. Cat's in the Cradle
4. I Am the Walrus

Which English folk song has been popular since Tudor times?
1. Blackdoublet
2. Bluepantaloons
3. Greensleeves
4. Whitejerkin

What musical is set in Deadwood?
1. Calamity Jane
2. Annie Get Your Gun
3. The Music Man
4. Oklahoma!

In what field is John Galliano famous?
1. Circus performance
2. Architecture
3. Cocktail bartending
4. Fashion

Mixing the colours red and blue results in what colour?
1. Green
2. Purple
3. Yellow
4. Pink

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What is the nationality of the actor wsho played Rumpelstiltskin in the TV series Once Upon a Time?
1. Canadian
2. Russian
3. Scottish
4. New Zealander

What 1956 film was remade in 2004 starring, respectively, David Niven / Steve Coogan and "Cantinflas" / Jackie Chan
1. Don Quixote
2. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
3. Around the World in 80 Days
4. The King and I

According to a 2009 adventure family film starring Ashley Tisdale, Carter Jenkins, Robert Hoffman, Henri Young, Regan Young and Austin Butler, "The aliens are" where?
1. In The Attic
2. Under the bed
3. In the refrigerator
4. In the basement

In 1994 the Globe Theatre on London's Shaftsbury Avenue was renamed after which actor?
1. Terence Rigby
2. Ralph Richardson
3. Laurence Olivier
4. John Gielgud

The title character of which of these musicals is a matchmaker?
1. Hello Dolly
2. Oliver!
3. The Phantom of the Opera
4. Annie Get Your Gun

Patrick Cox is known as a designer of what?
1. Multi-storey shopping malls
2. Large Anglican churches
3. Shoes, leather goods and accessories
4. Hats with feathers

Which long-running British TV series featured the characters Captain Peacock, Mrs. Slocombe, Mr. Humphries, Miss Brahms, Mr. Rumbold, Mr. Grainger and Mr. Lucas?
1. Only Fools and Horses
2. Are You Being Served?
3. Fawlty Towers
4. Laverne and Shirley

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James and Lily are the parents of which of these characters?
1. Hamlet
2. Harry Potter
3. Bart Simpson
4. Eddie Munster

What reaction did Bob Dylan receive to the second night of his performances at the Newport Folk Festival on Sunday 25 July 1965?
1. Polite applause
2. Silence
3. Booing
4. Wild cheering

Which of these songs is from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess?
1. People Will Say We're in Love
2. Summertime
3. I Got Rhythm
4. Shall We Dance

Elliot Gould played whose father on the TV series Friends?
1. Joey
2. Chandler
3. Ross & Monica
4. Rachel

Which fashion designer created Madonna's clothes for her 1990 "Blonde Ambition" tour, which included the "conical bra"?
1. Jean-Paul Gaultier
2. John Galliano
3. Matthew Williamson
4. Mary Quant

Raymond, Celia and Blanche were the real names of the subjects of which painting by David Hockney?
1. The Luncheon on the Grass
2. Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy
3. A Bigger Grand Canyon
4. A Bigger Splash

Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger played what unlikely pair in a 1988 film?
1. Mother and daughter
2. Sisters
3. Father and son
4. Twins

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Which of these was an important part in the car that travelled in time in the "Back to the Future" series of films?
1. Warp drive
2. Flux capacitor
3. Difference engine
4. Nuclear fribulator

Which of the films has nothing to do with dancing?
1. Dirty Dancing
2. Poltergeist
3. Footloose
4. Billy Elliot

At the 55th Annual Grammy Awards Show in February 2013 New Zealand singer Kimbra won two Grammies for her part in an album with Gotye. What were they?
1. Best Pop Solo Performance, and Best Dance Recording
2. Album of the Year, and Best New Artist
3. Record of the Year, and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
4. Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album, and Best R&B Performance

In which year was artist Pablo Picasso born?
1. 1881
2. 1981
3. 1681
4. 1781

What are "La donna è mobile", "Celeste Aida", "Una furtiva lagrima" and "E lucevan le stelle"?
1. Mottoes of Italian army regiments
2. Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
3. Arias for tenor voice
4. Ancient Roman war cries

The song "I Could Be So Good For You" was from which British TV series?
1. New Tricks
2. Only Fools and Horses
3. Last of the Summer Wine
4. Minder

In the Pink Panther series of films, who is Clouseau's house boy, an expert in martial arts, who frequently unexpectedly attacks him?
1. Short Round
2. Cato Fong
3. Hop Sing
4. Charlie Chan

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Which fictional character in a popular book published in 1876 was born in St Petersburg?
1. Lyubov Andreyevna Ranevskaya
2. Ivan Denisovich
3. Tom Sawyer
4. John Gabriel Borkman

In 1935 Count Basie, composer, jazz pianist and band leader, with his newly formed band developed his signature tune, which was what?
1. Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life
2. Animal Crackers in My Soup
3. Bess, You is My Woman Now
4. One O'Clock Jump

What 1973 film starring Al Pacino, John Randolph and Tony Roberts is based on the true story of New York City policeman who went undercover to expose the corruption of his fellow officers?
1. Rain Man
2. Serpico
3. The French Connection
4. The Third Man

Who played Vyvyan, a psychotic punk metal medical student with orange-dyed & spiked hair and four metal stars embedded in his forehead, in the UK TV series "The Young Ones"?
1. Nigel Planer
2. Rik Mayall
3. Adrian Edmondson
4. Christopher Ryan

What song was a UK #1 hit for Mike and the Mechanics in 1989?
1. Age of Reason
2. Reelin' in the Years
3. The Year of the Cat
4. The Living Years

Who painted "A Bar at the Folies-Bergère"?
1. Manet
2. Toulouse-Lautrec
3. Dégas
4. Cézanne

Who wrote the poem "O Captain! My Captain!"?
1. Alan Ginsberg
2. Walt Whitman
3. Robert Frost
4. Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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According to a song by Billy Idol "It's a nice day for a white ..." what?
1. Wedding
2. Christening
3. Baptism
4. Funeral

The TV series Bonanaza was set in which state?
1. Nevada
2. Oklahoma
3. Texas
4. New Mexico

Which of these is known as one of the most expensive serial drama series on TV?
1. Dancing With The Stars
2. Lost
3. Hawaii Five-O
4. Man vs Wild

In 1768, Joshua Reynolds became the first president of what British institution?
1. Royal Academy
2. Royal Society
3. National Portrait Gallery
4. London Zoo

A hit for the Marvelettes, the Beatles and the Carpenters was "Please Mr … who?
1. Tyre inflator
2. Butcher
3. President
4. Postman

It was inspired by an Ingmar Bergman film, has had Glynis Johns, Judi Dench and Catherine Zeta-Jones as leading actress, all of whom have won major awards in the role, and has contributed a haunting and enduring song to the popular canon. Which is it?
1. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue by Leonard Bernstein
2. Candide by Leonard Bernstein
3. A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim
4. Vanessa by Samual Barber

What was the title of the 2001 film that was a sequel to The Silence of the Lambs?
1. Noisy Oyster
2. Hannibal
3. Cannibal
4. Red Dragon

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Whose final words, on 8 April 1973, were “Drink to me, drink to my health, you know I can’t drink any more”?
1. Ernest Hemingway
2. Salvador Dali
3. Pablo Picasso
4. Charlie Chaplin

"Catriona"is a sequel to which novel?
1. Treasure Island
2. Kidnapped
3. Gulliver's Travels
4. Mutiny on the Bounty

What is the setting for the 1993 film "Alive", which stars Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano and Josh Hamiltonset and is narrated by John Malkovich?
1. The Andes
2. London Zoo
3. Vietnam War
4. American Civil War

The Crucible, a 1953 play by Arthur Miller, was set in what city?
1. Scranton
2. Minneapolis
3. Cincinnatii
4. Salem

It has been ranked in the top 20 TV shows of all time, and ran in the US from 1987 to 1991, a sitcom centring on a group of baby boomer yuppies. Which is it?
1. Thirtysomething
2. Two's Company
3. Family Ties
4. The Cosby Show

What sort of art work is the "Venus de Milo"?
1. Sculpture
2. Oil painting
3. Fresco
4. Collage

What was the subject of the final (20 million rupee) question on the "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" programme that featured in the film Slumdog Millionaire?
1. What the God Rama holds in his hand
2. Which cricketer had scored the most centuries
3. The names of the three Musketeers
4. What is written under the Indian national emblem

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Which family of 3 painters depicted the life of peasants, paintings in which devils and witches appear, and landscapes?
1. Rembrandt
2. Dali
3. Brueghel
4. Holbein

Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" became a No.1 single on Billboard's country chart and the longest running country chart topper since 1966. What else?
1. It reached top of the iTune singles charts within 2 hours of its release
2. It is the longest-running No. 1 country song by a female artist
3. It was left playing in the background when the USA President met the Prime Minister of Israel
4. The video for the song was the most watched on YouTube for 2012

Who were Great Uncle Bulgaria, Tobermory, Orinoco, Bungo, Tomsk, Wellington and Madame Cholet?
1. Teletubbies
2. Wombles
3. Appointees to the UN Security Council, 2001
4. Frequent members of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair's cabinet

The TV series was only 17 episodes (approximately 5 months of screen time) but it quickly became a cult series and has remained one. Which series was it?
1. The Prisoner
2. Callan
3. Danger Man
4. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

In which 1981 television series did Kenneth Williams voice at least 13 characters, and together with one other actor voice all of the characters in the series?
1. Willo the Wisp
2. Jackanory
3. Galloping Galaxies
4. What's My Line

In 1968, which book by Philip K Dick was published that became the basis for the 1982 film "Blade Runner"?
1. Something Wicked This Way Comes
2. I, Robot
3. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

What film genre has a plot that takes place during a journey, which has its roots in tales of epic journeys such as the "Odyssey" and the "Aeneid"?
1. Tour movie
2. Road movie
3. Heroic movie
4. Moving picture

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In which James Bond film does he have to defeat shipping magnate Karl Stromberg?
1. Live and Let Die
2. Moonraker
3. The Spy Who Loved Me
4. Goldfinger

Which of these is a play by Anton Chekhov?
1. Three Sisters
2. Four Brothers
3. Pair of Twits
4. Man Alone

What was the last James Bond film made that starred Roger Moore?
1. For Your Eyes Only
2. Moonraker
3. A View to a Kill
4. Octopussy

In which long-running comic series did the eponymous hero experience two dream sequences where he married each of his girlfriends, Veronica and Betty?
1. The Phantom
2. Archie
3. Tarzan
4. Batman

Who painted the famous paintings known as "The Cardplayers" and "Les Grandes Baigneuses"?
1. Thomas Gainsborough
2. Renoir
3. Cézanne
4. Rembrandt

What was the original name of Mickey Mouse?
1. Marlon
2. Mortimer
3. Montague
4. Marvin

Gala was the wife (and muse) of which of these artists?
1. Pablo Picasso
2. Salvador Dali
3. El Greco
4. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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In the song "How Much is that Doggy in the Window", "they say in the papers there are ... " what?
1. Robbers
2. Tigers
3. Dodgers
4. Badgers

A 1973 James Bond film was entitled "Live and Let ... " what?
1. Spy
2. Fly
3. Sigh
4. Die

Which of these is an English fashion and portrait photographer, the winner of four Tony and two Academy Awards, whose costume design for the stage version of "My Fair Lady" (1956) led to his work on two film musicals, "Gigi" (1958) and "My Fair Lady" (1964)?
1. Cecil Beaton
2. David Bailey
3. George Eastman
4. Henri Cartier-Bresson

Where was the TV series Stargate-SG1 filmed?
1. Los Angeles, USA
2. Vancouver, Canada
3. Monterey, USA
4. Elstree, UK

It was a highly popular music hall song in 1910, a signature tune of Harry Champion, and was revived and popularised by Joe Brown and by Herman's Hermits, and is...?
1. I'm Henery the Eighth, I am
2. My Old Man Said Follow the Van
3. Where Did You Get That Hat
4. Burlington Bertie From Bow

What character did Sharon Stone play in the 1992 film "Basic Instinct"?
1. Rosemary
2. Margaret
3. Catherine
4. Elizabeth

Which band, led by Mick Hucknall, released its first single, "Money's Too Tight (To Mention)", in 1985?
1. Just Brown
2. Simply Red
3. Merely Green
4. Only Orange

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Which of these songs is from the musical Annie?
1. Summertime
2. Getting to Know You
3. Tomorrow
4. Get Me To The Church On Time

What do the plays Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett and Abigail's Party by Mike Leigh have in common?
1. The people named in the title never appear in the play
2. The plays were both devised with the cast
3. They are set in France
4. The first performance of both plays included the spouse of the playwright in the cast

What was the title of a 1996 American disaster film starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton as "storm chasers"?
1. Typhoon
2. Twister
3. Tempest
4. Tornado

Which of these characters appear in the Charles Dickens novel "Martin Chuzzlewit"?
1. Mr Pluck and Mr Pyke
2. Charity and Mercy Pecksniff
3. Mr and Mrs Sowerberry
4. Miss Havisham and Estella

What was a typical subject of paintings by Dégas?
1. Umbrellas
2. Wolves
3. Ballet dancers
4. Horses

Inspired by lucid dreaming and corporate espionage, it won Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Cinematography. Which film is it?
1. Inception
2. The Matrix
3. In Dreams
4. Electric Dreams

Charlie Chaplin started filming this satire on fascism in September 1939 and released it in 1940. Which film was it?
1. Limelight
2. Modern Times
3. Monsieur Verdoux
4. The Great Dictator

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Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner starred in what TV series, first broadcast from 1966 to 1969?
1. Star Trek
2. Blakes 7
3. Red Dwarf
4. Star Wars

In 1985 Stevie Wonder won an Oscar for the song "I Just Called to Say I Love You"; shortly afterwards it was banned by the South African Broadcasting Corporation. What was the reason?
1. Broadcasts were suspected of including code messages for the ANC
2. He dedicated the Oscar to Nelson Mandela
3. The acrostic of one of the verses was deemed to be offensive in South Africa
4. He suspected by the South African government of supporting the guerilla cause

Which film is the story of Willie Stark (played by Broderick Crawford) who starts with well meaning ambition to enter politics, is corrupted by power on his way to becoming a US state governor, and is assassinated?
1. The Struggle
2. The Grapes Of Wrath
3. Mr Deeds Goes To Washington
4. All The King's Men

When did Channel Four and the Welsh language channel SC4 first broadcast in the UK?
1. December 2002
2. January 1955
3. June 1992
4. November 1982

"April is in my mistress' face, And July in her eyes hath place" are the first two lines of what popular work in Britain?
1. Dialogue by Fontenelle
2. Cantata by Purcell
3. Madrigal by Morley
4. Opera by Gluck

What type of art would you be making if you glued macaroni onto a surface?
1. Topiary
2. Macramé
3. Cloisonné
4. Collage

In December 2010 Paul McCartney played for charity, to raise money to prevent the closure of which club and live music venue in London?
1. CBGBs
2. Ronnie Scott's
3. The 100 Club
4. The Marquee

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Angela Grisanti Vecchio, Stanley Zbornak, Clayton Hollingsworth and Salvadore Petrillo are characters in what US television series?
1. Echo Beach
2. Dallas
3. No Soap, Radio
4. Golden Girls

Which of these is the name of a panther in Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book"?
1. Bagheera
2. Mowgli
3. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
4. Akela

What award is the television equivalent of the Oscars?
1. Grammys
2. Tonys
3. Emmys
4. BAFTAs

What was the name of the bald bespectacled scientist and his assistant in the Muppet Show?
1. Dr Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker
2. Dr Ricecake Burner and Pipette
3. Dr Newcomen Jellyjar and Dishy
4. Dr Datescone Brunel and Stirrer

Who has hosted the US series "Power of 10", "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" and "The Price Is Right"?
1. Larry King
2. David Letterman
3. Regis Philbin
4. Drew Carey

What is the occupation of the title character in "Finnegan's Wake" by James Joyce?
1. Professor of Law
2. Hod carrier
3. Game keeper
4. Machine operator

The songs "Aquarius" and "Good Morning Starshine" are from which musical?
1. Oh Calcutta
2. Hair
3. Godspell
4. Rent

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The musical "South Pacific" was based on the book "Hawaii" by which author?
1. John Steinbeck
2. F Scott Fitzgerald
3. James A Michener
4. Ernest Hemingway

Kylie Minogue played Charlene Robinson in what soap opera?
1. Emmerdale
2. Coronation Street
3. Neighbours
4. Dallas

What 1983 Scottish film, starring Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson, Peter Capaldi and Burt Lancaster, was directed by Bill Forsyth with music by Mark Knopfler?
1. Mrs. Brown
2. Whisky Galore!
3. Braveheart
4. Local Hero

What kind of window is made of one or more movable panels that form a frame to hold panes of glass where the glazed panels are opened by sliding vertically, or horizontally?
1. Dormer
2. Sash
3. Dado
4. Gable

Which of these is the title of a British TV series shown between 1957 and 1967 which is considered to be one of Britain's first major soap operas?
1. Doctor Kildare
2. Doctor Finlay's Casebook
3. Emergency - Ward 10
4. Casualty

In 1991, Warner Bros was picketed by a major national organisation over the use of which cartoon character?
1. Bugs Bunny
2. Porky Pig
3. Daffy Duck
4. Tweety

The film The Philadelphia Story was made into which musical?
1. High Society
2. Top Hat
3. Shall We Dance
4. Singin' in the Rain

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What is the best known work by German composer Carl Orff?
1. Carmina Burana
2. Carmen McRae
3. Carmen Miranda
4. Carmen Electra

Jane Horrocks plays which role in the TV series "Absolutely Fabulous"?
1. Squeak
2. Bubble
3. Edina
4. Margaret

What song was written by Bob Geldof in the aftermath of Brenda Ann Spencer's attempted massacre at an elementary school across the street from her house in San Diego, California, in 1979?
1. Ruby Tuesday
2. Monday, Monday
3. Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
4. I Don't Like Mondays

Marabi, a form of South African music popular 1920s-1940s, was characterised by restless, rebellious energy; where was it most practised?
1. The plains
2. Townships
3. Dockyards
4. Urban slums

What was the name of the book that was a collection of Aubrey Beardsley's work, published by Leonard Smithers in 1897?
1. A Book of Filthy Drawings
2. A Book of Fifty Drawings
3. A Book of Figleaf Drawings
4. A Book of Famous Drawings

Designer Karl Lagerfeld is famous for carrying what as a fashion accessory?
1. Silk handkerchief
2. Fan
3. Chihuahua
4. Sunglasses

What was the name of his backing band for Bill Haley on the record "Rock Around the Clock" that was released in 1954?
1. The Pacemakers
2. The Crickets
3. The Dakotas
4. The Comets

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Who dies at the end of Shakespeare's tragedy "Troilus and Cressida"?
1. Hector
2. Troilus
3. Cressida
4. Achilles

In 1954, the US Department of Defence established what song as the official musical tribute to the president of the USA?
1. Hail to the Chief
2. I Think It's Gonna Work Out Fine
3. Imagine
4. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

In Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book", what animal was Kaa?
1. Wolf
2. Snake
3. Panther
4. Elephant

"Now is the winter of our discontent" is a line from which play?
1. Richard III
2. Othello
3. Hamlet
4. Macbeth

Which play by Arthur Miller used events from early US history to mirror Senator McCarthy's communist witch hunts in the 1950's?
1. All My Sons
2. The Crucible
3. View From A Bridge
4. After The Fall

Which of these characters appears last in the the film musical "The Sound of Music"?
1. Rolf
2. Baroness Elsa Schraeder
3. Liesl
4. Captain von Trapp

Who "is watching you" in George Orwell's book "Nineteen Eighty-Four"?
1. Big Daddy
2. Big Ears
3. Big Brother
4. Big Bopper

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A style of intimate singing, developed and made popular in the first half of the 20th century by, among others, Bing Crosby, is called...?
1. Crooning
2. Jazz
3. Swing
4. Ballad

Which painter, who was born in Paris, France in 1848 and died in 1903 at Atuona, Hiva ‘Oa, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia, had lived at various times in Lima (Peru), Orléans (France), Copenhagen (Denmark), Panama, Saint Pierre (Martinique), Pont-Aven (France), Arles (France), Mataiea Village (Tahiti), Punaauia (Tahiti)?
1. Paul Gauguin
2. Francisco Goya
3. El Greco
4. Henri Rousseau

John Donne is famous for which of these quotations?
1. No man is an island
2. Don't mention the war
3. Breaking up is hard to do
4. Tiger, tiger, burning bright

Which of these is a 1990 film starring Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin & Oliver Platt as medical students attempting to find out if there's anything beyond death by conducting clandestine experiments with near-death experiences?
1. Hillycircles
2. Flatliners
3. Bumpysquares
4. Eventriangles

According to Lewis Carroll in his novel "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There" (1872), what was used to kill the Jabberwock?
1. A vorpal sword
2. Silver bullets
3. Brittany spears
4. Flaming arrows

Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 in F major (Op. 68) is known as what?
1. The Pastoral Symphony
2. Choral
3. The Eroica
4. Ode to Joy

What was the main theme for the 1994 film "Four Weddings and a Funeral"?
1. "How Soon Is Now?" by The Smiths
2. "Help!" by The Beatles
3. "Nothing Lasts Forever" by Echo and the Bunnymen
4. "Love is All Around" by Wet Wet Wet

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Which of these, a prominent American realist painter and printmaker, was known for reflecting his personal vision of modern American life?
1. Edwin Leaper
2. Edmond Jumper
3. Egbert Stepper
4. Edward Hopper

Man Ray was famous in what field?
1. Architecture
2. Baseball
3. Photography
4. Horse racing

In Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations", who or what was Abel Magwitch?
1. Corn merchant
2. Schoolboy
3. Blacksmith
4. Convict

What was the first name of the political cartoonist known as Hogarth?
1. William
2. Edward
3. Richard
4. Rupert

What film was based on the book "Q and A" by Vikas Swarup?
1. The Manchurian Candidate
2. The Ipcress File
3. Slumdog Millionaire
4. Love Actually

What is a reality TV show in which a group of people live in a large house watched by cameras, first broadcast in the Netherlands in 1999?
1. Big Brother
2. Little Sister
3. Great Uncle
4. Large Aunty

Where does the phrase "show me the money" come from?
1. "Jerry Maguire", a 1996 film
2. "Oliver!", a 1960 musical
3. "Dog Day Afternoon", a 1975 film
4. "Can't Buy Me Love", a 1964 song

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According to the Bible (and Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice), who had a coat with many colours?
1. Janie
2. Joshua
3. Jenny
4. Joseph

What name is given to English comedies written from 1660 to 1700 which signalled the rebirth of English drama after public stage performances had been banned for 18 years?
1. Restoration comedy
2. Savoy Operas
3. Vaudeville
4. Comédie Française

Who played Rick, the self-proclaimed anarchist who writes poetry and calls himself "The People's Poet" in the UK TV series "The Young Ones"?
1. Nigel Planer
2. Rik Mayall
3. Adrian Edmondson
4. Christopher Ryan

In what town is the TV soap "Days of Our Lives" set?
1. Salem
2. Amity Park
3. Freedom City
4. Riverdale

Who are Anne Valerie Hash, Stephanie Rolland, Alexis Mabille, Rebecca Taylor, Marc Jacobs and John Galliano?
1. Portrait painters
2. The B-52's
3. Golf professionals
4. Fashion designers

According to the unpublished memoirs of animator Friz Freleng, which Clark Gable film inspired the character of Bugs Bunny due to the personality of a minor character, Oscar Shapely and his penchant for referring to Clark Gable's character as "Doc", an imaginary character named "Bugs Dooley" that Gable's character uses to frighten Shapely, and a scene in which Clark Gable eats carrots while talking quickly with his mouth full?
1. It Happened One Night (1934)
2. The Call of the Wild (1935)
3. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
4. Gone with the Wind (1939)

Which BBC TV programme of 4 series featured Rowan Atkinson, Pamela Stephenson, Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones, with Chris Langham in the first series?
1. Not the Nine O'Clock News
2. The Good Life
3. Yes, Prime Minister
4. The Goodies

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Which 1942 film starring Tim Holt, Joseph Cotton, Ray Collins, Agnes Moorehead, Dolores Costello and Richard Bennett was adapted by Orson Welles from a novel by Booth Tarkington?
1. The Lady From Shanghai
2. Citizen Kane
3. The Stranger
4. The Magnificent Ambersons

What is the name of the Hobbit who carries the ring to Mordor to be destroyed?
1. Strider
2. Elrond
3. Frodo
4. Peregrin Took

Which of these has had the most influence on the architecture of Paris?
1. Antonio Gaudi
2. Frank Lloyd Wright
3. Christopher Wren
4. Georges-Eugène Haussmann

According to Charlotte Brontë, who married Jane Eyre?
1. Mr Rochester
2. Heathcliff
3. Sir Walter Raleigh
4. Martin Chuzzlewit

David LaChapelle is a leading figure in what activity?
1. Photography
2. Ballet
3. Astronomy
4. Painting

Fashion designer Ozwald Boateng specialises in what?
1. Suits
2. Hats
3. Handbags
4. Shoes

Who designed both the obverse and reverse of the twenty-dollar gold coin, or double eagle, produced by the US Mint from 1907 to 1933?
1. Augustus Saint-Gaudens
2. George Segal
3. Jack Kershaw
4. Samuel Murray

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Which of these is a form of textile art, woven on a vertical loom?
1. Panoply
2. Sophistry
3. Tapestry
4. Dacquiri

The exterior of which real Boston pub was used in the TV programme "Cheers" in the 1980s?
1. Welcome Stranger
2. Cheers
3. Bull & Finch
4. Sam Malone's

After winning the UK series "The X Factor", Steve Brookstein released his first single on 20 December 2004, which debuted on the UK Singles Chart at #2 and later was #1 on 2 January 2005 for 1 week. It was a cover of what song?
1. "Against All Odds" by Phil Collins
2. "My Way" by Frank Sinatra
3. "Yesterday" by The Beatles
4. "Albatross" by Fleetwood Mac

The first father and son win at the Oscars was in 1948 when John Huston won the award for Directing and for Writing Adapted Screenplay and his father Walter Huston won the award for Best Supporting Actor. Which film had they worked on together to win these awards?
1. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
2. The Maltese Falcon
3. Casablanca
4. Singin' in the Rain

Who played Alan's young son, Jake, in the TV series "Two and a Half Men"?
1. Jon Cryer
2. Charlie Sheen
3. Angus T. Jones
4. Ron Howard

In April 2010, what word used by Robin Williams on "The Late Show with David Letterman" caused the Australian Prime Minister to respond in such a way that Alabama newspapers demanded he apologise?
1. Galah
2. Wombat
3. Antipodes
4. Redneck

Who directed the video for the song "Country House" by the pop group Blur?
1. Martin Creed
2. Keith Tyson
3. Simon Starling
4. Damien Hurst

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"Black Cherry" and "Supernature" are albums by which band?
1. Faithless
2. Goldfrapp
3. Madness
4. Everyone But The Girl

Which of these is most likely to use a palette knife?
1. Artist
2. Cricketer
3. Surgeon
4. Chef

What award is the equivalent of the Oscars for British industries involved in film, television, video games and forms of animation?
1. Emmys
2. BAFTAs
3. Tonys
4. Grammys

In a 1980 episode of the TV series "Dallas", what character was Sue Ellen's scheming sister, who shot J.R. after having an affair with him?
1. Pamela Ewing
2. "Miss Ellie"
3. Kristin Shepard
4. Lucy Ewing Cooper

"Summer of the Seventeenth Doll", a 1955 play by Ray Lawler, is set in Carlton, a suburb of what city?
1. Chicago, USA
2. London, UK
3. San Francisco, USA
4. Melbourne, Australia

"The Lone Ranger" made history as the first Western written specifically for television. Who were the stars of the show through most of the 1950s?
1. Raymond Burr and Vic Perrin
2. Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels
3. James Arness and Dennis Weaver
4. Gordon Scott and Anthony Quayle

Which TV series had, as some of the characters, pigs called Pinky and Perky, a goat called Geraldine and a cockerel called Lenin?
1. To the Manor Born
2. The Good Life (Good Neighbors in the USA)
3. The Norman Conquests
4. Ever Decreasing Circles

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Which of these fashion designers was born in the USA?
1. Donna Karan
2. Mary Quant
3. Cecil Beaton
4. Gianni Versace

"Rawhide" was played to a bar full of hostile country music fans in which film?
1. The Good the Bad and the Ugly
2. Easy Rider
3. The Blues Brothers
4. The Gangs of New York

Which 18th century self-taught Liverpudlian, who studied human anatomy and spent 18 months dissecting horses, is best known for his paintings of horses (such as "Whistlejacket"), sometimes accompanied by hounds, and of animals such as lions, tigers, giraffes, monkeys, and rhinoceroses?
1. George Stubbs
2. Joshua Reynolds
3. Alfred Munnings
4. Henry Alken

The Rambert Dance Company was founded under its present name by whom in the UK in 1987?
1. Lucy Rombert
2. Marie Rombert
3. Ashley Rombert
4. Enrico Rombert

The characters Viola and Sebastian are not in which of these plays?
1. Twelfth Night
2. As You Like It
3. She's the Man
4. Your Own Thing

What was Beethoven's last symphony?
1. 5th
2. 15th
3. 6th
4. 9th

Which of these was published last?
1. Treasure Island
2. Alice In Wonderland
3. Twelfth Night
4. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

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"Devil" was the pet wolf of which comic strip character?
1. Aquaman
2. Mandrake the Magician
3. Green Arrow
4. The Phantom

What US TV series concerned a New Jersey crime family?
1. The Three Tenors
2. The Coloraturas
3. The Altoes
4. The Sopranos

What are the first words of the 1851 song by Stephen Foster called "Old Folks at Home"?
1. So you think you've lost your love
2. Keep right on to the end of the road
3. Are you really goin' out with him?
4. Way down upon the Swannee River

At the start of "Scream 2", what was the name of the film that was shown about the "Woodsboro Murders"?
1. Penetrate
2. Plunge
3. Stab
4. Insert

Whose famous painting, "The Potato Eaters", is of five peasants sitting down to dinner?
1. Pablo Picasso
2. Vincent Van Gogh
3. Salvador Dali
4. Andy Warhol

At the 1963 Oscars, Best Picture winner Tom Jones became the only film in history to do which of these?
1. Have 3 nominations for Best Supporting Actress
2. Won all of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress
3. Won Best Actor and Best Actress
4. Be nominated for over 20 awards and win none

Which cartoon series relies on the voices of Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria & Harry Shearer?
1. Family Guy
2. King of the Hill
3. The Simpsons
4. The Flinstones

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What did Elvis Presley tell people not to step on in 1956?
1. Devil In disguise
2. A piece of my heart
3. Teddy bear
4. Blue suede shoes

With what instrument are Charlie Christian, Les Paul, Tiny Grimes, Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis, Jimmy Raney, Tal Farlow, Kenny Burrell, Grant Green, Wes Montgomery, and Jim Hall associated?
1. Trumpet
2. Guitar
3. Trombone
4. Saxophone

The plot of the book and films entitled "The Day of the Jackal" concerns an attempt to kill the leader of which nation?
1. Germany
2. Spain
3. France
4. Belgium

Jim Reeves, Marty Robbins and Dolly Parton are associated with what style of music?
1. Jazz
2. Country
3. Heavy metal
4. Opera

Which of these influential 20th Century romantic composers lived beyond the end of the First World War
1. Gabriel Fauré
2. Alexander Scriabin
3. Jules Massenet
4. Claude Debussy

Chester Gould created which comic character, which first appeared in 1931?
1. Jane
2. Betty Boop
3. Dick Tracy
4. Batman

Which 1959 film starring Charlton Heston won a record 11 Academy Awards?
1. The Lord of the Flies
2. Spartacus
3. The Ten Commandments
4. Ben Hur

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What did British comedian Benny Hill use as his signature tune?
1. The Sunny Side of the Street
2. Yakkety Sax
3. With a Little Help From My Friends
4. Thanks for the Memory

Jessica was the daughter of which of these characters?
1. Romeo
2. King Lear
3. Shylock
4. Macbeth

Which is the film, about canine reincarnation and the relationships between father and son and master and dog, based on an Alan Sharp adaptation of a short novel by Irish author Lord Dunsany?
1. Lady and the Tramp
2. Danny, Champion of the World
3. Dean Spanley
4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

What is the name of the fictional character in the land of Oz created by L. Frank Baum as "the Good Witch of the South" who, in the 1939 film version of "The Wizard of Oz" was called "the Good Witch of the North"?
1. Evvamene
2. Evillene
3. Addaperle
4. Glinda

Which of these has had the most influence on the architecture of Barcelona?
1. Georges-Eugène Haussmann
2. Frank Lloyd Wright
3. Christopher Wren
4. Antonio Gaudi

Which of these was a British-born American costume designer who had a career as costumier for the Dallas Opera, and worked for Covent Garden, La Scala, the Old Vic, the Vienna State Opera, the American Ballet Theater, the Metropolitan Opera & the New York City Opera?
1. Edith Head
2. Peter J Hall
3. Busby Berkeley
4. Cecil Beaton

Which of these was encouraged by Gauguin to take up tapestry design but abandoned it after he began making small terracotta sculptures in 1895 and became a sculptor and painter. His important works include a monument to Cézanne (1912 ), and 3 of his bronzes grace the grand staircase of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.
1. Alberto Giacometti
2. Henry Moore
3. Aristide Maillol
4. Auguste Rodin

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