Entertainment Quiz #283
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Q1. What play was recommended by the Pulitzer Prize committee for the Best Play in 1963, but rejected by the Pulitzer board due to the play's perceived vulgarity?
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Q2. In 1898, 14 years before the Titanic sank, novelist Morgan Robertson published "Futility", a short novel about an enormous British passenger liner, which, thought to be unsinkable, carries insufficient lifeboats and on a voyage in April, hits an iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic with the loss of almost everyone on board. What was the name of the ship in this story?
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Q3. The film "The African Queen", starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, was set during which war?
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Q4. A hit song of 1960 by Brian Hyland concerned an itsy bitsy teenie weenie polka dot bikini of what colour?
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Q5. Until the Simpsons came along, what was the most successful TV cartoon series?
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Q6. The TV series Stargate SG-1 draws mainly on mythologies from Norse, Egyptian and what other?
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Q7. What is the name of Thomas Gray's most famous poem?
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