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Entertainment Quiz #835

Film, Arts, Music & Entertainment Quiz for 16 January 2025

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Q1. "By Jeeves", a musical first performed in 1996, substantially rewritten from their work "Jeeves" in 1975, was composed by whom with whose book and lyrics?

A
Andrew Lloyd Webber; Alan Ayckbourn
B
Julian Lloyd Webber; Tim Rice
C
Claude-Michel Schönberg; Alain Boublil
D
Andrew Lloyd Webber; Don Black, Christopher Hampton
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Q2. Where was Olivier Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time" premièred in 1941?

A
La Cigale, Paris, France
B
The Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, USA
C
Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, UK
D
Stalag VIII-A, a prison camp in Germany
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Q3. Which 1982 scifi film, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer and Mary Sean Young, was set in a dystopian 2019 (at that time, the future) Los Angeles, USA?

A
Aliens
B
Dune
C
Blade Runner
D
From Beyond
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Q4. Tony Robinson, well-known as the scruffy offsider Baldrick in the UK TV series "Blackadder", has been the presenter for a series of UK TV programmes since 1994, which focus on what?

A
Archaeology and history
B
TV comedy
C
Herpetology
D
Famous valets and batmen
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Q5. A Soviet film adaptation of which Shakespearean play, directed by Grigori Kozintsev, with black-and-white photography, a score by Shostakovich and a script based on a translation by Boris Pasternak, was made by Mosfilm in 1971?

A
Macbeth
B
The Merchant of Venice
C
Titus Andronicus
D
King Lear
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Q6. Which animated musical film was directed by Jared Bush and Byron Howard, co-directed by Charise Castro Smith (in her feature directorial debut), produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released in 2021?

A
Tangled
B
Moana
C
Frozen
D
Encanto
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Q7. With what music is the dance style despelote associated?

A
Timba
B
Funk
C
Washington go-go
D
Bebop
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