Entertainment Quiz #5

Entertainment Quiz #5

Questions

1. Whose orchestral works include Enigma Variations?
2. What are the two cities in the Charles Dickens novel A Tale Of Two Cities?
3. How many films did Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor star in together?
4. In the film The Wizard Of Oz, what does Dorothy have to steal from the Wicked Witch of the West?
5. Which female American country singer died in a plane crash in 1963?
6. Which US disc jockey is the subject of the 1996 film Private Parts?
7. How many 'Mr colours' were there in the 1991 film Reservoir Dogs?
8. Lou Todd and Andy Pipkin are characters in which British TV show?
9. In which Beatles song are the names Vera, Chuck and Dave?
10. Whose biography is entitled Citizen Jane?
11. Which singer released an album called Drag?
12. What is the name of the taxi driver played by Robert De Niro in the 1976 film Taxi Driver?
13. Which film was based on an unproduced play called Everybody Comes To Ricks?
14. Craig Stirling is a character in which cult TV show?
15. Who plays the plastic surgeon in the 1992 film Death Becomes Her?
16. What was the title of Marilyn Monroe's unfinished 1962 film?
17. Which 1980's pop group were named after a 1960 film starring Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood and Pearl Bailey?
18. Who wrote the novel on which the Bogart film The African Queen was based?
19. Which musician was known as Satchmo?
20. In which year were LP records first introduced?
21. Who did Robert Vaughan and David McCallum play in TV's The Man From UNCLE?
22. Who is the presenter of UK TV's Deal or No Deal (as at 2006)?
23. Which guitarist joined the Rolling Stones having played with Rod Stewart and the Faces?
24. In which British river did novelist Virginia Woolf drown?
25. In which country was actress Ursula Andress born?
26. Which showman coined the phrase 'The greatest show on earth'?
27. Which was the first British sitcom to win the best comedy prize at the Golden Globe awards?
28. On which island was the TV series Bergerac set?
29. Who had the fastest selling debut single in UK pop chart history?
30. Which awards were first presented in 1929?

1. Whose orchestral works include Enigma Variations?

   Edward Elgar
2. What are the two cities in the Charles Dickens novel A Tale Of Two Cities?

   Paris and London
3. How many films did Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor star in together?

   Ten
4. In the film The Wizard Of Oz, what does Dorothy have to steal from the Wicked Witch of the West?

   Her broomstick
5. Which female American country singer died in a plane crash in 1963?

   Pasty Cline
6. Which US disc jockey is the subject of the 1996 film Private Parts?

   Howard Stern
7. How many 'Mr colours' were there in the 1991 film Reservoir Dogs?

   Six
8. Lou Todd and Andy Pipkin are characters in which British TV show?

   Little Britain
9. In which Beatles song are the names Vera, Chuck and Dave?

   When I'm Sixty-Four
10. Whose biography is entitled Citizen Jane?

    Jane Fonda
11. Which singer released an album called Drag?

    k d lang
12. What is the name of the taxi driver played by Robert De Niro in the 1976 film Taxi Driver?

    Travis Bickle
13. Which film was based on an unproduced play called Everybody Comes To Ricks?

    Casablanca
14. Craig Stirling is a character in which cult TV show?

    The Champions
15. Who plays the plastic surgeon in the 1992 film Death Becomes Her?

    Bruce Willis
16. What was the title of Marilyn Monroe's unfinished 1962 film?

    Something's Got To Give
17. Which 1980's pop group were named after a 1960 film starring Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood and Pearl Bailey?

    The Fine Young Cannibals
18. Who wrote the novel on which the Bogart film The African Queen was based?

    C S Forester
19. Which musician was known as Satchmo?

    Louis Armstrong
20. In which year were LP records first introduced?

    1948
21. Who did Robert Vaughan and David McCallum play in TV's The Man From UNCLE?

    Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakian
22. Who is the presenter of UK TV's Deal or No Deal (as at 2006)?

    Noel Edmonds
23. Which guitarist joined the Rolling Stones having played with Rod Stewart and the Faces?

    Ronnie Wood
24. In which British river did novelist Virginia Woolf drown?

    River Ouse
25. In which country was actress Ursula Andress born?

    Switzerland
26. Which showman coined the phrase 'The greatest show on earth'?

    Phineas T Barnum
27. Which was the first British sitcom to win the best comedy prize at the Golden Globe awards?

    The Office
28. On which island was the TV series Bergerac set?

    Jersey
29. Who had the fastest selling debut single in UK pop chart history?

    Will Young
30. Which awards were first presented in 1929?

    The Oscars