Art:
Where is this building?
In Paris; it's the Centre Pompidou
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Music:
Who is this man?
The great Ray Davies, of the Kinks.
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Music:
Name three operas written
in the 20th century.
Ms Miku's answers:
Amahl and the Night Visitors; Menotti
(of Dr. Who fame!)
Nixon in China; Adams
(the only one we knew ourselves!)
Streetcar named Desire: Previn
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Music:
Who is this man?
This is Miles Davis
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Literature:
Identify the novel featuring this plot. A man gets drunk and sells his wife.
Repenting the next day, he vows to give up alcohol. He grows richer and
richer, eventually reaching high public office. His wife returns. He starts
drinking again and eventually dies in miserable poverty. Name the novel,
first published in 1886, in which these events occur.
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy.
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Sports:
Who is this?
Robert Jones, what a man.
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Literature:
Identify this poem: Couple passionately in love are engaged to be married.
Rich, eccentric bridegroom in his haste to consummate nuptials locates (highly)
unorthodox wedding ring.
now, don't get mad:
The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear.
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Sports:
What was the last horse to win the triple crown, and in what year did this
occur?
Affirmed, in 1978.
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Art:
Who is this?
Storm, an X-man
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Art:
This consummate art forger was immortalized on film by an Oscar-winning
director.
Elmyr de Hory is the subject of
the excellent film,
F for Fake
by Orson Welles.
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Art:
Who painted this, and what is it called?
Henri Matisse: La Danse
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Philosophy:
"There is no difference between something
that exists but is not observable and something that doesn't exist at all."
Of what philosophical doctrine is this a statement?
Logical positivism
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Fashion:
Hottest Indian
guy ever; famous for particular
article of wearing apparel.
Pandit J. Nehru
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Science:
What member of the
bear family has a thumb that isn't really
a thumb?
The Panda. Evidently there are some
who claim that Pandas are not bears, but
rather, raccoons (please!)
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Science: Who is this man?
Richard Feynman, what a man.
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Fashion:
Who designed this?
Charles Worth
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What French champagne is named
after a woman? (Not the one pictured!)
Veuve Clicquot
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Movies:
What movie won the Academy Award for Best
Picture in 1954? In what more recent movie was this very question centrally
featured?
Marty
won for 1954;
the question is featured in
the fantastic movie,
Quiz Show.
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Movies:
A coming-of-age movie from 1973 featuring Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard,
Harrison Ford and Suzanne Somers. What is the title?
American Graffiti
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Fashion:
What are these?
Spats!
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Culture:
A piece of 20th century ballet music
A high-altitude ruminant
A Parisian nightspot favored in the 1920s
by such luminaries as Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso and Man Ray
What is it?
Le Boeuf sur le Toit
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