Entertainment Quiz #53
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Q1. Which country was the setting for the novels of Nevil Shute?
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Q2. Where did Jonathan Swift set his imaginary island of Lilliput?
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Q3. In the episode of Coronation Street that aired in Britain on 3 March 2008, who pushed Gail Platt down the stairs, leaving her hospitalised and suffering short term amnesia?
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Q4. What was the name given to wandering players in 12th and 13th century France, England and Germany who recited poems of love and wine?
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Q5. In which British sitcom does a draughtsman give up his job to live a self-sufficient lifestyle, planting fruit and vegetables, and running chickens, pigs and a goat in the garden, to the horror of their next-door neighbours?
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Q6. Which of these is a famous aria from Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot that means "None shall sleep"?
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Q7. Which British sculptor and artist of the 20th century, whose work was said to “exemplify Modernism”, was made a Dame in 1965 and died aged 72 in a fire in her studio at St Ives, Cornwall, in 1975?
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