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Entertainment Quiz #455

Film, Arts, Music & Entertainment Quiz for 5 October 2017

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Q1. The hero of which film starring Alec Guinness was a mousy bank clerk with steel-rimmed glasses and bowler hat who devised a plan to smuggle gold bars out of England disguised as small souvenir replicas of the Eiffel Tower?

A
Kind Hearts and Coronets
B
The Lavender Hill Mob
C
A Run For Your Money
D
The Lady Killers
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Q2. Which film from 1942 contains the lines "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world she walks into mine" and "Here's looking at you, kid"?

A
Casablanca
B
Mrs Miniver
C
The Thirty-Nine Steps
D
As Time Goes By
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Q3. Who wrote the 19th century "Castle of Otranto", seen as the first gothic horror novel?

A
Edgar Allan Poe
B
Ann Radcliffe
C
Horace Walpole
D
Mary Shelley
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Q4. Who "packed her trunk and said goodbye to the circus"?

A
Nellie the Elephant
B
Horton the Elephant
C
Lumpy the Heffalump
D
Babar the Elephant
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Q5. "The Warden", "Barchester Towers", "Dr Thorne", "Framley Parsonage", "The Small House of Allington" and "Last Chronicle of Barset" are collectively known as what?

A
The Trollope Chronicles
B
The Barsetshire Novels
C
Books of the Dead
D
The Harry Palmer Mysteries
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Q6. Which British TV series, of a total of 82 episodes between 1991 and the end of 1997, was set variously in the UK, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Germany, Cyprus, Australia and South Africa?

A
Soldier Soldier
B
The Life of Birds
C
Challenge Anneka
D
After Dark
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Q7. "Le Chanson de Roland" sings of a Frankish knight fighting under the command of the ruler commonly known under which name?

A
Vercingétorix
B
Clovis
C
Ferdinand and Isabella
D
Charlemagne
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