Entertainment Quiz #736
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Q1. Playing a scenario close to the rise and assassination of real-life 1930s Louisiana Governor, Huey Long, the film won three Oscars (Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Picture) and was nominated for four more. Which was it?
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Q2. Which of these is an American situation comedy, originally airing from 1963 to 1970, that was set in the Shady Rest Hotel just outside Hooterville on the train line of the C. & F.W. Railroad?
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Q3. In 1898, 14 years before the Titanic sank, novelist Morgan Robertson published "Futility", a short novel about an enormous British passenger liner, which, thought to be unsinkable, carries insufficient lifeboats and on a voyage in April, hits an iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic with the loss of almost everyone on board. What was the name of the ship in this story?
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Q4. What 2009 science fiction disaster film starring John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, and Woody Harrelson references Mayanism and the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, depicting a series of "Doomsday" scenarios that plunge the world into chaos?
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Q5. Billy Bob Thornton won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for which film?
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Q6. Which of these is a Walt Disney film released in 1940 that features 8 segments set to classical music?
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Q7. What band's lead singer is known as "Suggs"?
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