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FRONT ROW'S ARTS QUIZ
WINNER
The winner to our fiendishly difficult arts quiz is Iain Bain who wins a £50 token. Congratulations.
THE QUIZ AND ANSWERS
1. What connects the three Baroque composers Scarlatti, JS Bach and Handel ?
Answer: They were all born in the same year.
2. Which was the first film shown as an in-flight movie?
Answer: The Lost World
3. What is the sum of Picasso's wives and Matisse's children ?
Answer: 5. Two wives and three children.
4. What 'f' word links Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Chandler and Milan Kundera ?
Answer: Farewell. Milan Kundera - The Farewell Party. Raymond Chandler - Farewell, My Lovely. Ernest Hemingway - Farewell To Arms
5. What number connects Enid Blyton to Brad Pitt and British psychedelic band Hawkwind?
Answer: Seven
(Secret Seven, the film Seven, and Hawkwind's song Seven by Seven from their mighty 'Space Ritual' album
6. Add together James Ellroy's 'Dahlia', a merry operatic star, and The Who's Boris to find a feared predator.
Answer: Black (Dahlia), (Merry) Widow), (Boris the Spider) = Black Widow Spider.
7. How did three out of seven come to go on hands and knees for Tom, Dick and Harry ?
Answer: The Great Escape.
Charles Bronson, James Coburn and Steve McQueen three of the stars of John Sturges¹s The Magnificent Seven (1960) - were among the prisoners-of-war in The Great Escape (1963) who got away from Stalag Luft North. The tunnels they dug were designated Tom, Dick and Harry, and it was Harry through which they made their way to freedom.
8. What elusive plant links John O¹Gaunt¹s dying speech in Richard II, Rupert Brooke¹s Grantchester and a fatal flight out of Lisbon?
Answer: The Pimpernel.
Leslie Howard recites part of John O¹Gaunt¹s speech in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) and quotes from Grantchester in Pimpernel Smith (1941. He died in a passenger plane shot down by the Luftwaffe in a flight from Lisbon in 1943, probably because Winston Churchill was thought to be abroad, but possibly because Josef Goebbels wanted to silence this effective anti-Nazi propagandist.
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