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E: 03/01 FT Christmas Challenge (help needed)
edda
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Much help needed on the annual arts quiz:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/eba968fe-0d50-11e0-82ff-00144feabdc0,dwp_uuid=20c8b358-0f51-11e0-b336-00144feabdc0.html#axzz19OfwjFIF
The prize is a pair of Lindberg glasses (?) and a pair of sunglasses.
(I've assumed the closing date is 3rd January - the page lists both the 3rd and the 4th as the closing date)
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/eba968fe-0d50-11e0-82ff-00144feabdc0,dwp_uuid=20c8b358-0f51-11e0-b336-00144feabdc0.html#axzz19OfwjFIF
The prize is a pair of Lindberg glasses (?) and a pair of sunglasses.
(I've assumed the closing date is 3rd January - the page lists both the 3rd and the 4th as the closing date)
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1. Northwest Passage
2. William Shakespeare
3. a Sam Cooke ; b Mark Rothko ; c Fela Kuti ; d Judy Garland
4. Metropolitan Opera, New York
5. Bridget Riley
6. Lindsay Lohan
7. Sylvester Stallone
8. (i) Keith Richards; (ii) Tony Blair ; (iii) Mark Twain
9. Klingon
10. Serge & Charlotte Gainsbourg
11. a Centre Pompidou-Metz, Paris; b San Carlo Theatre, Napoli; c Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
12. Susan Boyle
13. Silvio Berlusconi
14. Caravaggio
15. The Smiths; David Cameron
16. 16b is the fake
17. All took place posthumously
18. Astana, Kazakhstan
19. 19b Catherine Zeta Jones
20. Death In Venice
21. The Hobbit (2 parts)
22. a $10.3m; b $69.5m; c $95m
23. 22b was found in an attic; 22a was fictionalised in the novel
24. Anton Chekhov & Leo Tolstoy
25. Claude Monet
26. Gustav Mahler
27. a Ashton Kucher (ii); b Oprah Winfrey (iii); c Britney Spears (i)
28. A Streetcar Named Desire
29. The Duke of Edinburgh
30. Anish Kapoor
31. Public were banned from interacting with it for health and safety reasons - the exhibition was creating too much dust; Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
32. Franco's Spain
33. Republic of Ireland
34. MGM & EMI
35. Avatar
36. Julian Assange
37. First time a female playwright's play has been staged
38. a Rush Limbaugh; b Eminem; c Lady Gaga; d Elton John - What is the link?
39. Spider-Man
40. Germany0 -
Q22 is in three parts:
22a
22b - answer (ii) £69.5m
22c
Sorry I don't know the othersThrifty Till 50 Then Spend Till the End
You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time but you can never please all of the people all of the time0 -
36. Julian AssangeThrifty Till 50 Then Spend Till the End
You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time but you can never please all of the people all of the time0 -
8i. Keith RichardsSome days you're the dog..... most days you're the tree!
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Q5 - Bridget Riley (http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/nov/21/bridget-riley-national-gallery-review)
Q11a -
11b - San Carlo Theatre, Napoli (http://www.andreas-praefcke.de/carthalia/italy/i_napoli_sancarlo.htm)
11c - Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon (http://www.urbanrealm.co.uk/news/2622/_Royal_Shakespeare_Theatre_gears_up_for_debut_performance.html)0 -
No 16 I'd say 16b is the fake
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/nov/16/jesuit-priest-forger-museums"Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into someone else's nonsense, tell yourself: Not my circus, not my monkeys." - Mark Borkowski.
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No 40 ....I think the answer's Germany ( the sketch is called Dinner for one )"Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into someone else's nonsense, tell yourself: Not my circus, not my monkeys." - Mark Borkowski.
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Q13 - Silvio Berlusconi (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/nov/22/silvio-berlusconi-penis-statue)0
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Q16 - I agree b is the fake (http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/nov/16/jesuit-priest-forger-museums)0
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No 33 ... I think it's ROI
If someone else could check my answers I'd be grateful"Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into someone else's nonsense, tell yourself: Not my circus, not my monkeys." - Mark Borkowski.
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