Questions by pjh2

Pub quiz question 4615 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the name of the chubby diva in the musical Fame?
Answer: A: Mabel Washington
Categories: Art (7) Music (7) Entertainment (7)

Pub quiz question 4614 by pjh2

Question: Q: What sport most frequently featured in Degas' paintings?
Answer: A: Horseracing
Categories: Sports (7) Art (4)

Pub quiz question 4613 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which city's name was included in the tile of The Guardian until 1959?
Answer: A: Manchester
Categories: Geography (3) Media (3) 1950s (3)

Pub quiz question 4612 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which musical is set at the New York High School for the Performing Arts?
Answer: A: Fame
Categories: Music (2) Art (2) Entertainment (2)

Pub quiz question 4611 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which musical's songs include 'I Want to Make Magic' and 'Tyrone's Rap?'
Answer: A: Fame's
Categories: Music (3) Art (3) Entertainment (3)

Pub quiz question 4610 by pjh2

Question: Q: What subject does Miss Sherman teach in the musical Fame?
Answer: A: English
Categories: Art (5) Music (5) Entertainment (5)

Pub quiz question 4609 by pjh2

Question: Q: What musical instrument does Goody King play in the musical 'Fame?'
Answer: A: Saxophone
Categories: Music (6) Art (6) Entertainment (6)

Pub quiz question 4608 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which ballet term translates literally as 'in Arabic fashion?'
Answer: A: Arabesque
Categories: Language (5) Art (5)

Pub quiz question 4607 by pjh2

Question: Q: What actress are we advised to think of in the title of a song from the musical Fame?
Answer: A: Meryl Streep
Categories: Music (5) Entertainment (5)

Pub quiz question 4606 by pjh2

Question: Q: How many people dance a pas de deux?
Answer: A: Two
Categories: Entertainment (3) Art (3)

Pub quiz question 4605 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was Tchaikovsky's first ballet?
Answer: A: Swan Lake
Categories: Art (5) Entertainment (5)

Pub quiz question 4604 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Plymouth-born ballet star danced with Princess Diana and appeared in 'I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here?'
Answer: A: Wayne Sleep.
Categories: Art (3) Royalty (3) Entertainment (3)

Pub quiz question 4603 by pjh2

Question: Q: What boogie piano hit by B Bumble and the Stingrs was based on the Marche from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker?
Answer: A: Nut Rocker
Categories: Art (6) Music (6) Entertainment (6)

Pub quiz question 4602 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which ballet star, who was born on a train travelling across Siberia, defected to the West at Paris Airport in 1961?
Answer: A: Rudolf Neuyev
Categories: Art (7) 1960s (7) Entertainment (7)

Pub quiz question 4601 by pjh2

Question: Q: What form of theatre was the subject of many of Degas' paintings?
Answer: A: Ballet
Categories: Art (3)

Pub quiz question 4600 by pjh2

Question: Q: What style of painting are Cézanne, Degas, Manet and Money all linked with?
Answer: A: Impressionism
Categories: Art (4)

Pub quiz question 4599 by pjh2

Question: Q: Whose 'Luncheon of the Boating Party' prints and posters hung in millions of homes in the 1980s?
Answer: A: Pierre-Auguste Renoir's
Categories: Art (5)

Pub quiz question 4598 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the English title of the Manet painting depicting a nude woman enjoying a picnic with two clothed men?
Answer: A: The Luncheon on the Grass
Categories: Art (5)

Pub quiz question 4597 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was England's biggest-selling daily newspaper at the start of the 21st century?
Answer: A: The Sun
Categories: Media (3)

Pub quiz question 4596 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which artist is known as the Father of Impressionism?
Answer: A: Camille Pissarro
Notes: *: It's somewhat up for debate whether this title should go to Claude Monet and/or Édouard Manet instead.
Categories: Art (5)

Pub quiz question 4595 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which UK national newspaper's 2004 readership was, according to a MORI poll, 61% Tory compared with a national average of 31%?
Answer: A: The Daily Telegraph's
Categories: Politics (5) Media (5) 2000s (5)

Pub quiz question 4594 by pjh2

Question: Q: What, along with the Daily Telegraph, was one of Britain's only two remaining national broadsheet dailies at the start of 2006?
Answer: A: The Financial Times
Categories: Media (4) 2000s (4)

Pub quiz question 4593 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was the first national British newspaper to be printed in the Berliner size?
Answer: A: The Guardian
Notes: *: 12 September 2005
Categories: 2000s (6) Media (6)

Pub quiz question 4592 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which UK national newspaper's apparent obsession with 'the conspiracy theory' included a week in 2006 when Princess Diana featured daily on the front page, 9 years after her death?
Answer: A: The Daily Express
Categories: Media (4) 1990s (4) 2000s (4) Royalty (4)

Pub quiz question 4591 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which artist's painting of 'The Hay Wain' is a top-selling postcard at the National Gallery?
Answer: A: John Constable
Categories: Art (2)