Questions by pjh2

Pub quiz question 3256 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which of the three Tenors set up his own international competition for young singers in 1982?
Answer: A: Luciano Pavarotti
Categories: 1980s (7) Music (7) Art (7)

Pub quiz question 3255 by pjh2

Question: Q: What nationality was Pablo Picasso?
Answer: A: Spanish
Categories: Geography (7) People (7) Art (7)

Pub quiz question 3254 by pjh2

Question: Q: What period preceded Picasso's Rose Period?
Answer: A: Blue Period
Categories: Art (1) History (1)

Pub quiz question 3253 by pjh2

Question: Q: What war saw the bombing of Guernica which inspired one of Picasso's most moving paintings?
Answer: A: Spanish Civil War
Categories: Military (4) Art (4)

Pub quiz question 3252 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who founded the cubism movement with George Braque?
Answer: A: Pablo Picasso
Categories: History (5) Art (5)

Pub quiz question 3251 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who remarked when Gertrude Stein complained she didn't look like a portrait he'd painted: 'You will Gertrude, you will?'
Answer: A: Pablo Picasso
Categories: Quotations (4) Art (4) People (4)

Pub quiz question 3250 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Wings album includes the song 'Picasso's Last Words (Drink to me?)'
Answer: A: Band on the Run
Categories: Music (7) Entertainment (7) Art (7)

Pub quiz question 3249 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Dandy comic title character lives in Cactusville?
Answer: A: Desperate Dan
Categories: Cartoons (1) Children (1) Literature (1)

Pub quiz question 3248 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which skinny Dandy character peered through holes in doors?
Answer: A: Keyhole Kate
Categories: Cartoons (2) Children (2) Literature (2)

Pub quiz question 3247 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which gang from the English/Scottish border village of Crosspatch competed with the Geordies in The Dandy comic?
Answer: A: The Jocks
Categories: Cartoons (4) Literature (4) Children (4)

Pub quiz question 3246 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was the longest running comic in the UK at the start of the 21st century?
Answer: A: The Dandy
Categories: Cartoons (5) Children (5) Literature (5)

Pub quiz question 3245 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Dandy comic character is the subject of an eight-foot statue in Dundee?
Answer: A: Desperate Dan
Categories: Literature (6) Landmarks (7) Children (6) Cartoons (7)

Pub quiz question 3244 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which former Topper front page girl transferred to The Dandy in 1993?
Answer: A: Beryl the Peril
Categories: Literature (7) Cartoons (6) Children (6) 1990s (7)

Pub quiz question 3243 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which 1940 Disney film is a collection of animated impressions of classical music?
Answer: A: Fantasia
Categories: 1940s (1) Music (1) Entertainment (1) Film/Movies (1)

Pub quiz question 3242 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who filled the rôle of the Sorcerer's Apprentice in Fantasia?
Answer: A: Mickey Mouse
Notes: *: 1940
Categories: 1940s (2) Entertainment (2) Film/Movies (2) Music (2)

Pub quiz question 3241 by pjh2

Question: Q: What kind of creature is the ballet dancing Hyacinth in Fantasia?
Answer: A: Hippopotamus
Notes: *: 1940
Categories: 1940s (4) Entertainment (4) Music (4) Film/Movies (4)

Pub quiz question 3240 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Disney musical movie was the first to be shown to large public audiences with stereophonic sound?
Answer: A: Fantasia
Notes: *: 1940
Categories: 1940s (5) Entertainment (5) Music (5) Film/Movies (4)

Pub quiz question 3239 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra and shook hands with Mickey Mouse in Fantasia?
Answer: A: Leopold Stokowski
Notes: *: 1940s
Categories: Art (7) Music (7) Literature (7) Film/Movies (7) Entertainment (7)

Pub quiz question 3238 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which composer of the Rite of Spring was still alive to see his music used in Disney's Fantasia?
Answer: A: Igor Stravinsky
Notes: *: 1940
Categories: Music (8) Entertainment (8) Film/Movies (8)

Pub quiz question 3237 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who is the fourth main character along with Toad, Badger and Mole in Toad of Toad Hall?
Answer: A: Ratty
Categories: Literature (1) Children (1) Art (1)

Pub quiz question 3236 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Kenneth Graham book was dramatised as Toad of Toad Hall?
Answer: A: Wind in the Willows
Notes: *: By AA Milne
Categories: Children (1) Literature (1) Art (1)

Pub quiz question 3235 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who is the richest character in Wind in the Willows?
Answer: A: Mr Toad
Categories: Literature (2) Children (2)

Pub quiz question 3234 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which rock band's début album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn was named after a chapter title from Wind in Willows?
Answer: A: Pink Floyd's
Notes: *: Chapter seven
Categories: Entertainment (5) Music (5) Art (5) Literature (5) Children (5)

Pub quiz question 3233 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who is overawed by the hustle and bustle of riverside live when he is the first character introduced to readers of Wind in the Willows?
Answer: A: Mole
Categories: Literature (5) Children (5)

Pub quiz question 3232 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Wind in the Willows character 'simply hates society?'
Answer: A: Badger
Categories: Literature (7) Children (7)