Questions by pjh2

Pub quiz question 3240 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which Disney musical movie was the first to be shown to large public audiences with stereophonic sound?
  2. Answer: A: Fantasia
  3. Notes: *: 1940
  4. Categories: 1940s (5) Entertainment (5) Music (5) Film/Movies (4)
Pub quiz question 3239 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Who conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra and shook hands with Mickey Mouse in Fantasia?
  2. Answer: A: Leopold Stokowski
  3. Notes: *: 1940s
  4. Categories: Art (7) Music (7) Literature (7) Film/Movies (7) Entertainment (7)
Pub quiz question 3238 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which composer of the Rite of Spring was still alive to see his music used in Disney's Fantasia?
  2. Answer: A: Igor Stravinsky
  3. Notes: *: 1940
  4. Categories: Music (8) Entertainment (8) Film/Movies (8)
Pub quiz question 3237 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Who is the fourth main character along with Toad, Badger and Mole in Toad of Toad Hall?
  2. Answer: A: Ratty
  3. Categories: Literature (1) Children (1) Art (1)
Pub quiz question 3236 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which Kenneth Graham book was dramatised as Toad of Toad Hall?
  2. Answer: A: Wind in the Willows
  3. Notes: *: By AA Milne
  4. Categories: Children (1) Literature (1) Art (1)
Pub quiz question 3235 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Who is the richest character in Wind in the Willows?
  2. Answer: A: Mr Toad
  3. Categories: Literature (2) Children (2)
Pub quiz question 3234 by pjh2
  1. 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?
  2. Answer: A: Pink Floyd's
  3. Notes: *: Chapter seven
  4. Categories: Entertainment (5) Music (5) Art (5) Literature (5) Children (5)
Pub quiz question 3233 by pjh2
  1. 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?
  2. Answer: A: Mole
  3. Categories: Literature (5) Children (5)
Pub quiz question 3232 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which Wind in the Willows character 'simply hates society?'
  2. Answer: A: Badger
  3. Categories: Literature (7) Children (7)
Pub quiz question 3231 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Who wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
  2. Answer: A: Roald Dalh
  3. Categories: Children (1) Literature (1)
Pub quiz question 3230 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which Roald Dahl duo are cruel to animals until the Roly-Poly bird arrives from Africa to help the monkeys get revenge?
  2. Answer: A: The Twins
  3. Categories: Children (2) Literature (2)
Pub quiz question 3229 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which model was the inspiration for the helpmate character in Roald Dahl's The Big Friendly Giant?
  2. Answer: A: Sophie Dahl
  3. Categories: People (3) Literature (3) Children (3)
Pub quiz question 3228 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What nationality was Roald Dahl?
  2. Answer: A: Welsh
  3. Categories: People (4) Geography (4) Literature (4)
Pub quiz question 3227 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What book about little creatures was Roald Dahl's first work for Children?
  2. Answer: A: The Gremlins
  3. Categories: Children (5) Literature (5)
Pub quiz question 3226 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which children's author wrote screenplays for the films You Only Live Twice and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
  2. Answer: A: Roald Dahl
  3. Categories: People (5) Film/Movies (5) Entertainment (5)
Pub quiz question 3225 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What does the J stand for in JS Bach?
  2. Answer: A: Johann
  3. Categories: People (4) Music (4)
Pub quiz question 3224 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What nationality was JS Bach?
  2. Answer: A: German
  3. Categories: Geography (4) Music (4)
Pub quiz question 3223 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Who composed the Brandenburg Concertos?
  2. Answer: A: JS Bach
  3. Categories: People (5) Music (5)
Pub quiz question 3222 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which piece of music by Bach is associated with the slogan 'Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet?'
  2. Answer: A: Air on a G String
  3. Categories: Advertising (5) Music (5)
Pub quiz question 3221 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Who's Coffee Cantata concerns a girl who's father demands she loses her addiction to coffee before she can marry?
  2. Answer: A: JS Bach's
  3. Categories: Music (5) Entertainment (5)
Pub quiz question 3220 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What middle of the road singing group popularised the music of Bach in the 1960's and 1970's?
  2. Answer: A: The Swingle Sisters
  3. Categories: Music (7) Entertainment (7)
Pub quiz question 3219 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What musical claims to be 'Lovingly ripped off from the motion picture Monty Pythin and the Holy Grail?
  2. Answer: A: Spamalot
  3. Categories: Entertainment (2) Literature (2) Music (2)
Pub quiz question 3218 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which king plays a major rôle in Spamalot?
  2. Answer: A: King Arthur
  3. Categories: Literature (3) Entertainment (3) Music (3)
Pub quiz question 3217 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which former member of the Monty Python team wrote the lyrics for the musical Spamalot?
  2. Answer: A: Eric Idle
  3. Categories: Entertainment (5) Literature (5) Music (5)
Pub quiz question 3216 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which major character n the musical Spamalot is described as 'Homicidally brave and a near psychopathic knight with a difference?'
  2. Answer: A: Sir Lancelot
  3. Categories: Entertainment (5) Literature (5) Music (5)
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