Art & Literature pub quiz questions

1. Which stage musical was forced to close in 1973 when the roof of the Shaftesbury Theatre in London collapsed?

   Hair

2. According To George Orwell, Who Is Watching Us?

   Big Brother

3. Who Is Novelist Helen Fieldings Most Famous Character?

   Bridget Jones

4. How Many Holes Are There On A Traditional Artists Pallette?

   One

5. In the opening scene of which Shakespeare play does Hermia refuse to marry Demetrius, who her father has chosen for her, because she wishes to marry Lysander?

   A Midsummer Night's Dream

6. Which Fictional Detective Lived At Whitehaven Mansions?

   Hercule Poirot

7. What is the name of Claudio's sister in the Shakespeare play 'Measure For Measure'?

   Isabella

8. Which Character Created By Dodie Smith Drove A Black & White Car & Wore A Black & White Fur Coat?

   Cruella De Vil

9. At which railway station does Harry Potter catch the Hogwart's Express at platform 9 and 3 quarters?

   King's Cross

10. Which English playwright was the first person to use the word 'bloody' over the air at the BBC in his song 'Let's Not Be Beastly to the Germans'?

    Noel Coward

11. Which Literary Characters Set Out On A Journey From The Tabard Inn, Southwark?

    The Pilgrims In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

12. In the Shakespeare play 'Othello', what was Othello's first gift to Desdemona?

    A handkerchief

13. What is the first name of Gatsby in the novel 'The Great Gatsby' by F Scott Fitzgerald?

    Jay

14. Who are Vladimir and Estragon waiting for in a 1950's play by Samuel Beckett?

    Godot

15. In the Shakespeare play 'Hamlet' the skull of which character is held by Hamlet?

    Yorick

16. On his deathbed, which playwright was quoted as saying 'My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go'?

    Oscar Wilde

17. Which Character Is The Most Famous Creation Of James Matthew Barrie?

    Peter Pan

18. The plot of Robert Greene's prose romance 'Pandosto: The Triumph of Time' is said to be the inspiration for which Shakespeare play?

    The Winter's Tale

19. The residents of which German town put on a world-famous Passion Play every ten years?

    Oberammergau

20. What is the name of the drunken tinker in and for who the play 'The Taming of the Shrew', by William Shakespeare, is performed?

    Christopher Sly

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