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26/11/2018

Art famous

Each answer is the name of a well-known painting and the surname of the painter.

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Format index

 

1.

Who had a Number One hit on both sides of the Atlantic in 1966 with the song When a Man Loves a Woman?

 

 Percy Sledge

exhibition stands

memory stick

D + Arley Hall

 

 

 

 

 

 The Persistence of Memory 

 Dali

 

2.

In Gustav Holst's Planet Suite which planet is characterised as 'The Bringer of Peace'?

 

Venus from The Planets Suite by Gustav Holst

Frank Leboeuf

Percy Bysshe Shelley

B + (p)otty

 

 

 

 

 

 The Birth of Venus

 Botticelli

 

3.

What music was used as the background for over 30 years to advertise Hamlet cigars?

 

Air on the ‘G’ String

by J S Bach

River Tamar

(Brunel’s bridge at Saltash)

Kung Fu Fighting

by Carl Douglas

actress

Lacey Turner

 

 

 

 

 

 The Fighting Temeraire

 Turner

 

4.

Which well-known singer from the 1980s and 1990s was born with the surname Panayiotou?

 

George Michael

Adam Sandler

 

Angelo Dundee

logo for Creation records

 

 

 

 

 The Creation of Adam

 Michelangelo

 

5.

Following the success of Rhapsody in Blue Gershwin's next major  commission was for a full scale concerto.  Based on his time in Europe during the 1920s what was this piece called?

 

An American in Paris

goths

Woody Guthrie

Graeme Hick

 

 

 

 

 

 American Gothic 

 Wood 

 

6.

Which group had a hit with the song Imitation of Life in 2001?

 

R.E.M.

Jo Brand

BBC TV Watchdog team

Knight Rider

(David Hasselhoff)

 

 

 

 

 The Night Watch 

 Rembrandt 

 

 

7.

Which was Jackie Wilson's first solo record after he left The Dominoes in 1957?  Its success helped the composer (Berry Gordy) found Motown Records.

 

Reet Petite

The Sun

Isle of Man

half of a magpie (i.e. ‘mag’)

 

 

 

 

 

 The Son of Man 

 Magritte 

 

8.

Felix Mendelssohn wrote an Overture and Wedding March to accompany which of Shakespeare's plays?

 

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Coleman Hawkins

(‘The Hawk’) x 2

grasshopper

 

 

 

 

 

 Nighthawks

 Hopper

 

9.

What is the last line of the song that starts with the words:

"When a felon's not engaged in his employment"?

 

"A Policeman’s lot is not a happy one"

(Policeman = Constable)

David Haye

the weigh-in

 

 

 

 

 

 The Hay Wain 

 Constable

 

10.

Many consider River Deep - Mountain High to be the best record ever produced by Phil Spector.  Who had a hit with it in 1966?

 

Ike and Tina Turner

Arnold Ridley

Albert Finney

Van Morrison

portrait

(not landscape)

 

 

 

 

 

 Arnolfini Portrait 

 Van Eyck