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 PPA subjects only. Find the right answer(multiple choice) and then you ask a question (multiple too
The Greek play "The Frogs" is written by:
A) Aeschylus
B) Sophocles
C) Euripides
D)Aristophanes
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Aristophanes
On Shakespeare "Hamlet", our tragic heroe had a loyal friend named:
A) Laertes
B) Horatio
C) Rosencrantz
D) Guidenstern
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Horatio
"In the midst of all,dwells the sun."
This famous quote is from this great Scientist:
A) Galileo
B) Kepler
C) Copernicus
D) Newton
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Copernicus
Which one of these Aeschylus plays is not part of the Oresteia?
A) The Eumenides
B) The Suppliants
C) The Libation Bearers
D) Agamemnon
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The Suppliants
The Donatello's figure of David is one of the most important sculptures of the:
A) Early Renaissance
B) Middle Renaissance
C) Late Renaissance
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Early
Heracles is not related to:
A) Iphicles
B) Alcmene
C) Eurydice
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Eurydice
On Alexander Dumas "The Three Musketeers"; one of them was a musketeer who plans to enter the priesthood as soon as the queen provides France with an heir to the throne.
His name was:
A) D'Artagnan
B) Athos
C) Aramis
D) Porthos
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Aramis
They fought a revolution together; they were political figures, they exchanged correspondence until their final days of their lives. They both died on the same day.
A) MacArthur-Eisenhower
B) Hamilton-Franklin
C) Franklin-Adams
D) Adams-Jefferson
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D) Adams-Jefferson
"Cogito ergo sum". These famous Latin words (I think Therefore I am), were said by this famous Philosopher:
A) Descartes
B) Nietzsche
C) Hegel
D) Socrates
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A) Descartes
He defended and attacked his accusers during the trial; he was charged by corrupting the youth; he was the wisest man in his beloved city and he drank the hemlock to end his life.
A) Aristotle
B) St. Augustine
C) Plato
D) Socrates
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A) Socrates
"Labyrinths" is a collection of short stories, written by:
A) Borges
B) Fuentes
C) Fitzgerald
D) Woolf
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cascadejames
25-Apr-09, 22:58
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A)Borges
Thomas Jefferson was nearly defeated in his bid for the Presidency of the US in 1800 by:
A) John Adams
B) Alexander Hamilton
C) Aaron Burr
D) Samuel Adams
And by the way rilke, if one brings up the coincidence of Adams and Jefferson dying on the same day, there
is a tradition requiring you to point out that the date of their deaths was July 4, 1826, 50 years to the day
after the traditional date of the Declaration of Independence. Also one must quote Adams' final words,
"Thomas Jefferson survives."-- and then disclose the irony that Adams was mistaken, since Jefferson had
died earlier the same day.
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C) Burr
Friar John is character of one Shakespeare great plays.
A) The Merchant of Venice
B) Hamlet
C) King Lear
D) Henry The V
E) Romeo and Juliet
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E) Romeo and Juliet
" I am the resurrection and the life, he who believes in me, though he die yet shall he live, and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die."
These profound words are said by:
A) Buddha
B) Mohammed
c) Jesus
D) Gandhi
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cascadejames
17-May-09, 00:18
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c) Jesus
"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind;
and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
it tolls for thee. "
From:
a) The Bible
b) William Shakespeare
c) John Donne
d) Ernest Hemingway
e) Trick question
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C) John Donne
It was a very tricky one. My first assumption was Hemingway, because of the words "for whome the bells toll".
Nice one James !
It is a black and white film. It is the time of the union workers fighting against their bosses.The Mob is involved. This famous film takes place in New York City. Our lonely and sad heroe used to be a boxer. This Marlon Brando's movie is:
A) The Godfather
B) On the Waterfront
C) Sayonara
D) A street Car Named Desire
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B) On The Waterfront
The film won 5 Academy Awards, including best picture !
Garcia Marquez's novel "100 anos de soledad" means:
A) 100 years of sadness
B) 100 years of anguish
C) 100 years of solitude
D) 100 years of tragedy"
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C) 100 years of solitude
On the novel "Crime and Punishment" by Dostoevsky, our tragic hero Raskolonikov is in love with:
A) Sonia
B) Olga
C) Tatiana
D) Lana
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cascadejames
18-Jun-09, 12:46
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A) Sonia
A notorious coffee company was named after a character in:
A) David Copperfield
B) Moby Dick
C) The Return of the Native
D) Tom Jones
E) None of the Above
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A) Sonia
What does the title character in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner hang around his neck?
A) A Compass
B) A Shark's Fang
C) A Dead Albatross
D) A Telescope
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Albatross
"Howl, howl, howl, howl!"
A quotation from which which famous masterpiece?
A) King Oedipus
B) King Lear
C) King Kong
D) King Arthur
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C) A Dead Albatross
He succeeded as King of England, Scotland and Ireland after the execution of his father on January 30,1649.
A) James II
B) Charles II
C) William III
D) George II
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B) King Lear
King Lear. One of my favorites
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The famous oratorio from George Frideric Handel is:
A) Dido and Aeneas
B) Christ lag in Todesbanden
C) La Cerentola
D) The Messiah
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Messiah
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."
WHich Shakespeare play?
a) Romeo & Juliet
b) Midsummer Night's Dream
c) The Tempest
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The Tempest
Great play.
Federico Garcia Lorca's "Bodas de Sangre" has been viewed as a part of a rural trilogy with:
A) Dona Erenderia y 100 de anos de soledad
B) Los Heraldos negros y El Lazarillo de Tormes
C) Yerma y The House of Bernarda Alba
D) Don Quijote de La Mancha y La Casada Infiel
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casa di bernada alba
I was involved in a very *very* poor version of this with a feminist theatre company back in the early 90's. They had decided not to have a 'director' as such , and go for an organic, communal approach to the 'vision' hmmm...
:)
I was on the set build team. We made the set out of masses of skipped wood, which wpuld have been quite good idea, wer it not a real bastard to set up and strike, lol!
ok, who pained this then?
www.1artclub.com
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De Kooning
I am guessing is a De Kooning painting.
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Nice try...
A very famous american abstract artist (& alcoholic), died in the 50's in a car crash (while under the affluence of incohol)
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Sorry, I forgot your options
A) Pollack
B) Warhol
C) Lichtenstein
(the painting, btw is called "Easter and the Totem")
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