Which jazz drummer was nicknamed “Papa Jo”?
Answer
Jo Jones
83042 Easy Trivia Questions
83042 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which jazz trumpeter composed “A Night in Tunisia”?
Answer
Dizzy Gillespie
Which Puccini opera includes the aria “O mio babbino caro”?
Answer
Gianni Schicchi
Which Handel opera tells the story of Julius Caesar’s campaign in Egypt?
Answer
Giulio Cesare
Which opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart features the clever servant Figaro and his fiancée Susanna?
Answer
The Marriage of Figaro
What nickname is commonly given to Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6?
Answer
Pastoral Symphony
Which composer wrote Symphony No. 3, nicknamed “Eroica,” first performed publicly in Vienna in 1805?
Answer
Ludwig van Beethoven
Which composer wrote the Symphony No. 8 known as the Unfinished Symphony?
Answer
Franz Schubert
Which composer wrote the “Funeral March” in Piano Sonata No. 2?
Answer
Frédéric Chopin
Which composer wrote the orchestral suites known as Water Music?
Answer
George Frideric Handel
Which composer wrote the ballet The Nutcracker, first performed in Saint Petersburg in 1892?
Answer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Which composer wrote the oratorio Messiah, first performed in Dublin in 1742?
Answer
George Frideric Handel
Which composer wrote the six Brandenburg Concertos, presented to Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg?
Answer
Johann Sebastian Bach
In Inception (2010), which actor plays extraction specialist Dom Cobb?
Answer
Leonardo DiCaprio
In Sexy Beast (2000), which actor plays the intimidating criminal Don Logan?
Answer
Ben Kingsley
In The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), which actor plays bank clerk Henry Holland?
Answer
Alec Guinness
In Thief (1981), which filmmaker wrote and directed the crime film?
Answer
Michael Mann
In Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, what subtitle follows the main title?
Answer
Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Which city is the main setting of Stanley Kubrick’s Killer’s Kiss?
Answer
New York City
Who wrote the novel A Clockwork Orange, adapted by Stanley Kubrick into his 1971 film?
Answer
Anthony Burgess
What was the name of Stanley Kubrick’s final completed film?
Answer
Eyes Wide Shut
In the 1984 film Gremlins, what feeding rule applies to a Mogwai?
Answer
Never feed it after midnight
In the 1996 film Jingle All the Way, what is the name of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character?
Answer
Howard Langston
In the 1988 film Scrooged, what is the name of Bill Murray’s character?
Answer
Frank Cross
Who directed the 1990 Christmas comedy Home Alone?
Answer
Chris Columbus
What is the name of the floating mountain range in James Cameron’s Avatar?
Answer
Hallelujah Mountains
In Peter Jackson’s King Kong (2005), what is the name of the skyscraper where Kong makes his final stand?
Answer
Empire State Building
Which Peter Jackson film was the first of his Middle-earth movies to be released?
Answer
The Fellowship of the Ring
What is the title of Peter Jackson’s 1996 supernatural comedy starring Michael J. Fox?
Answer
The Frighteners