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Wednesday 18 January 2017

ART AND MUSIC QUIZ

Hi, 

my intensive course students have made a very challenging art and music quiz in class. We have been practising the passive and art and music vocabulary... Here is the result!! Now it is time for them to participate. The student who gets the right answers first will be awarded with a great prize!! Go and try your answers in the comment section below! Good luck!!

10 comments:

  1. 1. 1984
    2. Hunphrey Bogart
    3. 7
    4. 1990
    5.1875
    6. Agatha Christie
    7. Munch
    8. 1971
    9 Miguel Angel
    10. 1993
    11. Middle Earth
    12. 150 million
    13. George Lucas
    14. In a car, in Las Vegas
    15. The Wachowsky Brother
    16. Liverpool
    17. 1949
    18. 1997
    19. Bonn
    20. 1793 (museum)

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  2. Hi, here are my answers:
    1. 1984
    2. Humphrey Bogart
    3. 7
    4. 1990
    5. March 3, 1875
    6. Agatha Christie
    7. Edvard Munch
    8. 1971
    9. Miguel Angel
    10. 1993
    11. New Zealand
    12. 150 millions
    13. George Lucas
    14. Las Vegas, 1996
    15. Sisters Wachowski
    16. Liverpool
    17. 1947/48
    18. 1997
    19. December 1770
    20. 1793

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  3. Hi Helena.... you can try as many changes as you wish... but the answers that count are the first ones you wrote... otherwise it would be unfair!!
    Sorry!!!

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    1. ah OK! I thought you said we could correct our answers. I was not trying to cheat :)

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  4. Hi everybody! Here you are my answers.
    1. Purple Rain was released on June 25, 1984 by Warner Bros Records.
    2. The main characters in the film "Casablanca" were played by Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henries.
    3 Seven "Harry Potter" books have been written for the series plus two novels more that have been written for adults.
    4.The "Pretty woman" filming commenced on July 24, 1989 and it was completed on October 18, 1989.
    5. The opera "Carmen" was released in Paris in 1875.
    6. The novel "Murder in the Orient Express" was written in 1934 by Agatha Christie.
    7. "The Scream" four versions were created by the Expressionist artist Edvard Munch between 1893 and 1910.
    8. "Imagine" was recorded and released in 1971.
    9. "David" sculpture was created between 1501 and 1504 by Michelangelo.
    10. The film "Schindler's list" was made and directed by Steven Spielberg in 1993.
    11. The film "The Lord of The Rings" was set in New Zealand.
    12. Over 150 million copies of "The Lord of The Rings" have been sold .
    13. The first film "Star Wars" was directed by George Lucas in 1977. The original trilogy from 1977 to 1983 was directed by Lucas, Irvine Kershner and Richard Marquand. After that, there's a prequel that was directed again by George Lucas between 1999 y 2005. J.J. Abrams, Gareth Edwards, Josh Trank y Rian Johnson were chosen by Disney and Lucasfilm to direct the new movies.
    14. On September 7, 1996, American hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur was fatally shot in his car.
    15. The film "Matrix" were directed the Wachowski Sisters.
    16. The Beatles were born in Liverpool. John Lennon was born on October 9, 1940 in the now-closed Maternity Hospital on Oxford Street, adjacent to the University of Liverpool campus. Paul McCartney was born on June 18, 1942 in Walton Hospital, where his mother had worked as a nurse. Walton Hospital is in the northern part of Liverpool not far from Paul's first home at 10 Sunbury Road.George Harrison was born on February 25, 1943 in a tiny "two up, two down" on the Arnold Grove cul-de-sac not far from Penny Lane. Ringo Starr [Richard Starkey] was born on July 7, 1940 on Madryn Street in the "Dingle" area of Liverpool. Both George and Ringo were born at home.
    17. The novel "1984" was written in 1949 by George Orwell.
    18. The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao was opened to the public in 1997.
    19.Ludwig Van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany, on December 16, 1770.
    20. The Louvre was opened as a museum on August 10, 1793.

    See you in class.

    Soni

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  5. Hi!! the three of you have done a great job with the answers!! so congrats!!!!!!

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  6. <3
    Thank you!!!
    It was a very nice gift.

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