Continuous Quiz: High Brow
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Pirates of Penzance. Sung by the "heroic" police force who had probably just heard their pensions were going to be cut.
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It was the first great canonical opera to premiere in the US. Within 5 years it had been adapted as a (silent!) Hollywood movie. Which recent centenarian opera?
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I'm going to try Il Fianculla del West.
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Good man Neil that's the one (based on play/novel by David Belasco). Sorry I seem to have jumped the gun on this thread (it was already your go!) but I now hand over to you in all humility.
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"On the second day, a sail drew near, nearer, and picked me up at last. It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan"
are the last words of which novel?
are the last words of which novel?
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Is this Moby Dick?
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Correct!
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Which writer's works include Why Orwell Matters, Letters to a Young Contrarian and God Is Not Great?
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That sounds like the recently departed Christopher Hitchens.
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It is Christopher Hitchens
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