Entertainment

Sample questions from previous Entertainment rounds:

The Entertainment round of consists of 8 questions related to… well anything that can be ambiguously considered, “entertaining”. The Entertainment round covers questions related to movies & tv, music, literature, theatre, gaming, and pop-culture.

Why isn’t sport considered “entertainment”? I don’t know. It just isn’t for pub quiz purposes.

The final question of the Entertainment round is always a lyrics question. The quiz master will read the opening lyrics from a song and you have to let them know the name of the song. The songs used in this question have always charted in the Nederlandse Top 40

Here are a sample of 8 questions from The Wednesday Quiz last season:

Question 1

  • Complete the title of this Stephen King short novel, Rita Hayworth and the…

Question 2

  • Other than Walt Disney, which American actor is the only other person to have been nominated for an Oscar in six different categories? a. Woody Allen b. Tom Hanks c. Robert Redford d. George Clooney

Question 3

  • Who was Arthur Conan Doyle writing about when he said `He is the Napoleon of crime`?

Question 4

  • Desdemona is the wife of which leading character in a Shakespearen play? a. King Lear b. Othello c. Hamlet d. Macbeth

Question 5

  • Millie Bobby Brown is engaged to the 20 year old son of which famous singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor from New Jersey?

Question 6

  • Edith Wharton was the first female to win which literature prize in 1921?

Question 7

  • 'Chairman of the Board' was one of many nicknames given to which singer?

Question 8

  • “Leave my door open just a crack; Please take me away from here; 'Cause I feel like such an insomniac; Please take me away from here; Why do I tire of counting sheep? Please take me away from here, When I'm far too tired to fall asleep” are lyrics from which song that was released in 2009. It reached No. 1 in the Dutch charts

Answers to the sample Entertainment questions:

  • Shawshank Redemption

  • d. George Clooney

    (nominations include: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Adapted Screenplay)

  • Professor Moriarty

  • b. Othello

  • Jon Bon Jovi

  • Pulitzer Prize

    (for fiction; 'The Age of Innocence')

  • Frank Sinatra

  • Owl City - Fireflies