Quiz Quiz Bang Bang » question of the day http://www.quizquizbangbang.com a trivia foundry & quiz studio run by James Callan Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:55:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Question of the day for March 9, 2010 (literature) http://www.quizquizbangbang.com/2010/03/09/question-of-the-day-for-march-9-2010-literature/ http://www.quizquizbangbang.com/2010/03/09/question-of-the-day-for-march-9-2010-literature/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:55:21 +0000 James Callan http://www.quizquizbangbang.com/?p=1501

What Pulitzer-Prize-winning work was released in two volumes called “My Father Bleeds History” and “And Here My Troubles Began”?

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You’ve probably heard that Midnight Cowboy is the only film rated X to win the Oscar for Best Picture. One year earlier, what musical became the only G-rated film to win Best Picture?

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The show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is named for a Cole Porter song that debuted in what movie musical?

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Kazuo Sakamaki was captured during the attack on Pearl Harbor, becoming the first Japanese POW of WWII captured by American forces. What did he attack Pearl Harbor with?

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Who was shot because he misplaced a script for the play Up Your Ass?

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The people who built it called it the “anti-fascist protection wall.” How is it better known to us?

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Who was the first film critic to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?

(Hint: They were also the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.)

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“R U 18-23 with the ability to sing/dance? R U streetwise, ambitious, outgoing and determined?”

Five people who responded to that ad in the British tabloid The Stage went on to form what musical group?

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The slogan “Au H2O” was a political slogan for what presidential candidate?

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What literary antihero was born Prince Dakkar in Bundelkhand, India, before losing his family and his kingdom and taking on a new identity?

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