quiz 1613 – ballet (QA)

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1	What is the name of Charlie Chaplin's 1952 film about ballet? Stage Fright, Stage, Limelight, Dancing Shoes
2	In which Italian city is the La Scala Theatre Ballet School? Milan, Turin, Rome, Naples
3	In which decade did Igor Stravinsky die? 1970s, 1960s, 1980s, 1950s
4	Who painted the 1912 work Ballet Russes? August Macke, Mary Cassatt, Vincent Van Gogh, Edgar Degas
5	Which of these painters was known for his depictions of ballet scenes? Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Edgar Degas
6	Which of these is a prize awarded in the ballet field? Abel Prize, Orange Prize, Nobel Prize, Prix de Lausanne
7	The Prix de Lausanne takes its name from a town in which country (in ballet)? Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland
8	In which decade was Prix de Lausanne prize first awarded (in ballet)? 1990s, 1970s, 1980s, 1960s
9	What does the term 'en' mean (in ballet)? Down, Up, Out, In
10	The ballet Le Corsaire is based on a poem by whom? Lord Byron, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Lord Tennyson
11	How old was Marius Petipa when he died in 1910 (in ballet)? 98, 89, 92, 95
12	The 'second position' of the feet in ballet suggests that feet should be spaced approximately how many inches apart? 18, 12, 2, 6
13	Which ballet company did Mikhail Mordkin found in 1937? American Ballet Company, Hungarian National Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, Cape Town City Ballet
14	In which UK city is the Northern Ballet based? Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle, Manchester
15	Who composed the music for the ballet Cinderella? Sergei Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky, Paul Dukas, Sergei Diaghilev
16	Sleeping Beauty was based on a story by whom? Carlo Collodi, Victor Hugo, Charles Perrault, Jules Verne
17	Who choreographed A Midsummer Night's Dream (in ballet)? Felix Mendelssohn, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Frederick Ashton, Igor Stravinsky
18	What is the translation of the work Le Sacre du Printemps (in ballet)? Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, The Comic Ballet of the King, The Rite of Spring
19	Who choreographed The Rite of Spring (in ballet)? Rudolf Nureyev, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Anna Pavlova, Vaslav Nijinsky
20	Who composed the music for The Rite of Spring (in ballet)? Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Diaghilev, Rudolf Nureyev