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Classical music in film and ads quiz — Music

The “Classical music in film and ads” quiz — Music. It has 25 questions in five categories: Kubrick's classics, Scene stealers, Opera on screen, Classics in ads, Name the composer. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.

  • 25 questions · 5 categories

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Buzzo quiz: Classical music in film and ads

A peek at the questions

The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.

Kubrick's classics

  1. 100Picture for the question

    Which work accompanies the famous sunrise at the start of 2001: A Space Odyssey?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    Which waltz accompanies graceful spacecraft flight and docking in 2001: A Space Odyssey?

  3. 300

    Which Beethoven symphony is…

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  4. 400

    Which Handel dance from…

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  5. 500

    Which Shostakovich piece plays…

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Scene stealers

  1. 100

    Which piece blasts from the helicopters during the attack in Apocalypse Now?

  2. 200

    Which Samuel Barber string work became the signature classical theme of Platoon?

  3. 300

    Which Debussy piece plays…

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  4. 400

    Which Marriage of Figaro…

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  5. 500

    Which Beethoven symphony underscores…

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Opera on screen

  1. 100Picture for the question

    Which opera does Edward take Vivian to see in Pretty Woman?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    Which opera is being performed in Vienna during the key set piece in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation?

  3. 300

    Which opera do Ronny…

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  4. 400

    Which opera contains “La…

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  5. 500

    Which opera does Michael…

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Classics in ads

  1. 100

    Which duet from Lakmé became British Airways' long-running advertising theme?

  2. 200

    Which symphony was used in Hovis's “Boy on the Bike” advert in a brass-band arrangement?

  3. 300

    Which Bach work, in…

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  4. 400

    Which chorus from Carmina…

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  5. 500

    Which Elena Kats-Chernin piece…

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Name the composer

  1. 100

    Which Polish composer's music is central to The Pianist, including its opening C-sharp-minor nocturne?

  2. 200

    Whose Piano Concerto No. 2 keeps returning throughout the British drama Brief Encounter?

  3. 300

    Who wrote the Tristan…

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  4. 400

    Who wrote Hungarian Dance…

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  5. 500

    Who wrote Vltava, the…

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