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Thread #45001   Message #3400115
Posted By: Nigel Parsons
04-Sep-12 - 04:23 PM
Thread Name: SQ2 (Song Quiz)
Subject: Wedding Quiz
Okay, Here's the answers to the Wedding Quiz






1 What, colloquially, goes together like a horse & carriage? Love & Marriage
2 What term describes someone with the responsibility for the appearance of a horse? Groom
3 Which Mozart work premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 1 May 1786? The Marriage of Figaro
4 Which 1991 film (and its sequel) starred Steve Martin, with Martin Short as an effeminate wedding arranger? Father of the Bride
5 Who played the title role in "The Bride of Frankenstein"(1935) Elsa Lanchester
6 Which couple get married in the Laurel & Hardy film "Our Wife"(1931)? Stan & Ollie thanks to a cross-eyed JP played by Ben Turpin
7 Which 1954 musical film includes the songs "Goin' Courtin'" & "Spring, Spring, Spring," and ends with a multiple shotgun wedding? Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
8 What four types of articles is a bride supposed to carry/wear for luck? Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue
9 Who (Characters or actors) end up marrying in "High Society"(1956)? C K Dexter-Haven(Crosby) & Tracey Lord (Grace Kelly)
10 What title was shared by a 1999 Richard Gere film, and a Dr Who Christmas Special(2006)? The Runaway Bride
11 The middle verse (of three) of which song tells of the marriage of "Jimmy Brown"? (The Browns, or Edith Piaf) The Three Bells
12 "What expression can refer to:
..........a 1673 Restoration comedy by John Dryden
..........a series of 18th-century paintings by William Hogarth
..........or, a 1921 short story by Katherine Mansfield"      Marriage a la mode
13 Of whose wedding was Sinatra singing when he sang:
"As she knelt where the candle lights were gleaming
It seemed the choir sang soft and low
Farewell, my angel of the lamplight
We'll always love you so"    "The wedding of Lili Marlene"
14 Where was the wedding feast where Jesus turned water into wine? Cana in Galilee
15 Who were married by "The turkey who lived on the hill"?The Owl & The Pussycat
16 If the 'wedding supper' will be 'Way down yonder in a hollow tree', who's getting married? Froggy & Miss Mousie (Froggy went a'courtin')
17 In which operetta does Yum-Yum marry Nanki-Poo, and ko-Ko marry Katisha? The Mikado
18 What term describes those related to you solely through marriage? In Laws
19 Who (famously) were married on 29 July 1981? Charles (Prince of Wales) & Diana
20 Finally, what was Tammy Wynette's song that got to #12 in UK charts in 1975, but #1 in US Country charts in 1968? D.I.V.O.R.C.E.