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61. In which liberating song by Ariana Grande does the singer proclaim, "This is the part when I say I don't want ya, I'm stronger than I've been before"?

From Quiz Freedom

Answer: Break Free

Ariana Grande was dismissed by some as a flash in the pop music pan when she released her 2013 debut album "Yours Truly". However, her strong live performances and terrific vocal range (which has been compared to Mariah Carey) have meant that she's had great follow-up success, with her second album reaching the US number 1 spot. Ariana has also appeared in several television series, showing her comedic side in shows such as "Scream Queens" and "Saturday Night Live", where her impressions of other singers became a viral Internet hit.

From Quiz Packing a Punch

Answer: Batman

Before all the hubbub about movies and dark, dangerous Batman, Adam West starred in a "Batman" TV show in the 1960s and it certainly went out of its way to depict the comic book influences of its progenitor. Fight scenes (done to music, quite often) were accompanied by highlighted strikes against foes, often with unique words appearing onscreen to emphasize the strikes. Some classics: 'Clange!', 'Kapow!', 'Zlopp!', 'Kayo!'. Tim Burton did away with these when making his films in the late 1980s/early 1990s.

From Quiz Don't Worry, Be Happy

Answer: Lady Dynamite

Comedienne Maria Bamford starred as herself in this Mitchell Hurwitz-produced show on Netflix in 2015. Based loosely on her own life, Bamford moved from episode to episode facing sometimes unrealistic day-to-day struggles while reflecting on her mental breakdown only months earlier. Although the show took her manic depression to a comedic extreme in many cases, it also developed the issues over a season of build-up, depicting deep troubles with a certain authenticity. The show was widely acclaimed and also starred Ana Gasteyer, Mo Collins, and Fred Melamed.

From Quiz Demons, Demons, Everywhere

Answer: Othello

DesDEMONa and OtHELLo are the characters. Throughout the course of the play, Shakespeare makes comparisons regarding Othello to an animal ("old black ram"), to a monster (jealousy is the "green-eyed monster"), to invoking devils as his morality declines. After he discovers he has been led to misjudge his wife, whom he has murdered, Othello cries "Whip me, ye devils ... roast me in sulphur...wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire!" The true villain of the story, Iago, is called a "demon" or a "devil" many times throughout the play.

From Quiz Won't Get Fooled Again

Answer: on the hill

"Magical Mystery Tour," with "The Fool On The Hill" on track two, was released at the end of 1967 as an album in the USA and as a double EP in the UK. Paul McCartney wrote the song, and in interviews suggests that it may have been about the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, whose philosophy and methods influenced the group as their horizons expanded. Because of his giggling and light manner, many considered him to be a fool, but careful listening to the song suggests McCartney felt otherwise. Other answers reference other Beatles songs. "Strawberry Fields Forever" is also from "Magical Mystery Tour." "Octopus's Garden" is from the 1969 "Abbey Road" LP and "in the town..." is the opening line from the 1966 single "Yellow Submarine'" which coupled with "Eleanor Rigby" reached number one in the UK and was the biggest selling record of that year.

From Quiz Dance Varmint - and Sing!

Answer: Puttin' on the Ritz

Starring in thirty-one musical movies beginning in 1933, during his 76-year movie and television career, Fred Astaire danced and sang his way to fame. He and Ginger Rogers appeared in 10 musicals which set the standard for that type of film. His performance of "Puttin' on the Ritz" in the 1946 film "Blue Skies" became Astaire's trademark as the suave, debonair gentleman. The song was inspired by a slang term for dressing fashionably, which was in turn inspired by the luxurious Ritz Hotel in London.

From Quiz Magic is Where You Find It

Answer: Mozart

First performed in 1791 in Vienna with Mozart conducting, "Die Zauberflöte" was based on a libretto written by Emanuel Schikaneder. The opera told the fairy tale of a prince who rescues a princess with the help of a magic flute that wards of evil and charms wild animals. Both Mozart and Schikaneder were Freemasons, and Masonic elements were included in their work, such as the "rule of three" which appeared throughout the opera. The opera debuted two months before Mozart's death and has remained popular ever since.

From Quiz A Jewel of a Box

Answer: Giuseppe Verdi

At the beginning of the opera Elisabeth and Carlos fall in love, only to find that she is betrothed to his father. As the story unfolds, we discover that Princess Eboli, also in love with Carlos, stole Elisabeth's jewelry box. "Don Carlos" premiered in 1867 in French, and was then translated into Italian. Today both versions are performed in opera houses around the world.

From Quiz Dwayne the Tub, I'm Dwowning!

Answer: Thomas Merton

With his in-depth studies of spiritualism and religion, Thomas Merton was one of the great intellectual minds of the 20th century. Born in the Pyrenees Mountains in France in 1915, the son of a Quaker mother, Merton was raised Anglican but moved to the US at an early age due to WWI. During the 20s and 30s, Merton returned to live in Europe, but he didn't find faith until a trip to Italy in 1933, where he was impressed by a Trappist monastery near Rome. Opened to religion, he then converted to Catholicism in 1938, joined the Franciscans at St. Bonaventure University in 1940, then decided to become a Cistercian monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky the year after. He would live there the rest of his life, becoming priest Father Louis in 1949. Merton's best-known for his writings, including his popular autobiography "The Seven Storey Mountain". The book was immensely popular and resulted in hundreds of people pledging themselves to a monastic lifestyle too. Merton was an advocate for interfaith understanding and spirituality, particularly with Buddhism. His death in Thailand in 1968 was unforeseeable and tragic.

From Quiz I See Sea Creatures

Answer: Cthulhu

Cthulhu first appeared in the 1926 short story "The Call of Cthulhu". The creature was an extraterrestrial trapped in a stone city, R'lyeh, under the sea, but it was able to communicate telepathically with humans who developed cults around it. Cthulhu appeared in several other of Lovecraft's works and was embraced by pop culture, showing up in video games and cartoons.

From Quiz Scheherazade and the Sultan

Answer: Open Sesame

Although the tale of "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" is one of the best known today, it may only have been introduced into the collection in the 18th century by a French translator called Antoine Galland. (By the way, "alohomora" is the unlocking spell from J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" books, and "mellon" is the key to opening the mines of Moria in J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.)

From Quiz Are Funerals Fun?

Answer: Michael Jackson

The King of Pop was on the verge of a comeback tour when he died suddenly in June of 2009. The doctor under whose care Michael Jackson was at the time of his death was later convicted of involuntary manslaughter. The world was shocked by Jackson's death, and his private funeral was televised from afar, with paparazzi documenting the arrival of the limousines carrying the mourners, family and friends, of the deceased. The public memorial service drew the largest television audience for such a ceremony. Jackson was laid to rest in a gold-plated casket and given a star-studded send off by his children, parents and siblings, and by many famous entertainers and friends. Perhaps because of the content of the memorial and the people who took part in it (including Mariah Carey, Stevie Wonder, Usher, Jennifer Hudson and Lionel Richie), it was often referred to as a "show" in the media. As with most memorial services, it was a combination of sadness and celebration, joy and tears. The other three people mentioned also died in 2009, but their deaths were overshadowed in terms of media attention and public response by Michael Jackson's.

From Quiz Revenge! Sweet Revenge!

Answer: Bill Cosby

Bill Cosby explained the rules of the snowball game: you could hit a kid with a soft snowball but not with a slushball. That was considered too mean. So one day, Junior Barnes hit him will a slushball and Cosby decided to serve his revenge cold... in the middle of summer. He made a snowball and stuck it in his freezer, intending to bean Junior Barnes with it in July, but when he went to retrieve the snowball, he discovered his mother had thrown it out. So he spit on Barnes instead.

From Quiz Jumping Jehosephats and Tarnation!

Answer: Diff'rent Strokes

"Diff'rent Strokes" first aired in 1978 and told the story of two African American brothers: Arnold (Coleman) and Willis Jackson (Todd Bridges) who are taken in and eventually adopted by rich businessman, Phillip Drummond (Conrad Bain). The show, which ran for eight seasons and finished in 1986, was known for sensitively dealing with issues of racism, child molestation and drugs.

From Quiz A Game of Chess: The Rematch

Answer: Terry Pratchett

The game of 'Stealth Chess' involves two additional columns, called 'slurks' on either side of the board and an additional playing piece called 'The Assassin'. The game is played by the 'Guild of Assassins' in the city of Ankh-Morpork. Pratchett has created a huge fantasy world, which is described as being a flat world supported on the backs of four elephants who themselves stand on the back of a turtle. The first novel in the series is 'The Colour of Magic' which was published in 1983. Pratchett received a knighthood in 2009 and is now known as Sir Terry Pratchett. He revealed in late 2007 that he had been diagnosed with a form of Alzheimer's disease and has since devoted much time and money to research into the illness.

From Quiz Let's All Go To The Music Hall

Answer: Jessie Wallace

With this film Jessie Wallace proved that there is much more to her than her "Eastenders" role. Doing all her own singing she performed virtually all of Marie Lloyd's famous songs, including "My Old Man Said Follow The Van" and "The Boy I Love Is Up In The Gallery". She also aged convincingly as the film followed Marie Lloyd's life from her teens to her fifties.

From Quiz I Love a Good Mystery!

Answer: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" was released in Sweden in 2005, one year after Larsson's death, and it was followed by two more to create the best-selling "Millennium" trilogy including "The Girl Who Played With Fire" and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest". All three followed journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michel Nyqvist in the Swedish adaptation and Daniel Craig in the U.S. version) and hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace in Sweden, Rooney Mara in the U.S.). Both films were critically-acclaimed upon their release; the U.S. version was directed by David Fincher, who previously made "Fight Club", "Se7en", and "The Social Network". "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo", a crime mystery, followed the two main characters as they attempted to get to the bottom of a family's mystery. While the two scrambled to locate a girl missing for decades, they had to watch their own backs to avoid getting themselves killed.

From Quiz Figures of Speech in TV, Movies and Music

Answer: Bell

"Saved By The Bell" was an American sitcom that aired on NBC from 1989 to 1993. It centered around a group of students at fictional Bayside High School.

From Quiz Anyone for Tennis

Answer: George Bernard Shaw

"Misalliance" offers typical Shavian irony in its examination of the mating rituals of a group of people spending the weekend at a large country house in Surrey. It contains a number of themes familiar from his earlier works, including socialism, the need for women to escape Victorian constraints, and conventions surrounding marriage. As one of the characters observes, "If marriages were made by putting all the men's names into one sack and the women's names into another, and having them taken out by a blind-folded child like lottery numbers, there would be just as high a percentage of happy marriages as we have now." Oscar Wilde died in 1900, Samuel Beckett was only 4 years old when the play opened, and Brendan Behan was not even born until 1923.

From Quiz Couches and the Potatoes That Inhabit Them

Answer: "Weird Al" Yankovic

"Weird Al" Yankovic has released well over a dozen music albums, each including several parodies of contemporary popular songs. He sings these pieces in the style of the original performer, often rhyming closely with the original lyrics; in fact, "Weird Al"'s parody can usually be played over the "real" music video to humorous effect. The 2003 parody song "Couch Potato" may be unavailable as a single (due to Eminem's lack of cooperation), but its lyrics still resonate with the proud couch potato community. I always dance when I hear the chorus: "'You're gonna lose your mind watchin' TV,' They told me, they'd scold me, But I'd still tune in every show..."

From Quiz When Girls Kiss Girls

Answer: Marissa

Marissa Cooper, played by Mischa Barton, did a fair amount of experimenting throughout the course of the show. In season two, she ended up connecting with Alex (played by Olivia Wilde). It began as friendship, with Marissa wanting to befriend a "bad girl" to rebel against her mother and stepfather, but they quickly became attracted to each other. They first kissed in the episode titled "The Lonely Hearts Club" and a short relationship that ended due to Alex's jealousy over Marissa's friendship with ex-boyfriend Ryan.

From Quiz The Great British Battleaxe

Answer: Nora Batty

Kathy was born in 1928. Her given name is Minnie Higginbottom, surely a battleaxe name in itself. She has played the role of Nora since the series began in 1973, apart from a break from 2001-2003 when she played the part of Doris Luke in the revival of the soap opera "Crossroads". With her curlers, cardigans and wrinkled stockings Nora is an unlikely pin-up, but she was Compo's (Bill Owen) love interest until Bill's death in 1999. Kathy also played the part of a dour northern woman, Mrs Blewitt, in "Open All Hours" (1976-1985).

From Quiz The "Eye" of the Entertainment Field

Answer: Eyes of Laura Mars

Faye Dunaway was one great actress in the 60s and 70s. Faye was nominated for three Oscars in this era alone. She picked up the Oscar for her role in "Network" with Peter Finch. You remember the movie where everyone, "wasn't going to take it anymore" and threw out their television sets. I think Faye's career turned after playing Joan Crawford in the interesting movie, "Mommie Dearest".

From Quiz The "Good" Entertainment Quiz

Answer: Only the Good Die Young

It's too bad that we lose so many good entertainers at such a young age. Some died due to drugs, alcohol and even weight issues. You wonder what life would have been, if these stars were still around us today.

From Quiz Questions Leading to More Questions

Answer: She became an alcoholic, psychotic former actress

Baby Jane (Bette Davis) was a popular child actress but as time went on, she became less and less popular and sought out in favor of her older sister Blanche (Joan Crawford). As elderly adults, Jane is a neurotic alcoholic jealous of her sister's success while Blanche requires a wheelchair and looks after her sister. However, Jane is becoming more and more difficult to handle and Blanche plans on putting her in an asylum which forms the basis of the movie's plot.

From Quiz Starscream: Ace of the Air

Answer: Underbase

Bob Budiansky, a writer for Marvel Comics, was hired by Hasbro to provide names and characterizations to "The Transformers" toy line. In addition, Marvel assisted with the production of the original animated series and also ran a 70-issue comic book series in the United States (1984-1990) in order to help push sales of the toys. In 1988, during a four-issue story arc of the comic book series, Starscream unleashed a plan to gain control of an ancient Cybertronian device known as the Underbase. The Underbase contained nearly limitless energy, which gave Starscream the power to destroy more than 50 characters (including some of the mightiest) with just a single blow. The storyline was written in order to kill off characters whose toys had been discontinued by Hasbro, so that newer ones could be given the spotlight.

From Quiz Super Poopers

Answer: Everyone Poops

The purpose of this book for children is to let them know that defecation is a natural part of life that happens to all animals and people. On each page are different animals with a little caption, for example "an elephant makes a big poop." The book was originally written in Japanese and first published in 1977. It's been translated into several other languages and in the United Kingdom is called "Everybody Poos".

From Quiz One

Answer: One Foot in the Grave

The first episode of 'One Foot In the Grave' was shown on 4th January, 1990, and the last on 20th November, 2000. In between these dates a total of six series of the programme and seven one-off specials were shown. The programme was created and written by David Renwick, directed by three different directors and made by the British Broadcasting Corporation. Richard Wilson played the main character, Victor Meldrew, while Annette Crosby played his long-suffering but loving wife, Margaret. Victor was forced into early retirement when his job was taken over by a machine and not only grows angry about aspects of modern life but negative and bizarre things sometimes happen to him. The programme was designated as a sitcom but some episodes have a darker side and Victor is eventually killed by a hit-and-run driver. 'One Foot In the Grave' was popular with audiences and was nominated for and won a number of awards. It was nominated seven times for a BAFTA for Best Comedy (Programme or Series) and won the award in 1992. The series also won the British Comedy Award for Best Sitcom in 1992, 1995 and 2001 and Richard Wilson won an award for Best Light Entertainment Performance in both 1992 and 1994. The title 'One Big Blue Sky' is invented but both 'One Tree Hill' and 'One on One' were American television programmes. The former ran for nine seasons, which were first shown between September 2003 and April 2012, and was initially about the relationship between two teenage half-brothers. 'One on One' was about a single man whose teenage daughter came to live with him and its five seasons were first shown between September 2001 and May 2006.

From Quiz Love Is...

Answer: Newspaper column in "The New York Times"

"Modern Love" is based on a weekly newspaper column. Each short episode has a different love story and stars a different set of actors. People such as Anne Hathaway, Ed Sheeran and Minnie Driver have had the key role in an episode. The show is a romantic comedy and premiered in 2019 on Amazon Prime Video. Phoenix Rising's Red Crew member, jaknginger loves a good romantic comedy.

From Quiz Link's The Word

Answer: Bonobo

Simon Green is a British DJ, producer and musician who is now based in Los Angeles and chose the name of a species of ape as his professional name. His first single to be released was called 'Terrapin' and in 2000 his first solo album, 'Animal Magic', came out. More releases followed and his sixth album, 'Migration' (2017), was nominated for a Grammy Award. The same album was nominated for and won Album of the Year at the Electronic Music Awards of 2017 and Bonobo himself was nominated for Act of the Year at the same awards. The single 'Linked' was released online in July 2019 and was nominated for Best Dance Recording at the Grammy Awards and did not win but was the runner-up.

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