A Culture Quiz
How much non-essential information is in your head?
Which city did Walt Whitman call home?
Concord, Massachusetts
Brooklyn, New York
Hannibal, Missouri
Redding, Connecticut
What location is considered as the "birthplace" of Jazz?
Harlem, New York City
Shaw, Washington D.C.
Treme, New Orleans
South Side, Chicago
What did William Burroughs not have much patience for?
Marijuana smokers
Gun play
Liquor
Morphine
Who was Duke Ellington's closest and most prolific collaborator?
Lester Young
Artie Shaw
Glenn Miller
Billy Strayhorn
Which book did Mark Twain
not
write?
...On the Damned Human Race
Pudd'nhead Wilson
Don't Drink from the Mighty Muddy Mississippi
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Who starred in the film
Out of the Past
?
Robert Mitchum
Humphrey Bogart
Sterling Hayden
Glenn Ford
Which performers made up
The Rat Pack
?
Molly Ringwald, Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall, Andrew McCarthy, and others
Frank, Dean, Sammy, Louis Prima, and Keely Smith
Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop
Frank, Dean, Sammy, Bobby Darin, and Jerry Lewis
Which film does Frank Sinatra portray a drug-addled gambler and jazz percussionist?
Paris Blues
Some Came Running
From Here to Eternity
The Man with the Golden Arm
Which post-bop album did Duke Ellington, Max Roach, and Charles Mingus collaborate on?
Money Jungle
The Cool World
Somethin' Else
The New Orleans Suite
Who played 'Fast' Eddie Felson in two films 25 years apart?
Marlon Brando
Paul Newman
Jack Nicholson
Robert Redford
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