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THE WEEKLY QUIZ THAT TESTS YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE ARTS

1 Where would you be most likely to find an Eagle Transporter?

2 What Howard Hawks western was the inspiration for John Carpenter's Los Angeles-based thriller, Assault on Precinct 13?

3 Who came from Brazil, where the nuts come from?

4 Who encountered The Hungarian Adventurer and The Veiled Woman, and in what book?

5 Who liv'st unseen within her airy sheel by slow Meander's margent green, and in the violet-embroidered air?

6 The Charleston and the Black Bottom are both varieties of what popular dance?

ANSWERS:

1 Moonbase Alpha, in the television series Space 1999.

2 Rio Bravo.

3 Charley's Aunt, in Brandon Thomas's transvestite frolic of 1892.

4 Anais Nin in her collection of erotic exploits, Delta of Venus.

5 "Sweet Echo, sweetest nympth," according to Milton in "Comus".

6 The foxtrot.